Nothing published. That is not a guarantee the app is problem-free.
No specific positive published.
From our automated analysis, 12 Oct 2026.
This analysis describes version 5.3 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-12 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 5.3, updated 2026-10-05.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
Give your child the tools to thrive in school, at home, and beyond and make screen time productive with fun, educational and non addictive games and stories.
With 2500+ interactive activities, award-winning stories, and science-backed games, Smart Tales® is the go-to learning app for kids aged 2 to 11. Whether you’re a parent, teacher, or caregiver, it’s built to support every learner—including neurodivergent children—with a focus on inclusivity and engagement.
“Smart Tales has been a game-changer. My child now asks to practice multiplication tables!”
“I love that I can track progress and feel confident it’s not just screen time—it’s real learning.”
“As a busy single mom, it’s the only app I trust when I need 20 focused minutes.”
What Smart Tales® Helps Your Child Achieve:…
From the developer’s store description.
For developers and the curious
The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.
Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.
Trial converts to a charge: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (9.6% of 52 reviews scanned)
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The free trial demands a payment method up front and/or rolls into a paid subscription with no usable warning.
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.
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.
Nothing was published as a thing to watch for in this assessment. That is not a finding that nothing is wrong with the app.
52 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
Charged for a year immediately after signing up for the free trial!!! — My son child found the app and wanted to try it out. So I downloaded it and saw the option for a free trial and selected it. After agreeing to the trial terms I was…
Fraud — I canceled the subscription day 1 of the free trial and they still charged me for a monthly subscription. I tried to find a contact on their website to report this issue and cannot find any contact information.
Careful — I cancelled my free trial the same day I downloaded the app and they immediately charged me the ENTIRE YEAR!
A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.
Supporting measurements. They are not a complete list of possible harms or positives. “Not assessed” means we could not measure it — never zero, never a pass.
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence, not a finding.
Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
This analysis describes version 5.3 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-12 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 5.3, updated 2026-10-05.
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
Smart Tales is dressed up for Halloween! A brand-new themed icon and a spooky collection to explore, packed with spine-tingling games to learn while having fun: • ""Andrew's Magic Words"", to learn letters and words with a spellbinding twist • Frightfully fun music games to play and create hauntingly good rhythms • Halloween dress-up to pick the most monstrous costume • Magical memory games to train young minds among pumpkins, ghosts and spells Dive into the collection and enjoy the most fun Halloween ever!
We’re always working to make the app better. This update includes minor bug fixes and improved performance.
Appworthy
smart-talesAssessed 2026-10-12 from 52 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.
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. 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.
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.
Write to [email protected], or use the form. Name the finding, the app version and the evidence that needs correcting. Factual corrections are free and never depend on buying anything.