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!
Reviews for AlphaNovel — Books & Stories
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.