“Rise up review honest — The game is very fun but has a lot of adds fun to play offline and with friends to see who can get farther but overall is fun and you can play at any time my only complaint that it has so many ads”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 556 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-06.
4.4 ★840,545 ratings
—Downloads
12+Age rating
224 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Welcome to Rise Up, the exciting mobile game that challenges you to protect a balloon as it rises higher and higher into the sky. Get ready to put your skills to the ultimate test with this fantastic game that'll keep your eyes glued to the screen. Picture this. You have a tiny balloon you need to protect. You must push away all the pointy and heavy things that get in the way of your balloon rising. But it's not that easy. The sky is full of strange things like blocks, beams, and triangles. If your balloon even touches one of these, it's all over. Exciting, right? But it gets even better! The higher your balloon goes, the harder the game gets. The obstacles become trickier and more challenging to avoid.…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
The evidence behind this assessment
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 300000.15.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-06 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 300000.15.0, updated 2026-10-05.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States a price and a billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Says how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
65–79% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
The catch list 1
Charges we publish at a strength we stand behind: measured from an artefact, agreed by independent sources, or reported by enough users to clear that charge's own published bar.
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Raised by 241 distinct reviewers — 43.3% of the 556 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
Context 1
Measured and published because a reader would want to know — deliberately not a charge. The measurement alone does not show a harm.
Cheapest and priciest options are far apart
The disclosed in-app purchases span an unusually wide price range. Published as context: the cheapest and priciest items may be different kinds of product entirely, so the spread alone deducts nothing.
What we saw: In-app purchases run from USD 1.99 to USD 59.99 — a 30x spread across 9 items
One source only — shown, not confirmed 1
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
From the store listing: Usable without an account
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
What we saw: The store privacy disclosure (3 entries) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Could be better — I love this game SO SO much but it’s kinda hard and it has way to many adds so it really annoys me but other than that it’s EXTREMELY fun”
“Way too much ads — I get the dev is trying to make money but a 30 second ad per attempt is way too-excessive atleast make it 1 add every three attempts”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 300000.15.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown9
Lowest$1.99
Highest$59.99
No Ads$2.99
Shield + Super Guard pack$4.99
Super Guard pack$1.99
Shield pack$1.99
Rise Up Premium$3.99
Show 4 more purchases
Removes Ads$2.99
Rise Up Premium$14.99
Rise Up Premium$59.99
Rise Up Premium$7.99