AnyStories-Top Novels & Books

Stories are too expensive to read. I keep getting drawn to this app because of an ad that pops up on instagram but then read the reviews & it reminds me why I deleted it. I had no problem walking away from stories I was enjoying (despite the many grammatical errors). Sorry small authors. There is a reader app (Galatea) that has annual subscription rate for true unlimited access to stories, other reader apps that, like this one, charges coins but at least they offer 500/$4.99 if I don’t feel like spending $9.99 AND the chapters are a reasonable amount of coins to get through considering some chapters are just a few pages. I’m starting to prefer buying from the author, like 8 books in a bundle for like $35-$50 then use the reader app, BookFunnel. WAY LESS expensive, full books that are well edited, lots of genres. These reader apps need to remember that there are LOTS of them out there & the stories are all similar. If I’m going to spend my time and MONEY they need to be as quality focused as possible, reasonably priced on chapters when books have 300+ teeny chapters versus real books that cost less, are better edited, & already completed. This one is too focused on getting my money for low quality. Small authors may want to consider writing for other apps or publishing themselves for BookFunnel.

I recently downloaded this book app. They have a large variety of fiction novels. From what I see so far, most books have the first couple chapters unlocked. Some have more chapters unlocked then others. You do need to use coins to unlock the rest of the chapters. You can purchase more or earn them by various ways. Such as, signing in every day (they increase), watching ads, or linking your email. The do have books in the app that are free to read. I'm still learning which ones are completely free. It's fairly easy to go to the table of contents to look up all the chapters and see which ones are locked. They also have group chats with daily redemption codes, book suggestions, favorite author, etc. The app itself is very user friendly. Easy to find new books to read and browse by various categories. I do wish it was easier to read the summery of these books before you open it up to the first chapter. I click on a book to see it for the first time and the first chapter opens up immediately. Then I try to click on the very top for the tool bar to open so I can check the chapters and summary. The tool bar doesn't always open right away. It usually takes me a couple clicks.

Okay, so I got this app because of an ad about an awesome book (King of the Underworld). And it started out great I think they gave you like the first 8 chapters until you had to start unlocking the chapters with coins. Which they do have free options but it’s takes forever to get the coins you need to unlock a chapter because after verifying your email, the options don’t give you much coins. And every time you read a chapter the amount in coins the next chapter costs increases. Not to mention they make it so the chapters are extremely short. So the book I’m reading has like 490 chapters so you have to pay more coins. I looked at their total, it’s said I would need 23,000 coins to read the entire book. Right now when you look up the coins the most you can buy at once is 5,000 and you get 1,500 bonus coins when you buy them for $50. I would have to make 3.5 purchases of $50 to read the entire book and that’s including the bonus coins, that would total about $175 just to read one book. And it would be even worse if you bought slowly overtime because you don’t get the bonuses, so you’d end up paying more in the long run. I bought 500 coins for $5 and it was gone in 6 chapters because they kept increasing the price of the chapter. Overall this app isn’t worth it. And I’m upset because I started reading a book I really like and I don’t want to leave it unfinished, but you can 4 or 5 books, maybe more, for the price of $175. And it’s gonna take me forever to get the coins I need for free.