Minimal ads, and the free push notifications are quite nice. Edit: The banner ad has been moved to the top of the UI, which makes it 100x times more intrusive in a god damn reading app where most of the time in bed you're looking at the top of the page content to read anything. For the love of God move the banner ad back to the bottom. Going back to web, I ain't having an ad that's plastered at the top of the screen even while scrolling.
Ishmael Roots
3/5 good stories, easy to use, pretty good TTS, went premium (awesome), used for 5+ years. But Moderators struggle. I found a great text expander that also does auto calc (great for game lit). Use it in job. Love it. Become a affiliate. Start sharing it with favorite authors on RR. Think to self, "why not share with more ppl? (but not more than once, don't want to be annoying)". Got banned for months. No warning, 0 previous infractions (that I can remember). Decided that RR isn't for me.
Chris Brodersen
This is a perfect translation to an app that I've ever seen. It works functionally the exact same as their webpage. Often times new apps add extra ads or things like that and nothing like that has happened here. I notice the ads a little more but that is probably because my screen is smaller. I can read all the books I was. It is even greater than the webpage because it picks up where you left off in the book you left off in and sometimes even remembers where I was in the chapter. Great app!!!
Shinan Liao
It's not very intuitive. If I was a new reader who stumbled onto this app I would be turned off by how to get around. EX: having to click on the fiction tab to go to the book page, then you have to scroll to the very bottom to add it to a list. Everything is just hard to find. Rename the "fiction" tab so it's more obvious it's going to the book page so that new users know what that is. And the app crashes CONSTANTLY. But other than that it's nice
cryptic crypt-lord
The app has its benifits, but I'd honestly stick to the site for now. The UI and the dictionary are great, I'd like to go in more detail, but alas, too few characters. But the problem is that in every other way the app is worse, the constant advertisement in the bottom of the screen and the fact you can only have one page open at a time combine to make both finding something to read and reading it worse than the site. I would advise specalizing one to find stories and the other to read them
Ben Muzal
It's okay. The interface is a bit better than the mobel web, but I will probably stick to the web version for now. It has to do with how I leave a finger on the screen when not scrolling. I kept accidently opening the dictionary. I have the same problem with making highlights on the Kindle app. Can we get a setting to turn that off? Edit: They turned off animated adds which is less distracting than before when reading.
Grah
Simple, fast, and easy to navigate. All the important features from the site, but not bloated with features you'll never use. The devs from Royal Road nailed it with this app! it's a great reader all around. Premium is a reasonable price, removes the ads and enables OFFLINE READING. FINALLY! Maybe I just haven't found it, but I kind of wish I could turn just the user ads back on since that's how I find half the stories I read.
Gavin Hofferth
honestly the best app for reading light novels, everything is free to read and it has a really nice sense of community. i would like to give a 4.5 star because there is one issue but im not going to knock it to 4 because of it. i wish the app tracked reading progress while offline. you can download chapters and read them offline but when you read the chapters in offline mode and then go back to online mode later the reading progress will be back to when you were last online. please fix
Dhruv Garg
When this app first launched, it had a couple crashing bugs, but within a few weeks, all the crashing bugs I was experiencing were patched and fixed. I now use this exclusively over the webview. Royal Road is one of the original players in the Web Novel space, and is dedicated to their authors and readers alike. The home of the LitRPG genre, you'll find a wide variety of high quality stories here, all for free. Some of the most popular published books in fantasy today started here.
Kyle Richter
Love the app. Only missing one star because occasionally I can not connect to the servers, about once or twice a week. I use the app 2-3 times daily and hours at a time. adds are appropriately spaced. very rarely (like maybe twice in 6 months) do I have to change my font/background settings to read a particular selection, but authors give a heads up when that is the case.
