Comparison

Novel Man vs ReadStream

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Novel Man

This app allows you to read a vast collection of novels from various popular websites, both online and offline. It offers a powerful reading engine with customizable navigation styles and a user-friendly interface for an enhanced experience.

Highlights
  • Read novels online and offline
  • Supports wide range of popular novel websites
  • Powerful reading engine
  • Multiple navigation styles
  • Handy one-handed context menu
  • Supports light novels, graphic novels, comics, and webtoons
Features
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Novel Man - read light novel online, offline is the best novel reader out there. With Novel Man, you will never want to read novel from website anymore because it support wide range of website and provide a lot of interesting features. Novelfull Reader compatible with many popular website such as novelfull, light novel workd, wuxia world, novelfox, manhuas, manhwa,..and counting. You can find there tone of novels from classic to mainstream Novel Man - the novelfull reader online is totally free and stay difference with the others. It has it own powerful engine, that was built from bottom up to keep tracking multiple novel sources without touching the network. It mean, if you love your novel website like novel cat, webnovel, novel cool, good read, wattpad, hinovel, story lite,..or any supported source, you will love this app, since it brings everything to you with no time. The novel source will be expanded day and night, so if you haven't seen your beloved website there, please stay tune. Novel Reader - Novelfull reader focus on user and aim to make the reading experience becomes unforgettable, make its unique. This is the very first app support up to 3 styles of navigation, enabling new way to read novel, suits for many context. Power by super novel engine, Novel Reader could support many source format, from light novel, graphic novel, comic to webtoon. Beside that, built-in a handy context menu help you use the app with just one hand. Very smooth and easy. You gonna love it. Please download the app and try, you will love it at the first sight. ========== DISCLAIMER: All novel, characters and logos belong to their respective copyrights owners. Novel Reader does not have any affiliation with the content providers. We reserve the right to change the source of novel without prior notice

About

ReadStream

Features
Read full description

ReadStream is a reading app for people who love books — whether you read them yourself or listen to them read back to you. I built it because I was tired of losing my place in downloaded books and chapters, juggling formats, and never quite knowing where I'd left off. If that sounds familiar, this might be the app you've been looking for. What you can do with it: • Import books and chapters in Word, EPUB or PDF format, organise them into series, and always come back to exactly where you stopped. • Fetch chapters from sites like Royal Road or Project Gutenberg, keep them in your library, and pull in updates whenever new ones appear. • Listen to your books read aloud — useful when your eyes are tired, or when you'd rather just close them and let the story come to you. • Save articles from the web and follow RSS feeds, so your long-form reading and the stories you track all live in the same place. • Keep notes as you go, against any book or chapter, without needing a separate app to do it. • Choose from a range of reading themes, including a warm paper mode that feels closer to an actual page than a screen. Most reading apps are built around content they want to sell you. ReadStream is built around content you've already found. Your imported chapters, your downloaded audiobooks, the serials you follow on Patreon or Royal Road — it's all treated as first-class material, organised the way you'd want a proper library to work. Everything stays on your device. Nothing is chasing you for your attention. It won't suit everyone. If you want a shop, a social feed, or reading challenges with badges, this isn't that. It's a quiet app for people who just want to read. If your reading life is currently scattered across half a dozen folders and formats, ReadStream is one place to bring it home. https://dscreations.co.uk/readstream/support

Screenshots

Novel Man4 screens
ReadStream4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: ReadStream at none against Novel Man's shown. Novel Man's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Novel Man versus ReadStream: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNovel ManReadStream
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (343 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews64.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings343 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size75 MB42 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperMo NguyenDavid Sealey

Bugs and requests

Novel Man

Reported bugs

12 issues
  • App stuck on loading screen with logo
  • Chapters not displaying or showing as blank
  • Search function causing infinite loading
  • App crashing when clicking READ button
  • App crashing when selecting certain sources (Novel World)
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  • Chapters disappearing or reducing in number
  • White/gray screen when loading chapters
  • App closing to home screen when attempting to read
  • Voice/text-to-speech button not functioning
  • Ads stuck on loading screen preventing access
  • Duplicate chapter display issues
  • Accidental menu triggers when scrolling from edges

Requested features

12 requests
  • Offline download capability for chapters
  • Ad-free subscription option or payment to remove ads
  • Text-to-speech functionality improvements
  • Split-screen reading mode
  • Comment section for novels
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  • Next chapter navigation button
  • BL/Yaoi/Shounen Ai/GL content categories
  • Spanish language module
  • Last update date display for novels
  • Read/unread chapter color differentiation
  • More content sources
  • Better search functionality

ReadStream

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Novel Man

No in-app purchases

None

ReadStream

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Novel Man free?
Novel Man is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ReadStream free?
ReadStream is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Novel Man or ReadStream have ads?
Novel Man shows ads; ReadStream does not.

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