What Freecharge's score says
Freecharge holds 4.24 stars from 1,440,030 ratings across 50,000,000+ installs. Release Health measures something the store rating does not: whether recent builds are shipping cleanly. On that, the Android build scores 49/100 — bugs slipping through. A score for iOS is coming. That places it 4th of the 5 payments apps we track.
How this score is calculated
Five dimensions, 100 points, all derived from public store data — the reasoning behind each is shown so any score can be retraced. Two carry 35 points each and three carry 10, in proportion to how well each predicted future problems when tested against months of reviews it had never seen.
11.5% of reviews report a severe defect
- Hard failures
- 8% of bug reports name a crash or freeze
- High-stakes flows
- 36% of bug reports hit payments, login or data
- Areas affected
- 2 of 3 high-stakes areas
builds that regress do so by 5.6 points on average
- Ships that slipped
- 5 of 9 landed worse than the one before
- Worst ship
- +10.1pp above the build before it
22% of ships land 5+ points worse than the one before
19.3 points separate the best and worst build
at worst 20% of the window ran consecutively above its own defect median
Indented figures describe the defects behind each rate and carry no points. The score is the sum of the five rows.
Recent builds
Each build is measured over its first 14 days, so builds compare like for like. This app's own median is 37.5%. No build landed more than 12 points above it.
Method notes
- Rating trend is derived from timestamped review scores, not the store's aggregate rating.
- Android release dates are reconstructed from the versions reviewers were running.
Freecharge update history & release cadence
Ships roughly every 13.9 days, based on 5 releases dated from the review stream. Last update: 2026-08-24.
- v22.3.22026-08-25
- v22.2.12026-07-29
- v22.1.12026-07-14
- v22.1.02026-07-01
- v22.0.32026-06-25
Freecharge issues — what users are reporting
12.4% of the 750 reviews analysed describe the app failing — not working, not opening, freezing or erroring.
- criticalFalse device-security block: app shuts down on launch citing unnamed "suspicious/untrusted app" or root
- criticalUPI PIN / MPIN screen blinks and flashes black, blocking payment and balance check
12 defect themes found in Freecharge — 4 rated critical across 9 shipped versions.
Every theme, the versions each affects, what your users said, and the 9 tests that would have caught them.
Common questions
- What is Freecharge's release health score?
- As of 9 September 2026, Freecharge's Android app scores 49/100 on Quash's Release Health Index (Bugs Slipping Through), ranking 4th of 5 payments apps. 12.4% of the 750 reviews analysed describe the app failing. It ships roughly every 13.9 days. A score for iOS is coming.
- What problems are Freecharge users reporting?
- The most reported issues are False device-security block: app shuts down on launch citing unnamed "suspicious/untrusted app" or root and UPI PIN / MPIN screen blinks and flashes black, blocking payment and balance check. 12 defect themes were found in total; the detail, including affected versions and the reviews behind them, is in the full report.
- How often does Freecharge update?
- Freecharge ships roughly every 13.9 days, based on 5 releases dated from the review stream. The last recorded update was 2026-08-24.
- How does Freecharge compare with similar apps?
- Freecharge ranks 4th of 5 payments apps on the same rubric.
- How do I correct something on this page?
- Email prakhar@quashbugs.com with the app name and what looks wrong. Scores are refreshed monthly, and this one was last scored on 9 September 2026.
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