Analyzed automatically. Assessed 2026-10-04 from 463 user reviews, the store listing and its privacy label. We have not scanned the app's package, so nothing on this page was read from inside the app itself.
This analysis describes version 12.33.1 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 12.33.1, updated 2026-09-25.
What the analysis found
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
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.
What reviewers said
Verbatim excerpts from public store reviews, shown as corroborating user reports. They are not Appworthy audit evidence, and a quotation is not proof of the finding it sits under.
Reports of unexpected charges
DONT DOWNLOAD. DONT RISK IT. Good stories but scamming site. They own another app with the same name. if you have both apps (no idea why I had both), and you subscribe to 1, it will charge you for the other app, too. Eventually, they will…
WARNING!!!!!!! PLEASE DO NOT INSTALL THIS APP. This is a FRAUD/SCAM. even if unauthorized charge they will not offer a full refund only 50%. I already have this uninstalled, not using it for like a few months then suddenly I have an…
no stars. I paid 99 cents one time. it wasn't made clear that that purchase signed me up for a subscription on automatic payment. I contacted the company and all they did was cancel the subscription I never signed up for. they have stolen…
Aggressive ad load
the stories are good and definitely entertaining, it's the app itself that is trash. Too much add— there isn't a signal chapter where there's no add. Imagine reading this novel that's literally so entertaining and full of angst and then…
This app is a scam. It states that it's free reading but you have to have a subscription to read the books. You can't even watch ads to unlock the chapters. I'm definitely deleting this app off of my phone.
downloaded what I thought was interesting story only to find sooooo many ads paragraph ad paragraph ad. nope.
Hard to cancel
how to cancel subscription in this app it auto debt on my account ,,,it's been a long time since I use this app I can't cancel subscription it's not indicated in my play store account please help it's to much already
SCAM. Auto-charged my GCash through PayerMax without consent. The app hides the cancellation button, and their official developer support email is shut down / bouncing back. Demand a full refund.
It is extremely difficult to cancel. My subscription isn't shown in Google Play or the Novelmates account I can access, yet payments are still being taken, and the amounts have varied. I've had to contact my bank, block further payments…
What this app sells
How the automated analysis works
This assessment is produced automatically. Three independent signals are read — user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.
No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every subscription bills weekly; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.
There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.
Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.
Several measurements above say “Not assessed” because no artefact we hold can answer them. A human review is what resolves those — and it can remove a favourable band as easily as add one.
Hands-on inspections are not yet open.