Appworthy
Google Play
Version 3.0.1 · 2026-08-08
No release notes were provided for this version.
Not yet tested
Google Play rating3.9★64 ratings
PriceFreeListed price
Age4+Store age rating
CategoryKids
DeveloperTinCan
At a glance
Full reportNot yet tested. No analysis has been published for this app. A missing label is not a clean bill of health.
Not yet tested.
The store currently lists version 3.0.1, updated 2026-08-08.
Preview
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
About this app
Tin Can: The Kid Phone That’s All Talk.
Remember when phones just made calls? When your best friend’s number lived in your head and your social network was whoever answered the landline? Tin Can brings that freedom back — but for your kid.
It’s a screen-free phone that runs on Wi-Fi and only calls approved contacts. No apps. No strangers. No doom scrolling. Just grandparent chats, playdate plans, and “Can I stay five more minutes?” calls.
The Tin Can companion app gives parents (and only parents) the behind-the-scenes magic that controls their Tin Can phone:
• Approve who they can call (and who can call them)
• Set call hours (like bedtime is not party line time)
• See call history
• Share your Tin Can with friends to grow the crew
• Control multiple cans from one place (power move)
Tin Can: Built for kids. Approved by the same generation that made prank calls on rotary phones.
From the developer’s store description.
For developers and the curious
The full report
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Findings and evidence
Not yet tested. No analysis has been published for this app. A missing label is not a clean bill of health.
What reviewers report
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Measurements
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.
From store data and reviews
Developer replies to reviews
Not assessed
Fewer than 50 reviews scanned — too few to state a rate
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
Not assessed
This app's reviews have not been assessed yet
Five-star share of ratings
Under 65% five-star
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In the app 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, not a finding.
Sensitive permissions
Not assessed
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Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
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Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
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Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
Versions and dates analysed
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Store update history
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Assessment record
- Status
- Not yet tested
- App identifier
tin-can-google-app-tincan- Sources used
- None recorded
- Reviews read
- None recorded
- Package examined
- No package scan
- Measurement vocabulary
- 1.4
- Human inspection
- Not completed
Store facts
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Google Play
- Store rating
- 3.87 ★ · 64 ratings
- Version
- 3.0.1
- Updated
- 8 Aug 2026
- Price
- Free
- Age rating
- 4+
- Size
- Not supplied
- Developer
- TinCan
- Category
- Kids
- Listing price
- Free
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Method and limits
What a missing label means
Not yet tested. No analysis has been published for this app, so there is no method to describe for it yet. A missing label is not a clean bill of health: it means nothing has been read, not that nothing is wrong.
Limits of this report
- A package scan is static. It identifies code and text in one Android build. It does not measure a live ad session, test a deletion request, or count the steps needed to cancel.
- Reviews keep their sample. A review-only charge shows distinct reviewers, the share and the sample size, and is published only once it clears that label’s published threshold. Calibration labels are machine-drafted and not yet confirmed by a person.
- Not assessed is a state. It is never a zero and never a pass.
- A missing label is not a clean bill of health. It means the evidence did not support one, not that the app is problem-free.
Not yet human-reviewed. A human review gives an app hands-on, recorded measurements. None has been run for this app. Hands-on inspections are not yet open.
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