# Story Writer: Books & Novels — user reviews > 240 indexed App Store user reviews of Story Writer by Saturday Technologies, Inc, rated 4.60/5 from 735 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/story-writer-books-and-novels/id1610779266/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/story-writer-books-and-novels/id1610779266.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 590 · 4★ 68 · 3★ 36 · 2★ 12 · 1★ 29 ## What do users think of Story Writer? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Easy to use - 🚀 Great for writing stories - 💡 Ability to read other people's books - 👍 Helpful for beginners - 👍 Allows you to publish your own books **Cons** - 🔒 Limited number of books you can create without paying - 🐛 Issues with saving/publishing stories - 🐛 Formatting problems in published stories - 🐛 Lack of search functionality **Commonly reported bugs** - Chapters getting cut off in preview - Losing progress on stories - Inability to move chapters around **Most requested features** - Add ability to add illustrations/pictures to books - Improve chapter rearrangement functionality - Implement a search feature to find books - Reduce subscription costs ## Newest reviews (15 of 240) ### 4/5 — Great overall, but the limit without paying is annoying. *2026-08-16, version 5.80* The app is wonderful- super easy to understand, full of potential, very customizable, and has a great way of making chapters! And I would give it 5 stars, due to how I did genuinely love it, but while I was attempting to make my first poetry book, I got stopped on chapter 10 and was met with a paywall. While it’s cheap and isn’t a huge issue necessarily, coming from someone who can’t do monthly payments due to being a minor, I was disappointed and a little sad (especially since I was doing this on my birthday). But at the same time, I can understand due to the creators needing to make profit. I just wish the limit wasn’t so small, and you could still reasonably make books without paying , due to how I was ideally going to be making 30 chapters. And was super hyped to do so, too. So unfortunately, I will have to keep my search of the right app for me. But if the pay wall isn’t an issue for you, I recommend! ### 4/5 — Amazing *2026-06-16, version 5.40* Personally I found it a great way to express myself and my thoughts so yeah give it a go ### 5/5 — GOATED APP *2026-05-26, version 5.30* It’s amazing. Hey, check out it out you don’t want to miss anything ### 5/5 — I love writing autobiographical stories and this is perfect *2026-05-24, version 5.30* I am 12 years old and I think this app is better than Minecraft ### 5/5 — This app is THE BEST *2026-05-23, version 5.30* I love the Stories IM WRITING ONE RN CALLED THE HOLLOW PEACE WHEN IT COMES OUT I HOPE PEOPLE READ IT ### 5/5 — Parts *2026-05-16, version 5.22* I love how l can do more than 10 parts ### 5/5 — Cool *2026-05-15, version 5.22* I love his app! ### 5/5 — It’s the best story ever *2026-05-15, version 5.22* Yankee for you ### 5/5 — Recommended app *2026-05-11, version 5.22* I was nice using this and letting my imagination run wild ### 4/5 — Great, just not quite for people who want to add pictures to their book *2026-05-08, version 5.22* Not great, but GOOD ### 5/5 — Love this *2026-05-01, version 5.21* I love this app so much and it is entirely free recommend strongly! ### 5/5 — Amazing for book writing and publishing! *2026-04-21, version 5.12* The title says it all, but I’ll say my reasons. 1: the writing is perfect, 2: I love the way you can write chapters and finally 3: the way you can read other people’s stories. ### 4/5 — Look good so far. *2026-04-20, version 5.12* I’ve had this app for a bit and it looks pretty promising. The only thing is that I wish there was a spot for all the books you read. If there is, then I haven’t found it yet. ### 4/5 — Amazing app. *2026-04-18, version 5.12* I love writing books on this app. Although you can’t choose multiple genres, it is a really good app. ### 5/5 — The best *2026-04-05, version 5.12* It’s fun to write and it is all free it gives you a template if you run out of ideas and that is why I love this app ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — WHAT? *2026-08-24, version 5.80* I was making a book like usual, and i tried to press “Create Story” to start writing, it said “Pro Plan!” I thought it was just an advertisement so i tried again and it still didn’t work, so i looked at what the pro plan says and it said “Write without limits” first thing I DON’T KNOW WHO YOU THINK I AM BUT I AM NOT PAYING $40 A YEAR TO WRITE BOOKS, LIKE WHY, JUST WHY ### 1/5 — Wow, I actually thought this was good until… *2026-06-27, version 5.40* Wow, this app used to be the greatest. I just needed to unpublished my book because I wasn’t done yet. It didn’t give me a warning that it would DELETE EVERYTHING. ### 1/5 — Wow, I actually thought this was good until… *2026-05-30, version 5.30* Wow, this app used to be the greatest. I just needed to unpublished my book because I wasn’t done yet. It didn’t give me a warning that it would DELETE EVERYTHING. ### 1/5 — My story got deleted *2026-05-20, version 5.22* I was writing a story called the sea is black and I signed in and it got deleted I need it back NOW! ### 1/5 — HORRIBLE *2026-05-16, version 5.22* You can’t make a book without PAYING FOR A SUBSCRIPTION ### 1/5 — PLEASE read *2026-03-15, version 5.10* App doesn’t even work every time I try to publish one of my stories that are respectful and not bad it doesn’t let me! And when I try to publish it again it says I can’t publish a story because I recently published one! Even though I didn’t, and it happens with every story. ### 1/5 — Can’t publish anything *2026-03-05, version 5.10* I made my story and I couldn’t publish it because it said my story was too short. It was 500 words long. ### 1/5 — M *2026-02-06, version 4.61* M ### 1/5 — My story got deleted *2025-12-31, version 4.61* I was writing a story called the sea is black and I signed in and it got deleted I need it back NOW! ### 1/5 — Deleted my drafts *2025-10-29, version 4.52* I tried to delete Pride and Prejudice, and it ended up deleting half of my drafts that I’ve been working on for over a year and a half. I tried to email and reach out for help, but it’s been 3 weeks and I have yet to hear back :( ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — really great! *2026-09-05, version 5.80* i am a young authour and have been writing a novel on google docs for a long time. actually getting a real, published, even physical version of my book felt completely unachievable. But then this came along. It re-kindled a flame that had kind of gone dormant, as i hadnt written in months. this app is amazing. (see my work on the app at @LiaWrites! ### 5/5 — don’t even bother 😭🫩 *2026-09-02, version 5.80* was going through checkout to look at how much my book costs, I clicked the checkout button, but instead of going to the normal stage of price and confirming payment, it went STRAIGHT to the order. Now i’m stuck with a book coming to my house I cannot cancel, NO COMPANY NUMBER, and one I can’t return. Not to mention that the company isn’t starter friendly, it won’t show or suggest your book to anyone unless you have a certain amount of likes and comments. The only way to share your book if you have no likes or comments is sharing the link, and then too i need an account and the app the look at it. on top of that, they don’t have a in app thing to create a book cover so i have to get a WHOLE OTHER app to create a cover!!! Do yourself favor and get Wattpad books instead. DONT EVEN BOTHER!! ### 5/5 — SO GOOD *2026-08-11, version 5.80* This app is a good I made a book and I was surprised when I saw that they print it in real life. Thinking about doing it. Anyways best story Writing app EVER ### 5/5 — … *2026-07-19, version 5.60* Don’t need to talk is just so good ### 5/5 — good, but after I wrote a certain amount of books I had to pay *2026-07-18, version 5.60* i’ve been writing books on this app for about a year now and overall I’ve written about like seven books I think but now that I’m starting a new book after I finished everything that I needed for it when I clicked start writing it said I had to pay I just don’t have the money to do that right now. That’s why I’m doing this because I need money and could you please fix that and if you don’t, I’m just gonna switch to a different book writing app ### 5/5 — Best experience *2026-07-12, version 5.50* This is a great app if you wanna write your own book ### 5/5 — Author here *2026-06-15, version 5.40* One of the best for new authors and readers. ### 5/5 — Idk *2026-06-13, version 5.40* It’s fun and it’s so cool app! Download NOW!!!!! ### 5/5 — This app really is 5 stars in my opinion! ⭐️ *2026-06-05, version 5.30* I really love this app! You can read other’s stories and make your own! I used ChatGPT to design covers, saved the photo and then selected those photos for my covers! I wrote descriptions, titles, and several chapters for each book! I love this app and I highly recommend it! P.S. my username on the app is Ruby12 if anyone wants to check out my published books! ❤️📖📚 ### 5/5 — Great app and customer service *2026-05-27, version 5.30* Story Writer is a great app for starting writers. I had an issue with the app where I couldn’t edit my story and I contacted customer support and they were really nice and it took a few days to solve the issue and to make the new update! Thanks team Saturday! --- *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 2026-09-09.*