Rummy 500

Discover the relaxing and strategic fun of Rummy 500!

Game Maker Ltd.
Google Play rating4.8★1.7K ratings
PriceFreeIn-app purchases
Age12+Store age rating
CategoryGames

What we found

Full report

Serious warnings 2 confirmed warnings, and users report 1 more thing. Checked: 175 reviews, the Android app’s code, the store listing and the privacy label.

Money

Pressure and ad claims

Ads

From our automated analysis, 25 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.

This analysis describes version 1.0.4 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-25 .

The store currently lists version 1.0.4, updated 2026-09-28.

Preview

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Store screenshots supplied by the developer.

About this app

Discover the relaxing and strategic fun of Rummy 500!

🎯 Rummy 500 is a popular classic card game for players of all ages — from beginners and casual players to seniors and longtime card game fans. Enjoy classic Rummy 500 anytime on your phone or tablet, with standard Rummy 500 rules and scoring, smart AI opponents, and smooth offline gameplay.

Whether you are relaxing while watching TV, winding down before bed, passing the time, or training your brain with a rewarding challenge, this classic offline card game is always ready to play — no wifi or mobile data required.

New to Rummy 500? No problem! Clear tutorials help you learn Rummy 500 at your own pace, so you can relax, improve your skills, and enjoy every round with confidence.

🎮 How to Play Rummy 500:

The goal is simple: empty your hand before your opponents and be the first to reach 500 points!…

From the developer’s store description.

For developers and the curious

The full report

The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.

Findings and evidence

2 published · 3 shown, not confirmed

Things to watch for 2

Findings that met the published evidence standard.

Multiple ad networks bundled

Measured

Bundles 16 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: Amazon Publisher Services, AppLovin MAX, BidMachine, Chartboost and 12 more

Sources
SDKs in the app package
Agreement
A measured fact from one deterministic, checkable source.
Where measured
Found in the Android app’s package
Definition

The package embeds several distinct advertising or mediation SDKs — a stack built for ad volume, not for a single house ad.

How we know

Package artefact

sha256:982e5cbae4a660031e91789a19badcd3c5c58394cff42f9aaca179d2811c8b51

Aggressive ad load

2 independent sources agree

Progress is gated behind watching an ad: "Watch a video to earn a reward!"

Sources
User reviews and the app's own on-screen text
Agreement
2 independent kinds of source agree.
Where measured
Found in the Android app’s package. From Google Play reviews
Definition

Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.

How we know

Package artefact

sha256:982e5cbae4a660031e91789a19badcd3c5c58394cff42f9aaca179d2811c8b51

One source only — shown, not confirmed 3

Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.

Reports that the ads misrepresent the app

One source only

Misleading advertising: raised by 12 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 15 reviews we read)

Sources
User reviews
Agreement
Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured
From Google Play reviews

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

Reviewers repeatedly report that the app is not what its advertising showed. We never see the ad creative itself, so nothing we collect can corroborate or refute this — it is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.

Open evidence
How we know
Share and sample
6.9% of the 175 reviews read.

Hard to cancel

One source only

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

Sources
The app's own on-screen text
Agreement
Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured
Found in the Android app’s package

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.

How we know

Package artefact

sha256:982e5cbae4a660031e91789a19badcd3c5c58394cff42f9aaca179d2811c8b51

Usable without an account

One source only

The app's own text says: "Please press "Continue" if you choose to start using our app."

Sources
The app's own on-screen text
Agreement
Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured
Found in the Android app’s package

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

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.

How we know

Package artefact

sha256:982e5cbae4a660031e91789a19badcd3c5c58394cff42f9aaca179d2811c8b51

What reviewers report

175 reviews read · 2 review-based observations

175 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.

Aggressive ad load

Published finding

Liars. Way too many ads. Installed from a social media ad only because it promised no ads. THIS IS A LIE! This company should be banned from the app store. I feel like it's messed up my phone since I've installed it too. BEWARE BEWARE!!!

1★ · Google Play · 2026-08-30

I got this game because it said NO ADS-not true & the cheating is too much-DELETE *I can understand the ADS but the aggressive cheating with every single hand delt is more than most card games I've played on here. Just play it yourself…

2★ · Google Play · 2026-09-01

Ads everywhere say NO ADS in game yet there are ads after every other or every hand. I get the need for some ads but don't advertise the game s having no ads when it actually does. Ironically it's false advertising.

1★ · Google Play · 2026-08-28

Reports that the ads misrepresent the app

Shown, not confirmed

It pops up in ads as an "ad-free" version of this game, but that is a lie. Ads pop up between each round and there are banner ads at the bottom. So annoying! Don't say you're ad free when you aren't!

1★ · Google Play · 2026-09-06

Ads everywhere say NO ADS in game yet there are ads after every other or every hand. I get the need for some ads but don't advertise the game s having no ads when it actually does. Ironically it's false advertising.

1★ · Google Play · 2026-08-28

Ya know, I don't mind ads, truly. What I don't like are false advertisers and liars. They said there were no ads, and not only are there ads, there's ads before a hand, several time during a hand and after a hand. No thanks.

2★ · Google Play · 2026-09-07

A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.

Measurements

8 measured · 0 not assessed

“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and never a pass.

From store data and reviews

Developer replies to reviews
Replies to at least 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
The store description doesn’t list prices (most don’t)
Cancelling, in the store description
The store description doesn’t say how to cancel (most don’t)
Themes reported by reviewers
2 themes 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
90% or more five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.

In the app package we scanned

Android package 1.0.4, scanned 24 Oct 2026. These describe that package, not the current store version.

Sensitive permissions
1–2 requested
Counted against a fixed list of eighteen sensitive Android permissions: sixteen runtime permissions, among them location, camera, microphone, contacts and SMS, and two the user must switch on in system settings, drawing over other apps and usage access. Requesting one is not itself a finding.
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
3 or more found
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
10 or more found
Counted as distinct SDKs in the package we scanned. One mediation bundle can contribute several, so this is not a count of advertisers.
How we know

Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured

Versions and dates analysed

Assessed 25 Oct 2026

This analysis describes version 1.0.4 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-25 .

The store currently lists version 1.0.4, updated 2026-09-28.

Store update history

Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.

Google Play

Version 1.0.4 · 2026-09-28

No release notes were provided for this version.

Assessment record

Status
Automated analysis
App identifier
rummy-500-google-com-gamemaker-rummy-free-puzzle
Assessment date
25 Oct 2026
Sources used
6 independent signals: 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
Reviews read
175
Package examined
Android · 1.0.4 · scanned 24 Oct 2026
Human inspection
Not completed

Assessed 2026-10-25 from 175 user reviews, the app's package, the store listing and its privacy label.

How we know
Measurement vocabulary
1.4

How this page was produced

Analyzed 2026-10-25 Version analyzed: 1.0.46 independent signals175 reviews scannedConfidence: MediumNot human-reviewedVocabulary v1.13Methodology v1.3
Signals run: 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.

Store facts

Google Play

What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.

Google Play

Store rating
4.75 ★ · 1,734 ratings
Version
1.0.4
Updated
28 Sep 2026
Price
Free · In-app purchases
Age rating
12+
Size
Not supplied
Open in Google Play
Developer
Game Maker Ltd.
Category
Games
Listing price
Free · In-app purchases

Purchases the store lists

 What this app sells
Google Play doesn’t publish per-purchase prices.

Method and limits

What this report can and cannot show

How the automated analysis works

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 subscription bills weekly; 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.

Limits of this report

  • A package scan is static. It identifies code and text in one Android build. It does not measure a live ad session, test a deletion request, or count the steps needed to cancel.
  • Reviews keep their sample. A review-only charge shows distinct reviewers, the share and the sample size, and is published only once it clears that label’s published threshold. Calibration labels are machine-drafted and not yet confirmed by a person.
  • Not assessed is a state. It is never a zero and never a pass.
  • A missing label is not a clean bill of health. It means the evidence did not support one, not that the app is problem-free.
Not yet human-reviewed. A hands-on test can confirm or contradict a finding and adds its own measurements; it does not change a measurement row. Hands-on inspections are not yet open.

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