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Tapas – Comics and Novels App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
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✓ Bugged upThe app crashes a lot and freezes up. I guess it has a lot of bugs. They have a good variety of choices to read which is good however for some you have to pay or use inks which aren’t free and take a while to collect I guess, more like to build up to gain enough to actually use. Overall I guess it easy to use, I just wish then fix the bugs and add more free comics or make the inks easier to collect.Version: 6.0.3
✓ Kinda sadI absolutely love the stories on here the variety is amazing and I love supporting the artists by buying ink sometimes… however the new wuf makes me so sad I always reread my chapters and sometimes like to stack episodes so I can read the story start to finish and pay for the last however many episodes to complete the series. The old version is what made this app the best but now I’m honestly kinda sad :(.Version: 6.6.3
✓ Needs better curationLet’s be honest. The site is completely filled with generic anime/manga romance comics. It’s great that you can filter to just the genres you do want to see, but the site would be more functional if there were a way to find genuinely good stuff that’s been handpicked IMO..Version: 7.3.0
✓ Total trashIt is way to expensive and feels like a scam the entire time your trying to get ink by doing surveys, its not worth just google free manga sites instead.Version: 5.6.0
✓ Annoyances are Pushing Readers AwaySimilar to other reviewers, I’m here to echo the sentiments of the overall user experience of Tapas going downhill. I have enjoyed a handful of really great stories, but since they’ve walked back a lot of the perks we once had, especially watching adds to earn ink, I’ve been reading elsewhere where possible. However I am so behind on some series I’m considering abandoning them completely. Watching an ad to open an episode has never been an option for anything I read, and Monday’s gift is great, but only allows me to read once a week (if I even get enough ink to unlock one episode of the several pay-only series I read, making for sloooow progress). To top it off, they’re pushing so many similar stories down readers throats with first-person I/My titles involving things like villainess/final boss/divorce or “I married”/ etc - which pop up every time I open the app and make me lose interest even faster. TLDR; It’s hard to read what I enjoy on Tapas due to the lack of accessibility, and for the comics I truly enjoy, Tapas has irritated me enough I’d rather read off app elsewhere & support the authors directly at this point. Two stars because there’s a handful of stories that make me stick around, but they’re really it..Version: 7.3.0
✓ Tapas - Ink & AdsFirst, generally Tapas is a super great comic with a lot of great variety and content. They also provide many helped up ways to read and get ink (I.e. through reading challenges and wait for free). However, with the most recent update the watch ads for ink feature was taken off and replaced with unlock 3 episodes a day by watching 1 ad each. While, I do appreciate this was at least replaced with another method, it is in my opinion is not as accessibly and supportive to readers and authors than the watch ads for ink. Prior to this change you would need to watch 30 ads (sometimes even a bit more) to get enough ink to read an episode, BUT the 30 ad limit would refresh every hour which meant you could, if you wanted, watch more ads to unlock MORE chapters. Additionally, after completing a reading challenge, if you did not have enough (most comics don’t usually cost exactly 300) than you could watch ads to get enough ink. Furthermore, the ink you’d get could be used for chapters to support the creators and/or donated (willingly) to support creators. Also, despite updating the app (automatically then manually) I have not received the option to watch ads to unlock a chapter but also do not have the watch ads for ink option either..Version: 7.2.2
✓ Bad customer support and a bit buggyWhenever I complete offers/surveys with tapresearch, sometimes it gets really buggy and doesn’t add the ink I earned into my account. I’ve tried contacting the people responsible, and I always get an automated message saying they’ll refund me but only gives me 10 ink. Wish I could talk to a real human that could help me solve my issues. That’s my only complaint with Tapas, the stories and creators are wonderful and I love the community offered by Tapas..Version: 5.0.5
✓ New updateThe original app was superb, loved it, it rarely gave me any problems. The new update however, it’s doing my head in a bit. So part of the new update was to expire a ‘wait until free episode’ after like, 72 hours which was, an okay idea, I wasn’t a fan but it’s fine. But the problem for me is that once you read that episode, and it expired, there was nothing that showed that you had already read that episode. And it may be because I can’t be arsed to remember the freaking picture at the front of each episode to go “oh I have read that one!” So I have probably been tapping in the same episode all week to all my one a week books so I have to wait another week and hope that I don’t open an episode I have already read. I don’t need to keep an episode for longer than 72 hours, but I would really love some sort of marker or something to display that I have already read it..Version: 6.6.3
✓ Please Read...I’ve been using this app for a long time and it’s by far one of my favorites. There is a wide variety of comics and novels, some you have to pay for using ink, you can wait to read some for free, or you can read ones that are completely free to read. I love this, however, I have noticed that at least half of the comics that I was waiting to read for free have disappeared. I find this extremely frustrating because they were my favorites, and I have a hard time earning ink. The only way I can earn ink is by watching ads, but (this may just be my phone) I can only watch 10 out of the 30 ads per hour. If there is some sort of cap on how many “wait for free” comics you can read at a time, that was very poorly communicated if communicated at all. Other than those issues, I love this app. I would DEFINITELY recommend this app to anyone that is looking for an online comic app. I have no idea if others are having the same issue, but if there are please please please fix it. If the issue is addressed I will happily come back and give this app 5 stars. Thank you so much for your time!.Version: 5.2.3
✓ I like it but it glitches sometimesI really like the app, its easier to read comics here than in a computer, and I can put some offline so that I can read them outside of home, however, sometimes there’s this glitch that occurs were the whole app freezes and won’t let me continue reading or scrolling through the comics. It gets really annoying, especially since it normally happens once a week but sometimes it happens multiple times a day, so I’m left in horrible cliffhangers that I have to continue in computer which doesn’t have the same effect of excitement as reading on phone..Version: 5.5.2
✓ My opinionThe app is overall great as it provides a variety of different manhwa to read. Honestly, it would be a 10/10 if we didn’t have to use ink to unlock chapters. I’m getting engrossed into a manhwa then it suddenly says I have to use ink to unlock the remaining chapters and I have only read up to chapter 4?!? It’s absurd if you really want people to use this app then remove this bizarre feature and let us read freely..Version: 5.10.1
✓ Improve Your AdvertisingTbh I never really liked tapas for its ink currency and I am an avid webtoon fan , but like one tapas ad showed up with a comic I DESPERATELY wanted to read, so I downloaded it and tried to find it BUT COULDN’T BECAUSE THE AD DIDN’T EVEN GIVE ME THE COMIC NAME. Like thanks for showing me a comic without any way to identify it and find it on the actual app ?????? Imagine a supermarket advertising a bag of chips outside the store and when you go to that supermarket there is no sign of it anywhere?? That’s how it felt like to me LOL ridiculous.Version: 5.12.0
✓ Ad quizzes are a ripoffTo read the comics you need to earn “inks”. I just spent 10 minutes on a quiz to earn enough inks to read only 2 chapters of a comic. At the end of it, I didn’t even get the inks because I didn’t answer enough questions correctly. What a load of bs..Version: 5.0.13
✓ Good for subscribers, unhelpful for creators.The app is great if you want to subscribe to or read comics, but provides very little for creators to manage their comics, or receive notifications..Version: 3.1.4
✓ Was good now lagging/not loadingThe app has been perfectly fine for weeks but since the last update it just seems to be getting worse! Chapters are taking a long time to load, the home page isn’t updating accurately on most recently read and tonight has been the worst so far! The app stopped working and now won’t load correctly. On top of that it keeps loosing my profile info and saying I have 0 ink, then it comes back, then it goes again, keeps repeating this cycle. I did the normal troubleshooting things including uninstalling and reinstalling the app but now I can’t log back in! Fix this please and I really hope I haven’t lost all my progress on the stories I was reading especially with the ink spent!.Version: 6.4.2
✓ Disappointing.The only options that are there for people to earn ink it to either pay or invite friends and do offers. I have been doing the offers and the ink has just not been going through and even when contacting the staff they do not listen. Additionally they’ve made such a greedy decision to remove the watching ads option to gain ink. As if this wasn’t bad enough, they've made the WUF not permanent and now the ink events are just not as frequent as they used to be and not as rewarding. It’s so disappointing to see such a good app go down the drain just because of these greedy peoples desires. I used to be inclined to pay for the ink as well as the free options, but now I will not ever spend a coin of this app. I wish I could refund everything ..Version: 7.2.2
✓ Usually fine, such a shame.Some really great stories on here, however, I have only one major problem with the app, it will stop working when opening up. I’ll go to open the app and it tries and then just shuts down and refuses to work until I uninstall and reinstall it. That would usually be fine except I have put actual money into it, therefore I feel like there shouldn’t be problems like this! A minor problem has occurred after the recent update, I can no longer download episodes, it will do the timer, episodes will appear in my downloaded section, but when I go to read them they are all black and I need to connect to the internet to read them. I don’t understand why some people have reviewed this app really poorly but given it 3 or 4 stars?!?.Version: 6.1.4
✓ Technical difficultiesI love this app and have been able to use it with little to no problems in the past, but lately it seems to just not be able to accomplish basic tasks on my phone. for example, i paid $10 for more ink and received it but am unable to use it to unlock episodes. When I go to spend ink on an episode it says it’s loading but it doesn’t stop loading no matter how long I spend waiting. If I have the patience to wait long enough, my phone will turn off and when I turn it back on it will still be loading. I don’t care about the money as much as I’m upset I haven't been able to unlock episodes with the ink I have. It also doesn’t load in rewards, let me subscribe to comics, let me edit my account or change my password. When I go to save changes or reset my password it either tells me an email with a link has been sent (and never sends me an email) or that they “couldn’t find anything I’m looking for” I’m able to read free episodes just fine but the technical difficulties have been frustrating. I’ve updated the app and my phone completely, tried running the app with cellular data turned off on every app but this one(which sometimes works even on wifi for some reason), and nothing has changed. I would love to figure out what’s going wrong and how to fix it moving forward because I enjoy this app a lot when I’m able to use it..Version: 6.2.3
✓ Poor App QualityWhen moving onto the next chapter the app lags. Even after repeatedly closing and reopening the problem still ensues. As a result ink I spent to unlock a chapter is recorded as spent while the chapter is still locked. This matter needs to be looked into as this is akin to stealing money (e-robbery). This is no different from a scam. Although the translations are good stealing should be prohibited and not tolerated in any form. It is for that reason that I gave a one-star, if not a 0 star would suffice..Version: 6.2.3
✓ X5MP140XUse my code for free ink when signing up! This app is okay, I wouldn’t say it’s the best but it’s slightly better than tappytoon..Version: 5.6.0
✓ Freezes. Every. Single. TimeEverytime I try to read the chapter freezes. I close the app and go back but as soon as I get to the spot I was at it freezes again. I can’t even get past the first chapter of a comic. PLEASE FIX THIS.Version: 5.5.1
✓ Love the stories, hate the appI absolutely love the stories so much that I spend a ridiculous amount of money on ink. I like to support the artists. But I absolutely hate the app itself. It always crashes on me when I want to go to the next episode (even if I have a stable internet connection), I have to constantly log in as it logs me out all the time and the app will randomly stop working if I’ve been binge reading. It has happened to me so many times now that I am compelled to leave a review! Please fix this issue tapas. I enjoy the content but can’t stand using the app itself..Version: 5.5.2
✓ Increase amount of ink per videoTapas is good, since it’s like web novel, where you need things to unlock chapters, but the only difference is that it helps you by giving you those items when you first start using the app and you get the items daily, not to mention all the daily tasks allowing you to get more things to unlock chapters. If your not willing to do that at least increase the amount of ink you get per video to at least allow us to watch a video after 2 videos or something along the line of that. Cmon who’s actually gonna waste their time on watching thirty second vids for 15 ink and then realise “oh no I need to watch 25 or so more”, no one..Version: 4.12.2
✓ I love this app but at this point I’m deleting itOf course this app has amazing content and I loved reading the comics and novels. I’m disappointed to say that I’m deleting the app because of some weird glitch that happened to me this morning. I occasionally would have issues where the comic wouldn’t load when I’d open it and I’d have to close the app just to refresh it. But this morning the app seemed to just not show any of what I was reading. I had only been off of the app for a couple days and when I came back thinking I was going to continue reading my favorite comics nothing popped up on recents or my lists. It just showed a loading icon. And nothing would load. I thought it was due to poor connection till nothing showed up at all and gave me a clean slate. I’m supper disappointed to have to make a whole new account or start over because it decided to erase my data. I was deep into a good amount of comics and to start the process to reread the wait for free comics. Is a whole mood kill. I’m deleting the app due to how much I lost due to this glitch..Version: 6.4.3
✓ Gotten too expensiveI’ve been reading on tapas for over two years now and have consistently bought at $25 ink package once every month or two. At first the WUF episodes were permanent and then they made the available for 72 hours only. I was fine with that. Then they raised prices of each episode (by quite a bit) which I was also fine with seeing as how they gave us events where we could win ink. NOW they have made it impossible to earn ink on said events, have begun to change the WUF times from 3 hours to 24 hours and I am not longer okay with it. I will most likely be deleting this app is something doesn't change for the better and based on in app comments many faithful users will be doing the same. LISTEN TO YOUR USERS TAPAS OF LOOSE CUSTOMERS AND MONEY!!!.Version: 7.3.0
✓ Great, But Tapas Doesn’t Like My VPNThe app is great, but I find it very strange that I always get a message saying that I have no Internet connection even though I do while I’m connected to my VPN. It’s rather suspicious. Please fix it! I’ve been learning more and more about the disturbing lengths websites and apps go to so that they can track you everywhere. I just want to protect my privacy as much as I can, but I also really love the webcomics on Tapas. This problem started occurring after an update sometime ago. Tapas worked just fine with my VPN before then..Version: 6.2.3
✓ It’s good if you’re patientI feel that tapas is amazing an reading app. I really like how you can get ink from events and from visiting websites, or to go listening to Podcasts, maybe even a quiz.The only thing I don’t like about this arrangement is that I might spend about 30 minutes of my time for one podcast for only 28 ink that can’t even get me one episode or a half episode. I would like it if they raise their prices for the time they’re doing. I was also like if there were more options. More or so of the ink which you can get is like shopping or a subscription something that costs money. I am not buying ink because I cannot use money. so I would rather have more free options. But other than what I have described I feel like this is a really good app to read on with a bunch of different selections. Also, great art in the comics..Version: 7.3.0
✓ Love supporting artists but the app itself...The comics on here are amazing and you can buy ink to support artists which I’m always here for but the app is really buggy. If i get a notification that theres a new chapter and i open the app THROUGH that notification, nothing ever loads, and when i click the back arrow since the chapter never loads, it suddenly has logged me out and it takes a few attempts to click the log in button for it to work. Then once I’m logged in, it doesn’t show me what has updated i have to go to subscriptions to find the right comic and then I click it and none of the chapters load. It always says 0 chapters, and even though it tells me to continue reading at whatever chapter it bookmarked me at, that also never loads. This happens to me basically every time something updates so at least once a week which is how often I use the app, sometimes I end up not reading for that week cause I’m so frustrated. I hope this can get fixed because I really do love reading these..Version: 5.8.0
✓ HorribleI was really looking forward to using this app but it just wouldn’t work for me at all 😭 couldn’t save any of the comics or download them, when I went to purchase coins (ink) it took my money but wouldn’t let me use them. It just kept telling me it couldn’t find anything when I went to search and to my own library sections….. and the help section was extremely unhelpful. I’m just gonna cry myself back to webtoon…...Version: 6.4.3
✓ Don’t download if you want to read FOR FREEStarted reading a very good piece, only to go through three chapters and be told that I need to use ink to continue. You can either purchase with real money or watch adds to get a small amount (which isn’t useful if you like to read a lot of things). The app download for Pirate Kings didn’t work for me (and it hasn’t worked for other people as well). I appreciate that the people who make webtoons and comics would like support for what they do, but there are better alternatives to receiving an income, such as Patreon, that doesn’t stop people from reading good projects. I recommend the app WEBTOON as you get to read things for free✌🏻.Version: 4.5.0
✓ 7.2.2 update is terribleReally disappointed by this update. Makes the app much harder to use and less enjoyable..Version: 7.2.2
✓ Too many notificationsTurn off your notifications for this app or be prepared to be spammed by 5 or more notifications everyday..Version: 5.3.1
✓ You ruined itYou’re pushing out the people who don’t have deep pockets. This site used to be available for everyone to read on; as long as you were willing to watch ads or do surveys you could read. You burnt that to the ground. I loved this app but I can’t afford to read with the prices doubling and now the free ink options being demolished. You’ve changed. I can’t stick around. I’ll miss some of my favourites, maybe I’ll come back and read them if I can. Tapas used to be the best, now it’s just a burnt up, sucked dry, repetitive post apocalyptic wasteland of a site that can’t even pay its creators properly. You don’t have a monopoly-you need to realise there’s only so far you can push us before we walk out to another site- and soon enough your greed will force everyone away. This was the last straw. I can’t do this anymore. TLDR: greed ruined tapas and I’m done with it.Version: 7.2.2
✓ FreezingLook, I adore Tapas. I love comics and books and this app has lots of them. The ink system in nice, since there are plenty of ways to earn free ink. Comments can be mean, but that isn’t the apps fault. What is the app’s fault is that it keeps freezing. I have an IPhone 6S, which is slightly older, but I’ve heard complaints from many users. The app freezes if I tap anywhere that isn’t a panel, and novels freeze at seemingly random points. I have to close the app, reload it, and then hope it takes longer than five seconds to freeze. I’ve had to do this both with lesser known comics and with the ones featured in advertisements. Even creators have this problem with their own work! I’ve started reading the comics on WEBTOON that I can, but most of them are tapas exclusive. Sometimes tapas says that I’ve read something, but doesn’t keep my bookmark. For example, I’m on page 32, but tapas freezes so I close the tab. I reload, and then it says I’ve read up to page 32, but when I click “continue” I’m back at page 15. If just the freezing problem was fixed, I would probably rate Taptastic five stars, but it’s just unusable right now..Version: 5.5.2
✓ I like the comics but there is a huge problem with informationLook....I love the comics and I want to read more so badly but the problem is I don’t have any tapas ink. No i can’t buy tapas ink cuz I’m literally broke and yes I have tried the unlimited get free ink. But they never let me get any ink at all. I spent 2 hours on a task but it just keeps leading you on being like continue this survey to succeed and the once you finish that survey it’s like here is another one ! Eventually I end up doing the 20ink ones and when I do it barely enough to even unlock a single episode. And I do not appreciate how they want my personal info when I’m just trying to get some free ink. Like please stop with the enter you card number or give us your information on where you live. Why can you guys just let me to survey that ACTUALLY ends and give me some ink without exposing my information and making me spend 3 hours on it..Version: 5.2.0
✓ Con of an appI don’t normally write bad reviews for apps, I just delete them, but I am so angry at this one. Firstly, they don’t actually tell you how much you have to pay for additional ‘ink’. When you try and find the cost the ‘timer’ just keeps doing without letting you know how much you have to spend. So when you ‘buy’ an episode you’re basically doing it blind, which is out of order and illegal without letting you know how much they’re charging. Secondly you can ‘earn’ extra ink. I took 2 of these and both of them surprise surprise I never earned the points. First time I didn’t score enough points. The second time, despite definitely getting all the answers right (I googled them all) it told me I got one wrong so refused to give me the points again. It’s a shame because there’s some good comics on here I would happily pay for, but authors, please don’t let you work go into this awful app..Version: 5.2.3
✓ Very annoyedTapas is fine. It’s not the best but it’s also not the worst, but it’s always a 50% chance that whenever you go on it won’t work. I won’t bring up how as someone who’s in school and doesn’t have a job I can’t read more than half of the stuff on there without watching ads for a month for one chapter but I will mention how it crashes. Whenever you go on it’ll freeze and sometimes when you’re in the middle of reading it’ll freeze, I’m sure I don’t have to tell you how annoying that is. I will still use it but I’ll use it reluctantly at the least..Version: 5.7.2
✓ Won’t register tapsSince Monday this app will let me open it to the home page and change nothing. No taps, no scrolls etc. means I can’t read anything or even see what’s been updated despite getting notifications saying new episodes are available..Version: 5.7.0
✓ Don’t get if you’re not spendingThis has some great comics on here, that are exclusive and cannot be found anywhere else. However, unlike other apps, this one is EXTREMELY focussed on trying to get their users to pay actual money. You’re not going to get far with watching ads which give 10 at a time when a chapter is 350 ink (for the actual good ones) which is 35 ads you have to watch for A SINGLE EPISODE/CHAPTER and the surveys are extremely hard to qualify for. The offers are not worth trying as most of them originate from scamy sites that had questionable advertising (the gambling age defying doctors hate them sketchy sites) and WILL cheat you from getting any ink (trust me, I’ve tried and it NEVER gives you the ink because it’s made to be impossible to complete the quizzes which are riddled with scamy virus ads which may cause a visit to the local IT guy). All in all, if you come to this site, expect to pay actual money. The ‘free’ offers are there to make you feel like maybe you can enjoy a comic without spending money for those younger kids but in reality, this is a service for those who spend money, don’t be fooled by their offer of free stuff. Succumb to your desire and spend spend spend!! Each chapter will cost you around 50 cents (from my country) which is not too bad, my low rating is purely because this was pitched as a website where you could read for free if you do a couple of things such as a FEW ads or a survey or offer when it is not. I don’t want the hopeful broke kids being manipulated by false hopes of what this service actually is. Unless you want to spend hours of your life to get a few free episodes, this is an app you spend on to read. I’d suggest for those who want a good actual free read try out webcomics, they have an ad per chapter policy, sometimes two. If you have your eye on a comic from here, it’s a lost cause if you don’t have money to pay for it sadly, but the good news is that there are plenty of other fish in the sea. Good luck and enjoy reading!!.Version: 5.1.0
✓ AnnoyingI wish there were other methods of earning ink or at least being given more then just 10 ink for watching ads . They have surveys that give ink but those are useless and a waste of time the surveys offering more ink are advertisements in disguise where you have to buy something to the ink or there survey that ask really personal questions like your living area and the amount of children in your household . The surveys that are quick and require any of the things above are usually just 10 ink or less so your better of just watching an ad Also it’s extremely frustrating that it takes so long to raise enough ink just to spend 300+ of that ink one 1 single chapter.Version: 6.9.0
✓ Good app but crashes oftenIt won’t launch on my IPad anymore at all and on my iPhone 7 it often crashes for no rhyme or reason that I’ve seen. The app In itself is great and provides lots of free to read comics and premium for those who want it. You can give your favorite creators ink to support them and this can be earned through watching ads, however since I have been using the app you can’t watch any or earn ink in any other way as the other options are also unavailable, it’s just a shame that this amazing idea doesn’t really work ..Version: 4.11.0
✓ My reviewIt's an okay app I really do think it may be slightly better than Webtoon but I think that ink system is a bit jacked up and I'm surprised no one has talked about it yet. I'm pretty sure that it's impossible to get a bunch of ink without paying or watching a bunch of ads. Most likely no one has really done any of the challenges to get ink because they never work..Version: 5.2.5
✓ Great until service updateI have been using tapas for less than a year and was subscribed to ~100 series. I’d log on and read as many as I could in my free time pretty much daily until the most recent service update came out. There used to be a wait until free function that allowed you to unlock an episode every day until you reached the x most recent episodes - x varied from series to series. I would spend money to get ink to read finished seasons, finished series, stay up to date on my very favorites, and series on hiatus. However, now it is nearly impossible to to keep track of where I was in each series because wuf episodes only stay unlocked for 72 hours and the continue button does not pick up from where you were, it seems to pick up from the last unlocked episode. I was ecstatic to find Tapas because of the high quality stories and art and variety compared to any of the other apps, but the newest update has totally ruined my experience and I will be deleting my account as soon as I get home, since you can’t do it on the app. I’m sad to not get to finish the stories I was reading, but it’s way too difficult to try and continue where I left off. Very sad about this business decision. Seems like just another money grab rather than promoting a good experience for artists and readers..Version: 6.6.4
✓ SadUse to have the app that was before this it was the best manga app then they changed it to this and it became bad. What was easy and free to read and enjoy is now super expensive. Really wish they didn’t change the app and kept the old one it was so much better.Version: 7.0.1
✓ Amazing! Love it but...It’s all amazing in all but it needs like whenever you get in on Tapas they should reward you like 100 inks for visiting the app everyday like the other apps, get what I mean? The app is really addicting and I get why they use ads to get free inks but I’m just suggesting that this should be added as well..Version: 5.4.0
✓ Disappointing - From a paying user since 2020Prices have irrationally gone up Constantly pushing promos that require you to spend a lot to get little, not even enough for one chapter New appearance is overbearing and sole purpose is to promote spending rather than the content Notifications ignore your settings and spam you unless you disable them all at the app level I was happy with my experience till Tapas was acquired. These recent changes are for profit, not for users. It’s forcing us to look elsewhere..Version: 7.1.0
✓ Account data missingI sent an e-mail a few weeks back about my ink going missing and my unlocked chapters locking up again as if I’ve never read them??? It’s pretty frustrating to have the whole app reset just when I’m re-reading a story, I’ve had to start unlocking all the chapters of ‘Kaleidoscope’ whilst saving up to unlock the latest ones. And honestly, my e-mail gets ignored again I will definitely consider deleting this app. If it somehow helps I had all the episodes of Kaleidoscope unlocked with around 500 ink before it was all taken away, please just fix this problem straight away..Version: 6.5.0
✓ It’s okI’m a WEBTOON user so it definitely took some time to get used to this platform. I for one like the books on this app. I think the books on this app suits my taste a lot more than WEBTOONs. I always thought I could not get used to and refused to read books on a daily pass or on here WUF books. But I guess when you are really interested in a book you make do and accept the fact bc I refuse to spend money on ink in this app. Now what I don’t like is how much ink you need to purchase a chapter. Most chapters with tap on are 300 ink and when you use your once a week fortune cookie there’s a chance you get 250 which for most do not open a chapter you want to read. Other than that there’s no real way to earn free ink on this app besides the survey which are pretty much useless for earnings. I don’t mind the WUF episodes bc obviously I like the stories I am reading and I can wait but I honestly think a regular weekly update is a lot better than the WUF episodes only bc once you reach the minimum chapter limit you cannot access them until they become available. I am also not a fan of the WUF episodes going out of commission bc a story is on Hiatus. I think ppl should still be able to get a weekly or WUF episodes until the last episode airs. I find it unfair that ppl need to wait for the book to come out of hiatus for them to finish a season. I would rather wait for the chapters to build up so I can receive weekly updates for the chapters..Version: 6.5.3
✓ Overall it’s fine I guess really need to change the amount of ink used for each chapterI think you shouldn’t have to watch so much videos to get ink because I really am enjoying the stories but I would have liked it better if you could get ink easier or like lower the amount of ink for each chapter because I have deleted and downloaded this app so many turn because I couldn’t even get enough ink to read a quarter of the story so it really is disappointing.Version: 5.2.5
✓ Annoying UIAfter finding out about this platform for webcomics, I used the web version, which i liked a lot more. It was sleeker, worked better, and more intuitive. Then they updated the web browser (on mobile). Now it’s hardly functional and I am forced to use this app, which I also hate the function and design of. Otherwise, a good platform. Like the options for free ink, more apps should follow suit, but it’s hard to look over the UX and design overall. 3/10..Version: 5.0.13
✓ How they treat their artistsSearch for juniljus and see how they treat their artists. (Tapas is a subsidiary of Kakao and publishes Kakao's work in English market.).Version: 7.3.0
✓ I love it but there’s a problemHello everyone, I know the creators will never read many don’t because there to lazy and as long as they get there money they don’t care, but before you get it just know that they have amazing stories but two problems, there are these type of coins called “ink”that you can earn and unlock stories you can buy them or read stories to get some, but my problem is that every time I earn them, I lose them the next day for no reason I don’t spend them on anything and there just gone and I guess it’s because there corrupted they don’t like it if you earn them in stories because it doesn’t benefit them at all so they take them away so you will buy them instead but once you buy them they disappear again so you keep buying and buying till they have all your money, ah, yes the next problem is that every time I do a event for like 25k ink I don’t get the ink that I earned and was told I would get for reading 300 pages of a story and I still do get anything it makes me upset that these amazing stories are being used by such a corrupted company, that’s all for my review thanks for staying till the end..Version: 7.5.2
✓ Incredibly disappointedDon’t bother with this app. Download another app or.. 🏴☠️ (iykyk). (TLDR at bottom) They used to be incredible, they had many good features, one of the main ones being this feature where you could watch ads for ink, then they pulled some stupid bullshxt and said (key word: said) they’d replace it with a system where you could watch an ad for one episode (w/ a limit of 3 times a day, so three episodes a day) or smth, then they just removed all of it. No new ad system, no old ad system. No ad system. So now you have to buy. It’s “spend money, or leave.” I actually used to spend money on this app when I had money to spend. I won’t be spending anything on it at all now. It’s really a such a shame to see such an amazing app turn to.. this. They screwed over their userbase and their creators. Will be finding alternative places to read comics/novels. :/ TLDR: It used to be an amazing app, then they completely ruined it with the new update. Very disappointing. Find another app to download..Version: 7.2.2
✓ Horrible UpdateThe new update is really inconvenient and of the most greedy updates for this app. Even though it’s good that only wait 3 hours (or, in the case for some, an entire day) to unlock a new episode, it’s only available for 3 days. l’d rather have the WUF format from before, where I’d wait a day (and up to a week for some) to unlock an episode permanently. I like to binge all at once, and I can’t imagine waiting 3 hrs to read one episode. Also, this new update sucks even more because it makes me lose track of which episode I’ve been reading - since the episodes close after the 3-day period. This update is just so greedy, basically forcing you to pay for ink if you want to read properly. I did buy thousands of ink, but I’m not going to use all of it to read one story (since one episode is so expensive at 300 ink). Going to use another place to read instead :).Version: 6.6.5
✓ Love it, but….I loved Tapas. Unlike other apps, when you unlock a chapter, you stays unlocked forever. But now with the new update, they have taken that away. So chapters only stays unlocked for 2 day. (Really lucky that it doesn’t apply to already previously unlocked episodes) I still like them, but the old feature made them unique to other apps. I’m really disappointed. (Plus it is really hard to earn the ink to unlock the chapters forever).Version: 6.6.0
✓ New designEdit: I change my mind, please bring back the old design. It’s so much harder to find the books I want now. I no longer have an easy to find button for which genre I’m feeling like reading and I hate it. Please change it back I gotta say, I quite dislike the new layout of tapas. It might just take awhile to get used to but I still don’t like it as much as the older layout. I’m also getting tired of the price changes and will forever be upset about the WUF no longer being permanent. At least the still have some good books though..Version: 7.3.0
✓ CrashingThis darn app keeps crashing in the middle of darn episodes!! You guys better fix this it’s extremely hair-pulling..Version: 5.5.0
✓ You can’t read for freeWebtoon is a much better app because you literally can’t read anything for free anymore on this app. You used to be able to get enough credits to read 1 free chapter a week but now the Monday fortune cookie doesn’t give you enough to unlock one. So unless you want to spend forever watching ads which don’t give you credits sometimes when they are supposed to or you want to pay a ton of money then don’t bother..Version: 6.5.7
✓ Don’t scam ppl out of their timeI spent 25 minutes or so trying to do a task which didn’t even give me any ink, I got scammed out of my time and I’m so angry right now, this isn’t the only time this has happened tho, this is why I just find some novels/manhua to read and go on a different app/website that you DON’T need to get stuff like ‘ink’ and wastes your time. There isn’t rlly any more use for this app for me now in this phone but your lucky that I haven’t deleted it yet because I haven’t spent my ink that I worked so hard to get and only getting 1,000 in 2 weeks. Please understand and fix this as well as raising the amount of ink you get for things like ads cause you have to sit there doing nothing for 30seconds of your life and then having to do it 25 more times just to read another chapter! (c" ತ,_ತ).Version: 5.3.0
✓ Transphobic, during Pride no lessUpdate: as you can see from the canned developer response, they’re not even reading this. It’s not a bug or a mistake. The tapas survey asks “are you male or female” and you can’t take surveys until you pick one. It’s designed specifically to exclude and discriminate against us. Screw you, tapas. Original: Despite having a massive queer audience, the company still others it’s queer customers. They’re currently queer baiting with their “Pride Collection”, while at the same time non-binary people aren’t even allowed to take surveys. I’ve sent so so so many messages to support about them partnering with transphobic or just ignorant companies in the past for their surveys, but usually just end up skipping through them until I find one that’s correct. Like, LEGALLY I am non-binary. It’s on my freaking driver’s license and birth certificate. Has been for YEARS. How in 2023 can you pretend that we don’t even EXIST???? How am I still having to defend my EXISTENCE to people??!? It’s exhausting! Now I find that ALL other surveys are locked behind tapas’ own binary-enforcing survey, meaning you can’t take ANY survey if you can’t answer it. I heavily regret all the cash and time I’ve spent getting ink. They want to take our money and then belittle us as people. Disgusting. Just go read on Webtoons. Happy Pride, y’all..Version: 6.8.1
✓ My pot of patience is running low...This app has so many version changes, but what I don’t understand is how the app still doesn’t function optimally. The library doesn’t load the new episodes even when I get notifications. The front page shows the newly added episodes but when I click on it, it shows me the name of the comic with black screen underneath. I’m so mad hat my tapas usage has drastically reduced. I’m looking to features from my work and life and relax with wonderful co tent posted by the creators. But when I come here, the app tests my patience. I don’t like the web version on mobile phones. Can someone please fix this?.Version: 5.5.1
✓ Too expensive - punishes loyal readersI don’t know what’s been going on with Tapas in the last year, but they have upped the cost of episodes several times, gotten rid of methods of gaining ink (coins) to watch free episodes, and reduced the one tap bundle discounts. If you are looking for a webcomic app, bypass this one. If I wasn’t invested in several ongoing serials on here, I would have deleted it already. There are other webcomic apps that are way cheaper than tapas and have a good stable of comics/novels..Version: 7.3.0
✓ Pay To Read - July 11, 2020I used to love this app. I’d always use it, and I loved reading all i could. Then... coins/ink. Now, I understand that the makers of those comics need to make money somehow, but the prices are... to put it simply... absurd! That’s why i uninstalled the app. I could only ever get into a comic for a few chapters until they forced me to pay. I’ve tried every option but anything that involved paying actual money, and sure, they give you some. But it’s so time consuming! Nobody has the time for that. Nobody. There really needs to be a new system. The Webtoon app is so much better simply because they don’t force you to waste so much time buying crap. They use ads and whatnot. I’d rather have ads pop up but still be able to read without worrying about paying to read more. Seriously. It’s called a “fun” way, but I don’t see it in any sort of amusement. Fix it. That’s all. I’m not willing to pay money, only to get a few episodes. That’s ridiculous. The app used to be alright, but now it’s just... yeah. It’s such a bummer, too, because Tapas is an amazing app with a wide variety of comics to read. But this paying system has gotten out of hand..Version: 5.2.3
✓ Good Story.... butThe story on Tapas are good so far. I haven't had it for very long, but so far, the animation is beautiful, the stories are fun to read and can easily get you hooked. However, I'm not a fan of the coin system. I understand that the artist worked very hard and deserve a good pay for their work, however, I feel that the episodes are too short for 300 coins (if you decide on 1-tap pay, which already is 20% discounted). The other option is to pay the original coin price without the 20% off. More coins can be bought, however, if 1 episode is 300 coins, then you will easily, and fast, run out of coins and have to buy more. If you find other stories that you find interesting then it's easy to do the math and notice that you'll run out of money quick. Not to mention, it's a comic so the story will have many episodes. There are free episodes, but usually only 3 and another 1 free episode, but you'll have to wait 24 hours to receive a free episode and who wants to wait that long? I would recommend that Tapas have a monthly subscription like Mantra App does (LOVE LOVE that app by the way) instead of the coin base..Version: 5.10.1
✓ It is malfunctioningSo…I’m new to tapas. I’ve been a fan of Webtoon for awhile. But I wanted more comics bc I’ve basically seen all the ones of Webtoon. Tapas is amazing!! It has so many comics and they’re so cool, but the problem is you have to download the app in order to earn free ink and have one touch or whatever. And it’s really hard to use. The notifications do not consistently work. It was really hard to navigate, and I could not for the life of me figure out how to claim my new to the app pack. Occasionally I would get notifications that say “claim your new pack” and I would click on the notification. It would bring me to the app and then say “sorry we find what your looking for” 🤷♀️. And I scoured the app looking for a way to find it myself, but no luck. It would log me out of the app multiple time a day. The ads (for free ink) malfunction a lot (sorta, to be fair I was watching a lot of ads lol). But I can deal with all of that annoying stuff. What was really frustrating is when the app shuts down. I’ll be watching a comic and the screen will freeze and turn black. And when I try to go back in the same thing happens again. I was so concerned that I decided to delete the app, and maybe try to redownload it later. The whole day I’ve been thinking of the comic I was reading earlier 😓. I dont know what to do at this point. I hope, if I decide to redownload, that I have a better experience..Version: 6.4.0
✓ Can I give less than one star?You get 200 coins to start. But unlocking a SINGLE EPISODE costs 225... and the episodes are generally pretty short. Then you have to do adds and promos to slowly gather coins or you pay a freakish amount of money to get more coins! This is ridiculous I'm sticking with webtoons....Version: 3.7.0
✓ Adds to coinsYour 10 coin reward for watching one add is so expensive it is ridiculous. I downloaded this app as an author I like from a different app also has a novel on here that I wanted to read. The main reason why I use these kinds of apps is because I cannot afford to spend money on books right now. You may think that the small amount of money needed to pay for the coins to unlock the book isn’t much, and I understand that you might not want to encourage people to use watching the adds as a means to pay for the book. However I read a lot, and I don’t have any spare money lying around. So when I say I can’t afford it right now. I really really can’t. Normally on other sites, I do not mind watching a few adds in order to pay for each chapter as it is a way to support the authors that I like. However, on your site one add is only worth 10 coins. I must use 105 coins to unlock each chapter. That a total of 10.5 15~30 second adds to unlock one chapter. That is absolutely ridiculous. Because I really like this author that I followed to this app, I thought that it would be worth it to try and stick it out anyway. 7 hours. Let me repeat, “7 hours” later I had almost managed to stream enough adds to read the novel when the app decided that I had watched enough, and it wasn’t going to let me watch anymore. I was 120 coins away to be exact. So I after all that, I still can’t read it. Before anything else I would like to say that, yes of course I did not pay much attention to those adds. Do you actually think I would waist s e v e n h o u r s of my time on adds!? No. However, as I was constantly having to pause every 30 seconds in order to start the next add, I was unable to do anything productive, either. (I watch a steam on Netflix) Granted, today is my day off, and i didn’t have anything else planned, but it would have been nice to get something else done anyway. If I’d done my math beforehand, and worked out how long it would take, I would not have considered it worth it. Especially for your app to stop me right at the point where I was seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. Let’s go back to what I said about not really watching the adds. Normally on other sites, I don’t mind watching adds. As I said, it’s a small thing that I can do to support the authors that I love to read. The very expensiveness of your add to coin exchange made it impossible for me to do this. In effect, making it totally not worth it for the people paying for the adds. 10 adds, per chapter, is far far FAR too expensive. Because of this, after eventually unlocking the 120 coins that I need to read the novel that I came here to read, I will not be looking to continue using this app. It is not worth it..Version: 4.2.1
✓ Rip offThey are two series that have one episode free. Let me give you the names so you won’t think I’m exaggerating the first one is called Mr. Brawn or something like that the second one is called 100% perfect go search it up you’ll see that I’m not lying .apples probably going to delete this review but it’s the truth. Also getting free ink is difficult like the prices are high so I would have to watch like 15 ads but I would have to watch them at different times but if I get lucky they will pretend like I dropped some ink and also at different times I can’t watch the ads for free and I don’t want to use real money so please at least lower the prices make the ads a little more available and please you could lock your comics but please don’t protect it too much what I mean by protect is only giving one episode free that’s just basically giving them a scam . Overall they have some pretty great comics and novels but I just think it’s the payment method that they use for free and the prices like I’m just going to read a couple of chapters but I can’t even read two no that’s just a rip off.Version: 5.3.5
✓ Extremely hard to track episodes nowI’m very close to deleting this app after 2 years. It has become extremely hard to track what you’ve already read vs. what you can read from the WUF episodes. - With the newest update, I can no longer track where I am in a story with “WUF” episodes because they lock again in a couple days. I’ve clicked on the same episode more than once, and most stories don’t even have episode titles so all I can go by is the tiny thumbnail with the episode number. - In the Library, the “wait until free” section became useless 2 or 3 updates ago. Almost all of of the stories I’m trying to keep up with say “read now,” so I have to actually click on the stories to see if a chapter is unlocked. Doesn't matter when a chapter is “up” because that doesn't mean a WUF chapter is always out. - With the newest update this becomes even worse, because when I now click on a story to see if I have any WUF epidoes, I end up clicking ones I already read and end up wasting my WUF for the day/week etc. How am I supposed to want to read anything anymore??.Version: 6.6.3
✓ Subscribed are a messWhen you look in your subscribed series, you sometimes need to scroll down for a long time until you find the series you want. There aren’t enough organization? Just unsubscribe and resubscribe for an hour or 2! For the devs: can you please add some files and better organisation tech because everyone that has a lot of subscribed series are in pain! Ps: I lost more than 5 hours just to organize my library of subscribed series!.Version: 7.5.2
✓ Bankrupt to readHorrible UI making it hard to find what you want to read. Huge paywall on the series so good luck reading multiple series at once. There are better alternatives..Version: 7.3.0
✓ Some issues but overall okayTook some time for me to get used to the way tapas works coming from a webtoon user, it was way different like you have to either purchase or wait for it to be time to unlock the episode. I liked it at first but the wait was annoying for some I had to wait like 7 days but others it was just 24 hours, but it was worth it bc I was able to keep the episode unlocked forever, without having to use the ink, but eventually they took that down so now whenever we unlock the episode we only keep that episode for a certain amount of time, but at least the wait wasn’t for long it was only like 3 hours, I hated that bc I read so many stories I need to refresh my memory of what happened the previous episode so I would use the ink on the same episode again but eventually got used to that too, but what I didn’t like was how it didn’t show what episode I left off on so I lost track but they fixed that too so now it shows. Since I prefer the stories that have a 3 hour wait or a wait time, I don’t usually, unless it’s from an event, I use ink but I noticed how they took down the watch videos for ink, kind of disappointed by that, and now we can only invite friends for ink, or complete offers for ink.Version: 7.3.0
✓ I like bingeing comicsPlease create a premium subscription function unlocking all comics. I would buy that in a HEARTBEAT omg. I personally love bingeing comics and shows, and I don’t enjoy waiting a whole twenty four hours for each episode. The effort it takes to acquire enough free Ink to immerse in a story isn’t worth it either. I coulddd pay for Ink, but the Ink to episode ratio is tear jerking. The value I’d get out of several days of a monthly/weekly subscription in comparison to the value of fifty episodes unlocked with Ink is far far greater. Some other apps offer an unlimited subscription, but I guess it is one of the unique aspects to Tapas that sets it apart… However, it’s just a bit disappointing after realising that so many comics need unlocking 😭 I would love to support the artists, and I understand this is a great way to give and pay them what they deserve, because it’s a looooot of their time that’s gone into it. I just probably won’t be using this app as often ☹️ Beautiful, beautiful artwork though 😍.Version: 6.5.12
✓ It’s good as an app but not good for contentI got this app for solo levelling, I enjoyed using it but I wished they categorised and promoted a bit better and had more balance on the genres because I spend most of my time having to filter out LGBT romance content in order to find stories I’d like to read. I guess until I know there is a story I want to read on tapas, I’ll be using WEBTOONs as they are more balanced I believe (thus more content I read).Version: 6.5.4
✓ A+Let's see here what this lovely app has done for readers hmm. It's gotten rid of ways to get ink, increased the cost of ink for episodes, got rid of 3hrs wuf for new series, increased the cost for ink packages, made reading challenges impossible and unrealistic, put series on long hiatus and then forgot about those series, and doesn't even bother licensing the series that readers want in the first place. I’m sure there’s more but yea don’t waste your time and money..Version: 7.3.0
✓ Watch Add gone?I love tapas, however the ‘watch add’ to get free ink has completely gone. I don’t always manage to get the Mondays free ink and I don’t know if it’s just an error or what, but it is very annoying and I can’t really catch up on anything or support people… Edit: apparently it has been is just disappointing. Not everyone can afford even the cheapest option to get ink and it’s very stupid to get rid of the only option that helps people enjoy the stories. I don’t want to get rid of the app but it needs sorting! Maybe think about other people and not just the money..Version: 7.2.2
✓ Was my favorite :(Of the various apps, Tapas had the best features for me. I enjoyed the comment section and the selection of stories. I also loved how they weren’t stingy with the wait until frees, until the new update that is. I was even willing to turn a blind eye when to the app glitching (freezing up, not loading, showing blank screens, being to sensitive when you use the ‘auto unlock’ feature when causes you to spend more than you originally anticipate). Now with ‘72 hr availability’, it’s no better than the rest of them! I’ve put money into this one and one other so I can support the creators and the app, which I appreciated. It *was* my #1. I prefer Webtoon’s model over this and I hate their daily unlock stories (as in, typically avoid like the plague). Good gravy. Now with Tapas using 72 hr availability, I like it a lot less. I’m even more irritated they rolled it out by changing the terms of service in a seemingly vague way first. I have a few stories I’ve been unlocking for ink, but I’m going to be less motivated to do so moving forward and will be spending a lot less time in the app. Will be spending less with Tapas moving forward and try to support other apps now..Version: 6.6.2
✓ Update needs adjustmentsI’ve updated the app recently and I cannot tell you how many times I’ve gotten the pop up message for the “update now” add and even though I’ve pressed don’t ask again it pops up. And annoyingly when I’m reading. I don’t like that the place where the updated comics would appear on the main page is gone, it now adds an extra unnecessary step to find them. Also why is there a ranking? Why is that necessary? I’m just disappointed.Version: 7.0.1
✓ Problems with tapasTbh I actually quite like dis website coz I like how u can support the artist and I like the layout & design of the app however: - in order 2 get ink u can’t do survey or any offer coz u have 2 add in personal info + it doesn’t even work - everytime I’m reading 1 of the comic I instantly crash & end up having 2 reset my phone everytime - I found out dat the phone app doesn’t offer all the most updated & a huge variety compared 2 their other website on google - my messages & convo gets deleted after a while & its difficult 2 chat with the other community Honestly I’m only keeping the app coz I like the design I hope they will update & fix all the bugs soon.Version: 5.5.1
✓ Earning inkI can’t afford to buy ink so I would watch an ad or two to top up when I got some from reading events since the amount needed to unlock an episode is always more than I personally can get on the reading events, usually by like 50-75 ink. Watching ads is suddenly gone, tap joy is still there but I have never succeeded in getting tap joy to actually reward me even if I do exactly as it says. So I can’t earn ink anymore..Version: 7.2.2
✓ Needs more ways to get inkI love the game but I recommend adding more ways to obtain ink! I’m running out of ink almost instantly, and I’m unable to read anything, when I went to watch videos it said 0/60 I watched 7 videos and was no longer able to watch any videos for ink, now all I have is the invite 200 ink thing. But I have no friends who don’t already have the app. And whenever the demo thing comes up (RARELY IF I MUST ADD, and the videos don’t come up anymore either) I can only do one demo before it goes away and I’m then left for days without a way to get ink. Other than that I really love the app it’s a great way for writers/illustrators to share they’re work. And a good place for readers like myself to enjoy they’re stories even if I have to wait weeks before I can read another episode.Version: 4.6.5
✓ Great app but...I enjoy the variety that tapas provides however the new update has caused me some frustration, I understand that they need to display their sponsored comics however it’s overly difficult to find comic that you can read if you are unable to read the featured ones. Even then it takes even longer to find comics you already haven’t seen. While at first this didn’t bother me so much I’ve become increasingly frustrated because, while not always, sometimes when I leave a comic I was quickly looking at from the genre category in the community comics, I go all the way back to the sponsored ones. I also have issue with the discover tab, while I really like the idea in theory the first thing you see when you open it is a featured comic suggested not at all based on your tastes. Even when you scroll down to the community comics, you only see comics recently updated. Rather than this I would display comics with a good amount of hearts(?) for the amount of subscribers(?) that doesn’t already have a huge fan base. Preferably these comics would also be updates rather recently as well. However this is most likely hard to implement so if now this then simply display comics that the user has not read in the genres the user prefers to avoid someone who doesn’t enjoy romance comics getting suggested “chief seduction officer”. Even easier just turn it into the community comics/novels tab.Version: 4.1.1
✓ Ehhhhhh.....It’s and OK app but I would prefer (if authors agree) to have more FREE episodes and if it only asks for maybe 10 ink to unlock per episodes thats not in the 300’s or something like that. Please read and think about this suggestion because it will MOST LIKELY make the app more enjoyable! Thanks P.S. The free ink offers that give you 100 or so ink when you finish a survey does NOT work for me personally so I end up wasting alot of time on those in return for nothing. Thank you again and sorry you had to read these complaints..Version: 5.1.4
✓ Keeps CrashingI’ve been using Tapas for a long time, and I think it’s a pretty great app. But after the latest updates it keeps crashing almost every time I open the app, and it’s kind of frustrating because all I wanna do is read. Please fix the issue..Version: 5.5.2
✓ The earn ink by watch ads has disappearedOn my iPhone the means to earn ink by watching ads has disappeared mysteriously. Was this a bug in the update? Or did you intentionally drop that means of earning ink?.Version: 7.2.1
✓ New app is RubbishThere must be a bug because it is REALLY frustrating to use right now and it wasn’t before. I have had to switch off my phone so many times in a day to reboot the app but it keeps doing it. I’ve got the new app so stop with the pop up prompts to add the new app every five minutes that take me away from what I’m trying to read and then I can’t go back. Argh. The worst..Version: 7.0.2
✓ Won’t loadA few years back I gave this app a great review and I still stand by that at most but I have recently gotten a new phone, an iPhone. Since changing phones I have installed this app onto my new phone but it only works the first time round after exiting the app and trying to use it later it will not load, once I click on the app it opens for a split second before closing again. I have uninstalled the app and reinstalled but this problem hasn’t gone away. Please tell me if there is any way to fix this, as this is my favourite and was my most used app..Version: 6.1.2
✓ FrozenHonestly this app is pretty and i would think that it could be on par with webtoon if it doesn’t lag all the time, like the longest time i was on the app without it freezing is about 5 min like why the hell does it jeep on freezing all the time.Version: 5.5.0
✓ Good but expensiveGood content but locked behind a steep pay wall, it would almost be cheaper to buy physical copies of a series than paying to unlock new chapters..Version: 7.3.0
✓ App crashingHello I love the app and I love all the art and comics but there is one issue the app keeps crashing I can’t even read a single comic or story. I can’t even just be on the main page before it crashes. I was wondering is there a way to fix this? And if you could tell me how please. Thank you for the great stories and I love all the different varieties of stories and authors..Version: 6.9.0
✓ LagThe app keeps freezing and crashing every time I go to the next chapter. It’s really annoying, plz fix! Other than that the stories are great..Version: 5.5.1
✓ Terrible “Update”Extremely disappointed with the removal of watching ads for free ink. Young people are your primary audience, and they’re exactly the demographic that doesn’t have much disposable income. Ads for ink was a great way for us to legally support creators even if we can’t spend hundreds of dollars on buying ink. This change hurts smallest creators the most and trying to sneak it in an “update” that only described it as “Bug fixes and improvements” was adding insult to injury. When your own consumers dread your next update, that should be something you take seriously. If/when the update is forced on my other device, I’ll have to find webcomics elsewhere..Version: 7.2.2
✓ Where my ink going?Tapas is an amazing app with really great stories, BUT recently my ink has been disappearing around every week. I bought some and used it and had a left over of 1000 left and around the next few days it just disappeared, same issue happens with the weekly fortune cookie ink which is very annoying. I’m not sure if this is issue is just with me or it has happened to other people..Version: 6.4.3
✓ Love the stories, The app not so muchThe stories are so well written or even drawn but the only problem im having on this app is that fact that it constantly logs me in and out, doesn’t load chapters for me when i click the notifications and recently i haven’t been able to log back into my account for awhile now :( someone fix this thanks-.Version: 5.5.2
✓ Overpriced and not really worth itI think it has some good comics in here’s but honestly it’s not anything really unique. A lot of it’s just rip offs of another. And, when you finally do find a really good comic they make it so hard to read for free (apart from the community section but almost all of those are on other apps too) Unlike WEBTOON, all of the comics on Tapas are either a daily pass show or you have to buy all of the episodes. And, the worst part is that when there is a daily pass comic, only some of it is actually daily pass. The rest of it you have to buy? And they’ve gotten rid of their easiest way to get free ink (watching ads), which is just stupid cus the other way of signing up for things and going on to websites for ink is so sketchy and almost never works. All of the websites are so sketchy and definitely not the safest place to be. Also, everything is so expensive omg. They did this like 3 free episodes if you watch 3 ads kind of thing, which is great, but it literally only works on a handful of stories??? I just feel like compared to WEBTOON, this app isn’t really worth it. There are some good stories on there every now and then though..Version: 7.5.2
✓ Unadvertised micro transactions (expensive)You’ll begin reading a webcomic you think is free, but there are no ads on the app, so you wonder if it’s all patron based. then you get a couple chapters in, you’re still not sure if you love it, not much of the plot has happened yet, just character intros and suddenly it wants you to pay to read the rest of the series. it says you can watch ads to get free coins but the ads are all 30seconds long and you only get 10 coins from it while most chapters are worth over 300 coins and whole series are over 20,000. you could just buy coins but THEY ARE EXPENSIVE! $20 for a webcomic I’m only mildly interested in? no thank you. I’ll spend my money on things I know i like. But now i’m afraid to use the app because, I don’t know if every webcomic I read and begin to like will eventually charge me and force me to commit or quit. I understand the need to pay the artists, I support my favorite creators on patreon when I can and I don’t use ad blocker. But I felt tricked, like it wasn’t advertised as being pay to read and now I’ve deleted the whole app because I’m too poor to support all of its artists on a whim. If you can afford to buy things just to see if you like it or not, please enjoy this app..Version: 4.2.2
✓ Occasional log outs w/ bugsIdk why. But for some reason my account seems to frequently log out. An it can become increasingly frustrating when there’s a bug (like right now) where it won’t log you back in at all. It will just sit there loading an refresh the log in page. Por favor fix. Would rate 5 star if it wasn’t for that.Version: 6.0.3
✓ Crashes now nonstopI’ve never felt the need to write a bad review before, but since the last update it’s been crashing whenever you open a page or whenever you even try to scroll down. it was great before. please fix whatever you broke, because the app is unusable as-is..Version: 5.5.0
✓ App doesn’t workUsed to be my favourite app for reading comics. New update made the app crash after opening a comic for a few seconds. Please fix this issue..Version: 5.5.0
✓ Log in systemOk I would have rated a 5 everything is amazing best quality I couldn’t have ask for more however today as I am writing this I have looked out and I put in my correct password and email. It still won’t work I have my account on my old phone and changed the password to make sure I wasn’t mistaken and I checked the email address I did it both perfectly and it still won’t let me in on my new phone and I scared to log out on my old phone. Please help Tapas I really need it.Version: 5.4.0
✓ Love to read but the price is too steepI’ve been using tapas for about a year and 9 months now, and I loved it. At the time, it was 24hr WUF and you kept the chapter forever. Then, they introduced the 3hr WUF where you only keep the chapter for 72 hours. That was fine but you don’t get to keep them and it makes legally rereading the series long as hell. But it’s workable. Then any that you own and download doesn’t work offline and entirely crashes the app. I have to delete it and all of its data in order to use the app again. I’ve reported it and it’s not been fixed. Then putting the prices up. You don’t get value for money anymore. They didn’t even announce it. Finally, they began doing events to get extra ink, and with the 3hr WUF it was great. Until, it’s a 3 day event and you have to read 6/12 chapters to get the free ink. No point. It’s just annoying. Unless there are some good changes, I’m really considering going back to Manta Unlimited or Webtoons because it’s better value for money, even though my favourite series is here. Keep this in mind if you’re looking to read a lot and will be a paying customer..Version: 7.3.0
✓ It’s nice.. but could be betterMy first thoughts on this app is how well the stories are written and how good the art style is displayed. The stories are entertaining and enjoyable, I do not fault anything against the writers and illustrators. However it appears there is a constant problem with how to access the content with the terms as “Tapas Ink” this ink would be used to unlock chapters within the series of the stories. At first I completely didn’t understand this layout and the app itself was confusing by its appearance. As I looked further into the “Tapas ink” I found options to purchase the ink or to earn them for free. I attempted at the surveys and quizzes they recommended but I was given shady websites that wanted my information and insisted I do another, I understand apps need advertisement but this is not how I would expect it to be and how it wasn’t as rewarding as it should be. I also think the amount of ink needed to unlock a chapter is an unfair amount and should be reduced. My final thoughts are this isn’t my first choice to go to if I want to read comics if changes were made then I would reconsider and approve, but unfortunately it comes down to how many views apps have and ratings..Version: 5.4.1
✓ :( listen to us we didn't want or ask for thisI used to really love this app and how it was unique from the other apps I use to read comics on, as not only was there a way to support creators but it was so easy to do so, if you yourself didn’t have money that you could easily spend on their ink bundles the app used to provide a second and third option for users to receive ink without having to pay money which was watching short formed ads and and taking surveys, when I was bored would use the options to watch ads and take the surveys for ink, but unfortunately with the new update that is no longer possible it has made me Very disappointed and it has discouraged me from wanting to use this app anymore as there is no longer anyway for me to, 1) Get ink easily without having to spend money(which a lot of us can’t easily do). 2) Without anyway to receive ink easily a lot of users can no longer easily support their favorite creators(which is really unfortunate considering inksgiving is this month). In conclusion, the new update is a horrible decision that the developers of this app has done, as no one asked for this and with them not listening to what we readers want it looks they will soon be losing a lot of readers..Version: 7.2.2
✓ Forced me to log outI love tapas it’s got such a great range of novels and comics but unfortunately recently all of a sudden they forced logged me out and ask the ink and novels I had read were no longer there I have spent so much money reading with tapas it really annoys me because I will have to buy all the novels and comics if I want to read them again which is such a waste of money. I hope this only happens to me but i will not be using tapas ever again.Version: 6.3.4
✓ Honest assessmentAt first glance, you can tell the numbers of likes & comments are rigged. 3,000 comments and 10,000 likes for a Korean comic in a matter of days? Really? What’s more disappointing is almost all the Premium featured comics are the same kind of art & stories. So immensely Boring. There is absolutely no variety. All the Premium Comics are made by the usual suspects. I’m beginning to think they rig the numbers of likes/comments out of necessity because no one is actually reading anything on the app..Version: 6.7.8
✓ So much money - Ink System is botched.I love the tapas stories but there is barely any stories available where you can wait to read. You either have to spend hours doing surveys to get the ink to unlock chapters or buy ink. I’ve spent, no lie, around $300 on ink, if not more, so I could read these flipping stores. Each chapter to unlock costs 300 ink. I just feel like I should be getting more out of my buck if I’m going to be spending my money. Also, the surveys you can do to get free ink are bogus. It’ll say the survey will take 3-5 minuets but actually take upwards of 20-25 minutes just to get like 200 ink MAYBE. And asks the same question 10 times. There’s no guarantee that you’ll even get what was promised either since it goes on length of survey. The app will give you some randomly but I mean it’s enough for one chapter then you’re out of luck. Also app developers can y’all please for the love of everything fix the surveys? Like make them more user friendly on phones? Why do I have to enter the same information a million different times? Also put in a keyboard in the app that gives auto generated answers and don’t have surveys that ask the same question a million times on the same survey. Like seriously, I dont mind filling out surveys I just don’t like when I spending 25minuets on a survey for 168 ink that said was only suppose to be 5mins and when it’s finally completed I only get like half of the promised ink..Version: 5.10.1
✓ Messaging SystemPlease add a better messaging system where mobile users actually get notified of replies & profile messages! there is no reliable way to contact someone on tapas mobile, so if someone is restricted to that they never get any messages! It's really frustrating and makes the mobile experience frustrating and useless compared to desktop.Version: 3.4.9
✓ Great ideaThis app is a great way to support artists at a relatively affordable price which I’m grateful for (other apps like LezhinComics charge $30 for just one series). I wish there were more ways to get coins other than watching ads and referring friends. I know some other apps have more intricate ad rewards (like if you download x app and reach a certain level you get, say, 800 coins to buy comics with etc) and I’m hoping one day they might do that for us one day :) The comics I’ve read are high quality and they have a wide variety to choose from, and actually there’s a LOT of free ones, or ones that have the first few episodes for free so you can decide whether you want to jump into purchasing it or not. Anyways, the app works great functionally BUT I had one huge problem... The app keeps crashing :( Sometimes I’ll have the app opened for five minutes or less and it will crash, sometimes it won’t crash for 30 minutes straight but inevitably every time I have used the app it has crashed ;_; if not for that I would’ve given more stars but unfortunately it’s really damaging my enjoyment of the app because of its frequency....Hopefully this is something that can be fixed so I can change my review sooner rather than later and more people can properly enjoy everything tapas has to offer!!.Version: 4.1.0
✓ NeutralOkay I’ve had tapas for around 2 weeks now and it’s AMAZING I love the stories and all but I’m here to complain, so I turn OFF 1-tap and it still one taps me, I’m losing ink and I hate it, another problem is getting ink is impossible, when I do surveys I don’t get the ink, it just says ‘Thank you for sharing pls go back’ or something like that I rest my case :/.Version: 6.1.1
✓ Changes without warningThe wait until free episodes have been changed from forever unlock to 72 hour unlock without notice in the new version. 72 hour unlocks are too short to actually get enough episodes to get into a series. Not a fan..Version: 6.6.2
✓ GlitchyLike the app but it’s glitching after I downloaded some chapters.Version: 6.5.8
✓ WAY TOO EXPENSIVEI came here from Wattpad, as the author finished the book here. It'll cost me 27.99 for the ONE book..Version: 3.5.2
✓ Just got scammedThis app just charged me 35$ without my consent it just took the money from my bank in the night I only noticed as it was a pending payment and I knew I hadn’t brought new ink as I had plenty and the money taken didn’t even give me ink either so they just took 35$ straight out of my account meaning they are using my private bank details . I have already reported this app and if I do not get my money back I will be taking this to further levels. GIVE MY MONEY BACK NOW.Version: 6.7.7
✓ EnhThe comics are great, but the system is flawed as it is so dependent on ink. Ink isn’t cheap. And even if you get a few thousand, it won’t last that long. Sometimes the ink doesn’t even deliver. Also, the premium comics require a lot of ink, usually around 300. Also, whenever they release new episodes, they release multiple at once, instead of releasing one long episode it releases two or three, making you use even more ink. All in all, the app has great comics, but reading those comics is such a pain..Version: 5.4.0
✓ Invite code: TRIP265O (capital o)If you want to help me out and get free 500 ink to start you can use my code above (the last digit is the letter O not zero). To be completely honest, Webtoon is overall better. I find a lot of the stories on Tapas to be pretty tropey and a lot of the summaries sound very similar. The app also glitches a lot although it solves itself after opening and closing the app a few times. There also aren’t nearly as many free to read episodes as on Webtoon. That being said, it is much easier to get free ink than it is to get free coins on Webtoon as they offer you ink for completing surveys and watching ads. Overall it’s not the best app for reading webcomics but it still does have some that are worthwhile reads (hence why I still grudgingly use it). Check it out, see if there’s any stories that peak your interest, but personally I would check Webtoon out first (no I am not affiliated Webtoon, it’s just the other webcomic app that I have)..Version: 5.7.0
✓ Buttons.Your demo button doesn’t seem to wanna work the majority of the time despite the fact there are still ads available. And there will never be 30 video ads. I’m not talking hourly, I mean daily. But I have liked a few of the changes that’ve been going on, keep up the good work 👍.Version: 4.8.2
✓ Great stories, mediocre functionalityOKAY SO I friggin love the stories I find on Tapas compared to webtoons, and the audience is smaller so there’s more commentary that’s actually relevant to the story, which makes it easier to be seen and have conversation. Tapas really has great content. But WOW this app does not care about the functionality. To be honest, I find the app a little difficult to navigate at first, especially since the “messages” tab has nothing to do with comments you leave or receive. You have to tab over to “activity” to see notifications like that. But MY GOD the app just BREAKS all the time! On the regular! It crashes very often, especially when I want to leave a comment. Sometimes it’s fine and I have no problems. But more often than not, especially compared to Webtoons, it freezes up and you have to close it and reopen it to do anything. I never have this problem on the desktop, but this is an app made for mobile consumption. I also have spotty wifi, but again, I DON’T have the same problem with any other app (besides Amino). I don’t know if it’s a budget issue or a quality control issue, or whatever. But I’m (and I’m sure others are too) BEGGING tapas to fix their mobile app to functions better!! Sometimes the entire app just stops working and nothing will load from the get go. I’ll stop now, but I desperately wish my experience on Tapas was better. Especially since the stories and comment section are better than other webcomic apps..Version: 5.5.2
✓ Great content but constant glitchesThe app freezes a lot, and has constant problems with glitches. Currently there is an issue with chapters loading with repeated frames. Most chapters are loading with the first frame repeated 3 times, and it's getting worse with some chapters having huge sections repeating multiple times, halfway through. Also the app is notorious for not providing the promised ink after reading the required number of episodes for a promotion. Finally, despite the fact that you can select your favorite genres for your profile, 90% of the comics feed is made up of series where the primary genre tag does not match my favorite genres. There is no way to filter OUT the genres you do not care for, so the feed is completely useless. The home page also does not allow you to exclude genres, so again you have to open each series to find out if it's one of the genres you don't like. Overall, I'm giving 3 stars because there is a lot of great content here, but 2 stars deducted for the terrible functionality and lack of user-friendly interface..Version: 6.0.2
✓ No longer wait until free to keepI’m not a fan of the new update. The one thing that elevated Tapas over other comic providers like TappyToons, Webcomics, PocketComics and WEBTOON was the fact that if you were patient enough certain comics you could earn for free up until the last 10-15 episodes which I was always happy to spend for once I was sure the comic was completed then I could sit and read the comic start to finish with no wait times. Now though it appears you can only unlock wait comics for 72 hrs which for a lot of these comics which still have 24hr to 7 day wait time for their next episode I’ll never be able to read those comics from start to finish without shelling out $30-$60 bucks depending on long they wind up being. I understand that you want to pay you creators but maybe introduce a publishing arm to publish hard copies of these comics and novels there is a market for them and if you pull in $10 per season per comic you still will come out on top especially for readers like myself who would enjoy having a hard copy in their homes and a digital copy for when they travel..Version: 6.6.3
✓ Offer coinsThere are MANY series I enjoy reading and supporting on Tapas. Wether it’s because of the storyline or because of the art style. However I was a bit disappointed when I tried one of the offers (pirate kings), which is supposed to offer you 5,000 coins. I reached island four, but I didn’t receive any coins. I followed the exact steps that were given twice and it still didn’t work (including waiting over 24hours). Overall great app, but I would appreciate if that would stop happening..Version: 4.1.1
✓ Dark mode crashes appThe app was running perfectly, until dark mode was introduced now the app freezes (usually in the middle of a comic or novel) and I can’t do anything whist it’s frozen. It’s only “fixed” when I go in and out of the app. Not only does the app freeze, the pages on novels are now completely black I can swipe left and right for new chapters but their all black. They sometimes flash with text but as soon as my finger touches the screen it turns black again..Version: 5.8.0
✓ Overcharged multiple timesLook I love this app and love reading the stories, but I’m absolutely sick and tired of being double charged. Most times I purchase the $2.99 ink, only once, your app charges me twice! It happened when I purchased the $7.99 pack too. I’ve requested refunds through apple but they’re unable to do so and are telling me I must go to the developer. Your app is amazing, this needs to be fixed though. And I would like my money back for the multiple times I’ve been double charged and haven’t even received the ink..Version: 5.12.2
✓ Logging in and account recoverySo I have been using tapas for more than a year now- I’ve always used the same password and email for it, but the app logged me out and wouldn’t let me load any comics so I went to the App Store and it needed updating and I did update but the app still wouldn’t load so I deleted and app then reloaded it but it wouldn’t let me log into the app- so I waited a while then it finally let me log in but once I did all of the coins I spent money buying as well as the comics I I was reading were gone, they weren’t in the library anymore, I tried logging out and logging in again and again but nothing shows up, no history of purchases and no comics saved or bought. I spent money buying those coins and saving them abs now they are gone- I would like to know where they went/ just to be sure, I have used my google account to register on the app and I tried logging in with that same account and it didn’t work and when it finally did I showed that I had nothing in the account- no coins no nothing- I just used the app yesterday so I don’t understand what happened. I spent good money on those coins as well As buying the comics so it’s not fair that it’s all gone like that all of a sudden.Version: 5.5.2
✓ I need help!!!I absolutely love Tapas, but I tried to download my favourite series to read offline, but it kept crashing!!! I downloaded all the things I wanted to read and went to make sure they were completed, and started to read but crash. Crash after crash after crash. So I restarted the app, the phone and deleted to app trying to reset everything. Now I can’t even download the application! It’s asking me for a new method of payment, even though my card is completely valid. I made a PayPal account to try to bypass this problem but nothing worked. I don’t even understand why this is a problem, only with tapas. I need help, how am I going to survive without my comics?!?.Version: 6.9.1
✓ Unnecessary and greedy changesOne of the things that made tapas better than it’s competitors was that once you unlocked a chapter of a comic for free, it was yours to keep. Now with zero warning they have taken away that feature and you have access for only three days - essentially getting rid of one of the things that made the app worth having. It seems the greed of the higher ups is too important for them to realise why people download this app - because they seemed to care about their customers. I have spent money on this app, I have spent money on free to read comics and it was the first app on which i had done so, now i’m not so sure i want to anymore. Now when i start reading a new story, i no longer have the choice to go back to chapters i unlock after this update and reread the story at my own pace, especially if there is a hiatus at some point. This was a useless, unnecessary change that no doubt will have lost them a significant amount of respect that they may have had from the people using the app..Version: 6.6.3
✓ Crashes on launchAs of the recent two versions, I am unable to open the app as it instantly crashes upon doing so. This is despite the fact that the app labels the current version as compatible with my iPhone 5S and IOS version. After contacting Tapas support, as usual, they never respond. Out of the multiple times I’ve contacted support, only one time I’ve ever gotten a reply. During that one occurrence I had an issue regarding a promotion. When they replied, they stated how the missing credit had been added to my account. Nothing actually changed until I received an automated message regarding my issue a few days later. Classic. Until then, I guess the rest of my purchases in this app will be unusable, unless I want to either buy a new phone or use the currency on desktop which has higher prices..Version: 6.2.1
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