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Tilting Point LLC · Games

We analyzed this app across 3 independent signals and corroborated nothing unfair. That is a signal, not an audit.

Nothing unfair corroborated · unauditedConfidence: High3 signal sources58 reviews scannedNot human-reviewedas of 2026-10-05
 Which version this describes

This analysis describes version 2.36.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 2.36.0, updated 2026-10-01.

What the analysis found

Each finding shows what agreed and how strongly. Automated analysis

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: Progress pauses until you wait or pay
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is user reviews.view evidence
Use is rationed by an energy/hearts/lives meter that runs out and forces a wait or a purchase.
What we saw: Energy / timer gating: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (10.3% of 58 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.

Progress pauses until you wait or pay

This app is a scam! — My kid watches the videos to get extra energy and each time the ad is over it refuses to give the reward and after the ad it freezes the entire game and my device and all the ads want you to click on them to open to…

1★ · App Store · 2026-08-29

Energy crisis — I would like this game but it is not really playable. You only get 50 energy and most items require 20 or more energy to clear them. This means you can play about 2 minutes at a time. You play two minutes then wait an hour…

3★ · App Store · 2026-08-10

One of the most predatory games I’ve ever played — The actual game is fun, when I can actually play for more than a couple minutes because it takes FOREVER (like literally HOURS UPON HOURS) to get any semblance of useable energy to…

2★ · App Store · 2026-08-04

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.

One-off packs9
Common Pack 699Pack$6.99
Bundle PackPack$12.99
Bundle PackPack$6.99
Common Pack 499Pack$4.99
Diamonds packPack$3.99
Common Pack 999Pack$9.99
Common Pack 399Pack$3.99
Common Pack 299Pack$2.99
Diamonds packPack$9.99
Show 1 more purchase we couldn’t categorise

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

Golden TicketTerm not stated$4.99
This list is cut off. Apple shows at most 10 in-app purchases, and this app is at the limit — so it very likely sells more than we can see.

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 2026-10-05 Version analyzed: 2.36.03 independent signals58 reviews scannedConfidence: HighNot 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.