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Independent automated assessment · 6 signal sources · 1,497 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.

The Battle Cats

ponos corporation

Tower Defense×Battle Game

4.5 ★667,290 ratings
10M+Downloads
9+Age rating
203 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases

About this app

-= Weirdly Cute Cats rampage across the world! =- Command your Cats with simple controls in a battle through space and time! No need to register to develop your own Cat Army! BATTLE WITH ALL THE CATS!!

=Super Simple Battle System= Just tap on the Cat you want to fight for you! Fire the Cat Cannon to blast baddies getting too close to your base! Overcome weird enemies with the right Cat squad and take down the enemy base!

=Super Simple Leveling System= Clear stages to get XP and items to level up the Cats! What will they evolve to at level 10? Can you unlock their True Form?

=Super Simple Fun!= Collect glorious treasures while you take over the world! Recruit dozens of rare and exotic Cats(?) and create the ultimate feline army!! Hundreds of stages across three Story Mode adventures and the Legend challenges.

Presented by PONOS

Preview

Real screenshots from the store listing.

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Independent evidence report

The evidence behind this assessment

This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.

Automated assessment complete

Which version this describes

When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.

App Store

This analysis describes version 15.6.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 15.6.0, updated 2026-09-14.

Google Play

This analysis describes version 15.6.0 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 15.6.0, updated 2026-09-07.

What we measured

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How these are measured

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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
Does not say 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
65–79% 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 15.6.0, scanned 2026-09-27.

Permissions Android classifies as dangerous
None 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
10 or more 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.

Methodology

The catch list 1

Charges we publish at a strength we stand behind: measured from an artefact, agreed by independent sources, or reported by enough users to clear that charge's own published bar.

Multiple ad networks bundled
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The package embeds several distinct advertising or mediation SDKs — a stack built for ad volume, not for a single house ad.
What we saw: Bundles 16 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: Amazon Publisher Services, AppLovin MAX, BidMachine, Chartboost and 12 more

Positive evidence 1

Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.

Developer says data deletion can be requested
Measuredfrom the store listingview evidence
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

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: Pay to progress
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is user reviews.view evidence
Advancement or competition is gated behind spending money rather than playing.
What we saw: Pay to progress: raised by 15 distinct reviewers (1.6% of 951 reviews scanned)

Highlighted reviews

Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.

Pay to progress
“this game is pay to win. they will lower or higher your "cats" based on your paying history. enemies will be extremely difficult or easy based on your payment history. only an idiot pays for a bot enemy game, which I shamefully did. don't…”
1★ · Google Play · 2026-09-29
Pay to progress
“cute and addicting but after a while it ends like P2W like all gatcha, and costs are high even if you own your wallet, so skip it or pay for the dare”
3★ · Google Play · 2026-09-27
Pay to progress
“The game is great. I keep coming back to it. The story progression is amazing, and I really like the treasure system and how you have to collect certain treasures to unlock permanent buffs. I also love that there's no adds. It is kinda…”
5★ · Google Play · 2026-09-24

Assessment & version history

App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.

Store listing updated to version 15.6.0.

What this app sells

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