What’s the catch? Nothing we could corroborate against this app.
Analyzed automatically from 6 independent signals that had to agree — not a hands-on test, and not human-reviewed.
App Store
This analysis describes version 0.431.1 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-06 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 0.431.1, updated 2026-10-02.
Google Play
This analysis describes version 0.431.0 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 0.431.0, updated 2026-09-25.
What the analysis found
Context 2
Measured and published because a reader would want to know — deliberately not a charge. The measurement alone does not show a harm.
Positive evidence 2
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 4
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.
Pay to progress
It is a hard requirement to disable auto updates. This game is near entirely pay to play. Costs $2 to even attempt a raid, and then you play a minigame where you easily can run out of balls. $2 per try. Pay for your chance. Odds not…
As of late, multiple network errors, crashes, and bugs. As with most mobile games, lots of pay-to-win mechanics. Bare bones gameplay, as well. If you really like Pokémon, just play the actual game instead of this watered down shell of a…
Paywall blocks the basics
I'm done redownloading this joke, just for it to break a few months later. Scopely has taken away stuff that was free and locked it behind a pay walled event pass. With a new event pass every week, why would I buy any of them?
Just another soulless cash grab — Putting Giovanni behind a paywall is just another example of how shameless and scummy Niantic is. Why would anyone pay $5 for a 90% chance of getting a no star Pokemon? The events have become stale, too…
Price keeps rising
been playing since the game was released, however I am extremely disappointed since scopely took over. they are removing good features and ruining events and raising prices for less rewards. they do not care about their players only their…
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.
Show 10 more purchases we couldn’t categorise
These are really on sale; we just can’t tell from the name whether they recur.
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.