# NovelReader - World of Novels — user reviews > 345 indexed App Store user reviews of NovelReader by Bui Vu, rated 4.70/5 from 4,172 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/novelreader-world-of-novels/id1437708163/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/novelreader-world-of-novels/id1437708163.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 3,433 · 4★ 459 · 3★ 120 · 2★ 42 · 1★ 118 ## What do users think of NovelReader? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Best WebNovel reader app - 🚀 Interesting App - 👍 Amazing app - 👍 Great app - 👍 10/10 - 👍 Best reading app - 👍 Finally! - 👍 Amazing app - 👍 Wonderful app - 👍 Perfect - 👍 Good - 👍 Goated app - 👍 Amazing!!! - 👍 Wonderful app - 👍 Great app - 👍 Smooth and easy - 👍 Love it - 👍 ACTUALLY GOOD - 👍 works well - 👍 Love this web - 👍 Quick chapter released **Cons** - 🐛 Offline problem - 🐛 Tracking - 🐛 Doesn't work - 🐛 Can't click on new novel to read on - 🐛 Can't see what ch are read - 🐛 Issues with the new ads - 🐛 The sync feature does not work well - 🐛 Audio. - 🐛 Issues with downloading points - 🐛 Broken - 🐛 Wrong format. Not using wifi. - 🐛 Can't read Novels - 🐛 Server Issue - 🐛 Fix your adds - 🐛 Apps not loading - 🐛 Can't Load - 🐛 Bug - 🐛 Offline - 🐛 White screen - 🐛 Oops You're Offline - 🐛 Wishing they would quit being greedy - 🐛 Broken - 🐛 Connection - 🐛 WiFi Problem - 🐛 Lagging - 🐛 Iwifi - 🐛 Buggy - 🐛 Missing texts - 🐛 Chapter - 🐛 Download function not working as intended - 🐛 Needs some polish - 🐛 Keeps crashing **Commonly reported bugs** - Offline mode issues - Sync problems - Crashes on startup - Scrolling issues - Formatting problems - Audio playback issues **Most requested features** - Improve text to speech - Bookmark chapters - Dark mode - Filtering by multiple categories - Sorting novels in library - Differentiate read/unread chapters - Continuous text-to-speech playback - Add more Japanese and Korean novels ## Newest reviews (13 of 345) ### 2/5 — Needs more selection *2026-08-13* Needs more to the books available ### 4/5 — Need Ai voices *2026-07-20, version 2.5.106* Just add Ai reader already ### 4/5 — It has a smaller selection of novels but is good *2026-07-12, version 2.5.106* I like the different options for colour and text sizes ### 3/5 — Needs updating *2026-06-17, version 2.5.106* Love it but this app needs updating it constantly crashes lately it's barely usable nowadays ### 4/5 — NovelReader *2026-06-14, version 2.5.106* This is app is very good and has a large range of novels….but lately there are no addition of any new novels. Also the time for novels to update per chapter for some novels is too long (try to make it 5 to 6 chapters per day). Pls try to work on it ### 3/5 — Novels *2026-04-27, version 2.5.106* What happened to the novels like ‘ghost emperor wild wife: dandy eldest miss’, ‘genius doctor black belly miss’ and ‘full marks hidden marriage: pick up a son, get a free husband’? It just disappeared after I transferred to a new phone? ### 4/5 — AI rewritten chapters *2026-03-05, version 2.5.105* This app is AMAZING, apart from the fact that a lot of the chapters are AI rewritten (for example shadow slave volume 10 and later). If you guys could pull your chapters from novelfire somehow that'd be great, because it feels disgusting to read the new ai ones :( ### 5/5 — Great app *2026-02-12, version 2.5.105* So far has every novel I need with minimal ads ### 4/5 — Soft locked *2026-02-01* I want to start by saying that this app is absolutely fantastic! My only issue is that with the recent update I’ve gotten an issue with ads that cause me to be soft locked out of reading until a restart clears the ad. Every time I finish the ad and try to go to the next screen it shows the input (black box around the X) but doesn’t complete the action. I’ll try repeatedly to continue but instead the ad will stay on screen and if I restart the app to avoid the soft lock the ad restarts and continues to be impassable. I love the app and hope this can be resolved as I think it was something introduced in the most recent update or from me using the new iPhone. ### 5/5 — Keeps cutting in and out when connected to apple play *2026-01-24, version 2.5.105* I love this app. However, it keeps cutting in and out every time it’s connected to Apple Pay. Also, the audio voices are pretty raspy. I wish they had made an effort to change the available voices. ### 5/5 — Upgrade audio voice *2026-01-08, version 2.5.105* Great app honestly, only things that would make it better is if they stop pushing all of these harem filler books and put more books of substance. Also another major thing would be upgrading the voice for the audio reading… I’d pay for that lol. Love it otherwise ### 4/5 — Comment section not working *2026-01-04* Great app for free reading but I noticed that the comment section is not working properly hopefully it will be fixed soon ### 5/5 — Great! Please add this! *2025-12-20, version 2.5.105* It would be the best if it had an option to auto-scroll. If you can improve the voices to sound natural it would be the most perfect app out there! Thank you! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Fix it! *2026-08-18, version 2.5.106* The Dawnbound heros ad will not allow you to close it. If I restart the app, it just starts over. There is no way to get past the ad to get to the book! ### 1/5 — Thieves *2026-07-01, version 2.5.106* They steal novels from online sites then plaster ads every 3-5 chapters. Then to address this they conveniently offer a way for you to pay not to have ads. Complete thieves honestly they should be sued and dropped from the App Store ### 1/5 — Bug *2026-04-14, version 2.5.106* I can’t use the app properly because when adverts come on, I’m unable to exit the ad page. Even after the ad has finished, pressing the “X” doesn’t work, so I get stuck and can’t continue using the app. ### 1/5 — Crashes but is great otherwise *2026-03-13, version 2.5.105* Crashes immediately on app startup or as soon as I try to do anything on the latest IOS version, if not for that I would give this app a 5/5. Please fix it ASAP ### 1/5 — Thief’s *2026-02-04, version 2.5.105* They steal their material from online sites then spam the people who use this app with ADs that you can just so happen to get rid of if you pay a small price mind you their already stealing the material you read and usually only machine translation on it. ### 1/5 — Do for ads i’m online enough *2026-01-28* But for chapters - i’m not. ### 1/5 — Crashes after a couple minutes listening *2026-01-17, version 2.5.105* The app crashes to home screen after a couple of minutes of reading to you ### 1/5 — Need app update on iOS *2025-11-19, version 2.5.105* stuck on ADS!!!! ### 1/5 — Cool app but stupid ads *2025-11-12* Been using novel reader for years and thought the developers have done an excellent job. Just recently download and the update and recently having problems with ads. I was not able to close the ads the pop up and remained it on the ad even after closing the app and starting again it would return to the stupid ad.. so annoyed and hope you can fix this bug soon ### 1/5 — Can’t close Ads *2025-10-29, version 2.5.103* Pls fix this.. it’s has gotten really frustrating at this point.. literally can’t close the ads wolf not forced to close app only to return to the same situation over and over again… I’m so frustrated this morning over it.. I’ve been at it for over 10 mins.. pls fix your app ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great app love it! *2026-07-23, version 2.5.106* Please add better voices for the text to speech the current ones are so bad. That app would be 10 times better if it just had better voices! ### 5/5 — Got me addicted *2026-07-13, version 2.5.106* Only thing bad about this is that there isn’t a website for pc and that some novels aren’t there ### 5/5 — Interesting App *2026-06-16, version 2.5.106* Hello, Can you update some of the stories like Can’t take my eyes off you.. that story was downloaded 4 years ago and still waiting for the remaining chapters to be updated. I am wondering why some stories never get updated and are left in limbo. This is a sincere request to update some of the old stories so we can enjoy the ending. ### 5/5 — i love this app *2026-05-20, version 2.5.106* good app, not much else 2 say i like it ### 5/5 — Amazing App for Novels *2026-04-15* Everything is perfect here except the comments section that is not working now ### 5/5 — Best reading app by far *2026-04-14, version 2.5.106* Allows downloads and has few ads. ### 5/5 — Great app *2026-04-03* Not a lot of apps have the audio stuff. More than willing to pay for an advanced audio reader. The only thing that’s needs to be fixed is the harem books. Gets annoying way better books out there. But other wise great app ### 5/5 — AMAZING APP *2026-04-02, version 2.5.106* Genuinely a great app, although I’ve ran into some bugs in the text it’s 100% worth it in comparison to the other options. It’s heavily convenient as well. I hope they add COTE v0, more Re;0 and perhaps a more UI friendly recommendation page. ### 5/5 — Great app for translated novels *2026-04-02, version 2.5.106* Very good app rarely have issues the text to voice audio is good and has many choices of voice. I’ve used this app for multiple years and it’s great. ### 5/5 — It is the best *2026-02-17, version 2.5.105* I have been using it for over 2 years.Nothing comes close to 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 2026-09-02.*