What’s the catch? Multiple ad networks bundled — measured, backed by SDKs in the app package.
Analyzed automatically from 6 independent signals that had to agree — not a hands-on test, and not human-reviewed.
App Store
This analysis describes version 9.24.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 9.24.0, updated 2026-10-01.
Google Play
This analysis describes version 7.4.2 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 7.4.2, updated 2026-09-28.
What the analysis found
The catch list 1
Charges we publish at a strength we stand behind: measured from an artefact, agreed by independent sources, or reported by enough users to clear that charge's own published bar.
Positive evidence 2
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
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.
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
Terrible search algorithm. The app won't even remember foods I use daily, but sure will remind me at every meal "here's x% off, please pay!". It legit feels like harrassment. Every feature is locked behind a paywall, you get no feedback…
Bloated with popup interactions and most useful features locked behind pay walls. Nice barcode tracking but that's it. For a goal of gaining light muscle it gave me a completely absurd goal that's less than my needed basic caloric intake…
worthless. every feature is locked behind a paywall
Upgrade prompts use guilt-trip wording
every deceptive, manipulative app practice is present here. the super long intro survey where it stops every few questions to say "yes, awesome! :)" the fake loading between sections of questions only for it to prompt you to buy premium…
Feel this is a bit of a scam. pricing not clear or transparent. Advert said it was free. Downloaded app and had to subscribe. It said 3.99 per month, can cancel anytime. I thought I'd try it for a month although I felt ripped off…
Nice idea, bad execution. "AI" slop. I like the idea of lots of nutrient information about food. Unfortunately the information is quite often completely wrong or inaccurate. I assume it queries an AI agent for the information instead of…
What this app sells
How the automated analysis works
This assessment is produced automatically. Six independent signals are read — user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text, the app manifest, 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.