Wattpad - Read & Write Stories

Wattpad Corp

4.66star705,970 ratings

BookBooks & reading shelf$0.99–$89.99 · 7 tiersUpdated Aug 18, 2026

Biggest complaint · Ads

51.3%

156 of 304 negatives · store typical 10.7%

Recent reviews negative

57%

its 10 shelf rivals run 30% · 537 reviews held

Counted from real App Store reviews · 2026-08-24 · nothing estimated or modelled

Read those two together. Ratings are cumulative, reviews are recent — a 4.66star average beside 57% negative is the finding, not an error.

Ratings.

4.5out of 5

705,977 ratings · Apple’s own count, fetched daily

5584,723

463,768

323,049

29,433

125,004

4 decisions.

Investigate ads first

extreme · 51.3% of this app’s 304 negative reviews, against 10.7% typical store-wide.

How it compares

this app: 51.3%; 156 of 304
its shelf: 7.2%; rivals only
store-wide: 10.7%; typical

Watch sync & data

elevated · 2.6% of this app’s 304 negative reviews, against 2.2% typical store-wide.

How it compares

this app: 2.6%; 8 of 304
its shelf: 5.8%; rivals only
store-wide: 2.2%; typical

Skip performance, login & auth, ux and limits & caps work

Performance, Login & auth, UX, Limits & caps all run at or below the store’s typical rate.

How it compares

Performance16.4% of 304 · shelf 17.7% · store 16.9%
Login & auth11.2% of 304 · shelf 8.2% · store 13.2%
UX3.3% of 304 · shelf 3.5% · store 2.9%
Limits & caps2.6% of 304 · shelf 3.2% · store 2.8%

Protect support, accuracy and billing

Support, Accuracy, Billing all run well below the store’s typical rate.

How it compares

Support2.6% of 304 · shelf 7.4% · store 9.2%
Accuracy5.9% of 304 · shelf 8.5% · store 11.5%
Billing18.1% of 304 · shelf 31.1% · store 32.1%

The shelf in numbers

All 11 panel members · 2026-08-24 snapshot.

App	Ratings	Ads
Wattpad - Read & Write Stories	705,970	51.3%
Manobook: My Good Story Reader	36,575	34.1%
WeRead: Popular Books & Novels	1,347	22.9%
Yestory - Read Books & Booktok	10,461	21.3%
Bookmory - reading tracker	16,071	18.2%
Goodreads: Book Tracker & More	747,877	11.3%
Inkitt Galatea: Audio & eBooks	287,824	10.6%
Apple Books	87,192	2.5%
Skybrary – Kids Books & Videos	3,305	2.1%
Epic - Kids' Books & Reading	518,633	2%
Google Play Books & Audiobooks	9,632	0.4%

The whole shelf, counted

Every complaint across books & reading, frequency-ranked from real App Store reviews — the gaps nobody on this shelf has fixed.

Read the books & reading report

How this is counted

Every number is arithmetic over the reviews we hold, re-counted weekly — nothing modelled, nothing scored. Themes come from a frozen pattern classifier rather than a model reading reviews, so the same review always lands in the same bucket. Shares are of this app’s own recent negative reviews; the shelf figure is its rivals with this app excluded. The graded words have fixed cutoffs against the store’s typical rate: elevated from 1.15, high from 2, extreme from 3.5 times it. The page says what is broken and how it compares — never how to fix it, and never whether this app can win.