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Nadia Ferrari · Lifestyle

Review signals only — 4 user-reported signals — from user reviews, not yet audited by Appworthy.

Review signals only — 4 user-reported signalsConfidence: High500 reviews scannedas of 2026-10-07

Reported by users

Recurring themes across scanned reviews — a signal, not a finding. User reports
Aggressive ad load88 reviews · 17.6% of scanned
No ad complaints46 reviews · 9.2% of scanned
Paywall blocks the basics15 reviews · 3.0% of scanned
Misleading advertising9 reviews · 1.8% of 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

To many ads — After the first few days of having this app I have to many ads I don’t like it no more

1★ · App Store · 2026-09-26

Terrible app — It’s used to be the perfect app but now it’s full of ads and it says I’m underage but I’m 18+

1★ · App Store · 2026-09-26

Not Worth It! — For some reason this app assaults you with pop up ads that INTERRUPT the music you’re listening to and require multiple clicks to get past. The app was good not too long ago before all the advertisements. When I’m driving…

1★ · App Store · 2026-09-24

Misleading advertising

Advertised as ad free — Was advertised as ad free and it was for a while when I first got it but now it got just as many ads as Spotify. And they’re so much worse! They start playing your music when you open the open the but then they…

1★ · App Store · 2026-09-20

New Ads — Too much MANDATORY video ads now out of nowhere!! literally at every CLICK😭 You want me to pay for premium for ad free but there is continuous glitches and features not even working like the audacity??!! 😭 cmon now.. used to…

1★ · App Store · 2026-09-09

The old bait and switch — This app started out fantastic. All the music I listen to and more. No ads! I was hooked. A month later, ads start popping up after every other song. First quick ones, then longer ones. And it wouldn’t even pause…

1★ · App Store · 2026-09-04

Paywall blocks the basics

Inundated with a ridiculous amount of ads — Effectively what the title says. App is almost entirely inoperable without use of their ‘watch and get 30 minutes free’ feature; you will receive upwards of 3 ads per song. (all of which are…

1★ · App Store · 2026-09-16

Can play ads but not music? — Yeah ads load immediately and then your playlists, songs, and albums will buffer for minutes. Ads are more important to take up servers than music? Yeah I get it’s free, but so is Spotify with a smoother…

1★ · App Store · 2026-09-15

Used to be cooler when it was free — I used to love Lyra then I updated it and next thing it’s riddled with ads. Like so many ads it’s worse than YouTube. They took a lot of features that used to be free and now turned it into a premium…

1★ · App Store · 2026-09-12

No ad complaints

Recent Updates — This app used to be wonderful, with no ads and perfect for just about anything. Aside from minor glitches with songs, it was fairly easy to manage. But, more updates came with more bugs. And now, the app is so buggy. not…

3★ · App Store · 2026-09-22

It works great, but the premium version is a must IMO — I downloaded the app a couple of months ago, had a few bugs but was working fine to be completely free and we no ads. Lately they introduced ads, a bit too invasive for me, so for…

4★ · App Store · 2026-09-17

App is Great but could be better. — You can listen to music without having to stay on the app, there are no ads, and you can create your own playlists. One problem I’ve noticed is that when you play one of your playlists, it sometimes…

4★ · App Store · 2026-09-12

How a review signal works

Automated, review-derived, and always superseded by a human review.

A review signal is produced automatically from public app reviews by a classifier — never by a hands-on Appworthy test, and never by a human analyst. It exists so a real, not-yet-audited app can carry more than a blank “Not yet tested” listing, without ever being mistaken for an assessment.

A theme only appears above once at least 5 distinct reviews corroborate it — one angry review can never tag an app. These thresholds are published settings and may be tuned as coverage grows.

It carries no confirmed findings — reviews are one kind of evidence, and nothing here has been hands-on tested. The moment Appworthy publishes a full assessment of this app, it replaces this signal, permanently.

 Not yet human-reviewed

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