Comparison

Fanfics vs Qento

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

Head to head
About

Fanfics

Create and read original stories, novels, and books using an AI-powered writing tool. Explore a vast library of user-generated content and unleash your creativity.

Highlights
  • AI story generation
  • Read novels and books
  • Write original stories
  • User-generated content library
Features
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Your stories, brought to life by AI. Dream up any story, then step inside it. Fanfics turns a single idea into an endless, interactive story you shape one choice at a time. Invent characters, shape the setting, and follow the plot wherever you want it to go — the AI writes alongside you and remembers what matters. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Create a scenario from a one-line idea and start reading instantly • Steer the story your way — write your own actions or let the AI continue • Branch, retry, and rewrite any moment until it's just right • Edit the running story summary so the AI stays true to your plot • Explore community scenarios and play them however you like BUILT FOR LONG STORIES Our Memory system keeps track of characters, places, and key events — so your epic stays consistent hundreds of turns in, not just for the first few pages. A COMMUNITY OF STORYTELLERS Share your best scenarios, discover what others are creating, and find your next obsession across every genre — romance, fantasy, sci-fi, slice-of-life, and more. Start with a spark. See where it takes you. Find our EULA here: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Qento

Experience interactive narratives where you are the protagonist, shaping your character and the world around you. Your choices have lasting consequences, even impacting future stories. Engage in deep character connection and explore diverse genres with a consistent literary style.

Highlights
  • Become the protagonist with unique traits
  • World remembers and reacts to your choices
  • Death carries consequences into new stories
  • Directly communicate with your character
  • Explore any genre with consistent prose
  • Stories saved and accessible in your library
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Your story. You're the protagonist. Qento writes a novel around you, one paragraph at a time, and holds every sentence to a standard. Pick a genre and choose who you are, or write a single line and let the story read the rest from your words. Seven genres. Three of them are whole worlds: fantasy, science fiction and horror each carry their own peoples, paths, creatures, lands and ways of power, with sixty-seven illustrated lineage cards to choose from. Romance, mystery thriller, contemporary and adventure each read like themselves. ————— YOU BECOME SOMEONE Every protagonist carries a wound, an armor, a drive. In a world with peoples, you carry a lineage too: what your blood gives you, and what it costs. Your choices crack the armor, shift the drive, and reshape who you become. START FROM ONE LINE Write a sentence in the writing room. Qento reads the genre from it, and who you said you are, and opens the story there. THE WORLD MOVES WITHOUT YOU Characters pursue their own wants. Trouble arrives on its own schedule, and sometimes breaks in unannounced from what the story has been building while you read. Between your turns, the story isn't waiting. It's plotting. SOMEONE IS IN FRONT OF YOU Scenes press. The person the story has put in front of you wants something from you, and asks. When a choice carries a cost, it says so. At each chapter break you see what you want — and what your choices set in motion, and the road you didn't take. YOUR WORD IS NOT A COMMAND Steer the story and it listens. But a proud man pushed too hard digs in. A locked door opens at a cost. What you can't force, you can earn, and the earning is the story. STORIES HAVE A SHAPE Chapters gather into acts. An ending is offered when the story reaches it, and you can take it or keep reading. No story trails off. Every one is heading somewhere. THE WORLD REMEMBERS The stranger you trusted in Chapter 1 resurfaces in Chapter 4 and remembers what you did. Characters hold grudges, keep secrets, and speak only to what they've seen. Name your dragon in passing and she is Nuva from that page forward. A name you have used never returns on someone new. THE STORY SHOWS YOU ITS MEMORY When a beat brings someone new into your world, a quiet line beneath it tells you what the story will remember. Tap it to open their page: every character, place, and open thread, kept. DEATH IS REAL Your character can die. That scar carries forward into future worlds, a debt the next story remembers. TALK TO YOUR CHARACTER Between beats, speak to the protagonist directly. First person. Their voice. Their memory. What you discuss bleeds back into the next paragraph. YOUR WORLDS, ALWAYS WAITING Every story lives in your library, on iPhone and iPad. Pick up exactly where you left off. The home screen widget keeps the line you left on in sight. YOUR WORDS STAY YOURS Usage counts are counts: stories begun, chapters read, and when something fails. Never your words. You can turn them off in Settings. ————— FREE: YOUR FIRST STORY Five chapters of your first story. The real thing, at no cost. No timers, no meters. STORYTELLER: FOR THE OBSESSED Unlimited stories. A custom cover rendered for every world. For the reader who can't stop at one. ————— Your first story is free up to Chapter 5. Unlimited stories require Storyteller ($9.99/mo or $79.99/yr) or a one-time Story Pass ($2.99 per story). Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Fanfics3 screens
Qento4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Qento at 100% against Fanfics's 47%. Qento also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.6). Fanfics's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and ratings volume (83 vs 8). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Fanfics sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Qento sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Qento holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fanfics has 83 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 47% of Fanfics's written reviews are positive against 100% of Qento's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fanfics ships an update every 4 days, Qento every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Fanfics versus Qento: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFanficsQento
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (83 ratings)4.9 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews46.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings83 — better8
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB172 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperKawaiiKARYLL JAY CATUBIG

Customer experience

Fanfics

All ratings69 ratings
Positive85.5%
Neutral10.1%
Negative4.3%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive46.7%
Neutral26.7%
Negative26.7%

Qento

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Fanfics

Subscriptions3
  • Fanfics Pro (Weekly)3 Days trial$4.997 Days
  • Fanfics Pro (Monthly)3 Days trial$14.991 Month
  • Fanfics Pro (Yearly)3 Days trial$59.991 Year
3 purchases

Qento

Subscriptions2
  • Storyteller7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Storyteller7 Days trial$79.991 Year
One-time1
  • Story Pass$2.99

Questions

Is Fanfics free?
Fanfics is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Qento free?
Qento is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Fanfics or Qento?
Qento is rated higher. Fanfics averages 4.6 out of 5 from 83 ratings, while Qento averages 4.9 from 8 ratings.
Do Fanfics or Qento have ads?
Neither Fanfics nor Qento shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fanfics or Qento?
Fanfics ships an update every 4 days, and Qento every 5 days. Most recently, Fanfics was updated on October 28, 2026 and Qento on October 25, 2026.

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