Serious warnings 2 confirmed warnings, and users report 2 more things. Checked: 1,740 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 5.11.7186 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-31 .
The store currently lists version 5.11.7186, updated 2026-02-04.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
Sally's Back in this challenging time management game. In this fast-paced game you will need both speed & strategy to serve your customers. Make them happy and earn those big cash tips!
* An award winning and very popular time management game loved by millions of players!
Sally’s Spa: Beauty Salon is an addictive and exciting time management game filled with colorful characters, stations, and environments! This game has well designed puzzle like levels for you to play and enjoy. Run your own Spa Beauty Salon and unlock all the fun and exotic locations around the world from New York, Paris, Rome, Japan, Fiji and many more.…
From the developer’s store description.
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The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.
Findings that met the published evidence standard.
Bundles 6 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: Amazon Publisher Services, AppLovin MAX, Fyber / Digital Turbine Exchange, Google Mobile Ads (AdMob / Ad Manager) and 2 more
The package embeds several distinct advertising or mediation SDKs — a stack built for ad volume, not for a single house ad.
Package artefact
Appworthy
sha256:412161ce2461579f4a314646460ece558d4c5dda3ce5b0fc42b4896b17711908Aggressive ad load: raised by 117 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 15 reviews we read)
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
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.
Open 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
sha256:412161ce2461579f4a314646460ece558d4c5dda3ce5b0fc42b4896b17711908Pay to progress: raised by 37 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 47 reviews we read)
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Advancement or competition is gated behind spending money rather than playing.
Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 11 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 158 reviews we read)
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
The app's own text says: "No thanks"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
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.
Package artefact
sha256:412161ce2461579f4a314646460ece558d4c5dda3ce5b0fc42b4896b17711908The app's own text says: "Thanks for your interest. We will share more once you're back online."
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own copy describes working without a connection — offline mode, downloading for offline use, or content saved for later. Shown because readers filter on it; it is a feature, not a fairness property, and never counts for or against an app.
Package artefact
sha256:412161ce2461579f4a314646460ece558d4c5dda3ce5b0fc42b4896b177119081,740 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
Raised by 117 distinct reviewers — about 1 in 15 reviews we read on this store leg (Google Play).
I love this game, this is so interesting and after a dozen of level challenging. It has ads almost at every level, I've no problem with it. BUT after passing 4 cities.. 1 city about 10 levels I guess, it gets super hard that it's…
I used to play Sally spa all the time and it was amazing until they completely changed how the game functioned so that you would have to pay them money. it's disgusting. You used to be able to play after the store closed but not get…
The game is an utter waste of time. I used to love it as a kid playing on my grandpa's old pc and it was great, but now it's just monetization slop full of ads... This game had heart and yall took it away. This game genuinely makes me…
Used to love this game when I was a kid. Sadly this version is pay to win, it's impossible to complete later levels without upgrades that cost real money.
fun, but its clearly a pay to win and thats ridiculous, 2.99 for something that normally costs in game currency, what even is the point?
you have to pay for everything you can't even unlock employees with game money, gotta use real money. absurd and greedy
A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.
“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and never a pass.
Android package 5.11.7186, scanned 29 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 5.11.7186 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-31 .
The store currently lists version 5.11.7186, updated 2026-02-04.
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
GamesCafe is pleased to give you this update to Sally’s Spa: Beauty Salon Game! - Performance Improvements - Maintenance Updates - Bug Fixes
No release notes were provided for this version.
sally-s-spa-apple-315733642Assessed 2026-10-31 from 1,740 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.
From the store listing. Billing terms are read from each purchase’s name — the stores don’t publish them — so treat them as a strong hint, not a disclosure.
These are really on sale; we just can’t tell from the name whether they recur.
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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