“Ugh… — You get sooo close and then when you make it to that last $10 stretch before you’re able to cash out…it drops to earning $0.01 every 90 seconds (not including all the ads..) 😩 how frustrating… it would be about 2-3 days of nonstop…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 1,163 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.8 ★44,468 ratings
—Downloads
17+Age rating
163 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Soda Reels: Your Mini-Drama Escape, Any Moment. Turn spare moments into captivating stories. Whether you're on a break, commuting, or just relaxing, dive into a world of bite-sized dramas. From heart-fluttering romance and suspenseful thrillers to epic comebacks and slice-of-life tales，and get hooked in seconds.
Massive & Fresh Library: Explore an ever-growing collection of exclusive micro-dramas across romance, suspense, fantasy, urban life, and more. New hits are added regularly. Smart Recommendations: Our engine gets to know your taste and effortlessly finds your next favorite story. Immersive Viewing: Enjoy a clean, distraction-free design with ultra-smooth playback for a seamless experience. Always Accessible: Tons of content available right at your fingertips, perfect for any time, anywhere.…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
The evidence behind this assessment
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 1.3.5 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 1.3.5, updated 2026-09-11.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
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 package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
The catch list 1
Charges we publish at a strength we stand behind: measured from an artefact, agreed by independent sources, or reported by enough users to clear that charge's own published bar.
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Raised by 40 distinct reviewers — 3.4% of the 1,163 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
One source only — shown, not confirmed 2
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
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.
What we saw: Misleading advertising: raised by 22 distinct reviewers (1.9% of 1163 reviews scanned)
From the store listing: Usable without an account
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.
What we saw: The store privacy disclosure (2 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.
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Stop — The amount off adds you have to watch is insane and right when you think your close to cashing out they give you 1 cent soda do better and stop cheating ppl of their time”
“Scam and lies — I didn’t get $2000 in download the app I didnt even have chance to watched anything it shut down 🤯🤯🤯🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🙄🙄🙄🤬🤬🤬😤😤😤 finally it let me watched at least I can watched show too much ads and ads…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 1.3.5.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.