Appworthy
Hard to cancel
Reported by 28 usersHard to cancel: raised by 28 distinct reviewers (5.6% of 502 reviews scanned)
Definition
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
Hard to cancel — Reported by users: Hard to cancelSurprise charges — Reports of unexpected charges
App Store rating4.3★3.7K ratings
PriceFreeListed price
Age4+Store age rating
Size279 MBiPhone download
CategoryUtilities
DeveloperPRABHU DOO
At a glance
Full reportThings to watch for 2
- Hard to cancelReported by users: Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
- Reports of unexpected chargesA large number of reviewers report being charged when they did not expect it — including being charged after cancelling during a free trial, or when a trial turned into a paid plan without warning. We cannot see anyone's billing, so this is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.
Positives 0
No specific positive published.
From our automated analysis, 16 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 1.2.5 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-16 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 1.2.5, updated 2026-08-01.
Preview
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
About this app
Vita - Core Station is a unified environment designed to host and organize your interactive digital library. Enjoy a curated selection of built-in titles or seamlessly integrate your own collection into a high-performance hub.
Premium Features (available with an active subscription - $2.99/week or $39.99/year)
- Unlimited gameplay across 11 titles
- Custom skins & controls
- XP, streaks & progression
- Your built-in gaming companion
Subscription can be managed and canceled at any time through your Apple ID account settings.
Other Features:…
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
Things to watch for 2
Findings that met the published evidence standard.
Open evidence
Reports of unexpected charges
Reported by 39 usersSurprise charges: raised by 39 distinct reviewers (7.8% of 502 reviews scanned)
Definition
A large number of reviewers report being charged when they did not expect it — including being charged after cancelling during a free trial, or when a trial turned into a paid plan without warning. We cannot see anyone's billing, so this is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 2
Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.
Trial converts to a charge
One source onlyTrial converts to a charge: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (1.2% of 502 reviews scanned)
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Definition
The free trial demands a payment method up front and/or rolls into a paid subscription with no usable warning.
Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
One source onlyMisleading advertising: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (1.2% of 502 reviews scanned)
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Definition
Reviewers repeatedly report that the app is not what its advertising showed. We never see the ad creative itself, so nothing we collect can corroborate or refute this — it is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.
What reviewers report
502 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
Hard to cancel
Published findingRaised by 28 distinct reviewers — 5.6% of the 502 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
Terrible — Barely any games. Spent 2.00 for a stupid starter game to play and cancelled well apparently still wants to charge me 39.99 for a bull subscription and have to email them to cancel can’t cancel in the app apparently and no one…
Cannot cancel — Don’t know how to cancel weekly charges!!
no way to cancel subscription through apple!!! — i don’t know what to do i feel like i got scammed i tried canceling through apple even called them it’s nowhere to be found!!!
Reports of unexpected charges
Published findingRaised by 39 distinct reviewers — 7.8% of the 502 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
SCAM: Hidden $40 Subscription Bait-and-Switch! — DO NOT DOWNLOAD. This app is a front for a deceptive billing scam. I paid a one-time fee of $3.99 for this retro app, but they used my payment info to secretly sign me up for a $39.99…
Do not subscribe!! — They are a rip off. Their subscription is not managed through the app store, and they intentionally make it IMPOSSIBLE to cancel their subscription on their website. I contacted customer service multiple times and…
Scam — They will promise a refund and continue to take money out of your account do not use bank card they will steal your money frauds! They do not give money back they are liars
Trial converts to a charge
Shown, not confirmedIt is NOT $2.99, report for fraud — Be aware, it’s not actually $2.99 to access these games, that’s only a 7 day trial, which once it ends you’ll be charged $39.99 Do not listen to any of the positive reviews, because unless you’re…
Please help me cancel this developer — I got this app because the games were cool but I couldn’t figure out how to cancel the free trial looked all over now I’ve been charged 40$ twice and I imagine will continue to be charged forever…
Don’t Buy Money Grab — 100% Scam!!!!! Do not give this app any money. They are charging outside of Apple so you just can’t cancel your subscription through your subscription plan. Did the trial and was not impressed. I told them to cancel…
Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
Shown, not confirmedMisleading advertising — There was an ad that showed this app would have NFL Blitz. It does not. The app also does not have an accessible option to cancel the subscription in the settings.
SCAM: Hidden $40 Subscription Bait-and-Switch! — DO NOT DOWNLOAD. This app is a front for a deceptive billing scam. I paid a one-time fee of $3.99 for this retro app, but they used my payment info to secretly sign me up for a $39.99…
Bs — Not what was advertised
A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.
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
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
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
3 or more themes 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
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
No package has been scanned for this app
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
Versions and dates analysed
This analysis describes version 1.2.5 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-16 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 1.2.5, updated 2026-08-01.
Store update history
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
App Store
Version 1.2.5 · 2026-08-01
- critical bug fix - improved performance
Assessment record
- Status
- Automated analysis
- App identifier
vita-apple-6759721531- Assessment date
- 16 Oct 2026
- Sources used
- 2 independent signals: user reviews and the store listing
- Reviews read
- 502
- Package examined
- No package scan
- Measurement vocabulary
- 1.4
- Human inspection
- Not completed
Assessed 2026-10-16 from 502 user reviews and the store listing. We have not scanned the app's package, so nothing on this page was read from inside the app itself.
How this page was produced
Analyzed 2026-10-16 Version analyzed: 1.2.52 independent signals502 reviews scannedConfidence: LowNot human-reviewedVocabulary v1.13Methodology v1.3
Signals run: user reviews and the store listing. Not yet checked: SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text, the app manifest and the store privacy disclosure.
Store facts
What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.
App Store
- Store rating
- 4.32 ★ · 3,688 ratings
- Version
- 1.2.5
- Updated
- 1 Aug 2026
- Price
- Free
- Age rating
- 4+
- Size
- 279 MB
- Developer
- PRABHU DOO
- Category
- Utilities
- Listing price
- Free
No itemized purchase list is available for this listing.
Method and limits
How the automated analysis works
This assessment is produced automatically. Two independent signals are read — user reviews and the store listing — 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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