YONDER User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience52.0% of reviews
Neutral13.6% of reviews
Negative experience34.5% of reviews

~ Based on 177 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is YONDER Safe?

YONDER: Stories & Fiction has mixed safety signals based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for YONDER is 66/100.

This assessment is based on 349 user ratings, with an App Store average of 3.3/5.

Safety Analysis

52.4% of ratings point to a safe experience
10.9% of ratings suggest some concerns
36.7% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 349 App Store ratings for YONDER.

Is YONDER Legit?

YONDER: Stories & Fiction is no longer available in the App Store. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for YONDER is 35/100.

Based on 35 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Score capped because this app is no longer listed.

Top reviews

Turn on Daily unlock

At least Turn on daily unlock to all books until the end of the closing, why are you suddenly closing off dailies too? Please at least make yonder app readers happy memory who read there until the end .

Men of the Harem

I made a subreddit for Men of the Harem fans, r/MenoftheHaremNovel please join so we can keep updated on where we can find the English translation of our story once Yonder shuts down. I am really disappointed and devastated and I Hope sooooo badly that they will continue this story on Wattpad. I hate that they are abandoning this platform after I’ve spent hundreds on coins to read this 800+ chapter story every week for over a year. It’s just devastating. Please continue Men of the Harem on wattpad!!!
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Theft

So upset that I spent money to unlock books, and now they’re taking them away. We should be compensated for the books we paid for that they’re taking away from us.

Don’t Bother

Don’t bother downloading, they’re about to abandon the app and audience any and over 90% of the stories incomplete. Don’t get your hopes up.

And to you, makers of Yonder, shame on you. You going to delete and leave almost every story on here incomplete and go to wattpad? A place that’s almost completely romance, erotica, and fanfic. How disgusting.

Oh, and I was reading the reviews to see what other people think, if you respond to this one can you do me a favor and not just use an ai to copy and paste the same script. The only time there are different responses is when you’re either being praised or asked a question.
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Bye

I am sorry to see it go, it was a great experience

App shutting down means money spent was meaningless.

Please allow for us to either download what we paid money for OR receive a refund. This app was already predatory with its pricing, and finding out what I did spend is now being fully taken away from me is just utterly defeating. Please give us some sort of option so our money spent was not a waste, especially for so many beloved series. Thank you.
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Do not download.

I bought coins and now they decided to close the service. No refunds or options to download the stories.

App shutting down

If you’re shutting down where can I continue reading the stories I’m following?

Yonder Content Download

It’s really sad to hear that Yonder is winding down. I understand the decision, but is there a way for users who purchased novels on the app to download the content they bought as a PDF or in some other format? It seems only fair, considering we spent a significant amount of money on our favorite novels.
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WHYYYY YONDERRRRR

I love this app. It’s the only place I can find my favorite stories. And now that it’s closing, I can’t even download copies of the ones I’ve paid for that don’t exist anywhere else 😭 You’re not gonna put the ones I like on Wattpad. And Wattpad????? Seriously????? It will never not be the only place to find trash FanFiction. Why do you want to put such wonderful stories there. My A Flame Reborn, becoming the monarch stories, and Surviving My Own Horror Novel are all gonna be gone. And I just now started Miss Pendleton. No way I’m going to be able to finish that in time : ( . So sad. I promise I’ll pay extra if you’d just let me download files of the ones I’ve paid forrrrr. Or at least let me move them to apps I already have and you own. I’d even take Wattpad, so long as I can transfer whatever it is that I’ve already purchased, and not just have to rebuy/unlock whatever stories the collective thinks are the best.
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GREEDY! INCREDIBLY GREEDY!

In order to read 300 chapters, you have to spend $90!!!! $90?!?!?!?! That’s insane. Absolutely ridiculous.

Lost Luna book 2 XDeafening_SilenceX

My rant first-WHERE ARE the new chapters that are to be added every Friday, none have been added for 2 weeks. I have stayed with this story for over 350 chapters and would like to find out the ending.
I have been enjoying reading this story and getting to know all the Characters in the book. I have mostly enjoyed all the little side stories of each character. The stories of Charlie and his mate and Pollux has gone on far to long and are dragging on and on.
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Dont buy coins

I really like the stories and stuff but i spent some money to unlock over 70 chapters and they were all locked the next time i logged in wsste of money but if u have the patience to wait for each chapter there is some good stories

Too Expensive

This app is very exploitative and VASTLY overpricing what they are selling.

Over $100 for a single book? Absolutely outrageous. They use predatory microtransaction tactics like obfuscating payments behind “coins” so you don’t know how much you’re actually paying. Well you can do the math and the math says it’s too much.

They try to hook you in with free chapters and promo coins that expire so you pay through the nose for books.

I feel bad for the authors that they have got into contracts bc that means that people turned away from their app won’t experience their great books.

If the developers reply to this post talking about how to get more free coins, you know they have no self-awareness.
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The problem is the coins

I did enjoy it at first but then the coins were added and I know that I speak for a lot of people when I say that not everyone has the funds to spend it on coins. And I don’t see any ad banners or ads at all which you could put instead of having us pay every time we want to read a new chapter. At this point I don’t even see the reason to download this app if you don’t have coins for the chapters because you’ll reach to a certain point of the novel and not be able to read it anymore, which is definitely annoying and if I was you I wouldn’t download this app unless you have the money for coins
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Unintuitive but functional

Really feels like it is reinventing the library in some ways. Odd for sure.

Pricing is terrible

$18 worth of coins to read a completed story??? When you can buy it on Amazon for $14?? That’s crazy!

Overpriced and Misleading 👎

I downloaded Yonder expecting a great reading experience, but I was left feeling disappointed. The app takes novels, changes their names, and offers them as “exclusive” content, while charging $.25 per chapter—which, for a 500-chapter book, adds up to a whopping $125. That’s an outrageous price for a single book, especially when you consider that the original work has simply been translated and rebranded.

It’s unclear if the original authors even receive fair compensation, and the new titles make it hard to trace the connection to the original work. This seems misleading to the reader, and I can’t help but wonder if it’s truly benefiting the creators of the content.

Moreover, the app restricts the ability to read offline, and you can’t even take screenshots of the content you’ve paid for. This feels like an unnecessary limitation, especially when considering the high cost. As a paying customer, I expect more flexibility and transparency.

I appreciate that apps need to make money, but this pricing model feels excessive and exploitative. I can’t recommend Yonder unless significant changes are made to both pricing and transparency regarding the original works and author compensation.
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Great stories, but it's a microtransaction trap

I came here to read *The Remarried Empress* (337 chapters). To read it all in one day, I’d need to spend $99 for 12,000 coins—more than enough to unlock every chapter. That’s an incredibly expensive price for a single book.

If you’re okay with waiting for a free chapter each day, the app might work for you. But if you’re like me and prefer to finish a book in one sitting, you’re better off spending $100 at the library for several good reads.
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Prime example for why AI can’t replace human editors

I love k-novels, I don’t love paying over $90-$100 to fully ‘unlock’ all the chapters for a single novel that I don’t even get a physical copy. What’s worse is the chapters are rampant with errors that make it clear the novels are AI translated and not given a copy editing pass by a real human. There are numerous and frequent uses of incorrect pronouns, weird grammar and syntax, missing words, incorrect words, incorrect/or changes to the spelling of character names, and errors in punctuation. I feel sad for the Korean author’s who are having all their hard work treated with no respect as part of a cash grab app.
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