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Google Wallet holds 4.34 stars from 2,241,814 Google Play ratings. We read 2,165 substantial negative reviews from a continuous 297 day run and hand-verified 155 about the spring 2026 redesign that moved passes and loyalty cards behind View more. In the week of 18 May they were 39.0% of every substantial complaint, ten reviewers first thought their cards had been deleted, and the favourite star turned out to be the way back.
Netflix holds 4.41 stars from 16,109,794 Google Play ratings. We read 2,186 substantial negative reviews from a continuous 103 day run and hand-verified 103 about casting. In the week of 7 September they were 25.0% of every complaint Netflix received, and one build carries 41.4% of its own complaints on this subject alone. Four reviewers report the button came back, and Dutch, Swedish and Czech reviewers date an earlier device cutoff to the first days of December 2025.
Roblox holds 4.21 stars from 52,406,396 Google Play ratings. We read 4,172 substantial negative reviews from a continuous 31 day run and hand-verified 424 about the age check, roughly one complaint in ten. 25 reviewers give both their real age and the band the face scan assigned them: 19 were aged down, 6 were aged up, and two of those six are nine year olds put into adult bands. 86 lost contact with a named friend or sibling.
X holds 4.80 stars on Google Play from 24.3 million ratings and 4.58 on the App Store. We read 1,788 substantial negative US reviews from a continuous 45 day run, and 94 of them hit the same wall: an app installed from Google Play telling them to use the official X app. 16 mention a reinstall, and 8 of those reinstalled to fix a different bug. Plus 42 more reviews across 15 storefronts in their own languages.
Spotify holds 4.35 stars on Google Play from 36.3 million ratings and 4.77 on the App Store. We read 3,486 substantial negative US reviews from a continuous 43 day run, and 180 of them say they cannot choose which song plays. 22 name a skip limit and 21 of them say six. 11 name the limit on picking songs, and they give nine different answers. Plus 49 more reviews across 15 storefronts in their own languages.
Facebook holds 4.56 stars on Google Play from 186 million ratings. We read 3,231 substantial negative US reviews from a continuous 26 day run, and 930 of them describe an account disabled, suspended or locked. 94.3% gave one star, the angriest theme in the corpus. 79 people filed their appeal in the review box itself. Plus 18 more storefronts in their own languages.
Gmail holds 4.08 stars on Google Play and 4.71 on the App Store, and 24.4% of its Android ratings are 1 to 3 stars. We read 3,581 substantial negative US reviews across a continuous 160 day run. 233 describe a blank screen, and the build numbers show two different bugs wearing the same word: one that arrived in May and left, and one that never went away.
Uber holds 4.74 stars on Google Play from 19.8 million ratings. We read 5,918 substantial negative US reviews from a continuous 93 day run, and 246 of them describe being charged a cancellation fee. 171 name something the driver did as the reason the ride ended. Plus 20 more storefronts in their own languages.
More than one in four substantial negative Prime Video reviews is about paying and being advertised to anyway. We read 3,898 of them across 164 days, sized the ad-free tier that still shows ads, and found the same sentence in German, Turkish, Italian and Dutch.
Telegram holds 3.82 stars on Google Play and 4.01 on the App Store, both low for an app with a billion installs. We read 4,379 substantial negative US reviews from a continuous run between 21 April and 16 September 2026. 222 describe a hacked account, and 49 of them describe one mechanism: the attacker attaches their own email, so every login code goes there. A separate 116 reviews say Telegram asked them to buy Premium before it would send a code by SMS.
Google Maps holds 3.23 stars on Google Play, and 46.4% of every rating the store has collected is 1 to 3 stars. We read 6,825 substantial negative reviews out of a 40,000 review pull covering 5 February to 16 September 2026. 48 say the same thing: the app is set to open in satellite view and opens in the default map instead. Across February to June, 4,421 substantial negatives contain none of them.
CapCut holds 3.57 stars from 13,018,036 Google Play ratings, and 38.4% of every rating it has ever collected is 1 to 3 stars. We read 2,881 substantial negative reviews from a continuous 56 day window and 900 of them name Pro, premium, a paywall or a subscription. 70 describe an export that was refused at the last step, and the share has not moved in three months.