We analyzed this app across 3 independent signals and corroborated nothing unfair. That is a signal, not an audit.
This analysis describes version 12.9.4 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 12.9.4, updated 2026-09-12.
What the analysis found
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.
Tracking and data collection concerns
Not secure — Company constantly trying to get into your google contacts. Even though i do not have google contacts. Restricted account due to not connecting to other contacts. Suspicious, are they selling our info? Strongly suggest using…
Critical iOS 26.0 Developer Beta Issue – Unable to Update, Backup or Transfer Files — Hello Apple Support, I’m reporting a critical and persistent issue with my iPhone that I previously contacted Apple Support about, but unfortunately I…
Paywall blocks the basics
Scamium subscription required for basic privacy — The only reason I got this app was to stay in contact with some friends. I then find out my phone number is both required and visible unless I disable it from view. By default it not only…
Better than WhatsApp but critical privacy features are put behind paywall — It’s strange you have to buy a premium subscription just to hide your phone number from anyone. That’s offered by WhatsApp by default.
You now have to pay before you can text people — Why does opening a new account now requires you subscribe to premium first before you can text people?? Using the free version will only allow you text maybe 1 or 3 people in a day😏 that’s…
Upgrade prompts use guilt-trip wording
Paying $1.19 just for telegram? 🤦🏽 — I mean it’s good but when I deleted the app and re downloaded it I put all my info on it to get my account back but this pop up came up saying that I have to pay $1.19 for telegram. That made me mad…
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.