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What’s the catch? Aggressive ad load — reported by 53 users.

Analyzed automatically from 6 independent signals that had to agree — not a hands-on test, and not human-reviewed.

2 on the catch list · analyzedConfidence: Low6 signal sources1,314 reviews scannedNot human-reviewedas of 2026-10-06
 Which version this describes

App Store

This analysis describes version 7.10.12 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-06 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 7.10.12, updated 2026-10-01.

Google Play

This analysis describes version 7.8.100 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version VARY, updated 2026-09-25.

What the analysis found

Each finding shows what agreed and how strongly. Automated analysis

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.

Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Reported by 53 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 53 distinct reviewers — 10.6% of the 500 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
Reported by users: Price keeps rising
Reported by 28 usersReported by users, not measured — nothing we can inspect could show this either wayview evidence
The price of the paid tier has been raised on existing users.
What we saw: Raised by 28 distinct reviewers — 3.4% of the 814 reviews scanned on this store leg (Google Play).

Positive evidence 1

Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.

Developer says data deletion can be requested
Measuredfrom the store listingview evidence
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
What we saw: The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text

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

There are too many ads for the amount of show there actual is.

2★ · Google Play · 2026-09-04

paying for premium but I have nothing but non stop ads! Political ads! Think it's time to cancel. Got another email with price raising and I'm paying for a service I dont even get.

1★ · Google Play · 2026-09-11

even with a subscription many ads.

1★ · Google Play · 2026-09-24

Price keeps rising

Why are you raising the prices again ??? 🙄 So now i will be paying almost 13 bucks a/month starting October 26th .. of this year and pretty soon It will be unaffordable to stream anything!!!!!! 😡

1★ · Google Play · 2026-10-01

if you keep raising the prices, I'm going to end up dropping Peacock from my subscriptions. Only reason I have it for is the WWE Saturday nights main event. But I found out how to watch the matches for free. YouTube Vlog Worriers channel…

1★ · Google Play · 2026-09-24

Lack of new content, no old bug fixes, and another price increase Time to leave

2★ · Google Play · 2026-09-15

What this app sells

Every purchase the store discloses. Store listing
 What this app sells
Google Play doesn’t publish per-purchase prices, so this list covers the other store only.

How the automated analysis works

Automated, corroborated, and never human-reviewed without a person.

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.

 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: 7.10.12 (App Store), 7.8.100 (Google Play)6 independent signals1,314 reviews scannedConfidence: LowNot human-reviewedVocabulary v1.13Methodology v1.3
Signals run: 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.