“Apparently, I am a glutton for punishment and tried this app again after forgetting I was done with it. To start, there were only ads to continue to next chapter. Now, ad before you finish and another ad to read next chapter. Nope, too…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 1,993 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
GoodNovel - Booktok, Stories
GoodNovel📖 Read Webnovels, Romance, Werewolf & Fantasy Books Online GoodNovel is a di…
4.6 ★1,039,034 ratings
10M+Downloads
12+Age rating
—App size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
📖 Read Webnovels, Romance, Werewolf & Fantasy Books Online GoodNovel is a digital library where millions of readers discover addictive stories and fictional worlds. Enjoy romance books, werewolf stories, billionaire romance, fantasy novels, mystery stories, thriller fiction, vampire romance, and daily updated web novels. Whether you love emotional love stories, supernatural adventures, or bestselling BookTok-inspired fiction, your next reading obsession is here.
🔥Why Readers Choose GoodNovel 🔥
✅ Massive Web Novel & Romance Book Library Access 500,000+ original ebooks, online novels, romance books, fantasy fiction, and exclusive stories. Read thrilling tales of rejected mates, Alpha Kings, billionaire CEOs, secret babies, and forbidden love, with 1,000+ new chapters added daily. Download your favorite novels and enjoy offline reading anywhere, even without internet or Wi-Fi.…
Preview
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Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 4.3.8.1348 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 4.3.8.1348, updated 2026-09-29.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
2 themes reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
65–79% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
Developer says data deletion can be requested
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
What we saw: The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
One source only — shown, not confirmed 2
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 31 distinct reviewers (1.6% of 1993 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (0.3% of 1993 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“you have to pay to finish a story its full of adds and not worth it”
“No, im not going to watch ad after ad just for a snippet of the story. goodbye.”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 4.3.8.1348.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown0
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Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.