“Difficult to cancel — They make it easy to sign up, but to cancel you have to call on the phone before 1pm. This is blatant dark design and a sad business model. If people want to cancel, then improve your product. Don’t make it harder…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 502 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.5 ★31,253 ratings
—Downloads
12+Age rating
109 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
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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 202608.55 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 202608.55, updated 2026-08-31.
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 a price and a 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
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
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 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: 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 6 distinct reviewers (1.2% of 502 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Scam — So hard to cancel that it feels like a scam. Good paper though.”
“Don’t get ripped off — Be careful not to subscribe. They lure you in with a 99 cent offer and then charge got $20 a month. It’s really difficult to cancel it. You have to call them up on the phone to get it done. Pathetic that they have…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 202608.55.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.