Some warnings 83 users report an aggressive ad load. Nothing confirmed. Checked: 230 reviews, the store listing and the privacy label.
From our automated analysis, 26 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 1.1.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-26 .
The store currently lists version 1.1.0, updated 2026-09-05.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
Every recipe tells a story.
Welcome to Secret Recipe, a cozy merge adventure where delicious food, intriguing mysteries, and stunning character transformations come together. Merge ingredients, prepare mouthwatering dishes, fulfill orders, and help your characters rediscover their confidence through beautiful makeovers.
As you progress, you'll uncover hidden family secrets, build meaningful relationships, and reveal the truth behind the legendary Secret Recipe.
Features
Merge Delicious Ingredients
Combine fruits, vegetables, desserts, spices, and kitchen essentials to create hundreds of unique items and recipes.
Cook Amazing Dishes
Prepare tasty meals, sweet treats, and special recipes by mastering satisfying merge chains.
Complete Customer Orders
Serve delicious creations, earn valuable rewards, and unlock exciting new areas of the story.
Transform Your Characters
Give your characters s…
From the developer’s store description.
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The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.
Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.
Aggressive ad load: raised by 83 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 3 reviews we read)
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
Nothing was published as a thing to watch for in this assessment. That is not a finding that nothing is wrong with the app.
230 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
it's a nice game to play however there are ads literally every 30 seconds. A lot of the items you may need to buy you can watch an ad for however most of the ads close and restart the app which does not credit your account, even if you…
well I almost didn't even start this when I seen who it was because it's notorious for tons of ads but so far not the case.as soon as it does I will delete it.
Way too many ads. I'm only playing to get some rewards on Fetch and it doesn't let you go more than 1-2 minutes without an ad. Way too many offers and pop ups for packages to buy. I'm going to get the next task complete for fetch then…
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Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
This analysis describes version 1.1.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-26 .
The store currently lists version 1.1.0, updated 2026-09-05.
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
No release notes were provided for this version.
Appworthy
secret-recipeAssessed 2026-10-26 from 230 user reviews, the store listing and its privacy label. We have not scanned the app's package, so nothing on this page was read from inside the app itself.
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This assessment is produced automatically. Three independent signals are read — user reviews, 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.
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