# Storyaholic - Short Story — user reviews > 458 indexed App Store user reviews of Storyaholic by HK IReader Technology Limited, rated 4.80/5 from 31,223 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/storyaholic-short-story/id1550545662/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/storyaholic-short-story/id1550545662.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 27,750 · 4★ 1,719 · 3★ 994 · 2★ 257 · 1★ 503 ## What do users think of Storyaholic? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 👍 Good stories - 📚 Variety of books - 💡 Interesting concepts **Cons** - 💰 Expensive to read full books - 🔍 Lack of transparency on pricing - 🐛 Errors in spelling and grammar - 🕰️ Slow progress with free rewards - 🤖 Poor customer support **Commonly reported bugs** - Issues with earning and redeeming rewards - Inconsistent reading time tracking **Most requested features** - Ability to purchase full books instead of chapters - More generous free reward system - Better proofreading and editing of stories ## Newest reviews (10 of 458) ### 3/5 — Good read *2026-04-23, version 10.8.38* Stories are a good read, jus sucks needing coins or whatever to read ### 3/5 — Good story plots *2025-06-30, version 10.8.38* The story lines are great, but the amount to purchase vouchers is quite high. ### 3/5 — Books worth the coins-app is odd *2025-06-20, version 10.8.38* I have rated this app four stars because I love reading the books on the app and like how you can scroll or turn the page. What I don’t like is the app splitting chapters for books I have already purchased and read to 100% and after the split make the chapters I’ve read locked. An algorithm should be ran to automatically make those chapters unlocked when already paid for. Edit: I took one star away for poor customer service. Chapter length should be at least 1200 words, not 800. Pretty soon you won’t have authors to draw in readers. ### 4/5 — Books worth the coins-app is odd *2025-04-27, version 10.8.38* I have rated this app four stars because I love reading the books on the app and like how you can scroll or turn the page. What I don’t like is the app splitting chapters for books I have already purchased and read to 100% and after the split make the chapters I’ve read locked. An algorithm should be ran to automatically make those chapters unlocked when already paid for. ### 2/5 — Not easy to use *2025-03-19, version 10.8.38* I was looking for short stories instead of longer novels. This app, with “shirt story” right in the title, seemed promising. However, I have several book apps already- All of them easier to use and find what you want. Additionally, I can’t find short stories in it at all- all of them are hundreds of chapters so far. Filtering by length is not an option. There is no “short story” section. I likely will just delete this one. ### 4/5 — So far *2025-02-13, version 10.8.38* The story is good enough so far to make me willing to pay to go farther. I seldom pay to go farther or leave reviews. ### 4/5 — Great but needs improvement *2025-01-23, version 10.8.38* It's great and I love my first story so far but it's so expensive to open the chapters , that I wonder if it's worth it ### 2/5 — Want to finish the story but *2025-01-12, version 10.8.38* It would be so much more expensive than going to the bookstore and buying an actual published book without the errors and questionable English. ### 2/5 — Too expensive! *2025-01-04, version 10.8.38* Stories are interesting, can get invested but it takes ages to get the tokens. I’m Not going to wait 30 days just to get 30 tokens, 1 token per day when ur login! Also, 1 token per video. Takes too much time. I would gladly be willing to watch videos and that if there was easier ways to actually get the tokens. It brings the app down by a lot. Ruins it. I’m not paying for tokens too. ### 4/5 — It’s alright *2024-12-30, version 10.8.38* I wish getting coins to read was easier or it wasn’t so many to read one chapter. Stories are good. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Expensive, sister app cheaper *2026-08-15, version 10.8.38* MyNovel (same company/same stories/same look) but gives 60 coins on the 7th day. Plus this app says it hasn’t been updated in 1 year. I didn’t know I had a few from this company that I need to remove. MyNovel IS pricey, but gives more coins per day. ### 1/5 — If I could give it a negative start I would *2025-12-25, version 10.8.38* App is ridiculous with how many adds you have to watch to earn anything for next chapter. There are better apps out there. And good thing some books are available elsewhere and I can just buy the whole book and not over pay here. ### 1/5 — Rip off *2025-11-29, version 10.8.38* Too expensive!!! ### 1/5 — Books worth the coins-app is odd *2025-08-07, version 10.8.38* I have rated this app one star because of their very poor customer service. The app has split chapters for books I have already purchased and read to 100% and after the split make the chapters I’ve read locked. The chapters are still locked after many months of waiting. My rating of the app will increase in stars when my chapters are finally unlocked as the multiple emails have asked. The feedback link in the app goes to a discontinued WhatsApp chat. ### 1/5 — Multiple apps and none you can actually cancel *2025-08-03, version 10.8.38* DO NOT SIGN UP OR PAY A CENT HK/iReader own multiple pay-per-chapter apps and at some point I’ve downloaded a couple. I found a truly free reading app with no stolen stories and quit using ppc apps but have been unable to cancel my iReader account for 6 months! I’ve emailed the developer many times with no results. I’m ready to cancel my PayPal account, my credit card and possibly change my apple account or switch to android to freaking stop being charged!!! ### 1/5 — Thieves *2025-06-03, version 10.8.38* The app restructured some books so the chapters split differently than how the author uploaded them. It makes it so already purchased chapters split and you have to repurchase to read. Contacting customer support has resulted in no progress. ### 1/5 — God stories but customer service sucks *2025-05-20, version 10.8.38* It’s been the third book now that was still ongoing but has been split up into far more chapters than it originally had. Which means that i a supposed to pay for round about 60 chapters and more that have already been paid for. They are relocked again because of the mess they are creating. When contacting the admins in customer help they just ignore you. They stopped responding to messages to everyone that had the same problem since march now. ### 1/5 — Very expensive *2025-03-17, version 10.8.38* Audio books and novels much cheaper ### 1/5 — Way too expensive *2025-02-24, version 10.8.38* You wind up spending $80 to finish the story you’ve become engrossed in, absolutely ridiculous ### 1/5 — Bonuses *2025-01-18, version 10.8.38* After collecting the bonus from the reading time a gift image pops up in top right corner so you can collect an extra forty bonus points, though can only do ten at a time with an hour wait time in between. My problem is any where from two to four times a week after I collect my reading time reward and tap on the gift image to start collecting the forty points it takes me back to the reward page. So I’m repeatedly losing the chance to gain an extra forty bonus points. Did try to contact and explain the problem but the only way to contact them is to download WhatsApp, which I refuse to do. And absolutely ridiculous to force people to download a whole other app to send in comments or complaints. So I’ll be repeatedly posting on here til the make a better way to talk to the company besides WhatsApp. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Love it *2026-05-02, version 10.8.38* I love this app ### 5/5 — Alpha *2026-03-13, version 10.8.38* Great read!! ### 5/5 — Review *2025-12-13, version 10.8.38* I only did this for the 20 ivouchers. The stories are good but the chapters are short and you have to pay a lot of money to read the next chapters I'm not trying to come across cheap but I don't know if it's worth it for just 5 pages. I also can't stand it when they are making us give 5 stars for this app when there are other reading apps out there that give just the same service but better (Dreame, Wattpad, etc.) not bashing just stating a fact. ### 5/5 — Good novels *2025-11-29, version 10.8.38* Good novelss ### 5/5 — Great app *2025-03-22, version 10.8.38* The books are great. The app is easy to navigate. Highly recommend. ### 5/5 — Good stories *2025-02-27, version 10.8.38* Good stories, but too expensive to keep gong… ### 5/5 — Not enough non paying ways *2025-02-17, version 10.8.38* I think if this is to continue they really need more ways to be able to get to continue reading the stories. ### 5/5 — Great books *2025-01-28, version 10.8.38* I love to read the books on this app ### 5/5 — I’m giving it 4 stars. *2025-01-04, version 10.8.38* I give it 4 stars because some of the books are really good, but it costs money after a short while. I am currently stuck on chapter 7 and can’t progress further because I don’t have the money to pay $50 for enough vouchers to finish the next chapter but then it just continues for the rest of the chapters and my book I’m reading has 685 chapters. I’m not forking out thousands of dollars to finish the book. I’ll find it elsewhere. ### 5/5 — Good *2024-12-30, version 10.8.38* It’s been good so far, but would be nice if a yearly subscription option was available. --- *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 2026-09-15.*