“I usually don't pay attention to many ads, but the story this app provided had gotten me hooked! It's definitely worth a try!”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 1,278 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.6 ★695,928 ratings
10M+Downloads
12+Age rating
—App size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Experience pure joy on the Galatea App!
⭐️ Unlimited access to thousands of delicious romance stories and audiobooks ✨
⭐️ Absorb yourself with the wildest, hottest romance stories–available whenever, wherever you like ❣️
⭐️ Your me-time just got a major upgrade with bestsellers added every week ✨
⭐️ The deepest collection of trending romance genres and tropes 📚
⭐️ Join a community of 15 million women who read on the Galatea App for a joyful recharge
Re-ignite your imagination with stories that excite and delight. Whether audiobook, ebook, or interactive fiction, Galatea has a wide range of romance books with new chapters dropping every day.
💖 Read Bestselling Romance Stories and More:
- Lose yourself in stories that span multiple seasons ultimate me-time
- Discover exclusive Galatea stories from best-selling authors
- Thousands of ebooks at your fingertips…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
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 23.1.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 23.2.0, updated 2026-09-28.
The app has been updated since this analysis. The findings on this page describe version 23.1.0, not the version now listed on the store.
Release notes for the newer versions, in the developer’s own words:
Version 23.2.0 · 2026-09-28
No release notes were provided for this version.
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
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 3
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 5 distinct reviewers (0.4% of 1278 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Users describe the free version as usable
Reviewers repeatedly say the free version is worth using on its own. Nothing we can measure corroborates that — a free listing with in-app purchases looks identical whether the free tier is generous or a demo — so this is published as what reviewers say, not as a measured credit.
What we saw: Reviewers describe the free version as usable: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (0.5% of 1278 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 6 distinct reviewers (0.5% of 1278 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“I actually love this app. It's better than a lot of free apps that is nothing but ad after ad. And they have full book series on here.”
“love it just wish I didnt have to pay!”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 23.2.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
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Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.