Your main source for Action, Adventure, Fantasy, and Science Fiction. Find many stories within your new favorite genres such as Progression Fantasy, Litrpg, Portal Fantasy and Isekai stories, among many others.
Explore over 50,000 novels and be the first to discover captivating stories.
Royal Road Premium - Subscribe to our Premium service to receive the following features:
- Ad-free reading experience
- Downloading chapters for offline reading
- Premium badge on your comments
- Itemized reading history of individual chapters read
- Replace your standard avatar border with a premium one and unlock a new one for each month of your subscription
- Customize your profile page with a banner
For our terms of service, visit https://www.royalroad.com/tos
For our privacy policy, visit https://www.royalroad.com/privacypolicy
Royal Road Author Premium - We offer a subscription service for authors as well; this gives you all of the benefits above, plus extra benefits available on our author dashboard online. Please note that our app does not have features for authors, this subscription tier is present for convenience.
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Summary of user reviews
Positive highlights
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This app hasRobust filtering to find stories easily
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This app hasEthical monetization scheme without intrusive ads
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This app hasVast catalog of stories across many genres
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This app hasElegant dark mode design for comfortable reading
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This app hasConvenient home screen showing reading history and updates
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This app hasHelpful in-built dictionary for unfamiliar words
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This app hasStreamlined functionality compared to website
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This app hasEasier to keep track of updates and new chapters
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This app hasFrequent updates and responsive support
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This app hasPersonalized story recommendations
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This app hasIntuitive and user-friendly interface
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This app hasBetter reading experience than mobile website
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This app hasSafe platform that protects author rights
Negative highlights
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This app hasRandom deletion of downloaded books
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This app hasAdvanced search page opens instead of basic search
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This app hasSignificant battery drain and phone heating issues
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This app hasDifficulty canceling premium subscription
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This app hasMissing some common story tags
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This app hasNarrow reading area in landscape mode
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This app hasMisleading offline download functionality
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This app hasLoud and unskippable audio ads
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This app hasLack of text-to-speech support
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This app hasNo author tools or writing features
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This app hasPersistent banner ads at the bottom
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This app hasLimited font and theme customization options
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This app hasInability to open shared stories in the app
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This app hasDifficulty accessing reading history and progress
What's New in Royal Road
1.64
December 5, 2024
- Remove single quote as sentence marker in chapter audio
- Center tables in chapter page
- Added "Add to library" button at the end of chapter page
- Made fiction link more obvious in chapter header
- Possible fixes for occasional crash on app resume
Why am I paying a yearly subscription and I’m still getting advertisements? I subscribed last year to avoid that and now they’re back? If you’re going to force annoying advertisements on me, please give me my money back for the 2025 subscription you lot took from my account.
