How this ledger is kept

This page explains how the readings on this site are taken, what a reading can and cannot show, and what the ledger leaves out.

What a reading is

The readings were taken on 6 November 2026 (UTC) by a script that asks public pages for what a visitor sees without logging in: the Google Play pages in the India view (country code IN, English text) and App Store pages in the India storefront. Saved copies of the answers are the source of every table; dates are UTC.

How the figures are re-checked

Before a reading is kept, a second program reads the saved files by a different route (visible text against page data, lookup against product page, star counts against the number of ratings, versions against the current version) and compares. If anything differs the reading is not written. The check was tested against planted faults: a changed rating, a swapped developer, a changed count, a dropped declaration, an edited date.

What was asked of each source

Requests to one host were spaced at least eight seconds apart, far fewer than fifty were made to any host in a day, and a refusal would stop the run. The pictures are captures of the same public pages with a headless browser at a desktop and a phone width, with other people's reviews hidden. The broker's own ordinary pages answered with HTTP 403; its public text file was readable and is the only page of the broker quoted.

What the ledger leaves out on purpose

Everything behind a login: the screens of an account, identity checks, deposits, withdrawals, the order ticket and the fees. Reviews, which are other people's words. Scores and rankings. A rating or a declaration is reported as the page prints it, not as true.