# K MANGA — user reviews > 272 indexed App Store user reviews of K MANGA by Kodansha Ltd., rated 4.60/5 from 2,627 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/k-manga/id1637040002/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/k-manga/id1637040002.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 2,181 · 4★ 216 · 3★ 54 · 2★ 32 · 1★ 144 ## What do users think of K MANGA? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 👍 Great customer support - 👍 Enjoying latest chapters and love ticket promotions - 👍 Nothing wrong tbh **Cons** - 💰 Monthly Payment - 💰 Incredible Cash Grab - 💰 Pricing system is awful - 💰 Terrible, why no subscription service? - 💰 Horrible Monetization - 💰 Confusing and expensive - 💰 Clunky and Worse than the Competitors - 💰 Great selection bad prices - 🔍 Limited chapters - 🔍 Can't Use Features - 🔍 App not functioning - 🔍 Could be much better - 🔍 Odd Service Choices - 🔍 Inconsistent and needs changes - 🔍 Disappointing - 🔍 Terrible experience - 🔍 Currently wasted potential - 🔍 Potential but needs changes - 🔍 Ad filled and outdated design - 🔍 The absolute worst way to read manga - 🔍 Worst official manga app - 🔍 Don't give this app a try - 🔍 App Outclassed By Competition - 🔍 Clunky and Worse than the Competitors - 🔍 Honestly a hassle - 🔍 The Horrendous Japanese Model Strikes Again - 🔍 Just why? - 🔍 Definitely not worth it - 🔍 Disappointed - 🔍 Odd Service Choices - 🔍 Disappointing to say the least - 🔍 Disappointed - 🔍 Disappointed Beyond Belief - 🔍 Disappointing - 🔍 Complete failure of an app - 🔍 Terrible. Why no subscription service? - 🔍 App Outclassed By Competition - 🔍 Clunky and Worse than the Competitors - 🔍 Great selection bad prices **Commonly reported bugs** - Screenshots - App not allowing sign on **Most requested features** - Landscape mode when browsing - Subscription option - Make free chapters downloadable ## Newest reviews (12 of 272) ### 3/5 — Point System is very frustrating *2026-08-16, version 3.3.1* I would like to give this app a better review. One hand, they have picked up and translated a lot of series no one else will license in English. On the other hand, the point system is horrible. They have a way to earn free points by playing games in other apps, but it is inconsistent as to whether it works or not. I wasted hours playing a stupid game to earn points only to be told I broke some terms of service and won’t be given the points (I didn’t break any rules). I gave up earning coins on places like WEBTOONS because I was running into similar issues. I WEBTOONS, I was able to argue my case and received the coins in the end after arguing with the help ticket a bit, but not on this app. TapJoy seems to run most of the games and their customer service makes me lividly angry. It’s a scam as far as I’m concerned. Please make KManga a subscription, and I’d be happy to pay a monthly fee rather than coin by coin. ### 3/5 — To expensive *2026-08-11, version 3.3.1* To expensive ### 4/5 — Good but expensive *2026-08-02, version 3.2.0* Like the content but so expensive ### 3/5 — Its good *2026-06-22, version 3.0.1* Personally, i like using this app because i really enjoy reading manga. My only issue is the point and ticket system. It makes it very hard for people to read their mangas. Otherwise good app ### 1/5 — Website >>> *2026-06-18, version 3.0.1* This app doesn’t even allow me to login to my online account.. Just consistent errors. The app is extremely broken, imo. Better to just use the website from your phone browser, imo. ### 2/5 — Horrendous app balance *2026-06-10, version 3.0.1* Unnecessary mobile games just to earn the points you need to read a single chapter that contains about 18 pages, which are chopped and put together poorly. Either add a subscription or give the ability to at least buy the chapters more cheaply with better point-earning systems. ### 1/5 — Starting to think I’m scammed need help *2026-06-10, version 3.0.1* I wanted to read Vinland saga but I bought it from the website kodensha.US for the pages to never load properly or at all. I downloaded this app claiming to be the official app and realized my credentials doesnt exist? First time I got into reading manga as I wanted to avoid piracy but this ended up being worse. ### 1/5 — Kostenfalle mit intransparenter In-App-Währung *2026-06-08* In der App gibt es eine eigene Währung, die man zum Lesen einzelner Kapitel einsetzt. Neue Kapitel sind teurer als alte Kapitel. Es gibt Aktionen, die einen zum Kauf drängen und die Möglichkeit sich Coins zu verdienen, indem man Werbung schaut (dafür bekommt man lächerlich wenige Coins. Die Belohnung fürs Werbung schauen erscheint in drei Truhen, von denen man eine auswählt. Angeblich hat man dabei die Chance auf viele Coins, tatsächlich sind es Kleckerbeträge). Das ganze Konzept setzt auf Gamification und Intransparenz. Ich finds total ätzend. Dann doch lieber warten, bis die gewünschten Mangas in Print erscheinen... Die App ist überhaupt nicht zu empfehlen, erst recht nicht für Kinder und Jugendliche. Aber auch nicht für Erwachsene. ### 1/5 — The black boxes *2026-06-06, version 3.0.1* Your censorship is atrocious. Not even tastefully done. Just lazy. ### 1/5 — No monthly price *2026-06-01, version 3.0.1* $1 a chapter when other manga reading services are $2-$4 a month. Ridiculous. Would work a lot better as a monthly subscription. ### 1/5 — Bad in the way all these are *2026-05-29, version 3.0.1* A thousand pop ups, an in app currency, no way of downloading for offline reading. ### 1/5 — Garbage *2026-05-29, version 3.0.1* Just make it a subscription ffs instead of making us waste our time downloading and playing stupid mobile games just to earn points to read chapter manga. Also criminal of y’all to split up chapters like that, and sometimes they’re really short so it feels actually insulting. This whole system is a SCAM. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — The WORST *2026-08-18, version 3.3.1* If I could read this manga anywhere else I would. So bad I’m fr here having to say it. Points are awful, ads are impossible ya can’t even exit out of them. BS tbh, -2 rating ### 1/5 — Scam *2026-08-01, version 3.2.0* To read a single series and buy tickets to read it, it will cost you around 194 dollars vs other apps that have monthly subscriptions for unlimited reading ### 1/5 — ticket system *2026-07-28, version 3.2.0* i used to get log in tickets, but now it doesn’t do it. i have no clue why it hasn’t been giving them to me and it’s very annoying! i even logged out and back in and it didn’t work. ### 1/5 — POS pricing model *2026-07-17, version 3.0.1* Don't use K Manga. They want you to spend $100 to read a single manga. I would soon rather off myself then use this service. ### 1/5 — Can’t use screen mirroring function *2026-07-13, version 3.0.1* I normally read manga virtually on my couch while mirroring my phone’s screen to my smart TV so I can appreciate the artwork more and I don’t have to look at such a small screen. This is the first app I’ve used where I try to screen mirror and it closes the chapter saying “can’t screen record while reading”. I understand why you shouldn’t be able to screen record, but screen mirroring is an entirely different function. Disappointing. ### 1/5 — I HATE THE POINT SYSTEM. *2026-07-10, version 3.0.1* I DON’T WANT A POINT SYSTEM FOR MANGA JUST DO A SUBSCRIPTION, THAT WOULD MUCH BETTER. ### 1/5 — What were they thinking with the points system *2026-07-09, version 3.0.1* The points system is absolutely awful. They should have taken a page out of shueshia/viz’s book with a simple subscription or first read free model. the points system is designed to be as not user friendly as possible if you’re trying to be a free reader, unlike MangaPlus, which gives the most recent 3 and first 3 chapters for free, and some series will allow you to read each chapter once for free. If a user is willing to pay, it’s still way worse of an experience on kmanga than it is on mangaplus/viz, where they offer a really low monthly subscription and unlimited access to chapters. On K manga, you have to pay almost a dollar per chapter. To read just 5 chapters you have to spend as much as it would cost for an entire month of the Shonen Jump app, which offers thousands of chapters from tons and tons of series. Kodansha needs to step up their game if they want people to legally read their manga. ### 1/5 — Sad really *2026-06-23, version 3.0.1* Not having a subscription model available is just sad at this point. Kodansha clearly doesn't care about opinions regarding this app ### 1/5 — Flat rate please! *2026-06-23, version 3.0.1* For the love of god ditch the tickets and ad watching! I would gladly pay a flat price like SJ or Viz manga. ### 1/5 — Garbage *2026-06-19, version 3.0.1* Just make it a subscription ffs instead of making us waste our time downloading and playing stupid mobile games just to earn points to read a chapter of manga. Also criminal of y’all to split up chapters like that, and sometimes they’re really short so it feels actually insulting. This whole system is a SCAM. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great *2026-08-02, version 3.2.0* Amazing ### 5/5 — It’s really good!! *2026-07-20, version 3.0.1* I’m so happy that I got this app I’m really having fun reading all of it and I’m really happy that you made this app where we can all read what we want and stuff I hope you can keep making it and building up. ### 5/5 — Peak app-est12 *2026-06-24, version 3.0.1* Huge shoutout to this app! It let me jump straight into the Blue Lock manga right where season two left off. I'm so grateful because I finally got to see Kaiser and Ness make their appearance. If you love the anime and don't want to wait for the next season, download this app right now! ### 5/5 — About it *2026-06-17, version 3.0.1* This is great 5 stars no complaints ### 5/5 — Amazing 🤩 *2026-06-08, version 3.0.1* Ddjxj ### 5/5 — Tokyo revengers *2026-06-05* Awesome as life ### 5/5 — Good as helll *2026-05-31, version 3.0.1* I think it might be better if you could make a way so people can get premium tickets without the daily rewards and maybe if you wouldn’t mind please give me 1000 premium ticketsss ### 5/5 — K manga *2026-05-28, version 3.0.1* Amazing app make a tv version as well it’s that astonishing ### 5/5 — Thank you k manga *2026-05-27, version 3.0.1* I’ve never read manga and Everytime I wanted to read it cost money but now I can read manga for free with no ads ### 5/5 — Love to have free mangas *2026-05-13, version 3.0.1* I enjoy reading free manga and value the daily points as encouragement. I love the app because most manga are kid-friendly, so I recommend them to my kids and friends. --- *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 2026-08-26.*