NovelBar User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience23.2% of reviews
Neutral3.8% of reviews
Negative experience73.0% of reviews

~ Based on 500 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is NovelBar Safe?

NovelBar appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for NovelBar is 82/100.

This assessment is based on 2,076 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.1/5.

Safety Analysis

77.7% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.4% of ratings suggest some concerns
19.9% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 2,076 App Store ratings for NovelBar.

Is NovelBar Legit?

NovelBar appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for NovelBar is 88/100.

Based on 88 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Scam

There is no way for me to unsubscribe. They take money out of my bank account yet no subscription is listed in my subscriptions in my Apple account. There is no way to contact anyone on the app to take care of this. A total fraud taking your money. They give you no options at all. Do not download this app. They will take your money and refuse to cancel.
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$20 doesn’t buy 1 book

I bought $20 in credit thinking that it would be enough to get me through one book. Nope. $20 bought me 27 out of 220 chapters. Are you kidding me? If the credit structure continues when you buy more it would cost me over $100 just to ready one book. This should be illegal.

Worst subscription to cancel

I’ve been trying to cancel this subscription for 3 weeks now- all the ways provided do not work and I’ve gotten no response. I would subscribe as you could end up paying way more then you want

Best Read!

I have come across many e book sights! Many books that have caught my attention with no real depth! However, this site had caught my full attention. Hands down not the repeat of those other changed the name of character, with the same plot! I highly recommend this! This is the one thing I look forward to with my crazy day inconsistency! Well worth it.
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Do Not Use

They charge you randomly for not even having a subscription DO NOT DOWNLOAD!!!!

Legalese loopy loop Cannot Cancel Subscription

I have attempted to find the unsubscribe button or feature and have been sent on a wild goose chase. My card continues to be charged forcing my bank to place a hold on my accounts and question every transaction.

Terrible app. Predatory and exploitative to everyone.

Be ye warned! They’ll take your money and run!
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Horrible

You will spend 19 dollars to read a couple of chapters. The book was great but the cost is a joke. I won’t be finishing the book

Scam

Downloaded this app for free. They ended up charging my card for 200 worth of unauthorized charges. Dont even have the app on my phone anymore and they continue to charge my card. Complete SCAM

Can’t cancel if you pay directly

They offer discounts if you pay directly rather than through the App Store but make it impossible to cancel if you sign up for a monthly subscription this way. Then they don’t respond to any support emails. Not to mention the pricing is absurd, it will cost you $60 just to read one freaking book. Do not buy. Not worth it at all. Absolute scam.
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Very expensive!!

The stories are interesting but buying coins means you’re paying hundreds of dollars for a 300 chapter book! No thank you.

Can’t cancel mu subscription

I made a mistake and wanted to pay for one week. Somehow the subscription is not in my apple subscription and there is no way to cancel. I tried to email, tried everything and just can’t cancel. No matter what I do. It is so frustrating. Do not give them any money

Be prepared to pony up serious cash..

The books are good, but do you know anyone who reads one chapter per day of a book? Especially of chapters that are only a couple of pages long? It’s so irritating that these books will go unread by a large portion of the population because no one reads books that way. Sure you can get two chapters in but you have to watch ads and read these weird stories that make zero sense. I’m not a hater, the books are good. This app sucks, and I’m really angry about it. That they’re allowed to do things like this. Sure they’re not forcing anyone to pay over. $1 for a chapter. If you buy 10 chapters. You pay $8.99.. what a steal! Not… come on, do better! Quit ripping people off. I paid $30 for 30 chapters. I’m only 1/4 of the way through the story. It’s annoying that I’ll probably never finish the one story I started, and I’ll never get to finish it because it’s not reasonable to ask anyone to take 200 days to read one book. A chapter at a time… it’s horrible.
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Be careful

Says watch 2 ads for free chapter … 1 ad can be 2 minutes and another “single” ad can be made up of 3 ads … feels wrong. Also now sending you out of app to a web page ad, then makes you watch ad to get back into app.

Oh, and most of the stories are “ongoing” but not getting any new chapters ….,

Pricing

This app is wildly overpriced and the amount of money you pay for a months subscription to not get everything available is actually ridiculous. To only have a set amount of coins on a months subscription considering what you pay is ridiculous.

Too Expensive Compared to Other Apps

There are a few great books in here. I had a weekly subscription with unlimited reading and made the mistake of cancelling it. Now I don’t see an option for unlimited reading. The coin packages are way too much and the chapters take a lot of coins to unlock. The chapters in this app cost 3-4 times more than chapters in other apps. I really wish the two books I’m trying to finish were available in a different app so I could take my business elsewhere.
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Expensive

UPDATE: ITS IMPOSSIBLE TO GET THEM TO STOP CHARGING MY CREDIT CARD 🤬🤬Story was good but it shouldn’t cost $60 to get only halfway through. I could’ve bought 3 better edited books! Bailing. Would love to read rest of story but I can’t even find anything that tells me how much it costs per chapter or word count. These predatory apps should be banned.
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Have to pay

The app used to let you read 10 chapter per day. But with the recent update that has been removed. Now you get one or two chapters and have to pay to read any more each day. Very frustrating. Bring back the ability to watch adds to get chapters and this would be great again.

Unhappy

Top of the list for things to know. If you purchase a bunch of points they are going to charge you more per chapter then they ever do if you just do whatever daily to earn points. They have charged me 121 for one chapter and 106 yet if just use daily points the most they charge is 99. I spent more than a book was worth because I wanted to read it. Meanwhile when I did what I needed to do to earn points to read part of it this App cheated me out of points. No chapter has cost more than 99 points up u til now but because I waited and let the points add up they charged me extra. For the chapter I just unlocked they charged me 121 points!!! What a ripoff. That’s not the only time but this time I watched the points each chapter so I would know how much they stole. I will finish this story but that will be it. Either get more reasonable or hopefully get ignored by all. Looks they will not let me post this review because they don’t like it.

Another issue where they ripped me off which means they will do it to you also. I counted how many games I would need to play to get the points I needed to read the next chapter. I played those games which were 8 I played. I only got credit for 5. I’m just trying to finish this one story and they keep cheating me out of points whenever they want.

Again I just had 150 points and they charged me 147 just because. What a POS.
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Rewards Taken Away

UPDATE: Not even a day later, a collected my rewards today, had 603, just looked now I have 544, real nice! Purposely don’t read the next chapter to see what would happen, guess we know.

What a scam. You can clearly see the amount of people that say how grossly expensive it is. Their response is “visit the rewards page”. HA, I do that daily, yesterday I collected my rewards and had 643, this morning I woke up to collect again and I’m down to 598. I didn’t even read anything to have used them. Don’t give these scammers any of your hard earned money, they can’t even be honest with the rewards you earned! This is not the first time it’s happened, just the first time I’m finally posting about it because it’s a joke!
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Gonna miss it

I love the stories. Honestly I just cannot justify spending the money when a book online can be purchased for under $5 or $10.
The purchase to finish a book is awful.
My subscription ends the 27th and I won’t be renewing.