What’s the catch? Multiple ad networks bundled — measured, backed by SDKs in the app package.
Analyzed automatically from 6 independent signals that had to agree — not a hands-on test, and not human-reviewed.
This analysis describes version 28.25 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 28.25, updated 2026-08-04.
What the analysis found
The catch list 2
Charges we publish at a strength we stand behind: measured from an artefact, agreed by independent sources, or reported by enough users to clear that charge's own published bar.
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 1
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.
Aggressive ad load
I've had this app for years, and I use it for my on-and-off drawing phases. It has WAY too many ads since I last used it. You can't save without an ad, you can't leave the app and resume your drawing without an ad, you can't even switch…
Great for light digital art but the ads are insane. also randomly get the app to crash or go black screen when leaving or taking too long to save. needs a bit of work and for the love of everything holy, save constantly
I recently updated this app after desperately holding onto a 2023 version. I wish I hadn't. This app's developers have only become MORE greedy. I didn't know it was even possible to have this level of greed. FREE brushes I have used for…
Paywall blocks the basics
The app is pretty good, it's my first and favorite choice when I want to draw. It has a lot of amazing tools. My only problem is the amount of ads inside the app. Oh my god. You can't even leave the app by accident, because when you…
I've used this for nearly a decade. It's fallen off severely. Ads just about every save and every 20 brushstrokes. An update put most brushes (That I use in every piece) behind a paywall when they weren't for YEARS and are free on every…
Had it for years, liked it for years, but MAN it went downhill recently. every time you open the app, try to save a canvas, try to export anything, and a good handful of circumstances even further around it? you get an ad that takes up…
What this app sells
How the automated analysis works
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.
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.