Reviews for JoyRead

I've had this app for years. I liked the stories. Bad grammar and some translations were weird but the stories were interesting, even though they ALL follow the same storyline. I have to admit, I spent way too much money on this app. One thing that bothers me is that I unlocked an entire novel that I liked only to have the damn thing disappear some time later. I have no way of retrieving all the chapters I bought. So, DON'T bother making purchases. Only do the daily goals to unlock chapters.

Don't waste your time or money. Saw an ad stating you can read for free which turned out you can either pay to unlock chapters or watch two 30 second ads for each "chapter" which are very short. At the beginning, the chapters are longer. As you read on, it gets shorter which would be equivalent to two pages on a book. In the end you can end up paying over $100 to read one book. It is a shame they have some good stories but how they have it structured is shameful. I ended up deleting the app.

Who writes this junk? Accidentally clicked on a banner ad to read what I thought was a short story. I read a few chapters, until I was prompted to download this app. Read a few more chapters until app told me I had to buy coins to continue. What I read was poorly written, bad grammar...like something a precocious 10 year old would have written. At the very least, written in a different language & Google Translated into English. Deceiving. Uninstalled.

I have installed it thinking I could read for free by watching ads, no options I could find to do so and they requested to pay 20$ without explaining why or what it is for and that amount of money can buy me a complete series on Kindle. I gave it 2 stars because the story I was reading was interesting but I have other reading apps that I can read without having to pay.

I was gonna give it 5 stars but I am getting sick and tired of when I go to do the ads to get the points because I don't want to buy them, it keeps resetting itself and won't let me continue to read the books. Buying the coins/pears are getting expensive and I usually watch the ads to let me continue the book. Now you want me to read articles and when I do, you reset and I have to start all over again. So I uninstalled the app.

If I could give this a minus review, I would. In no way is this a free reading app. But the main issue is that there are books with repeated chapters, and since you have to use coins/perals to read a chapter, you do not see it until after opening the chapter. Therefore, you have lost those pearls with no way to recoup then. The customer service/help center is a joke. Not worth the time it takes to download.

While I really like the books in the app, the app makes them impossible and unaffordable to read. I spent $19.99 on a month membership that gives me 1500 coins and that still isn't enough to read an entire book. I could go on Amazon and buy 3 digital books for that price from famous authors. I will be canceling the membership and deleting the app which is sad because I really liked the book I was reading that I will never get to finish now.

I love the story The Lycan Kings Army but sadly I'm not able to complete it. The app is set up so you can watch ads and complete article reading tasks to read the next chapter but the article reading task page doesn't load normally for either the second or last task and you don't get credit for what you have done. I've been stuck with this reading task for 6 days and have contacted customer support they told me to send images of what I'm seeing I sent them and haven't recieved anything back.

Did the survey to earn pearls. Only used enough to unlock ONE chapter then went to bed WITHOUT even getting to the next chapter. Next morning (less than 10 hours later) the pearls were gone. Auto unlock is irrelevant when I didn't even get to the next chapter. Customer service is seemingly AI and is useless. Glad I didn't buy the pearls but I definitely go cheated out of at least 100 pearls. Regardless I don't recommend. Not only that but the ad process to unlock chapters via ad is absurd.

This app is better for stories than most. However, that's it. The amount of time one has to spend chasing the rewards to read a chapter is almost ridiculous. Let's not mention the misleading "watch 2 ads to read"..... ok, I'll mention it. This was true ONCE. After which, clicking the button opens not 2 ads, but 4 HEADINGS, where each one informs you to open 2 to 3 articles to either glance through or even read to get said reward. I will be looking elsewhere for the novels I'd like to read.