Analyzed automatically. Assessed 2026-10-04 from 1,126 user reviews, the store listing and its privacy label. We have not scanned the app's package, so nothing on this page was read from inside the app itself.
App Store
This analysis describes version 2.65.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2.65.0, updated 2026-09-13.
Google Play
This analysis describes version 2.64.02 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2.64.02, updated 2026-09-11.
What the analysis found
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.
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 3
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.
Hard to cancel
can't unsubscribe from the membership in app and no one responds back download from Google play and it doesnt show in the subscribed apps that I have a subscription yet it's trying to take money still
Strongly suggest you do not purchase an in-app subscription. There is no way to cancel it in the app and it doesn't show in Google Play under the subscriptions. I've emailed countless times but cannot get through to the developer. I keep…
cannot cancel, have been repeatedly charged and have sent 4 emails now without a response. the app has no way to cancel the subscription. my Google account doesn't show the app either.
Aggressive ad load
It freezes and you have to watch too many ads just to see a episode and to watch is really expensive!
how yoy guys managed creating such rubbish app, not possible to watch anything because of ads after ads and after ads again. And price you want to ublock episodes is just a joke.
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Reports of unexpected charges
the ads are horrible no customer support and they still charge you I really recommend don't sign up
Not A Good App at all. It doesn't give you a choice to cancel your subscription. It will keep charging you.
couldn't figure out how to cancel subscription, hit me with 4 payments before I realized I was still being charged, 18$ a week for this? these apps are disgusting anymore, and tons of ads just trying to stop payments. gross.
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.
How the automated analysis works
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.
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.