“the app is good for reading some manga not all because you have to pay to read some of them”
Independent automated assessment · 6 signal sources · 515 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
3.5 ★93,170 ratings
10M+Downloads
12+Age rating
110 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
MANGA Plus by SHUEISHA, is the official manga reading service from Shueisha, that provides you with the latest chapters for free at the same time as in Japan. Immerse yourself in binge-worthy and anime-adapted comics like; One Piece, Chainsaw Man, Boruto: Two Blue Vortex, Jujutsu Kaisen, My Hero Academia, 【OSHI NO KO】, Dandadan and Red Cat Ramen.
Enjoy the first three and newest three chapters for FREE. Want to catch up on SPY x FAMILY, Kaiju No.8 (Monster #8), and Kagurabachi? You can read all chapters of currently ongoing manga in English once for free! Some titles are also available in other languages, including Spanish, Thai, Portuguese, Indonesian, Russian, French, German, and Vietnamese*. Available titles may vary by language and region.
Want unlimited reading with no ads? MANGA Plus MAX is just for you! Access over 17,000 chapters in English from anywhere in the world*.…
Preview
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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 2.6.4 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2.6.4, updated 2026-09-28.
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
1 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 package we scanned
From the package we downloaded and read — version 2.6.4, scanned 2026-09-25.
Permissions Android classifies as dangerous
None requested
Counted against the eighteen permissions listed in collect-package.ts. A dangerous permission is one Android asks the user to grant; requesting one is not itself a finding.
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
1–2 found
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
10 or more found
Counted as distinct SDKs in the package we scanned. One mediation bundle can contribute several, so this is not a count of advertisers.
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.
The catch list 1
Charges we publish at a strength we stand behind: measured from an artefact, agreed by independent sources, or reported by enough users to clear that charge's own published bar.
Multiple ad networks bundled
The package embeds several distinct advertising or mediation SDKs — a stack built for ad volume, not for a single house ad.
What we saw: Bundles 16 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: Amazon Publisher Services, AppLovin MAX, BidMachine, Chartboost and 12 more
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 1
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 8 distinct reviewers (1.6% of 515 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“it said it was free when I installed it then when I opened the app it wanted me to pay to watch everything”
“we need to pay to read Manga 😕”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 2.5.0.
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.