Reviews for AlphaNovel — Books & Stories

All chapters are free?? What a crock! They let you read enough to get you interested then suddenly the 1.5 minute chapters are locked. You need coins to unlock them. It takes 3 ads (except when they slip in an extra one) to unlock each mini chapter. However, if you don't want to watch ads, you can buy coins. Here's the kicker, you can only read 5 chapters/day by watching ads. I spent more time watching ads than reading. It's a lie! Don't waste your time!

It's sad, I really used to love this app. It had an hour reset for free chapter, gave you decent amounts of coins to earn in the meantime, had great selections, & three ads to gain access to chapters, only really needed to pay for the last 20. It was a great way to read and had me investedfor hours! Now, you can't get through anything without having to pay like 50 coins, earning value went down, & its just less reader friendly. I don't even use it much anymore because now, well, it sucks.

The book is great. Hooks you in very quickly. However, I'm very disappointed in the way you move on through the chapters. Some of the chapters take more coins than I can collect in a days time. The ads never want to load for me. There is a limit to how many ads you can watch in a day. Putting real money into an app isn't an option for me. After this book (if I can make it that long), I will be deleting this app.

this is not just watching ads because you're limited to how many you can watch per day. plus you have to pay for extra points if you want to keep reading and the chapters keep getting more expensive so it can take up to a week before you can get to another chapter. if it was just watching ads to get each chapter that would be great but sometimes you have to watch 3 minutes of ads to get five points but each chapter might be 15 points. I'm uninstalling

I was interested in 3 novels and my review is unfortunate. I don't mind watching ads, but the amount of ads I'd have to go through for a chapter is a waste of time. For context, you need about 45 coins for a chapter. To earn 5 coins, you'd need to watch 2-3 ads which sometimes totaled 3 minutes. If you're not trying to spend more time watching ads than reading, then be prepared to pay insane amounts. - Update - That option came up for a couple of days but wasn't available afterwards. Deleted.

the options to watch ads for coins doesn't even get you enough to read one chapter after watching 7 videos... have seen way better apps than this. not worth watching so many ads and no even getting to read a chapter. when I first started. book the chapters were 15 coins then after the initial reading it started to go up in price. if the price can't be steady throughout the book it's not worth it and just ripping us off.

Great story but its not worth the cost to unlock the chapters. Chapters are 30-45 coins each. You can earn coins daily but not enough to read more than 3 or 4 chapters. For an avid reader that is painful. I wanted to finish the book so I paid for coins and ended up paying more than twice my Kindle subscription. Once I finished the story, I uninstalled the app. I have two more stories in progress on two other reading apps so Im moving on to see if they are any better. Good luck!

Like all the other "free to read" apps out there. Possibly the worst. This one gives you limited coins to read books. You can't advance to the next chapter because instead of all the chapters costing the same they bounce around from 15-45+ randomly. They don't give you any options to earn more coins other than 7 ads, and a few "read for 10-60 minutes" coins and check in points. After that, you get nothing unless you pay. They basically designed it this way to make you have to pay to read.

I absolutely hate reading apps with coin systems and all the stuff you have to do to unlock a chapter that takes 5 min to read. However this app is more generous with the coins than most. You can unlock 5 chapters a day with ads then you're back to the never ending cycle of earning coins. You also have to watch 3 ads for one tiny chapter. That's 15 ads for 5 very small chapters lol. Its also very pricy. I'll stick to the apps that let me read for free with ads without the annoying coin systems.

I'm giving 3 stars due to some of the books having the absolute WORST grammar that I've ever seen! I mean, is anyone proofreading?? Then, the amount of money I'm having to spend to read one book. I'm reading one book that barely has a paragraph a page. some had the nerve to have 1-3 lines per page, forcing you to spend coins so you have to buy more. That's crazy! Fix it..I really should give 2 stars but some of the books were good. Definitely not all.

love reading the books, easy interface, but subscribe and money was taken from my account I never got the subscription benefits, cancelled the subscription and emailed support. I was told that wasn't charged from this app. showed screenshots that all my purchases from this app looked like that. basically watch your back if you subscribe cause your not going to get a refund or what you paid for. note to the app developers. I didn't get the coins and ECT and didn't expect all books free!

I don't know how this app averaged 4.6 stars unless it used to be far better and/or the owners are writing the reviews. 3 minutes of ads to read a 1-minute chapter, limited to 5 per day. Ads disappear near the end so you have to pay cash if you want to finish the book. This is not about valuing their mostly semi-literate authors. It's about greed. Use your local library instead.

I am so disappointed in this app!! Readers if you are looking for a reading app there are many others that dont cost anywhere near as much as this one!! This app is a complete rip off!! I am unable to finish the book I was reading because I refuse to pay anymore money for coins to finish the book!! And I have already paid double what it would cost me to purchase the book in a hard copy!! Very unhappy!! Deleting the app!!

I really was enjoying the book when I was surprised to discover that my free chapters had run out. Since the book was so good, I bought an initial amount of credits, thinking that books are usually not overly long. Then I ran out again, bought a larger amount. and again, and again. in total it cost me $43.59 CAD to read an 80 chapter book (the chapters were short). Loved the book, hated the feeling of being blackmailed into paying more and more. I'll buy a book outright next time. Deleting app

I got drawn in by a story and opted to do a monthly subscription. I didn't take any screenshots so my numbers are approximate. I did the $5/mo one that said it was on special for like 1110 coins but I only got credited with 800 coins so be careful if you make purchases. I won't purchase anything more when my coins are gone but will stay long enough to use the ones I got.

I have found a few stories I've enjoyed reading, but the voices used for the audio books are so awful they ruin the story. The issue for me is the "chapters" are so short, having to watch three ads, which are really six ads, to unlock a chapter takes more time than it does to read the chapter. And lately, when I try to open the app, it just spins. The app either won't open or it quits working while you're in it. Has potential but needs some fixes.

An okay reading app. Not a fan of the poorly edited AI stories but the plot wasn't bad and they allowed you to earn coins but still, the push to buy was insane. 1 story a 1/6 the way read and I'm done. Also, if it wasn't for me having to wait 24 hours for more free coins I probably would have stuck with the story even though the grammar and spelling errors drove me nuts. Though looking back now, I can see it was negatively affecting my mood.

I don't know how you're going to advertise your app as "read for free!" and "stop paying to read, our stories are always free!" and then charge money for the stories lmao. All of these apps are complete rip off. First off, you can find most of them for free online. Second, if you want to support the author, it is significantly cheaper to buy the book than it is to use these apps. They'll charge like $100 or more a story when the whole book is like $5.

I wish I could love this app. We used to be able to wait a while for the next chapter and it was helpful for thise who wouldnt be able to buy coins. Now they took that away from us so you either buy or earn coins which doesnt matter how much you have because the coin amount fluctuates so bad. You think you'd have enough for a few chapters with 100 of them...WRONG! one chapter will be 4 coins and the next will end up being 50 its RIDICULOUS.

I absolutely hate apps like this. Having to "pay" for every chapter is mind blowing ridiculous! I get that you can earn "free coins" but it's such a short amount and I can finish what is considered a chapter in 5 minutes. The weekly special of $9.99 is crazy to me. kindle unlimited is only $11.99 a month. in this economy I'll go with kindle or the library.