# CrushNovels — user reviews > 22 indexed App Store user reviews of CrushNovels by Hieu Nguyen Thanh, rated 2.74/5 from 19 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/crushnovels/id6759941820/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/crushnovels/id6759941820.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 0 · 4★ 0 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 1 ## Newest reviews (3 of 22) ### 1/5 — Don’t waste your time downloading *2026-03-28* While free to download it is 100% paid subscription to read chapters as it claims “no ads are available”. So unless you want to pay to subscribe don’t bother downloading. Also seem like most of these novels are still in progress. ### 1/5 — Don’t waste your time. *2026-03-24* This is advertised as being able to read with ads, it’s not. I haven’t been able to read a single thing on the app as there’s a banner that tells me the ads aren’t working and to purchase the subscription to read. When I check my profile, it says ads are live. So it’s either a disconnect with the ads themselves or it’s just straight up lying. Don’t waste time on this app or using its website either, that crashes within a couple of minutes of being open. ### 1/5 — Unusable *2026-03-21* You can only read a sample of books and then it says a monthly or yearly fee to finish fully reading. I paid the monthly amount and it still won’t let me read the book. I’m very upset and would like to read the book chosen or have a full refund asap! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY *2026-05-09* My “token timed out” and your site can’t “verify” my purchase. Due to your application’s errors and lack of service, I will be contacting Apple to refund my purchase. Not receiving what is paid for is just insulting, especially when there are over 400 chapters in a “book” to read. Your statement of 20 chapters per day was false. Your application’s constant glitches. It’s not worth the anger or frustration anymore. You’ve preyed on people by getting them invested in a story that is never ending and not provided what your subscription service promises to provide. Absolute waste. Apple should disable your service. ### 1/5 — Complete Con *2026-05-07* 0 stars if possible. Completely Money hungry and grabby. Forces you to pay or not finish books. !!!!!They’re AI books anyway!!!!!! There’s no Human to compensate for the brain power of making the darn books. And then half the books are unfinished anyway!!! Also as it’s ai you do still get gibberish paragraphs and chapters….. only now you paid for gibberish and nonsense! The reason why people used the website is because they gave us free books when everyone else would charge ridiculous prices for one page which they would then pass off as a chapter. This site didn’t. Then they forced you to get the app by not allowing you to use the website to finish the book. Now they’ve started the same scam model as everyone else charging per page NOT chapter. I’d say find an alternative. I don’t care if it’s cheaper than others as they say. No one should be paying for books per page especially when there’s 400 - 1000+ pages. It’s just an exploitative way to make money. They’re all AI books anyway how much money do you really need to produce a page of ai writing and upload it online. No one asked for an app so why should we pay for your app that we don’t want. ### 1/5 — Waste of time *2026-04-19* You download it and suddenly you can’t read anything because the ads you were fighting on their website are suddenly not available in your region unless you pay. Then I realized many of the books are stolen from other authors. Glad I deleted it. ### 1/5 — Absolutely Terrible *2026-04-13* I used to love the crush novel website. It allowed me to read for free. But today when I got on the site, it told me that if I wanted to keep reading, I needed to go to the app. Fine. I downloaded the app just for it to tell me I needed to pay $5.89 for a monthly subscription or buy coins, because ads aren’t available in my region. Total scam for an app that isn’t even hosting its own books. The books on this site come from other platforms. If I’m going to pay crushnovel for them, I may as well go and subscribe to the original app they’re on. Very disappointing to see this happen, because I was 90 chapters in on a few books. I guess all companies eventually get greedy, but running the site with ads seemed to work very well before so I don’t understand this change. ### 1/5 — What’s the point *2026-04-11* There is no free stories, no ads to watch in my apparent region I’m not spending money on a app when on the website things like this was free with the use of advertising 🙄🙄 ### 1/5 — Ads *2026-04-11* If you’re going to offer them, OFFER THEM! ### 1/5 — Awful *2026-04-10* This app really is unusable. It always claims that ads are not available in your region and you need to either unlock chapters via gold or paying for premium (which both costs money). Absolutely terrible considering the website is just as bad and tells you to continue reading on the app. ### 1/5 — Holy fall off *2026-04-08* Literally the only reason everyone use this app was because they offered free novels with the choice of premium, now they have a currency, force you off the app, and force you to use premium ### 1/5 — Ads not supported in region *2026-04-04* tried to read my novel on here instead of the website. App said ads not available in my region. Unlock chapter for 2999 coins! or pay premium. Only reason i looked into this app is because of 1-2 of the ads. I don’t mind most ads on the website if i can still use the website (scroll) but the pop up ads that close the page and open a new tab when i haven’t even touched the page is STUPID on a reading website. Deleted app straight away going to have to fight the website to finish my novel ### 1/5 — Not an actual reading app *2026-04-03* This app does some sorry excise for a summary and interjects in the actual writing so it’s all muddled together . Waste of money and time. ## Most praised reviews (9 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — OK app *2026-04-20* Big difference after upgrading ### 5/5 — love app *2026-04-20* Much smoother than other reading apps ### 5/5 — Cool *2026-04-20* Great variety of engaging stories ### 5/5 — Thanks *2026-04-18* Clean and premium interface ### 5/5 — So good *2026-04-17* Fast updates, great for long-term use ### 5/5 — Well *2026-04-17* Well-optimized, easy on the eyes ### 5/5 — The best *2026-04-16* No interruptions while reading, love it ### 5/5 — Amazing *2026-04-16* Upgrading made the experience much better ### 2/5 — The rewarded ad option *2026-03-19* Doesn’t work, please fix it --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-07-28.*