Fantales

UPDATE: since writing the below I have contacted them more times and still no response. I thought at the least I could wait till it unlocked to where I was even if it wasn’t worth risking a second book — but now the title I was reading (same title and graphic) is replaced with a different book of the same generic theme. I will delete. ————— I downloaded this while I was sick and even paid for content to keep reading since I was just passing the time while laid up. I thought I’d keep reading on my break when I was back up and about and working, but the content I paid to have access to had disappeared and I was back to original free chapters. I’ve been sending messages to the help center but have heard nothing back. Money wasted. There’s also issues where it looks like the commands to the AI to flesh out the ideas were left in instead of completed, areas where words are redundant or make no sense — so obviously the AI writing isn’t being edited.

Ridiculous app Don’t waste time like I did with every chapter you have to watch that many ads for next chapter and I don’t pay for chapters

Every story I see on here, at least the ones highlighted for interest, are stolen stories from other platforms with character names and book titles changed. Absolutely shameful to steal someone else’s intellectual property. You say, maybe the writer just shared their work on this platform too… maybe you’re right, but why change names only? If they’re worried about exclusivity for other platforms, they’d have to change more than the just the names to keep from losing their revenue stream. This app has a lot of ads as well, even if you buy coins. Skip!

This app has decent stories (if you can get past poor-if any editing) but the issue is the amount of ads you have to watch to get 1 chapter opened. By chapter 32 its up to 6 ads for ONE chapter to be unlocked. Not sure Im that vested in these stories to keep going.

Almost impossible to open more than one chapter a day without paying

I wish I listened to the other reviews before I got into a story on this app. You have to watch an increase number of ads to unlock a single chapter that you’ll read in 5 minutes or less. I thought that maybe, each day that ad watch amount would reset, but no. It keeps growing by 1 additional ad with every chapter. If you don’t want to watch ads, you pay for more coins or wait 8 hours. Consistency would go A LONG way with users: reset chapter ad lengths daily in order to unlock them OR cap them at something reasonable across the board. Currently, I’m at 14 ads to unlock 1 chapter and the ads themselves, are between 60-120 seconds each. Just not worth it even though I can’t find the story I like anywhere else. I will also echo consistency issues; in the story I was reading the main character is called an entirely different name by her best friend, and no it’s not a nickname either

Excellent

So far everything seems okay but my only complaint is why to I have to pay to listen to the story if I already have it unlocked? The only reason why I haven’t delete it is because I can’t find the story elsewhere!

U have to watch an increasing number of chapters, it never caps. The story I was reading was not worth it. I deleted the app. There are plenty of reading apps out there that were way better than this with similar writing.

I don’t mind paying for an app or buying a book to read. But paying just to unlock a chapter is a bit much. The book can cost more than $50 to read. I would say probably more. You either pay, wait for 8 hours for only one chapter to be unlocked, or watch ads. The catch is that for each chapter to unlock by viewing ads, the ads increase for each time you want to unlock the chapter. I am at 3, and I am sure that it will increase by one each time I choose to view the ads to unlock the chapters. Also, when you use the ads to unlock the chapter the clock to unlock the next chapter resets back to 8 hours. Just not worth the cost or the time. (Shaking my head)