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Number Match - Numbers Game
Easybrain Ltd · Games

What’s the catch? Aggressive ad load — reported by 160 users.

Analyzed automatically from 3 independent signals that had to agree — not a hands-on test, and not human-reviewed.

1 on the catch list · analyzedConfidence: Low3 signal sources567 reviews scannedNot human-reviewedas of 2026-10-06
 Which version this describes

This analysis describes version 1.32.1 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-06 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 1.32.1, updated 2026-09-15.

What the analysis found

Each finding shows what agreed and how strongly. Automated analysis

The catch list 1

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.

Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Reported by 160 usersReported by users, not measured — nothing we can inspect could show this either wayview evidence
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Raised by 160 distinct reviewers — 28.2% of the 567 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).

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.

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 9 distinct reviewers (1.6% of 567 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

Great Game, Too Many Ads — I love the gameplay, I love that it's very simple with no power-ups and such. I DO wish we had a dark mode! I had previously left a review ranting about the amount of ads, and I do still think it's too many. I…

3★ · App Store · 2026-09-20

Ads — I like the game there's just too many ads and sometimes double ads

3★ · App Store · 2026-09-16

Too many ads — Really have been loving this game but unfortunately the number of ads really has made it difficult to continue to play

3★ · App Store · 2026-09-14

Reports that the ads misrepresent the app

Not as advertised — It’s a nice puzzle game, but I had downloaded it due to how it was advertised on another app, and it is not the same game. I wish apps would stop advertising as one thing and then being something different.

3★ · App Store · 2026-09-08

Ads galore, not what was advertised — The ad showed a game that was a number matching in a soduko grid but that’s not how it looks at all. Every you click on a hint or just to proceed with the game you have to watch an ad. It would be a…

1★ · App Store · 2026-08-31

Disappointing — I got this game due to an advertisement on Block Blast, which intrigued me enough to download the game. However, as soon as I got the game I was met with disappointment. The game was nothing like the advertisement in terms…

2★ · App Store · 2026-08-28

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.

Subscriptions1
VIP Access for a Single EventTerm not stated$4.99
Ad removal1
Number Match No AdsTerm not stated$14.99
Show 1 more purchase we couldn’t categorise

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

Number Match Premium AccessTerm not stated$3.99

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: 1.32.13 independent signals567 reviews scannedConfidence: LowNot 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.