TL;DR Earning Ink Often Doesn’t Work
Overall a pretty great app. Stories chosen are solid, translations are pretty good. Only sometimes will there be a problem with the proofreading. Love the art most of the time. The novels I’ve read are pretty good, too. Nice selection of stories, both comics and novels. But there’s a couple problems. For those reading who haven’t actually downloaded tapas, the app has a feature where you can “earn Ink” (Ink is the in-app currency) to unlock more episodes in different stories. You could earn ink by watching ads before, but that option is no longer available. In my region, you can do “challenges” or “purchases” with a third party website to earn ink. I mostly do the pretty easy ones with low-rewards. Some of the ones with less ink work, but if you want to earn more than 50 ink from a place, get ready to either be disappointed because it doesn’t work, or spend 20-30 minutes doing the thing they wanted you to do. Most of the time, I’ll click on the link, go to the website, do what they want me to do, and then come back to the app to see no reward. I’ll even wait a couple minutes or refresh the page, but still no reward. I hope the team takes their time to go through all these and make sure they work, since more than half of them (the non-purchasing prompts) don’t work and just waste your time. There’s also a bug where I’ll unlock an episode, but it won’t load. I’ll have to exit the episode and go back to the episode. Not that bad of a bug, but just thought I should tell someone. There’s also the option to watch ads for episodes. Not to earn ink, but to unlock episodes. I will sometimes have to watch multiple ads because it’ll be “poor connection” which I get is not the app’s problem, but I still wish I wouldn’t have to re-watch an add even though I already fulfilled the conditions. Overall a pretty great app