“bs — you cannot do anything without paying money for it and this app is absolutely incompetent when it comes to finishing books”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 562 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-06.
4.5 ★229,046 ratings
—Downloads
12+Age rating
165 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
GoodNovel- A Must Have App For Web Novels！ - Book Genres: Romance, Mystery, Fantasy, Western, Sci-fi, Fan-fic - Become An Author to REALIZE YOUR WRITING DREAM Collection of Best Books & Hottest New Reads in Every Genre!
GoodNovel has collected popular web novels and books, provides you with the latest chapters of the highest quality. This is a must-have book app for the majority of web novel lovers.
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Book Genres GoodNovel contains many web novel genres, from urban books to supernatural books, and is deeply loved by the majority of our readers.
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Independent evidence report
The evidence behind this assessment
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 3.8.1 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-06 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 3.8.1, updated 2026-09-23.
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
Says how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
3 or more 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.
Context 1
Measured and published because a reader would want to know — deliberately not a charge. The measurement alone does not show a harm.
Cheapest and priciest options are far apart
The disclosed in-app purchases span an unusually wide price range. Published as context: the cheapest and priciest items may be different kinds of product entirely, so the spread alone deducts nothing.
What we saw: In-app purchases run from USD 1.99 to USD 49.99 — a 25x spread across 10 items
One source only — shown, not confirmed 4
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: 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 6 distinct reviewers (1.1% of 562 reviews scanned)
From the store listing: Usable without an account
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
What we saw: The store privacy disclosure (3 entries) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.
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 15 distinct reviewers (2.7% of 562 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
Reviewers repeatedly report that the app is not what its advertising showed. We never see the ad creative itself, so nothing we collect can corroborate or refute this — it is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.
What we saw: Misleading advertising: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (1.1% of 562 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Idiotic — It’s so incredibly stupid that you have to pay to actually read the full book. You’d think that an app mainly about reading novels wouldn’t have in app payments but here we are. I don’t know what even brought you to create such…”
“Not worth it! — Got this app to finish a story I saw in an ad. Turns out you have to pay for a subscription then coins to read the story. Already ran out of coins twice and had to buy more and I’m still not done with that one story. So I…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 3.8.1.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown10
Lowest$1.99
Highest$49.99
Weekly Subscription$9.99
Weekly Membership$19.99
WeekIy Membership$19.99
1000 COINS$9.99
500 COINS$4.99
Show 5 more purchases
2000 COINS$19.99
600 COINS$5.99
1500 COINS$14.99
200 COINS$1.99
5000 COINS$49.99