# NovelPub — user reviews > 30 indexed App Store user reviews of NovelPub by HK CULTURE PLUS TECHNOLOGY LIMITED, rated 2.90/5 from 53 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/novelpub/id6474727682/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/novelpub/id6474727682.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 16 · 4★ 6 · 3★ 6 · 2★ 6 · 1★ 19 ## Newest reviews (10 of 30) ### 1/5 — Annoying *2026-05-16* I started a book from their ad so downloaded the app. Now I want to read it but when I open the app it just shows a different app (ad?). It won’t move, change the page, nothing. Like it’s frozen, but then suddenly the app just closes itself! If you’re not going to make the app navigation able to be used, why bother putting ads out there at all? It’s really just pissing people off and even if you do fix it, who’s gonna trust it again? I know I’m not wasting any more time on it, despite wanting to read that story! DO BETTER! **Developer response:** Sorry for the inconvenience. We would improve this part in the future and bring our readers better experience. Really appreciated your understanding and support. ### 1/5 — Don’t bother *2026-05-14* On chapter 85, it now says ‘Book does not exist’. The author left hidden messages saying if not on another app, it’s been stolen. I get it’s free to read, but advertising amount is intolerable. Have now deleted the app.. ### 1/5 — Freezes *2026-05-14* All this does is freeze up or just shuts down Horrible app **Developer response:** Sorry for the inconvenience. We would improve this part in the future and bring our readers better experience. Really appreciated your understanding and support. ### 1/5 — Constantly crashes *2026-05-13* I wanted to read what I saw in a ad. the search brings it up then the screen freezes and the app dies would not recommend **Developer response:** Sorry for the inconvenience. We would improve this part in the future and bring our readers better experience. Really appreciated your understanding and support. ### 1/5 — Heiress’s Revenge for His Betrayal *2026-05-12* What is the point of trying to read any story on this app? I was about to start reading chapter 20 of ‘Heiress’s Revenge for His Betrayal’. When I swiped to the next page, I was informed that the book doesn’t exist. Tried searching to no avail. Very disappointed. Won’t bother trying a new title because I’ll probably not get to finish it. I’m not a slow reader, but I’d have to finish a book a day just to ensure I got to the end! I’ve only had your app a few days and I’m glad I didn’t pay up. **Developer response:** Sorry for the inconvenience. We would improve this part in the future and bring our readers better experience. Really appreciated your understanding and support. ### 1/5 — Don’t bother *2026-05-08* Offers ad free reading time and then throws in ads before time is up. The one book I started to read had been stolen from the site on which the author had published it. Deleted. I’ll stick with the free ebooks from my local library thanks. **Developer response:** Sorry for the inconvenience. We would improve this part in the future and bring our readers better experience. Really appreciated your understanding and support. ### 1/5 — Faulty App *2026-04-28* I have tried more than once to download this app. It either keeps freezing or once I have opened it, the chosen book won’t upload or shuts the app all together. I think this app has either a bug or it is not supported properly. Please look into it as I was looking forward to reading the novels **Developer response:** Sorry for the inconvenience. We would improve this part in the future and bring our readers better experience. Really appreciated your understanding and support. ### 1/5 — Sell your soul *2026-04-28* You can only download this app if you are prepared to sell your soul. You have to agree to their terms or you can’t read the books. Plenty of other fish in the sea! **Developer response:** Sorry for the inconvenience. We would improve this part in the future and bring our readers better experience. Really appreciated your understanding and support. ### 1/5 — Locks up *2026-04-25* Repeated ads non stop simply goes from one ad to another. If you can get out of it opens a random AI endless story that gets repetitive after the first chapters. Can’t read the story I downloaded it for **Developer response:** Sorry for the inconvenience. We would improve this part in the future and bring our readers better experience. Really appreciated your understanding and support. ### 1/5 — Locked me out and wouldn’t let me finish a book *2026-04-22* Pretty typical **Developer response:** Sorry for the inconvenience. We would improve this part in the future and bring our readers better experience. Really appreciated your understanding and support. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Don’t follow UK legislation *2026-08-17* You don’t have the option required by law to accept or decline cookies. Your options are “sell your soul do god knows what” or “refuse and the app closes”. By law you also have the right to be forgotten but this app - in its privacy policy- says they will judge case by case. Don’t download this, you will never know what they will do with your private information. ### 1/5 — SHEIN adds endlessly *2026-08-14* Thought this app was super - until constant SHEIN adds popping up- for no apparent reason, when I close it I then have to wait for another add - start reading again and before getting half way down the page a SHEIN add will pop up again, and so on - makes it impossible to actually read the book. **Developer response:** Sorry for the inconvenience. We would improve this part in the future and bring our readers better experience. Really appreciated your understanding and support. ### 1/5 — Don’t bother *2026-08-11* On chapter 85, it now says ‘Book does not exist’. The author left hidden messages saying if not on another app, it’s been stolen. I get it’s free to read, but advertising amount is intolerable. Have now deleted the app.. Developer has responded and clearly hasn’t read the review! Thank god didn’t pay anything. A shame, I would’ve have as I was enjoying the book, but the VERY lack of support just shows. **Developer response:** Sorry for the inconvenience. We would improve this part in the future and bring our readers better experience. Really appreciated your understanding and support. ### 1/5 — Don’t even try *2026-08-03* Can’t even read the book without watching 3 ads trying to get to the stupid thing!!😡 **Developer response:** Sorry for the inconvenience. We would improve this part in the future and bring our readers better experience. Really appreciated your understanding and support. ### 1/5 — Missing words between pages *2026-07-05* Very poor separation of sentences between pages. Regardless of changing font size and how you progress to next page you still loose words and sentences which makes everything very disjointed. **Developer response:** Dear readers: We are very sorry for the bad experience you have. If you have any questions, you can contact the customer service staff in My Online Customer Service and describe the problem to the customer service. We will deal with it as soon as possible after receiving the problem. Thank you for your feedback. ### 1/5 — Never ending ads prevent me from getting to the story! *2026-07-01* I’ve never seen an app that throws you into ads within the first seconds. You open it and ads pop up and it doesn’t let you back out of them. Before I could even get to the story, I got at least five ads until one of them got stuck and froze. the app. And this is the second time out of two tries its happened. I wouldn’t be able to pay for the premium service if I wanted to because I can’t get out of the ads! **Developer response:** Sorry for the inconvenience. We would improve this part in the future and bring our readers better experience. Really appreciated your understanding and support. ### 1/5 — Waste of purchase *2026-06-27* Please quit wasting your time on foreign apps. The Hong Kong based apps are absolutely horrible so our China they cannot write the English language, let alone a book to save their lives. We have Americans and other English speaking countries are really wasting our time and money feeding into this BS. **Developer response:** Sorry for the inconvenience. We would improve this part in the future and bring our readers better experience. Really appreciated your understanding and support. ### 1/5 — Waste of time *2026-06-13* Too Many hoops to read a story **Developer response:** Sorry for the inconvenience. We would improve this part in the future and bring our readers better experience. Really appreciated your understanding and support. ### 1/5 — The ads cover sentences *2026-06-10* The ada cover several of the sentences so you have to guess what it says underneath. **Developer response:** Sorry for the inconvenience. We would improve this part in the future and bring our readers better experience. Really appreciated your understanding and support. ### 1/5 — Worst Option for reading apps *2026-06-02* There are so many adds I couldn’t even search the book I was interested in before I was bombarded with adds. Every other time I hit a button 3 adds in a row showed up. I gave up and removed to app after the 5th try of just trying to search the book **Developer response:** Sorry for the inconvenience. We would improve this part in the future and bring our readers better experience. Really appreciated your understanding and support. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Actually it is good app *2026-05-07* If you’re fine with advertising and want to read for free this app for you. You’ll have unlimited access to book. Commercial videos are short and not annoying at all unlike other apps have. I’d rather watch some short advertisements than pay crazy money for one unfinished book. Very good app. ### 3/5 — Master Sterling Triplets Run your Group *2026-08-17* The cover shows 3 boys but one is a girl. Iris is mostly referred to as a girl but when she gets asthma she’s suddenly a boy for 2 chapters. Since updates are made, I think corrections should be made. Also at this point in the book, these is no mention of the oldest child. Grandparents didn’t take him home so is he on the street? Now Serena works for the agency. First time we hear this at half point in the book. Should have had some references before this. ### 3/5 — Complaints mostly *2024-04-20* Other then not being able to write comments and the fact the app doesn’t show you HOW TO and the fact it’s not technically free, it’s a good app. No adds between writing and not add straight after you’ve finished a chapter. It’s a good but FRUSTRATING app ### 2/5 — Can’t Stop *2026-08-19* Awesome if you can find out how to find the story? Very misleading sending you in circles!!! ### 2/5 — So frustrating *2026-08-17* You can’t even get into the book you’re reading before another ad comes to get you and they make it near impossible to swipe away ### 2/5 — Frustrating! *2026-08-16* Some ok stories, with some occasional errors, but the constant ‘Shein’ website random pop ups and all the ads make it so frustrating to use and get into a story. There’s much better free Novel apps out there. ### 2/5 — Ads every two pages *2026-08-12* They are literally seems to be an ad every other page **Developer response:** Sorry for the inconvenience. We would improve this part in the future and bring our readers better experience. Really appreciated your understanding and support. ### 2/5 — Might be fine if the book ads didn’t take out part of the book *2026-08-05* I understand that they need to be funded by ads, but every few pages or less there is an ad and it takes out part of the story. I’m not into trying to figure out what was lost so I am deleting. Let me know if this ever gets fixed. **Developer response:** Sorry for the inconvenience. We would improve this part in the future and bring our readers better experience. Really appreciated your understanding and support. ### 2/5 — The forgotten Luna *2026-06-05* So far, I have read into two novels. One of them I got 70% into and had to quit because it was too repetitive and too disjointed. The second one I’m only about 25% into and I just can’t read it anymore. One minute she’s left her alpha and has moved into her own apartment and is enjoying her space and Two chapters later. She has spent the whole time after leaving her alpha and is living at her family home instead of in her apartment. One minute key characters are in town and in the next sentence they’re up in the northern territory. The storyline could be great. But the stories are just so disjointed. It’s hard to read without just throwing my hands up and discussed at how disjointed everything is. **Developer response:** Sorry for the inconvenience. We would improve this part in the future and bring our readers better experience. Really appreciated your understanding and support. ### 2/5 — Not really free *2026-05-19* Ads, and then more ads, and then they want you to earn coins to avoid ads. I just want to read… **Developer response:** Sorry for the inconvenience. We would improve this part in the future and bring our readers better experience. Really appreciated your understanding and support. --- *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 2026-08-28.*