How to Submit to WebAppRater, and What the $29 Leaves Unwritten

WebAppRater pricing: $29 for one, $249 for ten

The two options are the whole menu. The first reads "Webapprater - Guaranteed  Review : $ 29", with a space after the dollar sign and a double space in the middle, and the page describes what it buys: "A Guaranteed  review will provide your app with a genuine rating and review from us." and "Reviews will be posted on our site forever." The second is "WebAppRater Network Review : 10 Unique Reviews : $249".

What is genuinely unusual is where those numbers live. Strip the scripts out of the submit page and there is not one dollar sign in the body. The prices reach a visitor only through a third-party form embedded near the bottom, and that has been true in every archived copy of the page since 2012. There is no struck-through price, no discount, no countdown and no seats-remaining counter either. That one is a choice rather than an oversight: their form platform ships a quantity feature and every one of its fields sits empty, so the mechanism that would produce a "two slots left" line is simply not wired up.

One number on the site sits oddly next to the review price. Their advertising page offers "Side Bar - 125 x 125 - $30 per Month". A month of a small sidebar banner costs a dollar more than a review they describe as posted forever.

The free form is still there, and nothing links to it

At /webapprater-free-app-review-2019 there is a second Wufoo form with no price attached at all. The page returns a normal 200 and sits in the site's own sitemap. What it does not have is a route in: across eleven pages we captured, including the paid submit page, the homepage and the nav, nothing points to it. Their submit page used to carry a free-review link, and then for a while pointed the offer at a different domain, and now points nowhere, while the page itself stayed up.

If you go looking, mind the URL. The same address without the 2019 on the end returns a 404. We did not put anything through the live one, so whether a free submission still gets answered is not something we can tell you, only that the form is there and takes no money.

The free form spells out more than the paid one does

Put the two forms side by side and the paid customer is the one told less. The free form states in writing that the "Editorial Team has the rights to approve / deny any review request" and that "No further communication will be done on the submission status". Those are limits, and unattractive ones, but they are limits a submitter can read for themselves. The paid form reserves neither right and states neither thing.

It runs the other way too. The free form requires a press kit uploaded as a file; the paid form asks for no asset at all beyond a name and a URL. So the person paying $29 hands over less, is promised less in writing, and gets no stated position on what happens if the review never appears, because we found no refund policy and no terms page anywhere on the site. The only legal document is a privacy policy, and nothing links to that either.

There is a related gap in what the page still advertises. It promises that "Featured Reviews will be marked added as Sticky Post and to be visible on our homepage for at least 30 Days", their wording intact. No option containing the word Featured has appeared in the form since a capture from September 2020, and when we asked the site how many sticky posts it currently has, it answered zero.

Ten reviews, four named sites and their own archived receipt

The network package is sold as "10 Unique Reviews" and the form names no sites whatsoever. The page above it names four: "Currently the sites in our network are AppsTimes.in , AppsMirror.com, AppsListo.com, AppsThunder.com", spacing theirs. So the copy names four and the product sells ten, and webapprater has never named the rest, in any live or archived capture we read.

Their archive shows this used to add up. From September 2015 the same form field read "Network Review : 5 Unique Reviews in WebAppRater + AppsMirror.com + AppsTimes.in + AppsListo.com + AppsThunder.com : $145". Five reviews, five sites, every one named, and the arithmetic exact. By January 2022 it was ten reviews for $249 with no names, while the sentence above it went on naming the same four it always had. That is a doubled count, a 72% higher price and a list that stopped being published, all on the same page.

For what the four named sites are worth on their own terms: Ahrefs puts AppsThunder at 23, AppsMirror at 16, AppsListo at 13 and AppsTimes at 12, against WebAppRater's own 33. We have written up two of them separately, including the $29 review AppsThunder sells through what looks like the same form account.

Nothing marks a review as paid, and the links are followed

We read the raw HTML of every outbound body link in the Reviews section: 3,659 links across 1,888 posts. Of those, 3,006 carried no rel attribute at all, four carried nofollow, and none carried sponsored or ugc. The site operates no redirector of its own and adds no tracking parameters. Review pages are indexable, self-canonical and carry no robots restrictions. As a link, then, a WebAppRater review post behaves the way an ordinary editorial post behaves.

Which is exactly the thing to be careful about, in both directions. Nothing on the site marks any post as purchased, so we cannot tell you which of those 3,659 links sit in reviews someone paid for, and neither can a reader. We found a single post from 2017 in which the reviewer says the piece was not sponsored, out of 2,437. To be fair to them on the other side: the page that sells the review makes no SEO claim at all. We probed sixteen terms across it, backlink and dofollow and domain authority among them, and every one came back empty. They sell a review post, and that is all they say they sell.

Is a $29 WebAppRater review worth it?

As a review on a real, old, still-active blog, it is a reasonable thing to buy. The site has been publishing since 2010, has 2,437 posts behind it, put out a post on the day we looked, runs on a current platform, and its outbound links are plain honest plumbing with no redirectors and no tracking junk bolted on. Nothing about the purchase route is manipulative: no fake discount, no countdown, nothing preselected and the scarcity feature their form platform offers is switched off rather than abused. At DR 33 it is also stronger, by some distance, than the four sites it names.

Set against that: no refund position exists in writing anywhere, no terms page exists at all, the network package sells ten reviews while naming four sites and used to name every site it sold, the page still advertises a Featured tier the form stopped offering years ago, and the free form on the same domain gives a submitter more in writing than the paid one does. If you want a review, try the free form first, and if you want thirty listings rather than one opinion piece, that was never what this page was selling.