Serious warnings 2 confirmed warnings. Checked: 2,002 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 2.9.1 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-31 .
The store currently lists version 2.9.1, updated 2026-09-11.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
Join us and let's play Spades! Become the Kings and Queens of Spades in this captivating, free, and classic card game. Whether you're on your mobile phone or tablet, Spades is always there to help you relax. Install Spades now and start immersing yourself in the thrilling world of trick-taking card games within seconds. Can't decide between playing Spades online or offline? Well, the choice is yours, as we offer both modes for you to enjoy your favorite card game.
NewPub's Spades is the ultimate online alternative to the classic game we all adore. Here's why it stands out:…
From the developer’s store description.
For developers and the curious
The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.
Findings that met the published evidence standard.
Bundles 17 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: Amazon Publisher Services, AppLovin MAX, Appodeal, BidMachine and 13 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
sha256:81f6896ef4243e504f51f11613222ce1a243a53b732529765fd4159297ad9266Aggressive ad load: raised by 131 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
sha256:81f6896ef4243e504f51f11613222ce1a243a53b732529765fd4159297ad9266Offers a trial ("Get PRO version…") and states no renewal price, renewal date or auto-renew notice anywhere in the app's own text
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own screens offer a free trial without stating, beside it, what happens when the trial ends. Read this as context rather than as a charge: renewal terms are normally shown on the store's purchase sheet instead, which we cannot see, and we can only observe one kind of evidence for this — so it is shown, but never counted as a charge.
Package artefact
sha256:81f6896ef4243e504f51f11613222ce1a243a53b732529765fd4159297ad9266The app's own text says: "Continue as %1$s"
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
sha256:81f6896ef4243e504f51f11613222ce1a243a53b732529765fd4159297ad9266The app's own text says: "Open ad when 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
sha256:81f6896ef4243e504f51f11613222ce1a243a53b732529765fd4159297ad92662,002 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
I like playing spades but this app has too many ads. Every time I play a hand I have to watch an ad. I may uninstall it for that reason.
too many ad's and couldn't get past the Temu add, I didn't even have it installed for 10 minutes.
not good, 2 many ads...
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 2.9.1, scanned 21 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 2.9.1 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-31 .
The store currently lists version 2.9.1, updated 2026-09-11.
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
A fresh new version is here! - Stability update: minor bug fixes and performance improvements.
No release notes were provided for this version.
spades-apple-1523297725Assessed 2026-10-31 from 2,002 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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