What’s the catch? Paywall blocks the basics — reported by 27 users.
Analyzed automatically from 3 independent signals that had to agree — not a hands-on test, and not human-reviewed.
This analysis describes version 2.20.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2.20.0, updated 2025-10-16.
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.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 5
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 — I shouldn’t have to pay for smth so simple and stupid.
Everything costs money now — everything used to be free and it was awesome but now you have to pay for literally almost everything in the app.
App used to be great — This app was super useful to touch up photos without having to bring them on to your computer. Now it feels like every time I open the app, more things are locked behind an egregious paywall. There are so many apps…
Aggressive ad load
Horrible — Slows down my video for no reason, ad poos up every 2 seconds for pro
So good for videos if you make some — THE QUALITY IS SO GOOD FOR VIDS AND STUFF LIKE OMG the only problem is the ads popping up every second but overall it’s a good app!
Okay app — I rly like this app I use it for TikTok videos like basically I make Roblox videos so I think it’s really nice how the filters turn out but it lags and glitches wayy to much and there is too many pop up ads for the vip gradient…
Trial converts to a charge
Everything is money — It’s so cool but everything that you do you have to pay for and that ruins the fun even the free trial is still requires your credit card information
Boooo 👎 — So, I decided to download this after I saw some YouTube short that involved it, solely for the quizzes. I immediately tried to do one of the quizzes, and it said I needed the subscription, which I cancelled immediately. I tried…
Beware “trial” scam — I downloaded gradient in March 2020 for the AI features. I was prompted with a “free trial” which I accepted to use the apps full features. My card was immediately charged. I reached out to this company through…
Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
DONT BUY IT!!!! FALSE ADVERTISING — it wouldn’t let me use literally anything…fix yourself🤦♀️
false advertisement. — features shown on site (AI face) are not on the app... i wanted to change ethnicities. waste of money
False advertising and possibly data harvesting — Got rhis app to try the celebrity lookalike and a few other features. The features were said to be free, verbatim - I takemy picture and then it tells me I have to pay. I feel deceived and…
Upgrade prompts use guilt-trip wording
It changed — Ok so first when I used it I was Able to go to art and use the preppy affect but now it does let me it’s keeps asking me to buy it when I’m 11 trying to post for my avatar world TikTok account and I need to use pretty in art…
I liked this app until… — I used this app for all the fun cool filters, they were all rlly good but I didn’t like the popup to buy vip all the time, but again I was rlly enjoying this app and it was going rlly well, until I opened the app…
Amazing — It’s soo good it really helps for gradient in my Roblox berry ave games highly recommend but there’s one problem.whenever I press something it keeps asking me to pay every time I press something and it’s annoying so I just keep…
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.
Show 1 more purchase we couldn’t categorise
These are really on sale; we just can’t tell from the name whether they recur.
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.