Tapas vs WEBTOON

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.

1. [R1] Tapas 2/5 · US Took my money: tried playing the games to earn ink, but the progression is a brutal, exhausting grind. Decided to just spend real money to read my books, but the app is completely broken. It regularly takes my money without delivering the ink. To make it worse, the transactions don't even show up properly on my statement right away. Don’t waste your time or your money on this buggy app. But still
2. [R12] Tapas 3/5 · US READ BEFORE YOU GET: So basically, for 99.99% of the books the first five chapters are free but then you need ink to unlock the rest. And there are three ways to win ink: Give money, download and play the games they say, or do the web activities. And im not giving any money so i decided to do the other two options. But guess what? THEY DONT WORK. SO NOW IM DELETING THIS APP BC I CANT READ ANY BOOK
3. [R21] Tapas 3/5 · US Locks too many episodes: I like the app, I just don’t like how new episodes are locked and I have to pay money for ink. Even if I try to get free ink, it’s some bogus stuff that doesn’t even give me the ink. I get you need to get ink to pay creators for their stories, but I feel like only having a certain amount of episodes free just takes away from my excitement of reading the stories.
4. [R63] WEBTOON 3/5 · US .: This app is good in all but it used to be way better. Over the years the creators just got more and more greedy with money,causing them to make it where basically EVERY single comic/manga costs "gems" I cant find a single good thing anymore without it costing something. I wish they brung the old version back.
5. [R4] Tapas 1/5 · US No help: I have written to the tapas team multiple times about a problem and no one has reached out to me. It’s been almost two weeks now….
6. [R48] Tapas 3/5 · US App is very buggy: I used to love this app, however, now it never works. It always says that there’s a “Network Connection Error” and would force me to the downloaded section, despite me never having the ability to download anything.
7. [R60] Tapas 3/5 · US The Issue with Tapas…: I’ve been reading from Tapas for a while, and I’ve always enjoyed it, but for me, the BIGGEST problem of all is the pop up ads that come when you read certain episodes. They automatically take you to a website that claims to give you a VIRUS (yes, very shady), and it has happened to me on more than 3 series already. The fact that tapas allows this kind of malware to keep goi
8. [R90] WEBTOON 3/5 · US Great content, janky app: Content is great; 5 stars. The app itself has been janky since it introduced ads/announcements. And not necessarily ads for external products, ads for webtoons. I can’t close the ad and the app freezes. Or I can’t close the ad and the app crashes. Every time I open the app, it either crashes or I have to close and re-launch multiple times. There has been no exception for
9. [R10] Tapas 1/5 · US Continuously scammed out of money: These offers for games suck. While for common web ones as long as you don’t spend money over half don’t work. But for game ones to be usefully you usually have to spend a little money but I keep being scammed out of it and not rewarded even if I report it. And almost every-time I’m not rewarded for a purchase one the offer gets deleted so they won’t even reward m
10. [R61] WEBTOON 2/5 · US WEBTOON WTF: I just got back from taking a break off Webtoon for a while because I couldn’t get it back for some time, and I come back to all of my coins being taken away?! I had 130+ coins left from a while ago that I hadn’t used yet, and I came back to 0 in my account. what the actual heck Webtoon, good job making me take another long break. This upset me so much, I didn’t even know you guys did
11. [R15] Tapas 3/5 · US Getting charged 3x more: So I have not had trouble till now that’s why it’s 3 stars, charging me 4.99 but on my card it’s being charged 19.99 idk what’s going on but this is ridiculous it’s happened 2 times already
12. [R18] Tapas 3/5 · US love but takes more money than listed: love tapas but the only issue would be when buying the ink the prices say 19.99 but it charged me 60$ this has happened on multiple occasions
13. [R28] Tapas 1/5 · US I’m actually shocked: I like to binge read. I have multiple subscriptions for multiple apps. Some seem like I’m ripping them off, some seem like I’m getting ripped off, but I’ve never seen this before. I started reading a rather long one with 600+ chapters. The free chapters were plenty to get me hooked but when I decided to purchase the ink to read the rest, I discovered it was going to cost
14. [R72] WEBTOON 3/5 · US Ads ads ads money money money: I’ve been reading from WEBTOON since 2016. This used to be a great app. It’s pretty much a cash grab that you can either spend your money or watch ads that take up double your time trying to read if you want to unlock multiple chapters. I never minded if you wanted to read ahead you can pay for that but the ads are ridiculous at this point. You want me to watch an ad
15. [R22] Tapas 1/5 · US Money grab: Poor customer experience and terrible pricing structure.
16. [R49] Tapas 1/5 · US Owned by a terrible company: Owned by kakao that protects predators and games artists and is happy about taking away pirating sites while forgetting that if purchasing of a chapter doesn’t equal to you owning it then it’s not piracy, they’re horrible to employees and artists alike don’t download this app it’s not worth a cent. And if you’re an artist who wants to post a webtoon your better off usi
17. [R67] WEBTOON 1/5 · US UI and Updates: First, for older series if we paid the fast pass to be able to read those chapters they should not be locked behind a daily pass. Second, whoever created this new User Interface, needs to be fired. The app constantly glitches even if I’m not touching the screen. I just want to be able to select the Webtoon I want. Not have Top Picks for You glitch in and out and in and out to whe