“Total Scam - Deceptive Billing and Banned Numbers Avoid the app entirely! They advertise a "4 Day Free Trial" on weekly subscription, but as soon as you enter your card details l, they immediately charge you $5 upfront without…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 483 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
Wabi - Virtual Phone Number
Applaud SoftWabi provides clean, dedicated phone numbers guaranteed to work with WhatsApp…
3.7 ★56,560 ratings
5M+Downloads
4+Age rating
—App size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Wabi provides clean, dedicated phone numbers guaranteed to work with WhatsApp or WhatsApp Business! Try our virtual number for free! Wabi number can also be used for account verification of any other service
Why Wabi? • Not all numbers are compatible with WhatsApp. Many numbers are blocked from using WhatsApp Business, especially from other virtual number providers! • Wabi provides clean, dedicated virtual numbers, guaranteed to be compatible with WhatsApp Business! • Wabi number can be used to verify your account with any other service as well. • Forget about ordering another SIM and device, installing a landline or any other hassle! Get a number in a click of a button! • Wabi provides numbers from 30+ countries, but if there's no local phone number available for your country, you may still get a US number or any other number and use it to activate a WhatsApp account!
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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 2.10.1 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2.10.1, updated 2025-10-22.
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 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
Under 65% 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.
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
Developer says data deletion can be requested
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: Reports of unexpected charges
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.
What we saw: Surprise charges: raised by 23 distinct reviewers (4.8% of 483 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“I didn't get a new number with WABI. My number was released 2 years ago and they charge me every week. I sent many emails and they refuse to refund my money. I'll have to change my credit card number or talk to a lawyer.”
“After paying for the number, you won't be able to create a WhatsApp account because you will just never receive the verification code in the App as they claim. until you realize you have been Scammed your Money. I'm still waiting to see…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 2.10.1.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
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