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Tripod Technology GmbHFrom our automated analysis, 10 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 6.36.1 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-10 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 6.37.1, updated 2026-10-16.
The app has been updated since this analysis. The findings on this page describe version 6.36.1, not the version now listed on the store.
The developer’s release notes for the newer versions, where we hold them, are in Versions and dates analysed.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
Practice a language with native speakers and take it to the next level.
Whether you’re aiming to learn a new language or improve fluency in one you already know, having engaging conversations with an exchange partner makes all the difference. You can even learn a language with international friends while expanding your skills and cultural understanding.
Whatever your language goal is—language learning for travel, business, or personal growth—you can reach it while meeting new people and making friends around the globe. It’s easy: just choose a language you want to learn, find a Tandem member with similar interests, and you’re ready to go!…
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 4 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: Amazon Publisher Services, AppLovin MAX, Google Mobile Ads (AdMob / Ad Manager), Meta Audience Network
The package embeds several distinct advertising or mediation SDKs — a stack built for ad volume, not for a single house ad.
Package artefact
Appworthy
sha256:6ebc8ae0bcfcb43b7af2ba28275101cb603749d2b411ae15611ea3cb1b96c772Specific evidence of a useful property, within the stated scope.
Offers a one-time or lifetime purchase: "One-time purchase"
The app's own text offers a one-time or lifetime purchase, or reviewers report that the price is stated clearly.
Package artefact
sha256:6ebc8ae0bcfcb43b7af2ba28275101cb603749d2b411ae15611ea3cb1b96c772The 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.
Aggressive ad load: raised by 17 distinct reviewers (3.3% of 519 reviews scanned)
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.
Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 7 distinct reviewers (1.3% of 519 reviews scanned)
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.
Deadline pressure in the app's own copy: "Offer ends in"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own purchase copy attaches a deadline to buying — a countdown, 'offer ends in', 'limited time' — or ships a countdown view on a purchase-screen layout.
Package artefact
sha256:6ebc8ae0bcfcb43b7af2ba28275101cb603749d2b411ae15611ea3cb1b96c772519 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
Hi I love this app, but as a free user, PLEASE change the ad feature!! I don't care about ads, but there is an ad every 2 seconds that I can't even click around the app because it keeps taking me to the ad sites. If you don't you will…
from 2025 this app has become useless. full of adds. interactions are lame.
It's a great app, but they going to lose all users because of the excessive ads. It became impossible to use the app because of the ads🤬 You're going to self-destruct this way.
Tandem has become an empty Wild West ghost town - just a hollow shell of what it used to be, thanks to aggressive monetization. Before, you could freely select more of the languages you know. Now you have to pay a fee just to enter what…
The app keeps experiencing bugs with every update and the developers have run out of ideas to improve the app. Instead they have decided to start charging for free features. Endless hours in party's? Used to be free, now you pay. Learn…
everything is paid now, people using it as Tinder, and it's buggy in a very annoying way
A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.
Supporting measurements. They are not a complete list of possible harms or positives. “Not assessed” means we could not measure it — never zero, never a pass.
Android package 6.36.1, scanned 8 Oct 2026. These describe that package, not the current store version.
Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
This analysis describes version 6.36.1 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-10 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 6.37.1, updated 2026-10-16.
The app has been updated since this analysis. The findings on this page describe version 6.36.1, not the version now listed on the store.
Release notes for the newer versions, in the developer’s own words:
No release notes were provided for this version.
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.
No release notes were provided for this version.
No release notes were provided for this version.
tandem-google-net-tandemAssessed 2026-10-10 from 519 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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