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What’s the catch? Hard to cancel — reported by 42 users.

Analyzed automatically from 3 independent signals that had to agree — not a hands-on test, and not human-reviewed.

2 on the catch list · analyzedConfidence: Low3 signal sources526 reviews scannedNot human-reviewedas of 2026-10-04
 Which version this describes

This analysis describes version 1.9.1 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 1.9.1, updated 2026-09-18.

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: Hard to cancel
Reported by 42 usersReported by users, not measured — nothing we can inspect could show this either wayview evidence
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
What we saw: Raised by 42 distinct reviewers — 8.0% of the 526 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
Reported by users: Reports of unexpected charges
Reported by 52 usersReported by users, not measured — nothing we can inspect could show this either wayview evidence
A large number of reviewers report being charged when they did not expect it — including being charged after cancelling during a free trial, or when a trial turned into a paid plan without warning. We cannot see anyone's billing, so this is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.
What we saw: Raised by 52 distinct reviewers — 9.9% of the 526 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).

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.

Reported by users: Trial converts to a charge
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is user reviews.view evidence
The free trial demands a payment method up front and/or rolls into a paid subscription with no usable warning.
What we saw: Trial converts to a charge: raised by 10 distinct reviewers (1.9% of 526 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is user reviews.view evidence
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 12 distinct reviewers (2.3% of 526 reviews scanned)
From the store listing: Usable without an account
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is the store privacy disclosure.view evidence
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
What we saw: The store privacy disclosure (3 entries) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.

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

SUB HARD TO CANCEL — They make it hard af to cancel your subscription. I’ve emailed twice and nothing. Would be an awesome app otherwise. Can’t stand when app’s make it hard to cancel a subscription.

2★ · App Store · 2026-09-06

Payment — I love this app, but it’s payment stability isn’t the best, i won’t let me cancel my subscription and it keeps charging me

2★ · App Store · 2026-07-12

Subscription — Can’t cancel my subscription and it’s been taking my money without me even having a plan

1★ · App Store · 2026-06-05

Reports of unexpected charges

Horrible — This app will NOT allow you to move past the subscription page it doesn’t have a way out so they make you pay to use the app so the app isn’t free it sucks and needs to be taken down and out of the app it’s a scam to make money

1★ · App Store · 2026-09-28

canceled my subscription, and is still charging me even though I uninstalled the app — ITS BEEN MOTHS AND IVE BEEN GETTING CHARGED 6.99 IM TIRED OF THIS SCAMMING APP, IT KEEPS TAKING MY MONEY AND I DONT KNOW HOW TO STOP IT!!!!

1★ · App Store · 2026-09-25

Payment — I love this app, but it’s payment stability isn’t the best, i won’t let me cancel my subscription and it keeps charging me

2★ · App Store · 2026-07-12

Trial converts to a charge

Stole my money — Said it would tell me when my free trial was over, never did, then took 7$ every 3 days.

1★ · App Store · 2026-06-21

Unnecessary charges — I canceled my free trial 2 days in as I barely used the app, but I was still charged 6.99 2 weeks in a row. I was unable to log into the app and cancel my subscription. I’m currently still waiting for a refund. The…

2★ · App Store · 2026-04-17

Canceling Subscription does not work — I tried to email this company multiple times but the email did not work, I kept getting an email back saying it was inactive or was not accepting emails. I cancelled my subscription within the 7 day…

1★ · App Store · 2026-03-27

Paywall blocks the basics

It’s a demo — You have to pay to use it you can’t do anything unless you accept the trial that it charges you after. Waste of time

1★ · App Store · 2026-08-06

It’s bad — Dude don’t even get it it locked me behind a paywall subscription FORCED mind you I couldn’t even use the app without buying the subscription therefor I didn’t use it period I’m not happy right now this was extremely annoying…

1★ · App Store · 2026-07-19

Why this is bad — Even though the app is free you have to pay to use the app starting at $7.00 a week and that’s why I think it’s a scam you should trust other options because they are free

1★ · App Store · 2026-06-03

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 2026-10-04 Version analyzed: 1.9.13 independent signals526 reviews scannedConfidence: LowNot 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.