“No more 1/2 Price Drinks But Forced Ads — There’s no longer any half price drinks in the app. And they took away the actual decent offers. So why have an app that is constantly changing for the worse and gets you no real offers/deals?…”
Independent automated assessment · 6 signal sources · 1,377 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-06.
4.8 ★3,416,804 ratings
10M+Downloads
4+Age rating
130 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Looking to make life more delicious? Download the SONIC® Drive-In app now to ditch the dull and make food fun again. Enjoy exclusive offers, find your closest location, and customize when ordering your favorites - NERDS® in your slush, no problem! It’s time to Live Free. Eat SONIC.
- Create an account for exclusive offers and rewards you can redeem when you order ahead. - Find the closest SONIC Drive-In locations and see their hours. - Browse the menu, customize your favorites and save time when you order ahead in the app. Check out what's new and view nutritional info for each item.
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
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.
App Store
This analysis describes version 2026.18.7 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-06 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2026.18.7, updated 2026-09-29.
Google Play
This analysis describes version 5.57.10 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2026.17.18, updated 2026-09-28.
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
1 theme 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
80–89% 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
From the package we downloaded and read — version 5.57.10, scanned 2026-09-28.
Permissions Android classifies as dangerous
3–5 requested
Counted against the eighteen permissions listed in collect-package.ts. A dangerous permission is one Android asks the user to grant; 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
None found
Counted as distinct SDKs in the package we scanned. One mediation bundle can contribute several, so this is not a count of advertisers.
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.
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
Developer says data deletion can be requested
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.
What we saw: 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
One source only — shown, not confirmed 1
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: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (0.9% of 577 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Fixed some bugs replacing with popup ads and terrible rewards — Terrible UI Reward usage are a must since drink prices doubled to allow for half off coupon Can only use one reward at a time but often does a bait and switch and drops the…”
“Sonic turned greedy! — I have used the Sonic app 100’s of times in the last five years, but I am done with it. You have continually nickel and dime’d your customers, but the fact that now you are making $$$ by subjecting us to all these…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 2026.18.7.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.