YONDER: Stories & Fiction

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.

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!!!

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.

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.

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 cha

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

I have multiple reading apps on my phone and I think this one is probably the worst. New users get a daily login bonus that literally only last for I think two weeks. Then after the two weeks you don’t get anymore bonuses. Granted there are some promos that offer free coins if you read so many chapters but my problem is, I’m not going to read a book I have no interest in reading just for coins. The prices for coins are outrageous and I refuse to buy coins just to be able to read a few chapters compared to (if the book is actually published) buying a physical copy. Not everyone is made of money who can just blow it on buying coins.