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Word Crush® - Fun Puzzle Game

Relaxing Crossword & Brain Fun

YEW TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
Aggressive ads — Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
App Store rating4.6★1M ratings
PriceFreeListed price
Age4+Store age rating
Size1,056 MBiPhone download
CategoryGames

At a glance

Full report

From our automated analysis, 18 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.

This analysis describes version 4.2.5 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-18 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 4.2.5, updated 2026-10-11.

Preview

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Store screenshots supplied by the developer.

About this app

Sharpen your mind with Word Crush crossword puzzles! Get ready for a thrilling word adventure with Word Crush, where fun, challenge, and relaxation await.

Whether you’re a fan of classic crossword games or just looking for a relaxing word board game, Word Crush has something for everyone. With over 18,000 levels, exciting mini-games, and exclusive events beyond just word matching and word crushing, the adventure never ends! Improve your vocabulary, sharpen your word skills, and enjoy the ultimate word search puzzle experience in a leisurely environment.

Highlights

- Over 18,000 Classic Word Puzzle Levels to Explore

Word Crush features a vast collection of over 18,000 levels, each designed with increasing difficulty to keep you engaged. As you progress, you’ll face tougher challenges that will test your vocabulary, spelling, and brainpower.…

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

1 published · 1 shown, not confirmed

Things to watch for 1

Findings that met the published evidence standard.

Aggressive ad load

Reported by 157 users

Aggressive ad load: raised by 157 distinct reviewers (27.6% of 569 reviews scanned)

Sources
User reviews
Agreement
User reports only. Published because the review evidence cleared this label’s own reviewer threshold.
Where measured
From App Store reviews
Reported by
Raised by 157 distinct reviewers — 27.6% of the 569 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
Published threshold
27 reviewers and 2.12% of at least 500 reviews
Definition

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

Open evidence

One source only — shown, not confirmed 1

Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.

Reports that the ads misrepresent the app

One source only

Misleading advertising: raised by 10 distinct reviewers (1.8% of 569 reviews scanned)

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

What reviewers report

569 reviews read · 2 review-based observations

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

Aggressive ad load

Published finding

Raised by 157 distinct reviewers — 27.6% of the 569 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).

Too Many Ads — Don’t waste you time on this game is good but there are too many Ads and you can’t get back to the game. This game as too many ads and can’t get out of the ads to play the game.

1★ · App Store · 2026-10-07

Ads — I’ve been playing your game for the better part of a year, love your game, even spent real $$…even put up with the ads..but lately these 170/190 seconds forced ads are a little too much..you’re slowly pushing me out the…

4★ · App Store · 2026-09-16

Garbage — Every 2 seconds there is ads So annoying

1★ · App Store · 2026-08-28

Reports that the ads misrepresent the app

Shown, not confirmed

Broken Promise — Your ad for the game promised no ads. There are ads popping up, so you lied, and I’m deleting.

1★ · App Store · 2025-11-20

Has ads — Please don’t false advertise. There are ads. And can’t “click out” of them right away like other games I like the game but may delete it because of the ads.

1★ · App Store · 2025-11-09

REALLY? — It’s advertised to be ad-free… but by level 12 or 13, there’s the first ad. Getting rid of the game…

1★ · App Store · 2025-09-21

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

Measurements

5 measured · 3 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 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
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
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

Assessed 18 Oct 2026

This analysis describes version 4.2.5 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-18 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 4.2.5, updated 2026-10-11.

Store update history

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

App Store

Version 4.2.5 · 2026-10-11
1. Add new levels 2. Optimized user experience
Version 4.2.4 · 2026-09-25
1. Add new levels 2. Optimized user experience

Assessment record

Status
Automated analysis
App identifier
word-crush-apple-1446728841
Assessment date
18 Oct 2026
Sources used
3 independent signals: user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure
Reviews read
569
Package examined
No package scan
Measurement vocabulary
1.4
Human inspection
Not completed

Assessed 2026-10-18 from 569 user reviews, the store listing and its privacy label. 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 2026-10-18 Version analyzed: 4.2.53 independent signals569 reviews scannedConfidence: LowNot human-reviewedVocabulary v1.13Methodology v1.3
Signals run: user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure. Not yet checked: SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text and the app manifest.

Store facts

App Store

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

App Store

Store rating
4.63 ★ · 1,016,916 ratings
Version
4.2.5
Updated
11 Oct 2026
Price
Free
Age rating
4+
Size
1,056 MB
Open in App Store
Developer
YEW TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
Category
Games
Listing price
Free

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Method and limits

What this report can and cannot show

How the automated analysis works

This assessment is produced automatically. Three independent signals are read — user reviews, 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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