Analyzed automatically. Assessed 2026-10-04 from 408 user reviews, the store listing and its privacy label. We have not scanned the app's package, so nothing on this page was read from inside the app itself.
This analysis describes version 3.86.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 3.86.0, updated 2026-09-21.
What the analysis found
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
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.
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
I used Joist for over 10 years, but they recently raised their monthly fee again and then blocked access to my account and documents. I don't understand why they would treat a long-time customer this way. Even if I don't continue my…
was amazing when it was free, now they keep raising prices and I am switching to a different service provider
I've used Joist for nearly 2 years and was initially very satisfied with their Joist Elite plan. The invoice layout, email integration, and native visual graph report features to track growth made the app enjoyable to use. The native…
Price keeps rising
After 8+ years, it may be time to look another program.. I've introduced joist to a lot of people..when it was a free app with options to upgrade to pro..it was perfect,better than QuickBooks imo,but it's getting to the point it's become…
I've been using Joist since the beginning, I opted to pay for the full version as I thought it was worth it, which it was. Until 11 months later that they took me off the paid membership and placed me in the free version and started…
Using Joist over 10 years and never left a review. And yet another subscription increase. It still does same functions I only use as when it was free. Actually less, and more inconvenient for me and clients. I only collect cash or check…
What this app sells
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.