Tapas Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience48.6% of reviews
Neutral15.1% of reviews
Negative experience36.3% of reviews

~ Based on 1,460 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Tapas

Is Tapas Safe?

Tapas – Comics and Novels appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Tapas is 91/100.

This assessment is based on 45,310 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.6/5.

Safety Analysis

89.5% of ratings point to a safe experience
4.7% of ratings suggest some concerns
5.8% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 45,256 App Store ratings for Tapas.

Is Tapas Legit?

Tapas – Comics and Novels appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Tapas is 93/100.

Based on 93 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Very disappointed

I’ve been a user on this app for years and it’s genuinely one of my most used apps. I’ve read countless great stories that I’ve followed for years and to see all of it disappear with no other way of seeing them again or getting to keep anything that I’ve spent my money on, and trying to support the creators I love is very upsetting and disappointing. The company should at least make it free to view comics and read stories until they shut down since we can no longer buy ink to continue supporting reading comics and stories. Especially for those of us who still want to at least finish the comics and stories we have in our libraries. I hope something is done about this to at least give a sort of thanks to us customers who have been on this app for years and supported them.
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Horrible company

Removing content forever

Love it

I've loved this app for so long!! I will miss it a ton. It has such a good amount of comics and some good ink events.

Pls don’t leave us

This is always my go too app to read stories and this app has always brightened my mood up no matter what happened on in my day so pls don’t leave us we will miss you please come back soon

address this IMMEDIATELY!!!

I know it said that you're no longer accepting sign ups so I could read a manhwa, ad you say you're ending your service next year. That's a bunch of bull for people who want to read the manhwa they want to read. You should at least make it free for all of you're going to pull something like this

Company decisions

I hope your company goes bankrupt for taking my comics away. So many unfinished comics that ill have to pray shows up on a better app. Webtoons is better

My experience

Wonderful app truly sad to see it disappear coming soon I loved mondays getting free ink and the free passes unlike certain other sites or apps this one was good one and I’m truly gonna miss it

Goodbye Tapas

Best manga app I’ve had and am still enjoying. Sad to see it go

Good work Tapas

Sorry to see you go

WHY

After 12 years of loyal service I can’t believe my final act is to write a one star review. 12 years and you suddenly announced the platform will be terminated after everything that it’s done to absorb other platforms the last two years? And we get nothing back? Can’t save years worth of bought stories, can’t get money back for said years of content, can’t transfer data and PURCHASED CHAPTERS to the mother platform, 0 intent to bring ANY of this content over to the mother platform platform after its erasure from the face of the earth. Tapas is actively creating lost media and its infuriating to be this powerless after so many of it original stories have done so well. Solo leveling has a movie!! Beginning after the end is getting a thirst anime season!! And their original platform if being terminated due to a ‘loss of funds’???? WHERE IS THIS LOSS YOU ARE USUNG TO JUSTIFY THIS HORRIBLE DECISION
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No reason to download this app

Why wouldn’t they say this right away? I can even make an account just to realize it’s shutting down why have the option to download wtf

Heartbroken

I have loved Tapas for a long time and have enjoyed countless titles, so this is very heartbreaking for me to see that they’re not going to be around anymore. I have sooo many stories that I haven’t finished yet but I can’t buy ink so how the hell will I finish them? There must be a way please 🙏🙏

End of service

I want my ink refunded, the way this has been handled is atrocious and only encourages media piracy

We want Tapas to stay

I’ve using this app for about 8 years now and it’s been one of the best places to read webcomics, both paid premium and free ones. I can’t imagine this shutting down so suddenly. It feels like an insult to both creators and readers after years of Tapas being one of the largest English-language webcomic apps out there. With Tapas gone, so many novels, comics and legal English language translations will just disappear. I’ve using tapas weekly, if not daily, all these years. Yet now I have no idea what will happen to all the comics and novels I’ve bought. Does my ownership simply evaporate now? Will the whole library that is Tapas cease to be accesible? What about all the new comics and novels that keep getting published? This feels like another show of how digital ownership means nothing, and how clarity is not required when conducting such a huge digital decision that will affect the livelihoods of who knows how many creators. I love Tapas. I love the stories I’ve read. I love its warm community of readers and creators. I love discovering new varied stories at every turn, to read both comics and novels in a single app. So I do beg the higher ups to not shut it down. Sincerely, one of innumerable users.
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Tapas platform is closing

I recently found out that Tapas will be closing its platform. Since they made the announcement, it seems all of its content is frozen and no longer capable of downloading new episodes. This makes me very sad because I enjoyed Tapas’ content…particularly the comics. I also liked the free ink awarded on Mondays. That has stopped, but I am more unhappy about not being able to buy below episodes of comics I have previously invested in. I have over 26,000 ink on my account and I can’t even spend it now. I wish Tapas did not have to close because it was a very good site. If I were wealthy, I would buy the platform myself to be honest.
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Parent Company Doesn’t Care About Creators or You

They shut down the app abruptly by cutting off any way to buy more ink to unlock episodes. This wouldn’t be the end of the world, as Kakao indicated a goal to integrate on one platform, except none of any customer’s purchased chapters, comics, or novels will be refunded or unlocked on any other apps, any and all ink you’ve bought with money will also not be refunded and will not be transferred. Kakao doesn’t care about being a good business, they just want to take your money as much as they can.
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My time is up somehow.

I’ve been using this app since 2023. On every phone I had, I had this app. Now tell me why every Monday now, there is no fortune cookie, no passes to red? I’ve been waiting for weeks to see the fortune Monday return, but it doesn’t it just says “Nothing here today but we still love ya!” It makes me sad cause I can’t even read anymore because I don’t get my passes either

This is me later, I now know that this app is at its end…. BUT WHY DONT WE GET FREE EPISODES NOW. IT MAKES NO SENSE. FREEEEE EPISODES PLZ.
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WHY!

Wish there was a chat on the App Store to learn of any other apps that are as good as this one

They steal your money & run to Korea rather than take any accountability or responsibility

This app is retroactively shutting down and rather than providing a reasonable replacement service to merge with other platforms, they are kicking everyone out and COMMITTING ACTUAL FELONIES IN ALL 50 STATES and denying service when their conglomerate has actual replacement publishing platforms.

Wait no come back

I only consistently read two stories on here but they were the best two stories I’ve ever read