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SUPERSONIC STUDIOS LTD · 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 sources393 reviews scannedNot human-reviewedas of 2026-10-05
 Which version this describes

This analysis describes version 1.30.09 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 1.30.09, updated 2026-09-28.

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 53 distinct reviewers (13.5% of 393 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 6 distinct reviewers (1.5% of 393 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is user reviews.view evidence
Reviewers repeatedly report that the app is not what its advertising showed. We never see the ad creative itself, so nothing we collect can corroborate or refute this — it is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.
What we saw: Misleading advertising: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (1.5% of 393 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 5 distinct reviewers (1.3% of 393 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

Fun games, horrible ads — The ads are ridiculous. They are so glitchy and frustrating, sometimes they just hang up indefinitely. Probably going to delete if this update doesn’t fix that.

2★ · App Store · 2026-09-15

Fun game — Too many ads between levels, otherwise it would be great

3★ · App Store · 2026-09-14

Cheating game Frustrating — Too many ads - stop trying to make me watch ads in between games! Also, this game cheats you out of wins to force you to watch ads. Going to uninstall. Also, the stupid ads are WAY TOO LONG. Ridiculous.

3★ · App Store · 2026-09-13

Progress pauses until you wait or pay

Limited Play — Great game but just when you’re having fun you learn you have to wait to play again.

1★ · App Store · 2026-09-22

Love hate relationship — I love this game because it’s really satisfying and addictive but there are way too many harder levels than normal ones and there’s almost never enough time, my hearts get ran out too fast and I have to wait hours…

3★ · App Store · 2026-07-29

Paid $9.99 for NO ADS but still has ads! — Even though the icon says $9.99 for "no ads" you still have to wait through lots of very long ads to play the game.

1★ · App Store · 2026-07-24

Reports that the ads misrepresent the app

I knew it was too good to be true!!! — So this game is advertised as ‘no ads’ BUT it's only ‘no ads’ if you pay 10$. It's actually very clever how they get you hooked on the game by not introducing the ads right away. They wait until you…

3★ · App Store · 2026-08-08

False ad keeps taking all my rewards. — I love this game. There is one ad that populates and I lose ALL OF MY REWARDS and I have start all the way back to zero. The ad literally says no reward given and you have to close the app…

3★ · App Store · 2026-07-31

Deceptive Ads During Gameplay — I tolerate the normal ads while I have been enjoying the game play. I get it…. Ads are revenue and kinda necessary. I draw the line at an ad that looks like the gameplay, displays the prompt “You need to…

1★ · App Store · 2026-07-23

Pay to progress

Money pit — The black hole for your wallet. If you’re looking for a place to drain your wallet you’ve found it. It’s all about getting you to spend your money on boost to advance to the next level.

2★ · App Store · 2026-06-28

Money — Have to spend money to level up. All they want is money

3★ · App Store · 2026-06-11

PAY TO WIN — Literally never left a review before but this one has really frustrated me. The game itself is so fun. The challenges are fun. However this game is 1000% rigged in the time frame it gives you to win the rounds. I’ve played up…

2★ · App Store · 2026-06-06

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: 1.30.093 independent signals393 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.