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AppClose, Inc · Productivity

We analyzed this app across 3 independent signals and corroborated nothing unfair. That is a signal, not an audit.

Nothing unfair corroborated · unauditedConfidence: High3 signal sources506 reviews scannedNot human-reviewedas of 2026-10-04
 Which version this describes

This analysis describes version 3.4.77 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 3.4.78, updated 2026-10-01.

The app has been updated since this analysis. The findings on this page describe version 3.4.77, not the version now listed on the store.

Release notes for the newer versions, in the developer’s own words:

Version 3.4.78 · 2026-10-01
Thank you for using AppClose. We update the app regularly to make it better for you. Today’s update includes: • Performance and stability enhancements Please make sure to update your app so you’re using the latest version. If you discover a bug or error, please be kind and let us know at [email protected]. Our innovative and hardworking IT team is always ready to help and will fix any issues right away.

What the analysis found

Each finding shows what agreed and how strongly. Automated analysis

One source only — shown, not confirmed 3

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 that the ads misrepresent the app
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is user reviews.view evidence
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.
What we saw: Misleading advertising: raised by 7 distinct reviewers (1.4% of 506 reviews scanned)
From the store listing: Usable without an account
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is the store privacy disclosure.view evidence
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.
What we saw: The store privacy disclosure (8 entries) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is user reviews.view evidence
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 19 distinct reviewers (3.8% of 506 reviews scanned)

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.

Reports that the ads misrepresent the app

Bait and switch — They wait until they get courts to mandate it for thousands of users because it’s free and then they charge money. It’s not even a good app and paying a subscription doesn’t get you any additional features. No AI to help…

1★ · App Store · 2026-04-10

Bait and Switch — I wonder how many people they were able to get this court ordered to have since it was free. To turn around and put it behind a pay wall knowing that it would cost more to get parenting plans changed. -Developer responds…

1★ · App Store · 2026-01-22

Bait and switch — Awesome how you got all these court orders to require your ‘free’ app and now change it to paid. I hope every user complains to the FTC and to their state attorney and you’re banned from ever participating in something…

1★ · App Store · 2026-01-09

Paywall blocks the basics

Sucks — This app sucks not a fan. Confusing and can’t get anything done cost way to much it was free now pay to much

1★ · App Store · 2026-07-11

Not worth the trouble even when it’s free — Difficult to use, when you try to add an agreed parenting schedule the calendar does not reflect the addition correctly. Tried this app to see my schedule months ahead since it was free but now…

1★ · App Store · 2026-06-21

ALWAYS FROZEN!!! — I got the app because it was free then it made us purchase a subscription. Now im paying for an app that freezes every time i go to use it!!!! Ive been trying to read the dang messages that got sent over an hour ago and…

1★ · App Store · 2026-05-26

How the automated analysis works

Automated, corroborated, and never human-reviewed without a person.

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.

 Not yet human-reviewed

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.

 How this page was produced
Analyzed 2026-10-04 Version analyzed: 3.4.773 independent signals506 reviews scannedConfidence: HighNot 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.