Wattpad alternatives

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 64 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.

1. [R1] Wattpad 1/5 · GB Ads and less non-smut than before: There are far too many ads. Not only this but finding a book not labelled mature that is actually written well is near impossible
2. [R3] Wattpad 3/5 · GB Add translator: Really good but the only problem is ads every chapter and no translator, only thing stopping me from reading absolute masterpieces.
3. [R4] Wattpad 1/5 · GB The Ads ruin the app: Every single chapter finishes with an unskippable ad. It ruins the experience
4. [R9] Wattpad 3/5 · GB Ads 😡: This app is great, but the ads ruin the experience for reading. Every single time I tap on a chapter, an add comes up. I don’t care to use premium or whatever because I don’t want to, so don’t bother showing me an option for it. Get rid of the ads, then it’ll be more fun to use. Please consider this.
5. [R10] Wattpad 1/5 · GB 😡: i can’t reading
6. [R12] Wattpad 3/5 · GB Overall a pretty good app: The ads really put me off reading and my homepage never loads but the formatting is nice and it has good works on it
7. [R19] Wattpad 2/5 · GB fix the bugs.: I’ve been silently dealing with this for a month and a half now but there’s some sort of bug that doesn’t let me tap the icons on the top of the screen as they’re all bunched up and weird. My engagement has been affected and therefore lowered because of this. I like ur app but I will not deal with these bugs anymore. It’s jaring now. Would be a 4/5 star if not for that but these bug
8. [R22] Wattpad 2/5 · GB Lost all my stuff: Was really enjoying the app and the stories only for me to try get on it today, only to be met with “session expired” and logged out my account and I couldn’t get back on it, now it’s all been lost.
9. [R6] Wattpad 3/5 · GB Search system: They need a better search and tagging system
10. [R25] Wattpad 2/5 · GB My experience with Wattpad: At first it was so entertaining but when I lost my phone and got a new one I downloaded it again and I can’t find any of those old stories anymore it’s so boring right now.
11. [R28] Wattpad 1/5 · GB Disappointed: I’ve been using watt pad for so many years and I loved this app so much until the new updates. Now all you get is a bunch of ads, two offline stories which used to be unlimited btw and a bunch of ai stories recommended to you. It was a five star app before which everyone loved but everything has changed now and it’s sad
12. [R7] Wattpad 1/5 · GB Horrible Support Team: The wattpad support team is disgusting. They deleted my account & stories without warning for no reason at all. They didn’t care enough to restore my account & at least save my important stories to my files. Yet they can allow other users who glorify pedophilia in their stories to keep writing & publish heinous things.
13. [R8] Wattpad 5/5 · GB Biased.: I only have this 5 stars so everyone knows, especially those who want to write. They only choose winners from contests who are big, never small. They only want to promote the bigger writers, never giving the small writers a chance to get recognition. So please, if you want to write, don’t use this app.
14. [R42] Wattpad 1/5 · GB Don’t bother: Everytime I write a cheaper then punish it it don’t let me it deletes it
15. [R16] Wattpad 1/5 · GB Shocking greed has ruined the app: A long video ad (some being weirdly s**ual AI ads) after every chapter has ruined this app for me. The ads sometimes last longer than the time I spend reading the chapter as they don’t make them easy to skip through. Then you get a pop-up to pay for the ad-free subscription at £49.99 annually!!!! I can no longer get immersed in books on this app, and my time is t
16. [R40] Wattpad 2/5 · GB lowk just getting worse everytime I use it: Changing the download limit from 25 to 2 was the first mistake 🤬🤬 and now im getting an ad after EVERY single chapter. Stop ruining the app just because you’re money hungry
17. [R46] Wattpad 2/5 · GB Pricing: I use to use Wattpad all the time. If anything this has always been one of my favourite book apps. This coin thing though is ridiculous I get things can’t always stay free I’d be more than happy to pay a monthly subscription to read however many books like most things do but the coins are ridiculous pricing. For roughly 5 chapters of one book is the cost of 1 actual real published authors
18. [R51] Galatea 2/5 · US Hard to read: Its really hard to actually read a book because of the way the points are set up
19. [R52] Galatea 5/5 · US Best app: This app has helped me read more even if it’s on my phone it made me want to read more than I ever wanted and I get a good verity of books that I personally enjoy and like it’s also good for the girls who love a good Spicy books
20. [R53] Galatea 3/5 · US Good and bad: It has some amazing stories and some okay ones. You just have to look for what you want. What I hate tho is that you have to pay actuall MONEY just to read the stupid short stories. Ughhh so annoying. Why can’t it just be like whatpad😩
21. [R54] Galatea 5/5 · US Points: Love the books just wish there was more way to get points
22. [R55] Galatea 3/5 · US It’s ok: I think it is a cool app, but I find it annoying that I have to pay or wait 5 hours for the next chapter…
23. [R57] Galatea 3/5 · US Good: The app is good with good stories but the wait for chapters are 5 hours apart which is better then waiting a day but still and getting enough coins is hard as it is only like 1-5 when the chapters are 10-20 coins for the next one.
24. [R56] Galatea 4/5 · US Good reads: I’ve been reading on Galatea for years, and the stories are what keep me coming back. While waiting between chapters can be a little frustrating, the novels are so engaging that they’re worth it.
25. [R58] Galatea 5/5 · US The story test subject is super sexy: Yum, the stories are so amazing, they really open my imagination, I feel so at home reading them.