iReader-Story
iReader offers a wide selection of engaging stories, but a significant number of recent reviews highlight extremely high costs per chapter, issues with subscriptions and unauthorized charges, and unresponsive customer service.
iReader is a story app with a large library of books, many of which are well-written and captivating. However, the app operates on a pay-per-chapter model that many users find excessively expensive, often costing more than a physical book. Recent reviews also frequently report problems with subscription cancellations, unauthorized charges, and a lack of effective customer support.
What users like
- Offers a wide selection of engaging and well-written stories across various genres, including international bestsellers.R1R5R9R16
- Some users appreciate the ability to earn free vouchers or coins, though this process is often slow.R5R19R158
- Stories are often described as captivating and hard to put down.R71R84R85R95
What users complain about
- Stories are extremely expensive, often costing $30-100+ to finish a single book via a pay-per-chapter model.R3R39R41R45
- Users report significant issues with canceling subscriptions and receiving unauthorized or recurring charges.R2R3R4R8
- Customer service is widely reported as unresponsive, slow, or ineffective in resolving issues like charges or lost content.R2R3R4R8
- Paid-for chapters or entire books are frequently re-locked, split, or become inaccessible, requiring users to pay again.R7R28R30R31
- The app is accused of using deceptive practices, such as offering coins for 5-star reviews, false advertising, and not delivering promised vouchers.R3R17R21R36
- Earning free coins or vouchers is difficult, slow, or doesn't work as advertised, with vouchers often having short expiration dates.R6R17R18R21
- Users report losing purchased coins or vouchers without explanation or resolution.R58R64R68R88
- Some books are noted for poor editing, repetitive storylines, or confusing character identification.R52R60R623R626
- The app can be glitchy, cause phones to overheat, or have unresponsive menus.R55R104
Latest update · v10.8.41
What the developer says changed (the verdict above weighs this against what reviewers report):
Fix bugs in iOS18, reading experience improved.
Recurring themes
Who it's for
This app is for readers who are highly invested in specific stories found on the platform and are willing to pay a premium for them, or those who enjoy a wide variety of romance and paranormal romance genres . It is not for users on a budget, those who expect free reading, or individuals who prioritize reliable customer service and transparent billing practices R3R8R45.
Evidence note: The recent reviews skew heavily negative, particularly regarding pricing, billing, and customer service. While there are positive comments about story quality, these are often paired with complaints about cost or are suspected to be incentivized R3R17R48R53. The developer's notes mention 'bug fixes' and 'reading experience improved,' but recent reviews still report glitches, overheating, and significant issues with the reading experience related to chapter locking and coin mechanics R7R28R30R55.
Frequently asked
Is iReader free to use?
Can I cancel my iReader subscription easily?
Are the 5-star ratings on iReader genuine?
What reviewers actually said
Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.
- [R1] 👍🏾: a little pricey but good books
- [R5] So far so good: I got interested in reading a story I saw on insta and downloaded the app. The pages are a little short but I like how well written the story is. Naturally it’s like any other app, you can get free vouchers but if you’re impatient, you can buy them.
- [R9] Great stories: Originally had the OG iReader but that version of this app has been changed to a different language. Lost all my previously read books but they are available on here. Some amazing authors wish I could move my previously purchased reads over to this new app.
- [R16] I love this app!: This app features INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLING AUTHORS! The books listed in this library are guaranteed to make it worth your time. So many titles and genres you will find yourself favoring this app over the others that make you waste over half your time on endless advertising or charging ridiculous amounts for each chapter. I highly recommend this app and cannot wait to make this
- [R19] Great: Being able to earn enough credits to finish a full story is awesome
- [R158] Rating for the points: Do not be deceived by the high ratings on the App Store! It’s only high due to this being once criteria for 60 free points. I like that there are many ways to get free coins (like watching adverts) which then allows you to read chapters, but you do have to buy coins too as it would take several days to get enough coins for a chapter as the coins for reading x time doesn’t wo
- [R71] Great stories: App has me spending hours captivated by the stories. Love it
- [R84] Interesting Books: I really enjoy reading the books on this app. They keep me clued to their novels every day!!
- [R85] Good stories: Hard to put down.
- [R95] Good stories: Overall they have good books with good stories. some of it it’s expensive. But…. You will get hooked
- [R3] The five stars are bots: Personally stating that as of today May 18th i found this app in an ad on facebook! I downloaded to complete a story called Your late love means nothing, and i got to chapter 8 and had to pay over $30-45 for coins to continue it!!! this is outrageous for a book !! Then i came to app store to read reviews and what i seen is grounds for a lawsuit, not only are you taking mon
- [R39] Ok app: Wish the chapters required less coins.
- [R41] Good: I love iReader and have used it for 5 years now. The story are good but the price keeps going up. It’s getting to expensive. Wish they would go back down in price.
- [R45] Buy a real book: I spent over $100 to finish one story. I could have bought several paperbacks.
- [R2] Cancellation: This app sucks they will not respond to you when you try to cancel. Only a email available to contact them no phone number. Do not download
- [R4] Scam: They do not cancel your subscription. Terrible customer service.
- [R8] Take advantage of their customers: You’ll set up an account and tie your PayPal to it and then they’ll never allow you to cancel. I have been attempting to cancel my subscription for months. They send the same generic email on how to cancel where the link provided does NOT work, and they continue to charge you WEEKLY. I’m now attempting to work with PayPal to stop payments. This is frustrating and
- [R7] Chapters lock after already paid for: I really enjoy the books on this app, however they say that once you’ve paid/read an entire book you have access to them forever but I’ve had books get re-locked and I can’t go back and re-read them with out paying for them again. Please unlock all the books that I have previously paid ALOT of money for!
- [R28] Split chapters: After so long they decided to split chapters up and relock them so you have to pay more and good luck getting them unlocked. It has happened with four books I have read now.
- [R30] Recurring Split Chptr Issue and then Customer Service Support doesn’t Respond: I am writing to express my growing frustration with a recurring issue on your platform. Several books I’ve purchased have been split into multiple parts, and I’ve been charged again for chapters. When you write to customer service, they do not respond. It is very disheartening especially after spending so much money on
- [R31] Thieves: They are a pay by chapter reading app. But when a book is getting lots of reading they split the chapters to get more money from customers even the chapters the customers have already bought.
- [R17] Don’t believe all the 5 stars….: They give you coins/ivouchers for 5 stars. Each chapter so far is 180 coins, which is ridiculous. And they don’t give many options to earn like other apps do. Watching adds takes 5+ minutes because of the add, then have to wait another 2 minutes before you can watch the next one, and it doesn’t give you the 75 coins like it says. You only get 6, so you have to watc
- [R21] Love the stories: Hate that you have to pay money for every second to read instead of it being free like facebook falsely claims which btw is illegal in the USA. False advertising is illegal here!!! Plus I didn’t even get the 210 vouchers it said ppl get when they log in the first time smh. I’m so deleting this app cause at least NovelFlow is worth reading and so is wattpad smh and they stay true
- [R36] Deceiving: I purchased a week pass which was supposed to award you with 12000 iCoins. I was awarded 3000 for the week and the coins expire in 1 week so, even if they award me the rest after the week, they’ll expire before they are awarded. There is no way to contact to complain without joining a group chat on WhatsApp and it would share your phone number and complaint with the other 200+ people in
- [R6] It’s ok: Lots of stories but expensive and takes long time to earn rewards.
- [R18] Wish the prices on chapters were lower: Honestly loving the app so far but i really wish the price to unlock the characters was lower 180 points for 1 chapter is a little high in my opinion. Also I just realized that there is an expiration date for your ivouchers witch is only a 7 day expiration time aka only available for 7 days witch is really bad since that ends up meaning if something happe
- [R58] Lost vouchers: I was reading a book today and was really interested in it so I purchased vouchers and received “bonus” vouchers thru a promotional offer. That’s what I was using to read with, and hadn’t even touched the “purchased” vouchers yet. I stopped reading for a few hours. When I opened the app back up it said there were bonus vouchers awaiting me. So I clicked on the one that said follow o
- [R64] They will rip you off: I had bought $15 worth of coins which is 9,000 coins and 2280 ivouchers and the next day I updated the app like always and all my coins were gone I send them the receipts and all my info they were suppose to get back to me in 1-2 days and I heard nothing from them, I then sent 3 more request to get my coins back, emailed them and messaged them on messenger and they finally t
- [R68] Will steal your coins and books - Buyer Beware: UPDATE - After 3 months of trying to get answers on my feedback tickets my account has finally been restored. Upgrading feedback to a 3, average, as they were able to fix the problem but customer service is horribly slow to respond and correct issues. This app will one day steal the books you purchased and your coins. They will not respond to the F
- [R88] Purchased coins, never received them: Needless to say I’m VERY unhappy! I purchased the $14.99 plan. When I tried to continue reading the book the purchase coins popped up again. I’m not going to continue to pay for something I’m not receiving. You need to make it right and refund my money.
- [R52] 70$+ for a book: This app charges 100-200 “coins” per chapter (and the chapters are always very short- apparently, because of limits set by the app). Coins are about 5$ for 1,500 coins. Do the math- it’s messed up. The authors are good, but the writing is first-draft quality, and not even proofread. They don’t offer enough free coins a day to read a single chapter. The app is glitchy. Please d
- [R60] Expensive & Books need editing: I’ve already paid $20 and finished half of a book because I need to buy more coins. How do these coins and vouchers work anyway? I can’t find a single explanation for it. $20 for half a book is way overpriced considering the quality. I’ve paid $20 for complete textbooks! The authors need to edit for grammar, spelling and punctuation before publishing. Other than t
- [R623] Not bad: Don’t mind the content. Translation is a bit poor but the purchase of so many chapters is outdated.
- [R626] Behave ex husband: Nice story but quite expensive to read. The authors quite confused with identifying he and she.
- [R55] Bug: iOS version: 16.0 App version: 9.22.0 feedback:The latest version makes the phone seriously hot. The new read page menu is very insensitive to clicking.
- [R104] App: The app can be very glitchy sometimes
- [R10] Keeps charging: I bought this subscription over the summer. It’s fine, whatever. But I decided I didn’t want to pay the subscription fee. I canceled auto renewal. Wasn’t in my Apple subscriptions. I used PayPal to pay and I’m still getting charged. There’s no way to contact the provider and I can’t dispute with PayPal because I approved the original payment and the app never sent an email or text
- [R48] Scam: Having to spend hundreds of dollars to read a single book is INSANEEEEE. Also “leave a 5 star review for coins.” One, it gives vouchers not coins. Two, that’s faking reviews. Three, doesn’t even explain how to use these vouchers. Save your money and support real authors or enjoy FREE fanfiction. These apps are an embarrassment to the reading community
- [R53] 🙄: Just rated 5 stars for free vouchers
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store