Wattpad Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience32.5% of reviews
Neutral16.6% of reviews
Negative experience50.9% of reviews

~ Based on 2,261 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Wattpad

Is Wattpad Safe?

Wattpad - Read & Write Stories appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Wattpad is 93/100.

This assessment is based on 706,067 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

91.8% of ratings point to a safe experience
3.3% of ratings suggest some concerns
4.9% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 706,074 App Store ratings for Wattpad.

Is Wattpad Legit?

Wattpad - Read & Write Stories appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Wattpad is 93/100.

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

Top reviews

The adds are excessive and ruin the app.

The amount of ads I have to watch and the “3 skips” that don’t work are frustrating and annoying.

Adverts

I’m not kidding bro after EVERY SINGLE CHAPTER I get an advert it’s not fun I’d rather have an advert after every 5-10 chapters not every 1 chapter. Apart from the adverts the app is great

PLEASE READ

My username on Wattpad is ThexxxDevilxxx as a recently I have not been able to publish any pieces of work and I’m unsure why. I miss being able to do so and I’m trying to find a way to get around it. I really like this app and I’m hoping that the writing feature comes back.

So many good MCR and Green Day fics.

I’ve read a handful of fics that have stuck with me for a few years and i love wattpad because of that plus the layout is easier than ao3 NO HATE towards ao3 btw😭

Pessimo suporte e sem ajuda

Suporte horrível e robótico. Minha conta foi suspensa por engano. Estou há mais de um mês tentando resolver, envio mensagens usando o email cadastrado correto e o robô do suporte fecha os tickets automaticamente alegando que não sou o dono da conta. O sistema de atendimento de vocês está quebrado! Completamente decepcionada com o aplicativo
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Some issues

First off let me say that I love using Wattpad, it’s a good app, however I have some complaints.
First, is sometimes when I read comments on like chapter 30, it’ll send be back to chapter one after I close out the comments.
And last is that there needs to be a AI tag to filter stories, there’s too many stories that are straight AI, they have no soul in them and it’s hard to read.
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Restricts the Internet Archive

Restricts the Internet Archive from saving snapshots of site.

Review

Too many ads & it’s plays the same ad after reading each chapter so annoying and the app doesn’t keep my position

Bugs y otros errores

Cuando escribo, a cada rato me saca en plena lectura, y ni olvidar que buscamos lectores pero ustedes el algoritmo no les funciona para no darle importancia a Escritores que años trabajan, arreglen esa mierda jodida aplicación, con razón Inkitt es mejor y superior que ustedes 🗣‼️

Hate it now.

Absolutely loathe this app now. They want to charge premium rates for substandard writing, and it’s insane they think they can charge close to what Kindle charges. Every single chapter there’s an ad. It’s insanity and it makes me remember why I keep getting rid of this app, it’s not worth it. Some stories I really like but not enough to put up with the forced ads because they sold out. I’d rather pay money towards other apps that give the quality expected for the prices. Go get kindle and be happy with zero ads and far better reading.
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Ads ads and more ads.

I like Wattpad but at the same time after every page you read they make you watch an ad. Sometimes multiple. The app was way better when I could continue to read without getting interrupted after every page I read. It makes me not even want to read anymore. Also sometimes when you click the x on an ad it will redirect you to safari or google or the App Store which then ruins the reading as well.
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Updating books to library

Why is that every update messes up something with the library.
I have books added and once i finish the chapter that was just updated i move it to archive and then it automatically goes back to my library once the author makes a new update to the book but now i have ti keep track of my notifications to check updates on books because it doesn’t put them in my library once the book is updated


I would
love if that got fixed because why should i keep on having to make sure that im not missing updates because somehow with an app update that stopped working
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Ads

Love this app! I’ve been using it for over 5 years. But every time I click on a chapter, an ad pops up.

Need some work

I’ve always been a big WP user but for some reason the app has become unreliable the last year or so. A lot of random things keep happening like updates not showing, comments not posting things like that and now the newest thing is your library isn’t showing when stories are updated, which basically defeats the point because then you don’t bother reading since you don’t know the story has been updated. I pay a yearly subscription for this app and it’d be great if they fixed it when problems come up, specially since tons of people comment on the issues in the app….but the actual problems don’t seem to go away. my annual subscription comes up in February. I may not renew it because what’s the point of renewing something that doesn’t work properly.
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Less Ads Pls

I’ve had this app for your but these ads after every chapter is getting to be to much like I exit out the story just so I don’t have to get the ads because it’s become to much. Don’t nobody got no money to be spending on these apps like please get it together.

I love Wattpad

Show all the book you read on the app list I was looking for a book but I didn’t know the name of it

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I love this platform, BUT I DONT WANT TO WATCH A 20 SECOND AD AFTER EVERY SINGLE CHAPTER!!!

Bugs seriously need to be fixed

Came back to Wattpad to read some old books I used to love and this app has seriously gone downhill!! first off my homepage will not load at all. I have tried everything to fix it from clearing cache to deleting and re-downloading, but nothing works. Second, it keeps kicking me back multiple chapters. Every time I open the app it’s never on the chapter I read last, instead it kicked me back a bunch of chapters and I have to waste ad skips to try and find where I was! And now it just started kicking me back to the first chapter every time I open and close comments??! The “update position” button doesn’t work… 😒 I can’t help but to think all this is done on purpose so we have to waste ad skips and then have to watch more ads 😡😡 speaking of ads, the app has become infested with them! And they are all WAY too long, it honestly makes me just want to get off the app because it’s so bad and annoying. I used to spend all night on Wattpad reading, and now I can barely stand to be on it for five minutes. Just sad how bad it’s become.
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Can’t Log Back In

The app logged me out over a year ago and will not let me log back in.

The ads are out of control

I get having ads occasionally but having ads between every chapter is unbearable and I'm unable to read because of how bad it is. I have loved Wattpad for so long but this is crazy