Review signals only — 1 user-reported signal — from user reviews, not yet audited by Appworthy.
Reported by users
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.
Price keeps rising
Big Yikes - 60% Price Increase! — Castro was seemingly sold in 2024 and it’s perhaps no surprise that there has been a subsequent price increase on the Castro Plus subscriptions. Fair enough. But when my personal 5 year+ sub rises by over…
Great app, saddened by huge price increase for early adopters — Really disappointed with the price increase. I get that you have to make a living and expenses are up, but I’ve been paying for Castro for 6 years and now I’m cancelling. At…
Declining quality increased price — I’ve been using Castro since 2019 and was always pretty satisfied with it. In the past year or so though the app has gotten worse. My automatic downloads aren’t downloading automatically and most…
How a review signal works
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.
A human review replaces this review-derived signal with hands-on, recorded measurements.
Hands-on inspections are not yet open.