Some warnings 1 confirmed warning. Checked: 371 reviews, the Android app’s code, the store listing and the privacy label.
From our automated analysis, 31 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 0.9.39 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-31 .
The store currently lists version 0.9.39, updated 2026-10-14.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
Root is community chat with voice and video calls, screen share, themes, and apps, all in one place. Chat in channels, hop into a call with your group, and add apps to enhance your community experience.
FREE PROFILE AND THEME CUSTOMIZATION
No paywalls on personality. Animated profile pictures, animated banners, custom emoji and themes are all free. Pick a theme or build your own.
VOICE, VIDEO AND SCREEN SHARE
Talk in voice channels, turn on video, and share your screen with sound. Move a call from your computer to your phone without hanging up.
APPS IN YOUR COMMUNITY
Add apps to your community. Draw together on one canvas, track tasks, or plan your next raid.
BRING YOUR SERVER
Import a server template and Root sets up your channels, categories and roles.
FIND YOUR PEOPLE
Browse Community Discovery to find a new group chat, or list your own community.
From the developer’s store description.
For developers and the curious
The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.
Findings that met the published evidence standard.
The listing says "No paywalls on personality." with no qualification anywhere in its description, while the app's own text gates use behind payment: "Paywall intent is not provided."
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
Specific evidence of a useful property, within the stated scope.
The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
No advertising or mediation SDK among the 1 SDK detected in the package
No advertising or mediation SDK of any kind was found in the package.
Package artefact
Appworthy
sha256:1b067ef36c96ab5e593dc1c0c222b745e27184afd3bc2ecaab0792858a99e81aOpen observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.
Sells a subscription in-app but ships no cancel or manage-subscription text of its own, leaving the store's settings as the only exit
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
Package artefact
sha256:1b067ef36c96ab5e593dc1c0c222b745e27184afd3bc2ecaab0792858a99e81aNo review-based observation is published in this assessment. That does not establish that reviewers had no problems.
“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and never a pass.
Android package 0.9.39, scanned 31 Oct 2026. These describe that package, not the current store version.
Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
This analysis describes version 0.9.39 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-31 .
The store currently lists version 0.9.39, updated 2026-10-14.
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
This update brings Picture-in-Picture and new layouts to calls, and fixes a crash when saving custom themes. - Calls keep playing in Picture-in-Picture when you leave the app. - New call layouts for two people, screen shares and groups. - Swipe the call screen down to shrink it into the floating call window. - Pick profile pictures and banners from Files. - Liquid Glass (experimental) on iOS 26 and later. Turn it on in Settings > General. Will always be an opt-in setting. - Root is now better suited for tablets, as well as the upcoming iPhone Duo. - Add several emoji at once by turning it on in Settings > Chat. - Deafening now mutes you too. - Picking an online status now reflects the…
Shortened here; the full notes are on the store listing.
No release notes were provided for this version.
root-apple-6742028281Assessed 2026-10-31 from 371 user reviews, the app's package, the store listing and its privacy label.
What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.
No itemized purchase list is available for this listing.
This assessment is produced automatically. Six independent signals are read — user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text, the app manifest, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.
No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every recurring plan the store lists is named as weekly, the term read from the purchase names, with a list cut off at the store’s 10-item maximum not assessed; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.
There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.
Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.
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