Reviews for WEBTOON: Manga, Comics, Manhwa

Ordinarily, a decent app. Most of the UI changes didn't bother me. The decision to have ads pop up in the middle of something you're reading if you're away for two minutes. Not great. Those 3/4th of the page ads at load with the (x) button smaller then a keyboard letter? Terrible. You miss the target, get sent there, and you're auto subscribed to something you never wanted to read in the first place. Smaller ads, no auto subscription, and much bigger (x) button, please.

I've had this app for about a decade. I absolutely loved it. until: they raised the prices on episodes, then, ALL the ads. the tiny pop-ups that take you somewhere else, the removal of the heart icon that you can see, the intrusive ads that are loud and cover your page, the option to pay $20in coins to own a completed series if you only need one chapter, the daily passes, and the pay to read. I miss the way it was and hate the way it is now. It's too money hungry focused.

Check if your ad's even work! Tired of the same ad not loading. It eventually let's me exit it, then immediately makes your whole app freeze on a loading screen. Makes me restart the app and I have to wait for the next chance to watch another ad. Oh but then it gives me the same ad so I have to restart your app 20 times in a row(WISH I was exaggerating)!!!! About to just uninstall the app and go to an actual library for real books. Walking to a library would be better then this..

I'm so frustrated with this app. Been screwed over by treasure hunt, again! I did an offer and beat 1k levels of this game. I watched over 1k ads to do this. I had a video showing I beat it on time. They gave me the previous rewards, but not the last one for 504 coins. They gave a list of reasons why I might have been disqualified, but none applied to me. They closed my ticket, and then there was nothing i could do. Can't even try to talk to someone else to get help.

Started watching "Sweet Home" on Netflix but cancelled subscription before series ended. Learned it was based on a webtoon, so got this to try to finish the series. The first handful of chapters are free, but then you have to pay or watch an ad for every chapter. That means $30 or over 100 ads. Ridiculous. The app works well and seems to have good variety, which is why it's not 1-Star.

Huge disappointment to come back and see every last comic, including finished ones from years ago be locked behind a pay wall. For 40 episodes of just 1 comic, it's $10 to unlock. Definitely not worth it anymore if you're someone who likes to read multiple titles. Webtoon used to be a fantastic place to discover and read new stories with the option to unlock more episodes a week early(up to a point), but it's become yet another cash grab gimmick that forces you to spend heavy for little reward.

This app really used to be 5-stars. Then they added ads, which take time to pop up and you'll end up accidentally tapping the wrong chapter to read. One strike. Then, they updated to where you can't see if you left a like on an episode, which I used to use as a way to see if I finished reading an episode or not. Two strikes. Now, they stopped accurately showing if I have read recent episodes. I see several series have new updates but they don't show unread episodes. FIX IT OR I PIRATE.

I've been on Webtoon since about 2019, most of the stories are genuinely amazing. With that being said though, what Webtoon advertises the most has to be unlocked by ads or coins. Though there are ways to get free coins, they expire after about a week. You could work for a month trying to get free coins, then POOF! They're gone. This is really frustrating. Overall, the comics and authors are amazing, the app, not so much.

They took away daily pass and made those daily pass episodes/series cost coins. Some series are stuck completely behind a paywall; it used to be just the last 3-5 episodes. Now it's the whole series. Considering some series are hundreds of episodes, it can get expensive, especially if you're reading many stories that are only accessible with coins (not the case for every story though; some are still free or can be read with ads).

I'm giving a 1 star rating until this is addressed/fixed! I opened the app today and realized that Daily Pass on completed series is gone and now the only options are to watch an advert or spend coins. It's bad enough that series are being locked away under Daily Pass almost immediately when completed but to now require readers to pay to reread--that's disgusting. I'm not going to "buy" them in the app if at any point they can be taken away!

this is still my favorite comics app, but it just got a design overhaul and the layout is the WORST NOW. It's counterintuitive and it's supposed to have been redesigned to help you discover new comics, but they've just made it harder to read ANY of their comics at all. it's a good selection, though draconic about body imaging, but this is going to make me try to see where else I can read the titles I like.

My last issue was resolved, and I restarted my subscription. However, now there are ads being played for any episodes that are publicly available and "free". As a paying subscriber, you are still required to watch the ads for episodes you previously paid for. What's the point of buying the episodes if you'll have to watch ads when they go up "free"?

I can't tell what I've read anymore. Why have read episodes darkened for as long as I can remember, only to suddenly change it so that the read episodes be lighter than the unread ones. Also, I realize it's probably more of a problem for English, but having every episode being marked with "read" doesn't help when present tense and past tense are spelled the same, so it just looks like everything has been read. I liked it better when only the episodes you read got marked

Not sure what happened. I've been using this app for years, the website even longer, and for some reason it's suddenly stopped loading episodes correctly. Different parts will glitch and cause the story to be unreadable. It's driving me crazy, what happened? Also the ads have suddenly gotten much worse. Instead of them being optional to get coins or read new episodes early, they're shoved in your face, too. Disappointing. You're better off finding comics elsewhere online.

Was a premium subscriber for a few years, gave it a 5 star rating. They recently changed the premium so you get less of a discount, thus you pay more coins per episode and in exchange you don't get ads and get a coupon for their shop. It was offered as an "upgrade" but is really just them giving me less for the same price. I'd rather watch ads and keep my discount where it was. I unsubscribed. If I get the option to go back to my original plan, I might change my rating, but not likely.

This app used to be great. I have been a user for years and up until recently, loved the app. Several series I was in the middle of reading now cost more than a book at the store to read after all is said and done. Even the episodes I've already seen cost to view again. It used to be free to read (most things) on the app. I understand the creators need to be compensated and don't mind some ads for this, but even that has gotten out of control.

Used to love the app. But it's gone down hill almost over night. Ads that take up 1/4 the screen until they are over, Either having to pay money or watch an ad for every episode ones you used to be able to daily pass. Constantly getting random ones popping up as i'm scrolling which instantly opens the webtoon and adds it to my recommendations even if it is nothing similar to the rest of what I read, etc. Seems the devs are turning it into a cash grab.

I can't find some. stories in the app. it's not like the one's I'm looking for were removed because when I found a link to the story it sent me to the story on the app and let me read it, they just wouldn't show up when I searched for it in the app. also the free way of earning coins is ridiculous. the app can't even track the progress correctly. just make us watch a butt load of ads to get coins, at least we'd know we're getting them instead of hoping our progress gets tracked correctly.

The ad pass is terrible because half the time the ad pass is unavailable and the the times it does work there is a good chance that the ad you just watched won't grant you access to the episode you watched the ad for. I only still have the app and read comics on it because I am just reading the ones that are completely free, no ads or anything. The UI update and is awful!!! Change it back to the old one! This UI hurts not only readers but also the artists and authors of the comics!

A strong issue is that the app has a very frustrating tendency to flash ads for whatever comic it thinks should be read, even if it's strongly not to your taste. These ads also take you to the comic, with only a tiny 'X' to close it. Even with a stylus, it feels extremely imprecise to close, so you tend to get stories added to your list without wanting them at all, and should be fixable by just adding in a "take me there!" button. This makes it feel like a disingenuous way to drive up numbers.