High confidence · Latest 100 of 4.7M total reviews analyzed

Mixed

Recent user voice shows a mixed sentiment. Users appreciate compelling story content and content variety, but report aggressive monetization and excessive ad frequency.

Rating: 4.7

Reviews: 4.7M

Confidence: high

How did the latest release land?

Overall
4.5/ 5
(4.7M)
Current version
4.7/ 5
+0.2 vs overall
(264.8K)
Main signal post-update: compelling Story Content.

Sentiment over time

Weekly average rating and review volume across stores, last 90 days.

Review themes

Praise

What users love

  • Compelling Story Content
    • enjoy these stories
    • cool stories and plenty to choose from
    • The story that I'm following now is very interesting and I'm enjoying it so much.
  • Content Variety
    • Great variety of stories
    • This is a very good app and has a variety
Complaint

Common complaints

  • Aggressive Monetization
    • coin packages are too expensive!
    • It would cost about $300 to unlock the full audiobook series.
    • Hundreds and hundreds of dollars to finish a mediocre story is robbery
  • Excessive Ad Frequency
    • In order to unlock two free episodes I have to watch 16 ads.
    • 24 ads just to unlock 3 episodes
  • Technical Glitches
    • video advertisements that will play over top of whatever story you’re listening to
    • audio starts getting choppy and broken

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