“everything is locked you only get 2 unlocked things and that's it. stop making everything with a pay wall and subscriptions for a kids game!”
Independent automated assessment · 6 signal sources · 464 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.6 ★404,390 ratings
50M+Downloads
4+Age rating
—App size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Budge presents STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE BAKE SHOP! Strawberry Shortcake is so excited to bake with you! Make the dessert of your dreams with yummy ingredients, food coloring, icing, toppings, and decorations! You can even create your berry own recipes to make at home!
FEATURES • Step-by-step instructions so fun for kids of all ages! • Each dessert features unique and delicious gameplay mechanics! • Tilt to pour milk into the bowl or batter into the pan! • Decorate your dessert with icing, sprinkles, chocolate chips, and more! • Add birthday candles and blow them out yourself! • Tap to eat your dessert when finished! • Complete special orders to earn stars! • Get lots of handy baking tips from Strawberry Shortcake herself! • Create your berry own recipe, and make it later at home!…
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.
This analysis describes version 2026.1.0 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2026.1.0, updated 2026-04-16.
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
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 2026.1.0, scanned 2026-09-21.
Permissions Android classifies as dangerous
1–2 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
1–2 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 2
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
No advertising SDKs
No advertising or mediation SDK of any kind was found in the package.
What we saw: No advertising or mediation SDK among the 2 SDKs detected in the package
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: Paywall blocks the basics
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (1.3% of 464 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“you have to pay for EVERYTHING, there's only two desserts to make it's either simple cake or a milkshake. if this wasn't strawberry shortcake themed it would be the worse game, it still deserves that title, how come that I played this +7…”
“all the other recipes are locked behind a paywall and you have to pay monthly you can't just do a one-time purchase not worth it not to mention you barely get any free desserts”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 2026.1.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
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Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.