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Backbone Labs, Inc. (US) · Social

Review signals only — 1 user-reported signal — from user reviews, not yet audited by Appworthy.

Review signals only — 1 user-reported signalConfidence: High476 reviews scannedas of 2026-10-06

Reported by users

Recurring themes across scanned reviews — a signal, not a finding. User reports
Paywall blocks the basics5 reviews · 1.1% of 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.

Paywall blocks the basics

While the app works fine and the controller works great, the problem I have is that the premium version is a subscription and not a one time purchase and setting controls for games without controller support is locked behind said…

3★ · Google Play · 2026-03-05

Works but why do I need to pay to use the app... 🤦🏻 I already bought your product.

3★ · Google Play · 2025-11-30

I genuinely wish mapping for games with no controller support wasn't locked behind a paywall, like I already payed alot for a backbone. I am not spending 40$ a year for that. also emulators are free on mobile why would anyone even bother…

1★ · Google Play · 2026-05-23

What this app sells

Every purchase the store discloses. Store listing
 What this app sells
Google Play doesn’t publish per-purchase prices, so this list covers the other store only.

How a review signal works

Automated, review-derived, and always superseded by a human review.

A review signal is produced automatically from public app reviews by a classifier — never by a hands-on Appworthy test, and never by a human analyst. It exists so a real, not-yet-audited app can carry more than a blank “Not yet tested” listing, without ever being mistaken for an assessment.

A theme only appears above once at least 5 distinct reviews corroborate it — one angry review can never tag an app. These thresholds are published settings and may be tuned as coverage grows.

It carries no confirmed findings — reviews are one kind of evidence, and nothing here has been hands-on tested. The moment Appworthy publishes a full assessment of this app, it replaces this signal, permanently.

 Not yet human-reviewed

A human review replaces this review-derived signal with hands-on, recorded measurements.

Hands-on inspections are not yet open.