Wattpad - Read & Write Stories
★ 3.7What it actually doesWattpad is a social platform for reading and writing amateur stories, fanfiction and books with a community of commenters, but suffers from frequent errors when publishing content and excessive advertising.
Actually does
- ✓E-book reader70% of reviews
- ✓Note taking80% of reviews
- ✓Social network30% of reviews
- ✓Публикация глав и историй75% of reviews
- ✓Offline-first15% of reviews
- ✓Sync across devices10% of reviews
- ✓Поиск и исследование жанров15% of reviews
- ✓Сообщество фанфиков30% of reviews
- ✓Russian localization(bonus)100% of reviews
- ✓Ad blocker(bonus)20% of reviews
Claimed, but not confirmed by reviews
- ⚠Создание списков для чтения и библиотеки
- ⚠Push Notifications
Common complaints
- ✗Publishing errors — chapters remain in drafts instead of being published45% of mentions
«I can't publish my story from any account! All chapters remain as drafts»
- ✗Loss of saved stories upon re-authentication10% of mentions
«I was writing a story, didn't publish it in advance and left it in drafts, I logged in and the story completely disappeared»
- ✗UI bugs: form automatically erases tags and data, issues with saving15% of mentions
«Your app algorithms keep erasing the tags I rewrite a thousand times!»
- ✗Excessive ads, requires viewing 15-20 advertisements in a row between chapters25% of mentions
«There's a ton of ads! To continue reading you need to watch like 15-20 of them! One ad ends and the next one starts right away»
- ✗Account login issues, session expires, gets kicked out of the app15% of mentions
«It tells me 'your Wattpad session has expired. Log in again'»
What people praise
- ★Huge selection of stories, fanfics and genres
«Very large selection»
- ★Ability to download stories and read offline
«You can read stories offline, which is really great»
- ★Simple and convenient tools for creating stories
«Easy tools for creating stories, comfortable home page»
- ★Convenient and intuitive interface
«Rather easy to manage»
- ★Active and supportive fanfiction community
«I used to just read fanfiction, I bloody loved it»