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Toca Boca World

Welcome to a world where your imagination comes first!

Toca Boca
Deletion (dev says) — Developer says you can request data deletionNo ad code found — No recognized ad code in scan
Get it onGoogle Play
Google Play rating4.4★6.9M ratings
PriceFreeIn-app purchases
Age4+Store age rating
CategoryGames
DeveloperToca Boca

At a glance

Full report

Things to watch for 0

Nothing published. That is not a guarantee the app is problem-free.

Positives 2

From our automated analysis, 13 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.

This analysis describes version 1.140 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-13 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 1.140, updated 2026-10-01.

Preview

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Store screenshots supplied by the developer.

About this app

Welcome to a world where your imagination comes first! ✨ Make up stories in the colourful locations, and customize your own buildings – you can style your own outfits too!

Toca Boca World is all about open-ended play. 🥳 There are no rules, just colorful ways to be creative. Build your world, and fill it with characters, pets, shops and all kinds of houses!

Almost everything inside Toca Boca World is customizable, or you can jump straight in and play! 🛝 Try running a café, become a hair stylist, camp in the forest or throw a rooftop party. It’s a safe universe where kids explore and discover at their own pace.

BUILD YOUR OWN WORLD

🏬 Explore apartments, shops and hangouts in Bop City

👭 Design your own characters with unique hair, faces, outfits and accessories

🏡 Decorate spaces with Home Designer.…

From the developer’s store description.

For developers and the curious

The full report

The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.

Findings and evidence

2 published · 3 shown, not confirmed

Positives 2

Specific evidence of a useful property, within the stated scope.

Developer says data deletion can be requested

Measured

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

Sources
The store listing
Agreement
A measured fact from one deterministic, checkable source.
Where measured
From the Google Play listing
Definition

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 evidence

No advertising SDKs

Measured

No advertising or mediation SDK among the 6 SDKs detected in the package

Sources
SDKs in the app package
Agreement
A measured fact from one deterministic, checkable source.
Where measured
Found in the Android app’s package
Definition

No advertising or mediation SDK of any kind was found in the package.

Package artefact

sha256:a3c0a23216f041272b4e1216d49cae17facedd03f3efb5340fc21f2e39f540df

One source only — shown, not confirmed 3

Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.

Paywall blocks the basics

One source only

Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (0.2% of 2410 reviews scanned)

Sources
User reviews
Agreement
Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured
From Google Play reviews

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.

Open evidence

Hard to cancel

One source only

Sells a subscription in-app but ships no cancel or manage-subscription text of its own, leaving the store's settings as the only exit

Sources
The app's own on-screen text
Agreement
Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured
Found in the Android app’s package

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.

Package artefact

sha256:a3c0a23216f041272b4e1216d49cae17facedd03f3efb5340fc21f2e39f540df

Paywall with no way past it

One source only

Ships a purchase screen ("Already Purchased. Receipt not found.") with no dismiss, skip or "continue free" text anywhere in the package

Sources
The app's own on-screen text
Agreement
Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured
Found in the Android app’s package

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

A paywall screen ships with no dismiss, skip or 'maybe later' affordance anywhere in the package, so the app's own text offers no way in without paying.

Package artefact

sha256:a3c0a23216f041272b4e1216d49cae17facedd03f3efb5340fc21f2e39f540df

Nothing was published as a thing to watch for in this assessment. That is not a finding that nothing is wrong with the app.

What reviewers report

2,410 reviews read · 1 review-based observation

2,410 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.

Paywall blocks the basics

Shown, not confirmed

No sampled quote is attached to this observation.

A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.

Measurements

8 measured · 0 not assessed

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
Replies to at least 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 app package we scanned

Android package 1.140, scanned 13 Oct 2026. These describe that package, not the current store version.

Sensitive permissions
1–2 requested
Counted against a fixed list of eighteen sensitive Android permissions: sixteen runtime permissions, among them location, camera, microphone, contacts and SMS, and two the user must switch on in system settings, drawing over other apps and usage access. Requesting one is not itself a finding.
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
1–2 found
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
None found
Counted as distinct SDKs in the package we scanned. One mediation bundle can contribute several, so this is not a count of advertisers.

Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured

Versions and dates analysed

Assessed 13 Oct 2026

This analysis describes version 1.140 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-13 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 1.140, updated 2026-10-01.

Store update history

Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.

Google Play

Version 1.140 · 2026-10-01

No release notes were provided for this version.

Version 1.139.1 · 2026-10-01

No release notes were provided for this version.

Version 1.139.1 · 2026-09-21

No release notes were provided for this version.

Assessment record

Status
Automated analysis
App identifier
toca-boca-world-google-com-tocaboca-tocalifeworld
Assessment date
13 Oct 2026
Sources used
6 independent signals: 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
Reviews read
2,410
Package examined
Android · 1.140 · scanned 13 Oct 2026
Measurement vocabulary
1.4
Human inspection
Not completed

Assessed 2026-10-13 from 2,410 user reviews, the app's package, the store listing and its privacy label.

How this page was produced

Analyzed 2026-10-13 Version analyzed: 1.1406 independent signals2,410 reviews scannedConfidence: HighNot human-reviewedVocabulary v1.13Methodology v1.3
Signals run: 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.

Store facts

Google Play

What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.

Google Play

Store rating
4.36 ★ · 6,851,393 ratings
Version
1.140
Updated
1 Oct 2026
Price
Free · In-app purchases
Age rating
4+
Size
Not supplied
Open in Google Play
Developer
Toca Boca
Category
Games
Listing price
Free · In-app purchases

Purchases the store lists

 What this app sells
Google Play doesn’t publish per-purchase prices, so this list covers the other store only.

Method and limits

What this report can and cannot show

How the automated analysis works

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.

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 hands-on test can confirm or contradict a finding and adds its own measurements; it does not change a measurement row. Hands-on inspections are not yet open.
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