# Yarn - Chat & Text Stories — user reviews > 405 indexed App Store user reviews of Yarn by Science AI Studios, Inc., rated 3.30/5 from 26,329 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/yarn-chat-and-text-stories/id1195233335/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/yarn-chat-and-text-stories/id1195233335.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 13,018 · 4★ 1,690 · 3★ 1,314 · 2★ 1,219 · 1★ 9,088 ## What do users think of Yarn? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🚀 Interesting and engaging stories - 👍 Variety of story genres (horror, romance, etc.) - 🚀 Aesthetically pleasing app design **Cons** - 💰 Excessive paywall for accessing stories and features - ⏱️ Long wait times between chapters - 🔒 Inability to view images/videos without paying - 🐛 Buggy and unreliable app experience **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashing or freezing - Subscription issues (unexpected charges, unable to cancel) - Inability to access purchased content **Most requested features** - Allow users to read more stories for free - Reduce wait times between chapters - Make images/videos accessible without a subscription - Implement an ad-supported model instead of a paywall ## Newest reviews (18 of 405) ### 2/5 — The photos r not showing up and I try everything *2025-10-10, version 10.0.1* Help ### 1/5 — Currently broken *2025-05-08, version 10.0.1* I downloaded the app and tried to activate a free trail but somehow ended up accidentally paying 70 bucks for a yearly subscription so I’m currently trying to get a refund for that and on top of that the app doesn’t even work it just loads the entire time and I can’t access anything at all ### 1/5 — Yummy yum by Justin barber *2025-01-17, version 10.0.1* I can’t do anything in da hood Larry. ### 1/5 — i tried to get a free trial *2024-10-20, version 10.0.1* i tried to get a free trial and it cost me 75 dollars.FREE TRIAL! THIS IS STUPID GIVE ME MY MONEY ### 1/5 — GARBAGE *2024-10-16, version 10.0.1* Seriously it’s pretty much just you have to pay for this and that and that and that no I just want to read my text story😡 ### 1/5 — Don’t waste ur storage *2024-08-19, version 10.0.1* This app is utterly the worst text app I have downloaded in all these years of my life I’m a scary text story specialist and I don’t approve of this app u barley get anything for free it asks u “steamy or “scary” and it picks a story for u then the next episode u have to pay it’s to expensive for just a text story it’s not worth it at all ### 1/5 — Broken app *2024-07-14, version 10.0.1* Paid for a subscription and the stories are never complete, and videos don’t work. Save your money! ### 1/5 — Terrible *2024-07-01, version 10.0.1* It only let me read one story and tries to makes me pay for everything,and it’s so annoying,the the store it’s letting me read it not even scary.🙄🙄🙄🙄 ### 1/5 — YARN *2024-05-27, version 10.0.1* I like the idea of the app but why do I have to pay to see it a you should not have to pay.Also it won’t even let me finish the whole story.It even won’t let me move onto the next episode without asking me to pay.SO DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS APP PLEASE. Also a thing is if you wanna make this app better MAKE IT FREE PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You will be happy you did not DOWNLOAD this APP. ### 1/5 — Horrible! *2024-05-01, version 10.0.1* I used to use this app all the time. I wanted to go through some of the old stories I enjoyed, so I paid for a week, but I can’t even watch any of the videos! Absolute waste of money! ### 1/5 — Rubbish!! *2024-04-28, version 10.0.1* Me and my friend were hoping to get a good app to creep us out and we had to pay for everything we couldn’t see photos or even get on to the next episode!!Dont get this it’s terrible!! ### 1/5 — I hate it *2024-03-03, version 10.0.1* It wants me to pay for every single text story why ### 1/5 — Horrible *2024-02-01, version 10.0.1* I can not read any thing without the page of paying for a subscription coming up I was really looking forward to this app but now I can’t read like anything and I can’t even finish it either ### 4/5 — Not so bad *2024-01-06, version 10.0.1* When I first played this game I realised that you need to pay for some but most people probably want to know how to do the story messages without paying and I want to know that to so if you like to spend money I would recommend this game but if you don’t like spending money then I would not recommend this,I’m just waiting for a notification for something like you unlocked sexting or you unlock stuck sexing or something like that and I would recommend this game if it gives you a notification like you unlock a story so yeah I would recommend this. ### 3/5 — Its ok *2023-11-13, version 10.0.1* I saw this app on youtube and it sounded really good so j got it and j know that you would have to pay but the only thing is i paid the stories are good some can be a bit boring but the majority of them were good but i couldn’t watch the videos and it just says tap here to watch video and i will but i will wait for half an hour and it will just say loading or nothing ### 2/5 — Needs improvement *2023-10-23, version 10.0.1* i’m gonna be honest , when this app first dropped it was AMAZING! i loved it so muuuch!!! , it’s been a few years and i completely forgot about it , i downloaded it again out of curiosity and well , you can’t read anything , i sadly don’t recommend anymore :(( , everything isn’t free now what’s going on with this app? ### 1/5 — SCAM *2023-09-20, version 10.0.1* Only gives a free story that you have to pay to read the second episode same with evry other free story! ### 1/5 — NO! It’s nothing what you see in the adds you have to pay to read a story don’t waste your time *2023-09-09, version 10.0.1* Such a scam ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Very bad *2026-06-09, version 10.0.1* So I watch my fav YouTuber use this app and I wanted it so I got it and it completely was a flop I tap it and it’s just stuck on the loading screen ### 1/5 — Not working *2026-05-28, version 10.0.1* The app is not showing me anything it just shows a loading screen ### 1/5 — Horrible *2026-05-11, version 10.0.1* It would not load on full bars and good WiFi ### 1/5 — Zero stars *2026-03-23, version 10.0.1* Won’t even load ### 1/5 — Gone broke or something? *2025-12-14, version 10.0.1* Why do I have to pay just to read a story?!! ### 1/5 — Rip off *2025-11-20, version 10.0.1* Literally ALL of the stories were behind a paywall ### 1/5 — TERRIBLE *2025-07-02, version 10.0.1* TERRIBLE ### 1/5 — Can’t see the pictures *2025-06-23, version 10.0.1* I bought the subscription and now the picture are white. And I can’t even see the picture for the titles or the front of the stories ### 1/5 — can't see *2025-06-03, version 10.0.1* where picture. :( i pay 10 and no pic 😭 ### 1/5 — App doesn’t work at all *2025-05-19, version 10.0.1* Just paid yearly, and the app doesn’t work at all! It just continues to load no matter how many times I reopen the app or delete it. Is there anyway I can get a refund as I paid over 100 for this app? ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Please update this game *2026-02-19, version 10.0.1* Please update this game really love it and want it to work please update ### 5/5 — Yarn *2024-06-19, version 10.0.1* I love the app ### 5/5 — Amazed *2023-06-28, version 10.0.1* I’m loving this but I hate that you have to pay to see the story’s but I still love it 😡🥹🥹 ### 5/5 — Videos *2023-05-07, version 10.0.1* The videos in the chat stories won’t work it won’t load. ### 5/5 — Don’t download this *2023-05-07, version 10.0.1* I hate this yarn app i downloaded it because it looked like you didn't have to pay for everything you read and then only gives you ONE STORY AND THE REST OF THE STORYS THAT ACTUALLY LOOK GOOD YOU HAVE TO PAY MONEY BIGGEST SCAM EVER!! ### 5/5 — Delete this app *2022-01-12, version 10.0.1* You have to pay way to much when you could go on YouTube tiktok or anything like that ### 5/5 — Tik tok *2021-07-04, version 10.0.1* What’s your tik tok? Just asking ### 5/5 — Thank you *2021-03-13, version 9.3.9* Thank you for making this app I love to watch all the crazy scary funny stories so thank you ### 5/5 — I love the app but I can’t access the new stories *2021-02-06, version 9.3.5* And I just got the app and reading the scary story’s and if you want to can you make it free to sign up because I really like this app ### 5/5 — Hi *2020-10-02, version 9.1.2* It’s good it nice story’s and I like it do more apps like this --- *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 2026-08-28.*