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Roman Alifanov · Lifestyle

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

Review signals only — 1 user-reported signalConfidence: Low134 reviews scannedas of 2026-10-06

Reported by users

Recurring themes across scanned reviews — a signal, not a finding. User reports
Aggressive ad load6 reviews · 4.5% 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.

Aggressive ad load

Too many ads — It’s a great app for reading stories but it’s frustrating trying to read another chapter when you need to sit through another ad. I am currently reading a story with 77 chapters and there’s an ad per chapter. And it’s the…

3★ · App Store · 2026-03-22

Endless ads — I am ok with ads but after 2-minutes of an endless ad, even before I was able to open the first chapter, I gave up and remove the app

1★ · App Store · 2025-10-13

ADS — I’m leaving a review, because we started putting ads on your app. What’s the point of paying for pro if there’s an ad every few inches between stories. Please let me know how you’ve asked or I will cancel my subscription to your…

1★ · App Store · 2025-10-04

What this app sells

Every purchase the store discloses. Store listing
 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.

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Automated, review-derived, and always superseded by a human review.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