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Report for Deepstash.com

Report Date
October 6, 2025
Recommendation
Caution
Overall Summary
Suspicious
  Why we think so? 

Deepstash is a knowledge‑curation app and website (founded and registered in 2018) that claims “3M+” users and drives roughly 650k monthly visits (Aug 2025). The site uses modern infrastructure (Cloudflare CDN, HTTPS), standard analytics and payment providers (Google Analytics, Stripe), and has press coverage dating back to 2019–2023. However, multiple user reports on Apple/Play store threads and forum posts describe unexpected subscription renewals and denied refund requests, which have prompted several reviewers to call the service “scammy.” In short: technically legitimate and widely used, but exercise caution around subscriptions and refunds.

Confidence Score
78%

Risk Insights

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Subscription complaints are the main risk

  • Multiple user threads allege unexpected annual renewals and refused refunds.
  • These are typical subscription-dispute patterns, not proof of fraud, but they meaningfully impact user trust.
  • Confirm trial end dates and use platform refund channels if charged unexpectedly.

Tech setup looks legitimate

  • Uses Cloudflare, HTTPS, Stripe and Google Analytics.
  • Large organic traffic (~655k visits) and several independent media mentions support business validity.

Contradictory Signals

The service appears operational and widely used, but subscription and refund experiences are inconsistent for some users.

Signal A: High traffic, press coverage, and mainstream payment providers (low technical risk)

Signal B: Multiple user reports alleging 'scammy' subscription behavior (reputational risk)

Category Scores

Red Flags & Warnings

  • Repeated user complaints claim automatic annual charges after free trials and denied refund requests on Apple/Google support threads.
  • WHOIS uses a privacy service for registrant contact details, reducing transparency about the company owners.
  • Google Places record marked 'permanently closed', which could indicate stale or incorrect public business data.

🔎 Detailed Checks & Analysis

Domain age & WHOIS transparency

Score: 75/100
Passed

"Registration date (2018-05-18) supports legitimacy, yet Contact Privacy Inc. hides owner details and reduces direct contactability."

Reason: Domain is long‑standing (registered 2018) but uses a privacy service for the registrant.

Technical infrastructure (SSL, CDN, payment providers)

Score: 92/100
Passed

"Active SSL certificate (valid through Nov 2025), Cloudflare nameservers, and Stripe listed — typical for legitimate consumer apps."

Reason: HTTPS, Cloudflare CDN in front, Stripe and Google services in use.

Traffic & popularity

Score: 88/100
Passed

"SimilarWeb shows visits rising from ~253k (Jun) → ~654k (Aug 2025), plus steady pages/visit (~4.9) and time on site (~92s)."

Reason: High and increasing monthly traffic (~654,890 in Aug 2025) and organic search share.

Contact info & social presence

Score: 70/100
Passed

"Scraper found Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, GitHub, and YouTube profiles, but no listed contact email or phone on the scraped record."

Reason: Active social profiles and app store presence, but no public site email or phone discovered by scraper.

Blacklist / phishing / malware signals

Score: 95/100
Passed

"Google Safe Browsing returned no threats; crypto scam list shows blacklisted=false."

Reason: No matches on Google Safe Browsing and not listed on crypto scam blocks.

User complaints & reputation signals

Score: 58/100
Failed

"App store and forum threads report automatic renewals after free trials and declined refunds; this is a persistent theme even if not proven criminal."

Reason: Repeated user complaints about subscription renewals and refunds lower reputation.

Legal / trademark checks

Score: 68/100
Passed

"Search found media coverage but no litigation, and USPTO search returned zero matches for 'deepstash.com'."

Reason: No public lawsuits found, but no USPTO trademark results for the query.

Public reporting / press coverage

Score: 80/100
Passed

"Press includes Sifted (2020), PCWorld (2023), Irish Times (2019) and other outlets that covered the app and funding."

Reason: Multiple independent articles from 2019–2023 profile Deepstash positively.

Your Next Steps

  • 1

    Before subscribing, note trial end dates and confirm renewal settings in the App Store or Google Play to avoid unexpected charges.

  • 2

    If charged unexpectedly, attempt refunds through the platform (Apple/Google) first and keep timestamps/screenshots of trial/renewal notices.

  • 3

    Contact Deepstash support and save all correspondence; escalate to your payment provider if refunds are refused and charges look unauthorized.

  • 4

    Check the app’s store listing and recent reviews for fresh reports (search App Store / Google Play threads) to see if the subscription issue persists.

  • 5

    Avoid giving payment details on third-party sites claiming Deepstash deals; use official app store or deepstash.com only.

Evidence & Citations

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