JoyRead-Enjoy Novels & Shorts for iPhone

Love the content, hate the pay system. You need to change it to weekly/monthly UNLIMITED reading. It is misleading when you buy the monthly subscription. Forget the coins and unlocking chapters. This is nothing but greed and i refuse to support.

Definitely a scam and money trap! Don’t fall for it.

I’m on chapter 11 out of 430 chapters. I need over 13,000 coins to finish this book. The chapters are pretty short and each costs 30-35 coins. To buy coins or a pass would cost me more to read this one book on this app than to buy several books on Kindle or at a bookstore. Or I wait several months to save up enough coins? The story was pretty interesting, it seems like a good idea, but…nope.

So they tell you it’s free to read on the Instagram add but then I found out they wanted me to pay almost $10-$20 to subscribe to read AI written stories. I wasn’t doing that, so I deleted the app. I actually wanted to finish one of the stories too.

Unless you pay to read, you have to jump through a bunch of hoops every day just to read two chapters.. that take maybe a minute to read each chapter. They claim if you follow them on social media you get rewards, but you really don’t. Definitely just a money pit. I’m disappointed I found a book that I was really interested in, but it’s just not even worth it with them out that you have to read for ads or watch. Just to read two chapters a day..

Lots of easy options to read for free thankfully, due to this I actually use this app more than any other novel app

This app is ridiculous. I don’t mind paying for content, but you can’t just buy a book at a set price, they want you to keep paying higher and higher amounts to keep reading. Ridiculous. The content is engaging but not great writing. Seems AI written.

5 stars = please please please please fix the the preservation ability for user set settings after fully closing out of the app. Every time I reopen it, my preferences—such as font, font size, and scrolling mode (scroll, flip, slide)—are reset. These are basic personalization features, and having to reconfigure them each time significantly hurts the experience. If that can’t be done please just default SourceSans font. 4 stars = my voice isn’t heard.

First the Instagram ad said “free to read”. What I found out was that every few chapters I needed money to unlock more… at $9.99 each.. the story is long and repetitive, the pages are not filled with, there is so much space on each page. So then I buy a monthly subscription and I’m still being asked to buy MORE chapters @ $9.99 without the offer to subscribe. What a friggin rip off.

Once I found out I had to pay to read each chapter I said goodbye and deleted the app! Was a good story I was reading though.