Permitido

Review by eFreeware

Permitido takes one broad idea and stays with it: a single app where lifestyle and sports information sit together. It is material to read. That narrowness is the most distinctive thing about it, and it shapes everything below.

It is free to install on Android, carries ads, and has no in-app purchases. The developer lists it under Lifestyle, it holds a 4.7 average from 1,799 ratings across more than 100,000 installs, and the current build is version 1.8, updated in September 2026 after a February 2026 release.

I would point this at readers who want a quick, casual place to browse sports and lifestyle topics on a phone, and who do not mind advertising in exchange for not paying. If you need live match data, a workout planner or a news subscription, this is not the app for that.

What you get for nothing, and what the ads mean

The cost side is simple. Permitido is free, it shows ads, and there are no in-app purchases to consider. You install it, you read, you see advertising. The decision stays easy for anyone wary of subscriptions.

The trade-off is the usual one with ad-supported apps: your attention is part of the deal. How tolerable the advertising feels will depend on how long you tend to stay in the app. Someone dipping in for a few minutes at a time will notice it less than someone settling in for a long session.

The rating is worth weighing too. It tells you the app is doing something right for a lot of people, not that it will match your own tastes.

Sports and lifestyle material in one place

The core of Permitido is information, split across two broad areas. On the sports side, the app is a place to read about sporting subjects. On the lifestyle side, it covers the wider everyday topics the category usually implies. The developer's own summary frames the app as giving access to information about lifestyle and sports, and that is the shape of it.

What appeals to me about that arrangement is the lack of ceremony. You can start reading right away. You open it, you find something that interests you, you read it. For a free app in this category, that directness is the main draw.

The flip side is depth. I would treat Permitido as a general reference you check now and then, not as the place you go for exhaustive coverage of a single sport or a single area of daily life.

The February 2026 release and the September 2026 update to version 1.8 show a young app still being worked on. That matters less than whether the material inside stays useful to you, but it does mean the app you install today is not necessarily the finished article.

How it compares with the alternatives

The obvious comparisons are a dedicated sports news service, a general news reader or a lifestyle magazine app. Each of those tends to pick a lane and go deep in it. Permitido's pitch is the opposite: one free install that covers both.

That makes the choice fairly clean. If you already pay for or regularly use a specialist sports source, Permitido will not replace it, and it is not trying to. If you want a single lightweight app for casual browsing across sports and everyday lifestyle topics, the combination is the point, and the free price lowers the cost of finding out whether the mix suits you.

I would also weigh it against simply reading in a browser. An app like this is most useful when it saves you the effort of hunting across several places for the same kind of material. Whether Permitido does that for you comes down to whether its coverage overlaps with what you already read.

A free browsing app for casual sports and lifestyle readers

Permitido is worth installing if you want a free, no-commitment place to read about sports and lifestyle topics on Android, and you accept advertising as the price.

It is a poor fit if you need live results, structured training plans or deep specialist coverage. Go in expecting a browsing companion, and the free download makes the experiment cheap.

What's new in version 1.8

Version 1.8