Web Novels: best apps and software

Wattpad

Wattpad is a platform for writers to publish stories and engage with readers, allowing interaction, storytelling, and community building in various genres.

Webnovel

Webnovel is an online platform for reading and writing web novels across various genres, featuring user-generated content and a global community.

TYT

TYT is a mobile app for reading and listening to community-shared and user-created stories. It offers audiobook playback, chapter position saving, multiple reading modes, and moderated content.

Novel Toon

An app for reading and downloading free online novels and stories, including web novels and chat stories across genres.

Fizzo

Fizzo is an app that combines reading and writing, allowing users to explore stories and publish their own novels with easy editing and community engagement features.

Jonaxx Stories

Jonaxx Stories is an app for reading free stories by Filipino author Jonaxx, focusing on love stories with features for commenting and offline access.

GoodNovel

GoodNovel is an online platform for reading web novels across various genres and allows aspiring authors to share their work with a global audience.

Royal Road

Royal Road is a platform for reading and writing web novels and fan fiction, featuring various genres and a community for interaction between writers and readers.

Wuxiaworld

Wuxiaworld is an app for reading Chinese and Korean fantasy webnovels and light novels, offering a wide selection of translated and original titles.

Inkstone Webnovel

Inkstone Webnovel is a platform for reading and writing web novels across various genres, offering tools and a community for users to engage with storytelling.

readAwrite

readAwrite is an app for reading and writing online novels, offering free stories with daily updates, suitable for both readers and writers.

Tapas

Tapas is a digital platform for reading and discovering webcomics and novels across various genres, featuring user-friendly navigation and community engagement.

Libri

Libri allows users to read a variety of online romance and fantasy episodes, including werewolf, vampire, and billionaire stories.

MegaNovel

MegaNovel is a reading app offering a wide range of free fiction and webnovels, allowing users to read, discover new stories, and publish their own.

Chereads

Chereads is an app for reading light novels and stories across genres, offering a user-friendly interface and a diverse library for readers.

Tapon

Tapon is a digital reading app offering a vast collection of online novels in various genres, customizable reading features, and a subscription model for premium content.

리디 RIDI

RIDI is a Korean digital reading app for webtoons, web novels, and e‑books, with adjustable reader settings, text‑to‑speech, sharing, optional biometric lock, and subscription access.

Webfic

Webfic is an app for reading web novels across various genres, allowing users to browse, save favorites, and customize their reading experience.

Novel Updates

Novel Updates is a platform for tracking and discovering web novels and translations, featuring a database, updates, reviews, and community discussions.

起点读书

Qidian Reading is a mobile app for reading Chinese web novels and original fiction, with genres like fantasy, romance, sci-fi, and historical fiction.

네이버 웹소설

Naver Web Novel is an app that offers a variety of web novels across genres, allowing users to read, discover, and engage with stories and writers.

Storial.co

Storial.co is an app for reading and sharing stories, allowing users to upload their works, access various genres, and interact with a community of writers and readers.

刺猬猫阅读

An app for reading Chinese light novels and fanfiction focused on anime, ACG, and 2D-themed genres, with book recommendations, reading settings, and reader comments.

stck.me

stck.me lets writers sell serialized stories, ebooks, comics and audiobooks directly to readers; readers buy chapters, sync progress, bookmark, adjust settings, and read offline.

QQ阅读

QQ阅读 is a digital reading app for novels, comics, and ebooks, offering online reading, bookmarks, customizable settings, and audiobook support.

Penana

A mobile app for writers and readers to share, read, write, and collaborate on fiction and non-fiction stories, with comments, contests, and offline reading.

菠萝包轻小说

A light novel reading app with online and offline reading, search, rankings, recommendations, customizable reading settings, and community comments/reviews.

红袖读书

A mobile reading app for Chinese web novels, offering serialized and completed fiction across genres, offline reading, personalized recommendations, and reading tools like night mode and font settings.

连尚读书

A mobile app for reading Chinese web novels and ebooks, with text and audio formats, genre browsing, offline downloads, and reading progress tracking.

AnyStory

AnyStory is an AI writing assistant that helps users create various types of content, from blog posts to books, while maintaining their own voice.

长佩文学

A novel reading app for Chinese web fiction, including danmei, romance, fantasy, urban, and other genres, with bookshelves, chapter updates, and reader discussion.

鏡文學

A Taiwan-based digital platform for reading Chinese fiction and serialized stories, with offline access, search, and reading lists.

飞卢小说网

An app for reading and downloading Chinese novels online or offline, with genre browsing, chapter updates, and reading features like night mode and audio.

逐浪小说

A mobile app for reading Chinese web novels, including fantasy, xianxia, historical, urban, romance, and other fiction genres, with updates and offline reading.

爱奇艺小说

A novel reading app that offers a large collection of online e-books, including film and TV originals, romance, youth, urban, workplace, history, military, family, children’s, fantasy, mystery, thriller, game, and competition genres.

潇湘书院

A mobile reading app for Chinese web novels, offering free access to popular romance and other genre fiction, with bookshelf, offline reading, and chapter updates.

KadoKado

KadoKado is a Taiwanese novel reading app and original fiction platform with free and paid chapters, licensed light novels, and writing contests.

KakaoPage 카카오페이지

KakaoPage lets users read webtoons, web novels, and books, and explore movies and TV shows, with some episodes available through timed access or free passes.