What’s the catch? Nothing we could corroborate against this app.
Analyzed automatically from 3 independent signals that had to agree — not a hands-on test, and not human-reviewed.
This analysis describes version 4.231.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-06 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 4.231.0, updated 2026-09-07.
What the analysis found
Context 1
Measured and published because a reader would want to know — deliberately not a charge. The measurement alone does not show a harm.
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.
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
Changes ruined it. — I’ve used this app frequently for about a year only to sign on today and realize you now only get 10 answers per WEEK not per day per WEEK. As if you guys weren’t making enough money off the ads you ran every 3…
ADS EVERY SECOND — they added so many ads it was never like this. after every question there is an ad while I have a pay subscription it makes no sense. They need to check themselves real quick. The app used to be so helpful.
Ads are way too much — A recent update has added way more ads than before and has made the non paid version practically useless because now you only get 3 free checks per day. And now every search you get an ad video put in your face…
Hard to cancel
Fraudulent can’t cancel — This company will continue to charge you and say they canceled it. My child did not find it helpful and when I attempted to cancel we were no longer able to get in it and caught in a password spiral reset. I…
Unable to cancel subscription — This app is incredibly useful but it is impossible to cancel and will not allow you to cancel even if you end the subscription in the App Store. Do not add your credit card information to brainly directly.
Do NOT purchase. Waste of money — I am incredibly disappointed with my experience using Brainly, and I have to say it is, without a doubt, the worst subscription service I have ever encountered. It was advertised as an intelligent…
Reports of unexpected charges
Fraudulent can’t cancel — This company will continue to charge you and say they canceled it. My child did not find it helpful and when I attempted to cancel we were no longer able to get in it and caught in a password spiral reset. I…
Charged a full year. Never used the app. No refund — The app is built around a paywall. Free use is limited, then you get pushed into a yearly plan. I did not use Brainly after that. No questions, no tutors, no homework help. The charge…
scamming — u cancel the subscription and they still charge u secretly and it’s not as easy as pressing a button cancel these guys are bad people.
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.
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.