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Hallow: Prayer & Meditation
Hallow, Inc. · Education

We analyzed this app across 6 independent signals and corroborated nothing unfair. That is a signal, not an audit.

Nothing unfair corroborated · unauditedConfidence: High6 signal sources1,004 reviews scannedNot human-reviewedas of 2026-10-05
 Which version this describes

App Store

This analysis describes version 13.12.1 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 13.12.1, updated 2026-09-21.

Google Play

This analysis describes version 13.11.2 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 13.12.1, updated 2026-09-22.

What the analysis found

Each finding shows what agreed and how strongly. Automated analysis

Positive evidence 2

Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.

No advertising SDKs
Measuredfrom SDKs in the app packageartefact 12cae85fc981…
No advertising or mediation SDK of any kind was found in the package.
What we saw: No advertising or mediation SDK among the 7 SDKs detected in the package
Developer says data deletion can be requested
Measuredfrom the store listingview evidence
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
What we saw: The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text

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.

Reported by users: Trial converts to a charge
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is user reviews.view evidence
The free trial demands a payment method up front and/or rolls into a paid subscription with no usable warning.
What we saw: Trial converts to a charge: raised by 8 distinct reviewers (1.4% of 555 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Hard to cancel
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is user reviews.view evidence
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
What we saw: Hard to cancel: raised by 13 distinct reviewers (2.9% of 449 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is user reviews.view evidence
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (1.1% of 449 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Reports of unexpected charges
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is user reviews.view evidence
A large number of reviewers report being charged when they did not expect it — including being charged after cancelling during a free trial, or when a trial turned into a paid plan without warning. We cannot see anyone's billing, so this is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.
What we saw: Surprise charges: raised by 20 distinct reviewers (3.6% of 555 reviews scanned)
In the app's own text: Trial terms not stated in the app's own text
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is the app's own on-screen text.artefact 12cae85fc981…
The app's own screens offer a free trial without stating, beside it, what happens when the trial ends. Read this as context rather than as a charge: renewal terms are normally shown on the store's purchase sheet instead, which we cannot see, and we can only observe one kind of evidence for this — so it is shown, but never counted as a charge.
What we saw: Offers a free trial ("Try with Free Trial") with no renewal price, renewal date or auto-renew notice anywhere in the app's own text

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.

Trial converts to a charge

I really like this app as a matter of fact I love it the problem is when my free trial ended I lost half of my benefits I don't have enough money to subscribe again I just wish everything in the app is free you know

4★ · Google Play · 2026-04-05

This is a good and helpful app and I did benefit from using it. However, I was unexpectedly charged $70 after I believed I had properly cancelled my free trial, which I understood was supposed to be free through my Lenten group. To their…

3★ · Google Play · 2026-04-02

I had the worst experience for being charged Php1,990 without notifying me first. I signed up for a free trial, afterwhich I was charged for a full annual payment with no notification. As much as I want to increase my prayer time…

1★ · Google Play · 2026-09-03

Hard to cancel

Automatic renewal is sneaky Cancelation process isn't easy --- Change in Hallow policy was not approved by me and I was unable to cancel. I do not approve of the new policy.

1★ · Google Play · 2026-07-21

I used this app for a few days and can't cancel it. I Uninstalled it after the few days and you still keep trying to get $69.99 out of my account. I DO NOT WANT THIS APP. Stop trying to take money from my account.

1★ · Google Play · 2026-04-09

can't cancel free trial.

1★ · Google Play · 2026-09-13

Paywall blocks the basics

Discouragement. I am extremely displeased with recent updates. Daily readings have been locked behind a pay wall, despite previously being free. Not only this, but it was also done haphazardly, with workarounds being present. This was…

2★ · Google Play · 2026-08-05

I've cancelled my subscription. I'm tired of using YouTube to pray because your app needs so much internet bandwidth, and your "support" just reads a script and lies. Also, who puts the rosary, of all things, behind a paywall? Foolish…

1★ · Google Play · 2026-08-24

Thank you so much for explaining! 💗 I didn’t realize that scholarships were available for people who can’t afford the subscription. I really appreciate you offering that option, and I’ll definitely reach out to support.(My only issue was…

5★ · Google Play · 2026-08-14

Reports of unexpected charges

This is a good and helpful app and I did benefit from using it. However, I was unexpectedly charged $70 after I believed I had properly cancelled my free trial, which I understood was supposed to be free through my Lenten group. To their…

3★ · Google Play · 2026-04-02

can't figure out how to cancel and they keep charging my credit card per year.

1★ · Google Play · 2026-06-29

misleading protocols...then I learned there's a surprise $69 fee. Wow! I guess that when following one's curiosity about faith traditions one must be wary. I regret that I entered any personal information.

1★ · Google Play · 2026-04-21

What this app sells

Every purchase the store discloses. Store listing
 What this app sells
Google Play doesn’t publish per-purchase prices, so this list covers the other store only.

How the automated analysis works

Automated, corroborated, and never human-reviewed without a person.

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.

 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: 13.12.1 (App Store), 13.11.2 (Google Play)6 independent signals1,004 reviews scannedConfidence: HighNot human-reviewedVocabulary v1.13Methodology v1.3
Signals run: 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.