“Please fix bugs — I’ve already watched like 10 ads and it keeps going back to ads and won’t let me watch”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 522 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.7 ★78,132 ratings
—Downloads
12+Age rating
185 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Welcome to StardustTV. Watch short dramas anytime. Enjoy fast-paced stories that are easy to follow and hard to stop watching.
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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.
This analysis describes version 2.46.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2.46.0, 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
Says how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
3 or more 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
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
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.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 5
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 15 distinct reviewers (2.9% of 522 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Hard to cancel
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
What we saw: Hard to cancel: raised by 24 distinct reviewers (4.6% of 522 reviews scanned)
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 19 distinct reviewers (3.6% of 522 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Reports of unexpected charges
A large number of reviewers report being charged when they did not expect it — including being charged after cancelling during a free trial, or when a trial turned into a paid plan without warning. We cannot see anyone's billing, so this is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.
What we saw: Surprise charges: raised by 21 distinct reviewers (4.0% of 522 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 (4 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.
“Trash — This app is trash. It’s ad based and the ads are way too long. There’s no point in even downloading this app. All they want is money they give you the first few episodes for free and then require you to pay or watch endless ads…”
“Good drama s — Too many ads”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 2.46.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown10
Lowest$1.99
Highest$29.99
Weekly Subscription$19.99
Weekly Subscription$29.99
Subscription$14.99
Subscription$1.99
One-time Purchase$9.99
Show 5 more purchases
500 Coins$4.99
2000 Coins$19.99
Week_Subscription_discount$24.99
Week_Subscription_discount$29.99
Suscripción$19.99