YONDER: Stories & Fiction

What an awful app, books are way more expensive than they should be, would much rather support the authors directly than pay for some greedy third party through dodgy micro transactions like this. Just a bad way to read books

So this might not be a problem on Yonder’s end, but as someone living in Australia, I can guarantee that 0.99 USD does not convert to 1.99 AUD. The price has been chalked up to an unholy level. I got tired of waiting for chapters and decided to just buy 100 coins before seeing that it would cost me 2 dollars. 2 dollars and I can’t event afford more than 3 chapters. Tf? Now, I did a previous negative review about the ridiculous pricing. But after using the app, it’s not too bad. I can handle a chapter a day. But seeing a single USD more than double in price during conversion to AUD has got me a bit bamboozled I must say.

I was reading a web series which disappeared, and turns out Yonder picked it up. I was happy to find the series again. Then I see that almost $25 won’t even let me unlock 100 chapters. So I either have to be drip fed 1 chapter daily or pray that the series I am reading gets a 10 chapter free pass (which would normally run you $3). Lawd hath mercy on my wallet.

Yonder is an amazing app and as someone who recently got it I am really happy with it. The only thing I would suggest is a “to be read” option as I am getting hooked on so many books but can only read one at a time.

I can't tell whether they are translated or original novels? Did i miss that or is it not shown? Either way, please add something to distinguish the two, or make it more obvious if it's already there. Thanks

Normally I’d be fine paying for a book—hell, a lot of the ones on here are actually pretty decent and I’d happily buy them, but when you get a book on kindle or audible you’re normally paying for the whole thing at once. For some reason, this app has a per chapter system, and it’s utterly ridiculous. I would give one star, but to be fair the interface is really nice. 2.5/3

I started reading a book on Yonder without logging in with my Google account. I have been doing this for a while now. I also bought coins from their coin shop for ridiculous prices but shame on me for that. However, this morning as I was trying to purchase the next chapter, I was forced to log on and so I did. My coins were gone. I logged out and tried to use the app without signing in just as I had been doing. Not only did my coin balance not show up (around 350 or so), but the app pushed me all the way back to the beginning where I had to start purchasing the chapters again at chapter 9. I had originally been on chapter 29. Terrible, awful app. I was actually willing to pay for coins but now I’m deleting the app and urging others to do so as well.

I enjoyed reading on the app, and the daily free coins that they recently started doing. But on two separate occasions, my account was randomly deleted and I can’t log back in because my account “does not exist” anymore. The first time it was deleted I had to make a new account and I lost all of my coins, all of the chapters I had purchased, and all of my progress. When I sent a complaint Yonder sent back a couple free coins, nowhere near what I had lost. Now a couple months later the same thing has happened again and I was randomly deleted again. I have sent multiple support requests and have gotten no response. The app says that “an account with this email does not exist” when I try to log in, but I still have the emails from the last time my account was deleted so I know that it is the correct email. This is super inconvenient and unfair. I really don’t want to have to make a new account, lose all my progress and my past purchased chapters, and have to try and figure out where I was at in all of my chapters.

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.

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.