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FarmVille 3 – Farm Animals
Zynga Inc. · Games

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 sources528 reviews scannedNot human-reviewedas of 2026-10-05
 Which version this describes

This analysis describes version 1.79.55131 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 1.79.55131, updated 2026-09-30.

What the analysis found

Each finding shows what agreed and how strongly. Automated analysis

One source only — shown, not confirmed 4

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: Aggressive ad load
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is user reviews.view evidence
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 7 distinct reviewers (1.3% of 528 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Tracking and data collection concerns
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is user reviews.view evidence
The app ships session-recording or a wide tracking stack, holds permissions that read personal data, or is reported by users to sell, leak or over-collect it. The evidence line says which of those was observed.
What we saw: Data & privacy concerns: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (1.1% of 528 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Progress pauses until you wait or pay
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is user reviews.view evidence
Use is rationed by an energy/hearts/lives meter that runs out and forces a wait or a purchase.
What we saw: Energy / timer gating: raised by 9 distinct reviewers (1.7% of 528 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Pay to progress
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is user reviews.view evidence
Advancement or competition is gated behind spending money rather than playing.
What we saw: Pay to progress: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (1.1% of 528 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.

Aggressive ad load

Frustrating — Fun game to play but it’s becoming unplayable due to constant adds for paid modes when you open the game and other modes taking forever to load while playing.

3★ · App Store · 2026-09-15

Make sure you have money — Adds non stop about spending money in the game. Events? You better have money to pay to complete them. Want to be bombarded every time you open the game by ads for paying for things in the game? This is the game…

1★ · App Store · 2026-08-24

Bombarded with pop-ups — This game would be better if you weren’t bombarded with pops-ups for their ads and events that are going on and what event ended. You can’t close some of these out. Then more info pop ups and this is in little…

2★ · App Store · 2026-05-02

Tracking and data collection concerns

You want to sell my personal information?! Hail No! — I couldn’t even continue unless I agreed to that. No I Don’t. Because of the request I have no other choice but to report such request.

1★ · App Store · 2026-08-07

App spying on me — Game now wants me to agree to be spied on, tracked and recorded to play. App deleted. Sell your game, not our information.

1★ · App Store · 2025-09-10

Selling my information — Sorry, won’t be playing this game anymore… They want me to agree to them selling my information….😡😡

1★ · App Store · 2025-05-19

Progress pauses until you wait or pay

Too many things. — I wanted to like this game, but tedious is the best word to describe it. The amount of coins earned is laughable, so much that it takes forever to make enough to buy anything. Also, I hate games that use energy. If I’m…

2★ · App Store · 2026-07-09

Cute but slow — I like this game because the animals are cute and the farm looks nice. It is relaxing and fun at the beginning. But I don’t like that it takes a long time to finish things. The energy runs out fast and it can get boring…

3★ · App Store · 2026-04-10

To everyone — I love this game so much but when I run out of energy I hard my mom has it has no problems but me I have a lot but I still love it

5★ · App Store · 2026-03-19

Pay to progress

glitches and then wants $$$ — 7/8 of the time the exit button vanished. you’re forced to close the game and start up again. then you’re required to get fruit. but need an updated animal habitat. but the only way if to get a special…

1★ · App Store · 2026-06-08

Great free game — This is the only mobile game I’ve played with no forced ads, and that never makes me feel like I have to spend money to get anywhere. It actually makes me want to watch an ad or spend a little money to support. You can…

5★ · App Store · 2026-02-24

Fun, but too Overwhelming — This app was a lot of fun when I started playing, but then they added an event, and then another event, and then another event, and another. Now, there's ALWAYS at least three events and multiple offers. When…

3★ · App Store · 2026-02-12

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.

Subscriptions1
Season PassTerm not stated$4.99
One-off packs4
Sack of GemsPack$4.99
Box of GemsPack$9.99
Chest of GemsPack$29.99
Starter Offer!Pack$2.99
Show 5 more purchases we couldn’t categorise

These are really on sale; we just can’t tell from the name whether they recur.

Cask of GemsTerm not stated$19.99
Farmtastic Weekend OfferTerm not stated$9.99
Farmtastic Midweek OfferTerm not stated$7.99
Safe of GemsTerm not stated$49.99
Exotic Animal Midweek OfferTerm not stated$9.99
This list is cut off. Apple shows at most 10 in-app purchases, and this app is at the limit — so it very likely sells more than we can see.

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 2026-10-05 Version analyzed: 1.79.551313 independent signals528 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.