Wild Color - Paint by Number

🐾 Embark on a wild journey of creativity with Wild Color – the ultimate pain…

BrainArt Studio
Google Play rating4.8★2K ratings
PriceFreeIn-app purchases
Age4+Store age rating
CategoryGames

What we found

Full report

Some warnings 11 users report an aggressive ad load; 5 users report ads that misrepresent the app. Nothing confirmed. Checked: 367 reviews.

Money

Pressure and ad claims

Ads

From our automated analysis, 27 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.

This analysis describes version 1.1.8 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-27 .

The store currently lists version 1.1.8, updated 2026-09-30.

Preview

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Store screenshots supplied by the developer.

About this app

🐾 Embark on a wild journey of creativity with Wild Color – the ultimate paint by number adventure for animal lovers, nature fans, and artistic minds. This isn't just a coloring book, it's your escape into the untamed world of animals, forests, jungles, oceans, mountains, and the free spirit of the west. Tap your way through stunning wildlife illustrations and use intuitive paint by number gameplay to bring the wilderness to life.

🦁 Whether you're drawn to majestic lions on the hunt, peaceful deer in misty woods, vibrant parrots in the tropical jungle, or spooky halloween wildlife moments, Wild Color is your paint by number sanctuary. Each image is hand-designed to highlight the beauty, power, spirit, and magic of the natural world. Relax, explore, and unleash your creativity in the wildest paint by number experience you've ever seen.…

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

0 published · 2 shown, not confirmed

One source only — shown, not confirmed 2

Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.

Aggressive ad load

One source only

Aggressive ad load: raised by 11 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 33 reviews we read)

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

Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.

Open evidence
How we know
Share and sample
3.0% of the 367 reviews read.

Reports that the ads misrepresent the app

One source only

Misleading advertising: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 73 reviews we read)

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

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.

Open evidence
How we know
Share and sample
1.4% of the 367 reviews read.

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

367 reviews read · 2 review-based observations

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

Aggressive ad load

Shown, not confirmed

The pictures are amazingly beautiful, but there are 3 reasons I won't play as often as others: 1-Some of the spaces are teeny tiny, making it hard for old people like me. 2-The necessary ads go on unnecessarily long, well over a minute or…

3★ · Google Play · 2025-10-16

beautiful pictures, especially the 2 scenes in 1. Knocked a star off because if I pause for about 3 seconds the hint ad comes up but it appears wherever my fingers are. It seems to sense where they are. Easy to click on it by accident so…

4★ · Google Play · 2025-10-05

absolutely beautiful pictures but, EXTREMELY WAY TO MANY ADS...CANT ENJOY IT. in the middle of coloring you get ads sometimes up to three no thanks I'm uninstalling !

1★ · Google Play · 2025-08-04

Reports that the ads misrepresent the app

Shown, not confirmed

None of the advertised pictures of cats doing housework, baking cookies, vacuuming floors and washing dishes, are in your app. You, and everyone else falsely advertising pictures not in their apps need to add the advertised pictures or…

1★ · Google Play · 2025-10-09

the ad for the app shows dragonflies absolutely not one dragonfly. that was why I downloaded it even got the 3 day free trial subscription thinking maybe the pictures would be unlocked but nothing. so disappointing false advertising would…

1★ · Google Play · 2025-08-30

This app is falsely advertised as having cats dressed as housewives doing laundry and vacuuming floors with their hair in curlers but it has none of these pictures. This false advertising, that I've seen for all but one app, Retro Color…

1★ · Google Play · 2026-03-16

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

Measurements

5 measured · 3 not assessed

“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and 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
The store description doesn’t list prices (most don’t)
Cancelling, in the store description
The store description doesn’t say how to cancel (most don’t)
Themes reported by reviewers
2 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
90% or more 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
How we know

Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured

Versions and dates analysed

Assessed 27 Oct 2026

This analysis describes version 1.1.8 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-27 .

The store currently lists version 1.1.8, updated 2026-09-30.

Store update history

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

Google Play

Version 1.1.8 · 2026-09-30

No release notes were provided for this version.

Assessment record

Status
Automated analysis
App identifier
wild-color
Assessment date
27 Oct 2026
Sources used
1 independent signal: user reviews
Reviews read
367
Package examined
No package scan
Human inspection
Not completed

Assessed 2026-10-27 from 367 user reviews. We have not scanned the app's package, so nothing on this page was read from inside the app itself.

How we know
Measurement vocabulary
1.4

How this page was produced

Analyzed 2026-10-27 Version analyzed: 1.1.81 independent signal367 reviews scannedConfidence: HighNot human-reviewedVocabulary v1.13Methodology v1.3
Signals run: user reviews. Not yet checked: 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
4.80 ★ · 2,005 ratings
Version
1.1.8
Updated
30 Sep 2026
Price
Free · In-app purchases
Age rating
4+
Size
Not supplied
Open in Google Play
Developer
BrainArt Studio
Category
Games
Listing price
Free · In-app purchases

Purchases the store lists

 What this app sells
Google Play doesn’t publish per-purchase prices.

Method and limits

What this report can and cannot show

How the automated analysis works

This assessment is produced automatically. One independent signal is read — user reviews — and each candidate finding is filed under the source that supports 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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