# realnovel — user reviews > 151 indexed App Store user reviews of realnovel by SEREAL PTE. LTD., rated 1.21/5 from 296 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/realnovel/id6683304338/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/realnovel/id6683304338.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 12 · 4★ 2 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 9 · 1★ 273 ## What do users think of realnovel? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 💡 Interesting story concepts **Cons** - 💰 Extremely high subscription costs - 🔒 Subscription issues - unable to access content after payment - 🐛 App bugs and glitches - ⛔ Deceptive advertising - free stories not actually free **Commonly reported bugs** - Subscription payments not working - App crashes and freezes - Inability to access paid content **Most requested features** - Ability to read more chapters for free - Reduce subscription prices - Fix subscription activation issues ## Newest reviews (18 of 151) ### 1/5 — Wth *2025-06-14, version 1.2.5* I search up a book I saw on TT and nothing comes up ### 1/5 — Took extra money from me *2025-06-05, version 1.2.5* I bought the 7 day trial, but when I checked my bank account it said they took $51.95? ### 1/5 — Don’t buy *2025-06-01, version 1.2.5* They charge you but won’t let you read ### 1/5 — Pay to read *2025-05-30, version 1.2.5* Hi this is more of an advice if I can’t read most of your chapters because it’s behind a pay wall obviously most people wouldn’t like your app ### 1/5 — M *2025-05-30, version 1.2.5* This is pure daylight robbery ### 1/5 — Don’t bother *2025-05-23, version 1.2.5* Having to pay 15 bucks to read these stories is absolutely ridiculous, it should be free ### 1/5 — Terrible app *2025-05-18, version 1.2.5* When I first downloaded the app I got vip to finish one of the books I try VIP after I bought it and it wouldn’t let me and it kept asking me for money and then I went to customer services and I still haven’t heard back and I still want my money back ### 1/5 — Scam, low quality app *2025-05-16, version 1.2.5* app is glitchy, stories cut off halfway through, not worth the money at all ### 1/5 — Don’t download!!! *2025-05-13, version 1.2.5* I love to read but this is ridiculous. You get one chapter free and the vip pass amounts are insane. They want you to pay 15 dollars every 7 days which averages to 60 dollars a month. On top of that the subscriptions have not been working for people and refusing them refunds so all in all a complete scam. ### 1/5 — SAVE URSELVES *2025-05-05, version 1.2.5* Guys this app is straight TRASH. Paying for anything on here is basically tossing your bills into your fireplace. Payments only work one time, and even then, there’s is no guarantee you will actually get what you pay for. I would have rather given my BABY BROTHER those $15 than on this app. Majorly disappointed. So spare yourself the obvious scam, and delete the app or just scroll away. There are better alternatives. ### 1/5 — The pay *2025-05-05, version 1.2.5* You need to take of the pays off because the reviews ### 1/5 — I hate this app *2025-05-04, version 1.2.5* I hate this app I have to pay to real the rest of the book is so annoying ### 1/5 — Pay Wall *2025-04-28, version 1.2.5* U can only read if u pay a horrendous amount of money. Huge Pay Wall would not recommend ### 1/5 — Paying *2025-04-17, version 1.2.5* I don’t like how you have to pay for every ### 1/5 — Bad!!! *2025-04-15, version 1.2.3* I have to pay so much for one chapter! I will not waste my money on this, it’s bad. Do not recommend ### 1/5 — Not worth it to pay $10 for one chapter *2025-04-14, version 1.2.3* genuinely so not worth it and very depressing to think about the fact that I wasted $10 on a chapter I could've easily found on Wattpad... ### 1/5 — Don't bother getting the app *2025-04-12, version 1.2.3* It's hard to read and the subscriptions don't work and it's just in all terrible cant even read one book without a subscription. 1/10 ### 1/5 — Worst app ever *2025-04-11, version 1.2.3* Every time a story is getting good it stops you and tells you to pay 30 dollars a month ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Worst thing ever *2026-04-14, version 1.2.5* Can’t even read the full story, it’s awful it’s just gonna waste your storage. ### 1/5 — Disappointed *2025-07-29, version 1.2.5* App to my money but never gave my subscription ### 1/5 — Not worth it *2025-07-28, version 1.2.5* I literally could only read one chapter and when I went to read the next, the app was asking me to buy a membership to read any of the other chapters. Unlike some similar apps their was no way you could complete task to earn money in the game to view the next chapter for free. ### 1/5 — Just not worth it *2025-07-24, version 1.2.5* This app just isn’t worth it it’s took my money and I couldn’t even read the book I wanted to just scamming me out of money and isn’t worth it by any mean don’t download it ### 1/5 — This is a scam *2025-07-21, version 1.2.5* The prices are crazy plus only one chapter and I’m already asked to pay that is outrageous ### 1/5 — Pay for everything *2025-07-19, version 1.2.5* U have to pay for literally everything and im 100 percent of all these stories are AI generated if u wana read these just copy and paste the first chapter into chat gpt and ask them to finish it instead of pay a ludicrous amount for ai garbage ### 1/5 — Terrible.. *2025-07-18, version 1.2.5* After one chapter you have to pay full price just to keep reading . Overall it’s not worth your time.. ### 1/5 — Don’t recommend *2025-07-18, version 1.2.5* Paid for the subscription bc the first story I read seemed good and it was. After the first book or two the more I read the more atrocious the grammar got. Tried to read one book and got maybe 3 chapters in and it didn’t make any sense what so ever and was no where close to proper English. Save your money and time. ### 1/5 — Terrible *2025-07-06, version 1.2.5* Completely money driven and it costs up to 50 Aud just to complete one story, and they have dumb plots that just waste you time, don’t get hooked you will end up broke and bored terrible app I can find better story’s on reddit written by broke teenagers ### 1/5 — The pay and somthing better *2025-07-06, version 1.2.5* You need to take of the pays off because the reviews, instead of doing pain when you’re literally reading the first chapter, you should just put a time limit before they can read it again. No one’s really gonna be like trying to read all of them. If all it’s gonna do is have them pay on the first chapter. ## Most praised reviews (8 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Amazing *2025-04-26, version 1.2.5* 10/10 completely free and there’s a read aloud feature ### 4/5 — Issue fixed *2024-12-03* They fixed the issue with the subscriptions. At least on my end **Developer response:** We are so sorry to bring you this issue. We have find the reason and fixed the bug. We will together deal the issue of the unlock content which you have responsed. ### 3/5 — Pay for story *2025-01-30* The stories are good, I just think there should be some kind of points to be accumulated to unlock more chapters or wtv. Feels like it’s missing that. ### 2/5 — So bad *2025-04-29, version 1.2.5* I was on TikTok when I heard a story and I downloaded the app, I found the novel I was looking for however I didn’t get to far into the novel were it ended and said I need to pay vip for the rest of the story. I’m not paying monthly to listen to like 2 novels. Take away vip ### 2/5 — I only downloaded it for a story *2025-03-31, version 1.2.3* The app it bad it makes you pay for all of it ### 2/5 — Too expensive *2024-12-31, version 1.2.3* Why can’t we just purchase a book that we like instead of having monthly/weekly subscription ### 2/5 — Done *2024-12-19, version 1.2.3* I’m sure this is a great app, but no where does it tell you beforehand, that like all the rest of them you have to pay with in-app purchases to read a book….. ### 2/5 — I mean it’s ehh *2024-12-11* I like the stories that are being told on the app it’s just I have to pay to read more of the story which makes me upset kind of because it was being shown as a free story but now I have to pay for it so please if you do see this can you just give us an ad so than we can continue reading please and thank you! --- *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 2026-08-06.*