YONDER: Stories & Fiction

When I first started with this app over a year ago it was great!! Daily unlocks, read for free, and passes. It has went downhill in the past couple of months. Stories that I was reading with daily unlocks have suddenly disappeared or are not available anymore. There were always new books with new chapters. I don’t know what has happened but I am highly disappointed and don’t comment back with thanks for the review and the feedback. Sounds like you have become an AI. A year ago I would have given you a five out of five and I was nice to give you a 3.

bugslife3333333Thu, Apr 11, 2024

United States

If the basis of trying to attract readers and making the experience “affordable” is with time released “deals”, spins and micro currency in the form of coins, steer clear of this scam. They try to upsell flexibility but the real cost of trying read a completed series is easily past 200 dollars, which is absolutely absurd for what the majority of which is high school fanfiction. Save your hard earned money for established authors and literature, not this predatory mtx scam preying on people with gambling problems or poor impulse control. I’ve seen gacha games with more sensibility and ethics than this.

kentuckasaurMon, Apr 1, 2024

United States

There are several options to reading a book on YONDER. Because these authors are not published or have an editor that checks their writings before they get put on this site, I’m not willing to pay $.29 a chapter for these books. Some of these books have hundreds of chapters, so I look for the books with the free daily unlock. What really irks me is that halfway through a book they’ll take away the free daily unlock and you’re left to have to purchase the rest of the chapters. The old bait and switch This could end up costing you up to $50 or more to read the end of a book that is not edited, has grammatical errors, and typos throughout. I’m not willing to pay that. Radish is a much better deal when it comes to these kinds of books. Once your chapter is unlocked, after usually only an hour not a full day, they stay unlocked. Yonder feels like a soap opera, where you get a snippet of the story each day and most times you forget what you’ve read in the beginning of the story. The library on YONDER is not near as extensive either. After getting the Bait and Switch for the fourth time on YONDER, I’m probably going to pack it in. I’ll wait till the stories are completed and purchase the last 2 to 3 chapters so I can see how it ended and then I’ll delete the app. It’s just not worth the frustration or the money!!!

ejycaSun, Mar 10, 2024

United States

If the book is finished, you can read six chapters then you pay 29 coins per chapter. If the book is 100 chapters, that’s nearly $30, but most are longer. If you want to charge for completed books fine, but charge a one time fee to unlock the entire thing and don’t make it more expensive than the vast majority of novels.

JackieU.Tue, Feb 20, 2024

United States

So when I first began to read the stories on this app, it was a great experience. Awesome books, anticipating chapter releases and recommendations. I like to scrolling banner that shows new interests and had a weekly pass option for various books, but now everything I enjoyed about the app has changed. There is no longer a pass option on Wednesdays. The books I am reading have lost the option for a new free chapter each day. Several of the translated titles are riddled with errors to the point some parts are not able to be understood at all! There also used to be a prize wheel that could be spun every day for free tokens and such which was the first thing that I noticed disappearing. I understand that there are no ads in this app, but if all of the free options are being taken away because of that, I’d much rather see banner ads and ads at the end of chapters than have to deal with not reading the books I enjoy! Please do something to make this a more enjoyable experience like it was before. I don’t have the funds to buy coins, and I’m almost certain that these books are not in regular libraries. They seem to be self published and it is irritating to deal with that fact. Even the main WEBTOON app has options to get free coins so titles can be read for free. What makes this one so different where that isn’t an option?? I’m seriously irritated by all of the hassles and blocks that have recently come into play with this. I want to know why.

NichsnackSun, Feb 18, 2024

United States

READERS BEWARE if you are going to use the daily pass system be aware they randomly remove books from the daily pass program. In the past they did it after they released the final chapter of the book but recently they removed a book from the daily pass list that is still releasing chapters. Beware any book you are reading may be removed at anytime leaving you hanging unless you have large amounts of money to spend. Very disappointing. This app offers good stories and several ways of reading for free. It offers one chapter per day for free, AKA daily pass, on most( but not all) stories. However the chapter length varies greatly from novel to novel and even the stories that offer daily pass do not off the daily pass on the last 5-7 chapters so if you want to finish you story you have to pay for the last few chapters with coins. I normally use promo codes the give out to read these chapters. I have even found a few novels almost completely free. One novel only the last chapter, labeled bonus chapter or bonus story, was not free and the second was the same except the bonus story was 7 chapters long. The entire book was free except the last 7 chapters. Coins can be bought (do not expire)or received from promotional events(do expire). They give out promo coins, which is super nice, fairly regularly. Unfortunately they give out numbers like 100 or 500 when most chapter cost 27 or 29 coins meaning a good chunk of those coins will expire before you can use them because the chapter cost do not go evenly into the number of promo coins given. Unfortunately buying coins is extremely expensive, considering most novels on the app can easily cost up to $50 by the time you buy all chapters, where as a paperback novel or digital book on Amazon normally cost approximately $20. An example is popular book The Remarried Empress. To by all current chapters the total cost would be between $70-$80 at this time(this includes buy chapters in groups of 50 versus 1 at a time, which does save some money). They do not currently have an option to buy the entire novel at once, even for completed novel. App also offers extra free chapters on Wednesday and Friday however the app chooses which novels are part of the promo so it is really a way to get you engrossed in a new story vs. a way to help you read more of your current stories. However sometimes you get lucky and the books you are read pop up on the lists Wednesdays they offer passes (normally 20) that you can use to unlock any chapter for free, with in the chosen novel. Fridays they unlock a certain number of chapters to be read for free starting from the beginning. I have seen this number as high at 138 as it seem to be based on the number the novel contains (They still always leave a a decent chunk of the end of the novel beyond of the unlocked chapters). This is awesome, however if a novel you are reading has 50 chapters unlocked and you have already reached chapter 51 you get nothing new unlocked but you could reread the first 50 chapter as a binge read.

hlfurlongWed, Jan 31, 2024

United States

I really like this app but it could be better if they included watching ads to unlock the stories…(I’m too broke)😭

timorousnessThu, Jan 18, 2024

United States