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Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells
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 sources526 reviews scannedNot human-reviewedas of 2026-10-06
 Which version this describes

This analysis describes version 117.0.369 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-06 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 117.0.369, updated 2026-09-23.

What the analysis found

Each finding shows what agreed and how strongly. Automated analysis

One source only — shown, not confirmed 2

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 25 distinct reviewers (4.8% of 526 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 526 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 — Too many ads(to get additional moves)and they open multiple times in the web browser.

3★ · App Store · 2026-09-04

Too many ads — When I start to play the game I just want to play the game not get bombarded with ads and offers. This is why I hardly play any more

2★ · App Store · 2026-07-29

Ads are ruining the game — Played for long time but game got ridiculous with Ads. To get extra moves you watch the ad but can’t close. Constantly making it allow only choosing links to go to download or Moloco privacy notice but no option…

2★ · App Store · 2026-07-12

Pay to progress

Unfair response to problems caused by glitches — Update: They improved response to report of glitches, but now there’s new unfair aspects. Not only they keep decreasing the amount and types of rewards for things, so you get less for your…

2★ · App Store · 2026-09-11

Harry Potter puzzles and spells — I love this game and have been playing it for years now and I love it so much and I think that you guys that are out there who don’t have this need to get it!! I promise this game is free to play you…

5★ · App Store · 2026-07-08

Pay-to-win model adoption — Zynga has fully implemented a pay-to-win model. It’s awful and has taken the fun out the casual gaming. Side quests constantly added and removed. Ladder “win or start over” quests introduced, and hated. Cost of…

2★ · App Store · 2026-06-12

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.

One-off packs6
Tiny Vault of GoldPack$0.99
Splendid BundlePack$1.99
Exceptional BundlePack$6.99
Small Vault of GoldPack$4.99
Magnificent BundlePack$14.99
Standard Vault of GoldPack$9.99
Show 4 more purchases we couldn’t categorise

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

Dynamic Offer 2Term not stated$1.99
Dynamic Offer 1Term not stated$0.99
Dynamic Offer 7Term not stated$6.99
Dynamic Offer 5Term not stated$4.99
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 2026-10-06 Version analyzed: 117.0.3693 independent signals526 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.