Analyzed automatically. Assessed 2026-10-05 from 502 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.
This analysis describes version 3.389.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 3.389.0, updated 2026-09-29.
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.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 4
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.
Aggressive ad load
PAID VERSION remains literally nothing but ads non-stop clicking away from ad after add after add Guess and grab locks the game DO NOT pay for this game, it doesn't means no ads! Constant adds for buying in the game. When the game errors…
I paid for premium to get rid of all the pop up ads, and they all just got replaced with pop up ads for the game itself. In between everything I do, I still have to x out like 5 things trying to get me to pay to spin a wheel, pay to get…
I enjoy the game, but I preferred it years ago when it was simpler. My frustration is that I get errors when I'm answering questions during Trivia Topics usually when I'm at 6 or 7 questions correct, which takes away one of my 3 chances…
Progress pauses until you wait or pay
So this may be free of ads for other games but it is full of pop-ups for you to pay for bonus rounds, extra lives and spins etc. After nearly every game you will be prompted to pay for something extra from £2 to £10 in cost. Removing from…
The fact that you can own premium and still have to wait for a cooldown of "hearts" to continue playing the game you paid for (unless you purchase more) is one of the most pathetic attempts to scrape in more money I've ever seen. Happy…
It got rid of ads, but just did an update and now all my current matches have disappeared, and I can't start new ones, and it says I have no lives but the countdown timer for lives is gone too.
Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
Bait and switch. I paid for the premium version years ago, with no ads and unlimited lives, for unlimited game play. I have increasingly started receiving Trivia Crack ads trying to get me to spend more money. and now they have changed…
Bait and Switch — This game advertises ‘Ad-Free’. Though, I get advertisements after every round for their ‘Trivia Crack Prime’.
Misleading Title — I love Trivia Crack, but “Ad Free” is still not ad free. You’re constantly bombarded by Trivia Crack offering in game transactions or promoting other game features. It just feels like false advertising to me.
Pay to progress
I purchased the ad free version to support the app and not deal with ads. It works for their 3rd party ads, but I'm constantly bombarded with their pay to win pop-ups constantly. It's absolutely ridiculous, and annoying. Sometimes it's 2…
Should have a zero stars category. Over the past couple of weeks new questions being added in this game are giving wrong answers on purpose. At first I thought it was just an anomaly, but now encountering purposely questions with wrong…
This app operates on a pay-to-win model. Players can purchase bonus packs or subscribe to an expensive monthly plan to gain an advantage in answering questions. Consequently, matches feel unfair: it’s hard to tell whether victory depends…
Upgrade prompts use guilt-trip wording
Have played the game for many years. Paid for premium and am glad for no ads. However, I am quite tired of all the pop ups to buy game credits, I will never fall for that. On my own I have 2 million coins and uncountable number of lives…
I really enjoyed this game, but it seems that every time I go to do something, I get prompted to buy something. Like EVERY TIME.. if I want to purchase something, I will. I'd rather play and purchase something when I want to... then be…
This is probably one of the most shamelessly, greedy games I've ever played. There's pop ups trying to get you to buy stuff after every single action you take while playing. It's crazy how trivia crack manipulates the reviews by having a…
What this app sells
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.