Serious warnings 2 confirmed warnings. Checked: 43 reviews, the Android app’s code, the store listing and the privacy label.
From our automated analysis, 25 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 1.3.15 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-25 .
The store currently lists version 1.3.15, updated 2026-10-13.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
🎃👻 WELCOME TO SWEET HALLOWEEN COLOR! 👻🎃
Ready to discover the cutest side of Halloween? 💕
Sweet Halloween Color is a relaxing color-by-number experience filled with adorable ghosts, cheerful pumpkins, lovable characters, and playful Halloween surprises. Every picture is designed to feel cute, bright, friendly, and full of personality.
👻 ADORABLE GHOSTS TO MAKE YOU SMILE
Meet happy ghosts, shy ghosts, silly ghosts, dressed-up ghosts, and lovable little ghost friends with big eyes, sweet smiles, rosy cheeks, and playful expressions. They're spooky enough to feel like Halloween—but much too cute to be scary! 💕
🎃 PUMPKINS FULL OF PERSONALITY
Discover smiling pumpkins, adorable jack-o'-lanterns, expressive pumpkin characters, and creative pumpkin designs. Some are cheerful, some are quirky, and some are simply too cute to resist.…
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.
The store privacy disclosure (2 entries) names no tracking or advertising use, but the package ships 19 advertising/tracking SDKs: Amazon Publisher Services, AppLovin MAX, BidMachine, Chartboost
Tracking or advertising SDKs are present in the package that the store's own privacy disclosure does not account for.
Bundles 16 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: Amazon Publisher Services, AppLovin MAX, BidMachine, Chartboost and 12 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:ba43c449b8d819caddf2cd08a1c2cf79fdc33248c1aa052c7b44d3798fd70c91Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.
Progress is gated behind watching an ad: "Watch a video to get hint."
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
Package artefact
sha256:ba43c449b8d819caddf2cd08a1c2cf79fdc33248c1aa052c7b44d3798fd70c91Sells a randomised reward ("Here are stars for you! Consume the stars to gacha 12 Constellations Cards!") and states no drop rates or odds anywhere in the app's own text
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app sells randomised rewards — crates, chests, packs, pulls — and states no drop rates or odds anywhere in its own text, so what the money buys is unknowable before paying.
Package artefact
sha256:ba43c449b8d819caddf2cd08a1c2cf79fdc33248c1aa052c7b44d3798fd70c91The app's own text says: "$0.99 for 5 Hints"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Advancement or competition is gated behind spending money rather than playing.
Package artefact
sha256:ba43c449b8d819caddf2cd08a1c2cf79fdc33248c1aa052c7b44d3798fd70c91The app's own text says: "Unlock more pictures and enjoy full experience of solving puzzles!"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
Package artefact
sha256:ba43c449b8d819caddf2cd08a1c2cf79fdc33248c1aa052c7b44d3798fd70c91Purchase screen steers the choice: "Best Deal"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The purchase screen arrives with one plan already framed as the recommended or most popular choice, so the default is the app's preference rather than the user's. We do not compare the plans' prices, and only the app's own text evidences this, so it is shown, but never counted as a charge.
Package artefact
sha256:ba43c449b8d819caddf2cd08a1c2cf79fdc33248c1aa052c7b44d3798fd70c91The app's own text says: "Continue Without"
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:ba43c449b8d819caddf2cd08a1c2cf79fdc33248c1aa052c7b44d3798fd70c91The app's own text says: "Coloring without internet"
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:ba43c449b8d819caddf2cd08a1c2cf79fdc33248c1aa052c7b44d3798fd70c91No review-based observation is published in this assessment. That does not establish that reviewers had no problems.
“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and never a pass.
Android package 1.3.15, scanned 25 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 1.3.15 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-25 .
The store currently lists version 1.3.15, updated 2026-10-13.
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
No release notes were provided for this version.
sweet-halloween-colorAssessed 2026-10-25 from 43 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.
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 subscription bills weekly; 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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