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Spring Valley: Farm Game
Playkot LTD · Lifestyle

What’s the catch? Multiple ad networks bundled — measured, backed by SDKs in the app package.

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: High6 signal sources404 reviews scannedNot human-reviewedas of 2026-10-04
 Which version this describes

This analysis describes version 50.1 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 51.0, updated 2026-10-01.

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.

Multiple ad networks bundled
Measuredfrom SDKs in the app packageartefact af66b1ce44ba…
The package embeds several distinct advertising or mediation SDKs — a stack built for ad volume, not for a single house ad.
What we saw: Bundles 12 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: Amazon Publisher Services, AppLovin MAX, BidMachine, Chartboost and 8 more
Aggressive ad load
2 independent sources agreefrom user reviews and the app's own on-screen textartefact af66b1ce44ba…
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Progress is gated behind watching an ad: "Watch a video to earn a reward!"

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

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 11 distinct reviewers (2.7% of 404 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

UPDATE: Was a loyal player, played every day, but thinking its time to move on. This was a game with optional ads and a lot of us loved that about the game and the ads even gave you a few energy bars for watching, now with the new update…

2★ · Google Play · 2025-10-28

I can't even begin to tell you how frustrating it is to try an play this game! You open it, you have to immediately exit out of 15 ads wanting you to spend money, then not long after that, a random video plays you can't click out of... I…

1★ · Google Play · 2025-10-20

DO NOT INSTALL! ADWARE DOWNLOADS ON ITS OWN. Game WAS fun but now Ads are disturbing. They are now too the point that the game won't start until you click thru 8+ of them. after 1 minutes to load/open, then I have to wait to play? Waste…

1★ · Google Play · 2026-05-17

Progress pauses until you wait or pay

Animal feed runs out too fast. It's impossible to keep enough sheep & goose food made. That's literally ALL I'm doing every time I'm in this game: making sheep & goose food! SUPPORT BUTTON NOT WORKING! EVERY SINGLE TIME I OPEN THE GAME AT…

1★ · Google Play · 2025-07-17

I enjoy playing this game, however I'm now kind of stuck. Because the tools I need to finish my buildings only come on the plane, which sometimes requires items that are made from the buildings I can't finish. If I was told how much of…

3★ · Google Play · 2026-01-26

Liked this game at first, but just like Klondike game I got tired of always running out of energy. There are all of these events you must complete to get the extras that require energy you keep running out of. At first I didn't mind…

1★ · Google Play · 2025-08-07

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 2026-10-04 Version analyzed: 50.16 independent signals404 reviews scannedConfidence: HighNot 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.