What’s the catch? Aggressive ad load — reported by 33 users.
Analyzed automatically from 3 independent signals that had to agree — not a hands-on test, and not human-reviewed.
This analysis describes version 6.2.59 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 6.2.59, updated 2026-09-11.
What the analysis found
The catch list 1
Charges we publish at a strength we stand behind: measured from an artefact, agreed by independent sources, or reported by enough users to clear that charge's own published bar.
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.
What reviewers said
Verbatim excerpts from public store reviews, shown as corroborating user reports. They are not Appworthy audit evidence, and a quotation is not proof of the finding it sits under.
Aggressive ad load
🩷 — Love it!!! but i think it would be wayyy better if there wasn't so many adds😅
Love AM but the ads… — I absolutely love Alight Motion. I use AM to tween and edit, but goodness the ads are too much. You think when exporting a video the words “watch an ad” means one ad, no it means three. It’s especially worse for non…
Fox this stupid bug it’s literally gonna prevent me from uploading to my channel for so long — I deleted the app because I couldn’t watch ads to get the premium stuff I redownload it all my projects are gone I thought if you login your…
Paywall blocks the basics
The app is awesome, but I wish the more advanced features weren't Pro only — Alight Motion is an awesome editing app, and it's very smooth, but there are some issues with the app lagging. Also, I wanted to say that some of the pro…
Terrible — I can’t make images and I don’t know why but I made an animated video and it said i have to pay for it and I can’t use the app it says pay pay pay pay idk if this a glitch but help
Too expensive for the target audience — Alight Motion is genuinely one of the best editing apps, but the Premium subscription is simply too expensive for a large part of its actual user base. A huge portion of the editing community on…
What this app sells
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.
Show 1 more purchase we couldn’t categorise
These are really on sale; we just can’t tell from the name whether they recur.
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.
Several measurements above say “Not assessed” because no artefact we hold can answer them. A human review is what resolves those — and it can remove a favourable band as easily as add one.
Hands-on inspections are not yet open.