Serious warnings 3 confirmed warnings. Checked: 400 reviews, the Android app’s code, the store listing and the privacy label.
From our automated analysis, 30 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 8.0.4 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-30 .
The store currently lists version 8.0.4, updated 2026-10-22.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
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With our AI Wallpaper generation tool you can create gorgeous Wallpapers from words. Just describe how your ideal wallpaper looks like, select a style and hit create. In just a couple of seconds you'll have a really cool wallpaper for your device.
Each week we add new Live Wallpapers so you'll never get bored. You can choose a new one every day.…
From the developer’s store description.
For developers and the curious
The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.
Findings that met the published evidence standard.
Bundles 4 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: Google Mobile Ads (AdMob / Ad Manager), Mintegral, Pangle (ByteDance), Vungle / Liftoff Monetize
The package embeds several distinct advertising or mediation SDKs — a stack built for ad volume, not for a single house ad.
Package artefact
Appworthy
sha256:7052f5e9c295ce7c6af4691da604d11e5d153dfbe27643618352d180b2791a4bPaywall is server-configured and A/B tested via Adapty — the offer shown can differ per user
The app ships a remote paywall-experimentation SDK, so the offer shown is configured server-side and may differ per user — including from anything we or a reviewer saw.
Package artefact
sha256:7052f5e9c295ce7c6af4691da604d11e5d153dfbe27643618352d180b2791a4bProgress is gated behind watching an ad: "Watch an Ad to unlock?"
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
Package artefact
sha256:7052f5e9c295ce7c6af4691da604d11e5d153dfbe27643618352d180b2791a4bFacts that add context without being a charge.
Requests 5 sensitive permissions (READ_CONTACTS, READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, READ_MEDIA_IMAGES, READ_PHONE_STATE, SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW); the median for 498 scanned apps in Personalization is 1
The package requests substantially more of the device's sensitive permissions than the typical app in its category. This is a measurement, not an accusation: a permission is granted because a feature needs it, and a wide request list is a reason to look rather than a finding on its own.
Package artefact
sha256:7052f5e9c295ce7c6af4691da604d11e5d153dfbe27643618352d180b2791a4bSpecific evidence of a useful property, within the stated scope.
Offers a one-time or lifetime purchase: "Lifetime Access"
The app's own text offers a one-time or lifetime purchase, or reviewers report that the price is stated clearly.
Package artefact
sha256:7052f5e9c295ce7c6af4691da604d11e5d153dfbe27643618352d180b2791a4bThe 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
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 observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.
Progress itself is for sale: "Buy gems"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Advancement or competition is gated behind spending money rather than playing.
Package artefact
sha256:7052f5e9c295ce7c6af4691da604d11e5d153dfbe27643618352d180b2791a4bThe app's own text says: "Premium content available only for premium users."
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
Package artefact
sha256:7052f5e9c295ce7c6af4691da604d11e5d153dfbe27643618352d180b2791a4bDeadline pressure in the app's own copy: "Limited Time Offer"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own purchase copy attaches a deadline to buying — a countdown, 'offer ends in', 'limited time' — or ships a countdown view on a purchase-screen layout.
Package artefact
sha256:7052f5e9c295ce7c6af4691da604d11e5d153dfbe27643618352d180b2791a4bThe app's own text says: "Continue as %1$s"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
Package artefact
sha256:7052f5e9c295ce7c6af4691da604d11e5d153dfbe27643618352d180b2791a4bThe app's own text says: "Click Apply Wallpaper to activate your new live wallpaper!"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own copy describes working without a connection — offline mode, downloading for offline use, or content saved for later. Shown because readers filter on it; it is a feature, not a fairness property, and never counts for or against an app.
Package artefact
sha256:7052f5e9c295ce7c6af4691da604d11e5d153dfbe27643618352d180b2791a4b400 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
This app was once awesome app but now it doesn't fit the purpose I downloaded it for . in fact it's absolutely totally and utterly useless.. I wanted it to put my videos up as a love wallpaper . it does this for the first few minutes then…
I paid for the premium version but the app still forces me to watch advertisements that sometimes freezes and I lose my wallpaper other times I have to struggle to get back into the app and continue creating my live wallpaper ..... the '5…
Great wallpapers, but they make you watch ads that trap you, with no way to exit or go back. They try to trick you into downloading the apps. Very deceptive.
A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.
“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and never a pass.
Android package 8.0.4, scanned 27 Oct 2026. These describe that package, not the current store version.
Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
This analysis describes version 8.0.4 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-30 .
The store currently lists version 8.0.4, updated 2026-10-22.
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
Wave has a whole new look Redesigned from the ground up - A new glass look, dark and luminous, so your wallpapers bring the color. - A brand-new Home made for fast browsing, plus four simple tabs: Home, Explore, Create and Library. - Search is now one tap away, and so are your settings. A rebuilt Live Photo maker - Turn videos into Live Photos whose motion actually plays on your lock screen. - Capture longer moments: we compress them into one smooth, lively Live Photo. - Sharper, cleaner photo collages, rendered for quality first. More control over your privacy - "Stop tracking me" and "Manage ad consent" now live right in Settings. Smoother all around - Lots of stability fixes under…
Shortened here; the full notes are on the store listing.
No release notes were provided for this version.
wave-ai-live-wallpapers-makerAssessed 2026-10-30 from 400 user reviews, the app's package, the store listing and its privacy label.
What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.
From the store listing. Billing terms are read from each purchase’s name — the stores don’t publish them — so treat them as a strong hint, not a disclosure.
These are really on sale; we just can’t tell from the name whether they recur.
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 recurring plan the store lists is named as weekly, the term read from the purchase names, with a list cut off at the store’s 10-item maximum not assessed; 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.
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