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Knigorad - Read Novels & Books

Knigorad is a free fiction reading app, dedicated to all book lovers.

Moboreader Technology USA Co Ltd
Review signals only
Get it onGoogle Play
Google Play rating4.0★3.1K ratings
PriceFreeIn-app purchases
Age17+Store age rating
CategoryEducation
DeveloperMoboreader Technology USA Co Ltd

At a glance

Full report

Review signals only — 1 user-reported signal. Review signals, not findings. Nothing here is an assessment.

Review signals 1

From review signals only, 18 Oct 2026.

The store currently lists version 6.1.5, updated 2026-08-19.

Preview

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Store screenshots supplied by the developer.

About this app

Knigorad is a free fiction reading app, dedicated to all book lovers. Read thousands of novels, romance novels and online stories for free, anytime and anywhere.

We have a huge variety of themes: fantasy, martial arts, romance, love stories, urban, campus, drama, horror, mystery, sci-fi, historical novels, adventure, crime, young adult and so much more. Everything you can think of is here — from heart-fluttering romances to epic fantasy adventures. And it's all completely free to read.

We update the bookstore every day, releasing new chapters in seconds. It couldn't be more convenient for readers. Plus we have regular events and bonuses awaiting you. We keep improving to be your closest reading companion.

What we offer:

【Massive Fiction Library】

Cover popular online fictions with various lists and fine classification by genre.…

From the developer’s store description.

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The full report

The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.

Findings and evidence

No findings published
No findings are published for this listing. These are review signals, not findings: nothing here is an assessment.

Review signals 1

Recurring themes across the reviews we scanned. Each links to what reviewers report.

What reviewers report

355 reviews read · 1 review signal

355 reviews scanned. These are signals from public reviews, not findings. Nothing here is an assessment.

Aggressive ad load

Review signal, not a finding

15 reviews · 4.2% of reviews scanned

The ads are ridiculous. most of the time, you watch the ads and the chapter doesnt open, you have to watch them again. The chapters are only a page or two long, uninstalling.

3★ · Google Play · 2026-07-31

Awful, reading a story and it goes to an advertisement and i couldn't retrieve my story. So disappointing, too many ads. This is the 3rd time losing what I was reading. I'm through with all these apps that advertise books to read

1★ · Google Play · 2026-07-25

Having to watch an ad every single chapter is frustrating, especially when it takes longer to watch the ad than to read the chapters!!! I am uninstalling this app as soon as I post this review. I am also going to uninstall any other…

1★ · Google Play · 2026-08-17

A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.

Measurements

5 measured · 3 not assessed

Supporting measurements. They are not a complete list of possible harms or positives. “Not assessed” means we could not measure it — never zero, never a pass.

From store data and reviews

Developer replies to reviews
Replies to at least 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
No theme 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
Under 65% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.

In the app 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, not a finding.

Sensitive permissions
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app

Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured

Versions and dates analysed

Review signals only

Review signals only. No automated analysis of the app itself has been run, so there is no analysed version to report; the signals were read from public reviews on 18 Oct 2026.

Store update history

Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.

Google Play

Version 6.1.5 · 2026-08-19

No release notes were provided for this version.

Assessment record

Status
Review signals only
App identifier
knigorad-google-com-changdu-ereader3-ru
Review signals scanned
18 Oct 2026
Sources used
User reviews
Reviews read
355
Package examined
No package scan
Measurement vocabulary
1.4
Human inspection
Not completed

Store facts

Google Play

What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.

Google Play

Store rating
4.00 ★ · 3,104 ratings
Version
6.1.5
Updated
19 Aug 2026
Price
Free · In-app purchases
Age rating
17+
Size
Not supplied
Open in Google Play
Developer
Moboreader Technology USA Co Ltd
Category
Education
Listing price
Free · In-app purchases

Purchases the store lists

 What this app sells
Google Play doesn’t publish per-purchase prices, so this list covers the other store only.

Method and limits

What this report can and cannot show

How a review signal works

A review signal is produced automatically from public app reviews by a classifier — never by a hands-on Appworthy test, and never by a human analyst. It exists so a real, not-yet-audited app can carry more than a blank “Not yet tested” listing, without ever being mistaken for an assessment.

A theme only appears above once at least 5 distinct reviews corroborate it — one angry review can never tag an app. These thresholds are published settings and may be tuned as coverage grows.

It carries no confirmed findings — reviews are one kind of evidence, and nothing here has been hands-on tested. The moment Appworthy publishes a full assessment of this app, it replaces this signal, permanently.

Limits of this report

  • A package scan is static. It identifies code and text in one Android build. It does not measure a live ad session, test a deletion request, or count the steps needed to cancel.
  • Reviews keep their sample. A review-only charge shows distinct reviewers, the share and the sample size, and is published only once it clears that label’s published threshold. Calibration labels are machine-drafted and not yet confirmed by a person.
  • Not assessed is a state. It is never a zero and never a pass.
  • A missing label is not a clean bill of health. It means the evidence did not support one, not that the app is problem-free.
Not yet human-reviewed. A human review replaces this review-derived signal with hands-on, recorded measurements. Hands-on inspections are not yet open.
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