# JoyRead-Enjoy Novels & Shorts — Read with Joy, Dive into Reads

> Digital library for novels and short stories with diverse genres and reading customization. (iPhone/iPad app by UREAD GLOBAL PTE. LTD..)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/joyread-enjoy-novels-and-shorts/id1551079603 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [UREAD GLOBAL PTE. LTD.](https://appshunter.io/developer/1571881484)
- Category: Books
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.60/5 from 23,148 App Store ratings · 1,995 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 17+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 158 MB
- Languages: American English, Arabic, French (France), German (Germany), Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian and 3 more
- Released: 2021-05-25
- Data updated: 2026-08-29
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/joyread-enjoy-novels-and-shorts/id1551079603/reviews.md

## What is JoyRead?

Don't miss the hit novels and captivating stories on JoyRead - your premium reading paradise! Escape into fantastical realms with our extensive Fantasy collection, or indulge in heart-fluttering Romance tales. JoyRead brings the best in storytelling across genres to novel lovers worldwide. Discover unforgettable reading experiences and unlock a world of literary adventures. Download JoyRead now and immerse yourself in extraordinary narratives!

Why JoyRead?
1. With abundant hot online novels and shorts, JoyRead is the best choice for you to wander in a world of fiction!
2. You can always find your favorites in our plentiful stories!
3. With personalized reading recommendations & quick updates for new arrivals, you will have a great experience in following ongoing stories~ 
4. Your reading journey starts with a simple swipe, in an easy & comfortable way
5. Free stories as many as you want~

Genres
JoyRead has all kinds of books loved and embraced by our readers, from Romance with CEOs to Fantasy to Paranormal.
We have:
1. Romance
2. Fantasy
3. LGBTQ+
4. Werewolf & vampire
5. Billionaire
6. Action and Adventure
...
Find more interesting and fascinating stories on JoyRead and start your reading journey right now!

Top Picks
1. Editor's Picks - our latest hits, which are so excellent that you don't want to miss
2. Ranking - our most popular books/ trending new arrivals. There will away be one which is for your taste
3. Features - stay up-to-date on our hit genres, help you find your dream fictions
4. Selected Genre - genres most favored by our readers, give it a try when you don't know which story to read
5. Trending Tags - Billionaire, Werewolf & Vampire, Alpha, Mafia... Waiting for you to find more!

Read With Ease
1. Personalized page-turning setting: sroll, flip or slide the pages as you want
2. Eye-caring mode: personalized background color will never let your read become dull
3. Font size setting: big or small, all at your disposal
4. Reading model: Daytime Mode and Night Mode for you to choose,you can enjoy an easy read at any time
5. Build Your Own Library: enjoy your favorites in your own world

JoyRead VIP
1. Coins and Pearls are available everyday
2. Join a VIP group for Exclusive Pearls or Pass card
3. Double free chances for Lucky Draw
4. Special Profile Picture Frame
5. Price：$9.99/ month,$19.99/ month,$29.99/ month, $49.99/ quarter (three months)
6. The subscription will be made automatically and can be canceled at any time.
7. Privacy policy: https://www.joyreadings.com/privacy_policy_en.html
8. Terms of use: https://www.joyreadings.com/user_agreement_en.html

Join JoyRead, more benefits and functions waiting for you in the near future!

## Key features

- Extensive novel and short story library
- Diverse genres including Romance and Fantasy
- Personalized reading recommendations
- Customizable reading settings (page-turning, font, modes)
- Curated editor's picks and trending rankings
- Free stories available daily

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| subscription-month-9.99 | $9.99 | per month |
| Monthly Membership | $19.99 | per month |
| Weekly Shorts Pass (en) | $19.99 | per 7 days |
| subscription-month-29.99 | $29.99 | per month |
| Monthly Reading Pass(en) | $49.99 | per month |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 140 coins | $1.99 | one-time |
| 350 coins | $4.99 | one-time |
| 700 coins | $9.99 | one-time |
| 1400 coins | $19.99 | one-time |
| 2100 coins | $29.99 | one-time |
| 630 Coins | $8.99 | one-time |
| 560 Coins | $7.99 | one-time |
| 1680 Coins | $23.99 | one-time |


## Chart rankings

- #79 in Top Free · Book (US App Store)
- #16 in Top Grossing · Book (US App Store)

## What do users think of JoyRead?

Overall sentiment: negative

**Pros**

- 🚀 Interesting stories
- 👍 Clean and user-friendly app
- 🚀 Engaging reading experience

**Cons**

- 💰 Extremely expensive to read books
- 🐛 Inconsistent chapter pricing
- 🐛 Grammatical errors and poor writing
- 💰 Chapters too short for the cost
- 🔒 Lack of customer service and support
- 🔒 Unclear subscription benefits

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Chapters disappearing after purchase
- Inconsistent coin/pearl rewards
- App crashes and login issues

**Most requested features**

- Option to purchase entire books at a set price
- More ways to earn free coins/pearls
- Improve translation quality and editing
- Add audiobook support
- Allow transferring coins between accounts

## Recent user reviews (10 of 1,995)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/joyread-enjoy-novels-and-shorts/id1551079603/reviews.md

### 3/5 — Rewards Are Awful

*2026-08-21, version 5.2.0*

I am enjoying the story I am reading. However it is extremely frustrating the hoops I have to go through to open one chapter.   I always have to read 2 articles that is actually opening 20 tabs of ‘articles’. And even then you don’t always get the coin or pearl to open a chapter. I spend more time trying to open a chapter than I do reading a chapter. I am close to just deleting the app. I am only on chapter 54 of 934. It will be 1 year by the time I finish this novel if I have to open 20+ tabs for each chapter.

### 1/5 — Major flaws in app design

*2026-08-21, version 5.2.0*

The stories are great don’t get me wrong but the app itself has major flaws.
1. Half the time ads/rewards aren’t measured equally (in one place it’s worth one thing and worth another amount somewhere else)
2. Adds don’t play 90% of the time (even with 3 bars of both cellular and Wi-Fi). so in order for the app to even have half its functionality you need really good connection to both.
3. The app requires at the very least 3 bars of 5g cellular in order to watch adds(even then it gives me a hard time) 
4. The frustration from inability based on lack of cellular is enough to literally drive someone to the brink: insanity, depression, you name it. 
5. Unless you are rich and pay your way through,(I’m not) you are lucky to read 4 chapters of the same book per day and half of that would be gained through (you guessed it) : ads!!!
The same thing that doesn’t work 90% of the time. 

Stories = addicting 
App = insanity/depression

Did I mention that by not using your ad paid for chapters they are reset the next day (2 a day, no rollover)
12:00am everything resets.
Definitely needs help. To those as frustrated as me, I would recommend WEBTOON it’s 100%free (occasional ads)

### 4/5 — Good catalog, but VIP audio is inconsistent

*2026-08-21, version 5.2.0*

Solid selection of completed and ongoing werewolf/romance serials, and the annual/monthly pass model beats paying coin-by-coin on other apps. My main complaint: VIP-tier audio narration doesn’t consistently cover full books, even completed ones — it can cut out partway through and force you back to the lower-quality basic AI voice, with no way to manually switch back.

The fallback audio itself has functional issues beyond just sounding worse: there’s no pause between the chapter title and the actual text, and sentences often run together with no breaks, like it’s reading one long unbroken sentence instead of separate ones. It makes chapters genuinely hard to follow and often means re-listening to catch what was actually said. If VIP is the premium tier, it should reliably deliver premium narration for the content you’re paying to access — and the free fallback shouldn’t be this hard to understand in the first place. Three stars until both issues are addressed.

### 1/5 — Not good

*2026-08-19, version 5.2.0*

I don’t like that you need to earn something to be able to read every chapter

### 1/5 — Terrible

*2026-08-19, version 5.2.0*

Glitchy and to expensive , avoid

### 1/5 — Cancelled a short reads subscription and still got charged again

*2026-08-18, version 5.2.0*

I wanted to finish a story I started so I thought I’d try out the short reads 1 week subscription. It was okay but not worth $14.99, so I cancelled before I my renewal date and today they charged my account. I usually take screen shots for this reason but had a lot on my mind and forgot. Tried talking to their customer service. Spent at least three hours waiting for some response and still nothing almost 5.5hours  later. Absolutely horrible service and would not recommend doing any subscriptions, not worth the money.

### 2/5 — Improvement needed

*2026-08-18, version 5.2.0*

The stories are decent. However, the paywall is a little insane. Pearls and coins are a bit expensive. I think a lot of apps like this would benefit from a WEBTOON/wattpad approach. Were the majority of the story is free just unlocked per day and with ads. With the option to get early access in the form of coins. As with the current system, I’m very tempted to Uninstall the app and simply go to a cheaper version. As many other apps have a more extensive catalogue for a cheaper price. Another issue that I have with the pearls and rewards section is some pearls can only be used on certain stories. Which sucks. I’m not going to read those stories that I have exclusive pearls for, they don’t interest me. So now I wasted my reward. Quite frankly the whole situation is just frustrating and does temp me to uninstall the app. However, I am really addicted to the story that I’m currently reading so I’ll put up with it for now. But I definitely will not read another story on this app.

### 3/5 — Pearls

*2026-08-18, version 5.2.0*

Daily pearls amount does not match between the pop up above the rewards tab when you first log in and the amount you can actually earn doing ad tasks, and the difference is in the hundreds. Other than this problem either daily pearls needs to be raised or coin prices needs to be dropped because it’s too high even for a well written story

### 3/5 — Good story, but watch out for scam ads for free credits

*2026-08-17, version 5.2.0*

I have enjoyed the novel that I’m currently reading, romance with no smut, but some of the ads that are linked for free credits are linked to scam websites.  The problem is that you can’t bypass these ads and move on to legitimate ones.  The other problem I have is that I don’t want anything to do with spiritism or tarot readings and those can’t be bypassed either.

### 5/5 — I have tried all the apps and this is the best

*2026-08-17, version 5.2.0*

So over the last 12 months, I think I have purchased coins and chapters and tried multiple subscriptions on so many different apps 

This app has a monthly subscription that is more expensive than some of the others that are out there

However, because they provide businesses to their authors for updating regularly and a finish bonus or a completion bonus

This means that there’s so much value there that you can get out of your monthly subscription

I currently have about 20 to 30 books in my library on this app

There is a couple of books that I would consider all-time favourites and I would buy them in a hardback, a paperback, a trade back an an e-book and any other format. They are my favourites

Some authors choose to add only one or two chapters a day

Sam will upload 50 or 100 every month or so. Because I have well over 20 in my library, I’m pretty much guaranteed to find a new update on something every single day.

The editing is pretty good. I would say 8 out of 10 books is really well edited and then there’s the odd ones that just have some really funny mistakes with detail details changing etc.

When I checked the rankings for the top 100 book apps I was honestly gobsmacked that this app is so far down the ranking because I tried all the others and this one’s the best

## Frequently asked questions about JoyRead

### What kind of content does JoyRead offer?

JoyRead offers a wide variety of novels and short stories across numerous genres. Popular categories include Romance, Fantasy, LGBTQ+, Werewolf & Vampire, and Billionaire. The app features editor's picks, trending rankings, and selected genre collections to help users discover new content.

### How can I customize my reading experience on JoyRead?

JoyRead provides several options to enhance your reading comfort. You can personalize page-turning styles (scroll, flip, slide), adjust font sizes, and choose between Daytime and Night Modes. An eye-caring mode with customizable background colors is also available.

### Is JoyRead free to use?

Yes, JoyRead offers a selection of free stories available daily. For access to exclusive content and additional benefits, users can opt for a JoyRead VIP subscription, which has various monthly and quarterly pricing options.

### What are the subscription options for JoyRead VIP?

JoyRead VIP offers several subscription tiers with different pricing. Options include monthly plans at $9.99, $19.99, and $29.99, as well as a quarterly plan at $49.99. Subscriptions are automatically renewed but can be canceled at any time.

### What genres are most popular on JoyRead?

JoyRead features a wide array of popular genres, with Romance and Fantasy being prominently highlighted. Other trending genres include LGBTQ+, Werewolf & Vampire, Billionaire, and Action and Adventure. The app also uses trending tags like Billionaire, Werewolf & Vampire, and Mafia to help users find specific story types.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 5.2.0 — 2026-08-03

There are performance improvements.

### 5.1.0 — 2026-07-04

There are performance improvements.

### 5.0.0 — 2026-06-25

There are performance improvements.

### 4.8.2 — 2026-05-21

There are performance improvements.

### 4.8.1 — 2026-05-20

There are performance improvements.

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