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DeerFiction-Web Stories&Novels
萌 陈 · 174 ratings · ★ 4.3
4.3
★★★★★
174 ratings
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Top complaints - extracted from 25 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"coins"
12 negative reviews mention this · 48% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Problems. The app is good however, it hasn’t given me my 4.99 (500) coins, it just took my money and gave me nothing, they don’t tell you beforehand that the 1.99 is a one time only use, I’ve had this app for about 3 weeks and my problems are just no…" - Precinta
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"chapters"
11 negative reviews mention this · 44% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not free don’t be fooled. Got to 6 chapters and all of a sudden I need to pay $14 for 1 book and I’m not even sure it will get me all the way to the end. Deleted it after READING FINE PRINT" - Gershedl
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"story"
9 negative reviews mention this · 36% of all complaints
★★★★★ "They steal stories. They steal stories from authors on Wattpad and change the name. They have stolen mine, I have never given them permission to use my story. Do not use this app, search for the original please." - Heebeejeeber
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"chapter"
9 negative reviews mention this · 36% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not free don’t be fooled. Got to 6 chapters and all of a sudden I need to pay $14 for 1 book and I’m not even sure it will get me all the way to the end. Deleted it after READING FINE PRINT" - Gershedl
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"expensive"
9 negative reviews mention this · 36% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not good. The stories are not formatted and hard to read. You can find most of the novels on other apps. So expensive too. Don’t bother." - Medievalmave
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"read"
8 negative reviews mention this · 32% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not free don’t be fooled. Got to 6 chapters and all of a sudden I need to pay $14 for 1 book and I’m not even sure it will get me all the way to the end. Deleted it after READING FINE PRINT" - Gershedl
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"reading"
7 negative reviews mention this · 28% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not free don’t be fooled. Got to 6 chapters and all of a sudden I need to pay $14 for 1 book and I’m not even sure it will get me all the way to the end. Deleted it after READING FINE PRINT" - Gershedl
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"money"
6 negative reviews mention this · 24% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Problems. The app is good however, it hasn’t given me my 4.99 (500) coins, it just took my money and gave me nothing, they don’t tell you beforehand that the 1.99 is a one time only use, I’ve had this app for about 3 weeks and my problems are just no…" - Precinta
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"stories"
5 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "They steal stories. They steal stories from authors on Wattpad and change the name. They have stolen mine, I have never given them permission to use my story. Do not use this app, search for the original please." - Heebeejeeber
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"book"
4 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not free don’t be fooled. Got to 6 chapters and all of a sudden I need to pay $14 for 1 book and I’m not even sure it will get me all the way to the end. Deleted it after READING FINE PRINT" - Gershedl
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"other"
4 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not good. The stories are not formatted and hard to read. You can find most of the novels on other apps. So expensive too. Don’t bother." - Medievalmave
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"ridiculous"
4 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "If I could do no stars I would.. The fact that it takes forever to get free bonuses to unlock a chapter they make it go higher and higher almost 200 to unlock a chapter now. That’s absolutely ridiculous I will not recommend this app to anyone. Absolutely horrible" - dumb93639016
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Not free don’t be fooled
Got to 6 chapters and all of a sudden I need to pay $14 for 1 book and I’m not even sure it will get me all the way to the end. Deleted it after READING FINE PRINT
They steal stories
They steal stories from authors on Wattpad and change the name. They have stolen mine, I have never given them permission to use my story. Do not use this app, search for the original please.
Connecting errors
All I can say is spend more time trying to get the next chapter to come up instead of reading.
Thieves!! They are stealing books from writers
This app needs to be banned!
Not good
The stories are not formatted and hard to read. You can find most of the novels on other apps. So expensive too. Don’t bother.
If I could do no stars I would.
The fact that it takes forever to get free bonuses to unlock a chapter they make it go higher and higher almost 200 to unlock a chapter now. That’s absolutely ridiculous I will not recommend this app to anyone. Absolutely horrible
Expensive not worth it
I have several reader apps. This one won’t let me use PayPal for the $4.99 option, only $9.99 and above. Really??? Also 100 coins for a chapter? Then coins & vouchers after that? No thanks. I’ll go back to other apps that just keep the coin levels per chapter reasonable & don’t cut out package options just because of the payment option I choose. Too bad, I was enjoying the story but I’ll look for it elsewhere.
You buy coins, but can't use them
I bought coins today and it shows in my "account" page, but when trying to use coins to read the story that I bought them for, they don't show up for me too use.
Uninstalling due to theft!!!
I understand most of these apps are pretty much a scam because you are paying a lot of many for a story you don’t actually get to keep.
That being said. I had 85 bonus point this app wouldn’t let me use to pay for a chapter that was 35 coins.
I bought 4.99 package that at this moment gave me 500 coins plus 25 bonus.
Now that chapter that was originally 35 coins is 95!
I mean wow, I knew these apps scam you but usually not so obviously!!🤬🤬
The audacity!
That being said. I had 85 bonus point this app wouldn’t let me use to pay for a chapter that was 35 coins.
I bought 4.99 package that at this moment gave me 500 coins plus 25 bonus.
Now that chapter that was originally 35 coins is 95!
I mean wow, I knew these apps scam you but usually not so obviously!!🤬🤬
The audacity!
Was good until….
Apparently there is a limit on how many chapters can be unlocked with bonus coins before they require you to pay cash. No warning just stops unlocking chapters. No other app I’ve downloaded similar to this has given me the same issues.
Great books awful prices for coins and chapters
Love the books but just too expensive can’t afford $200-$400 per book it’s ridiculous
Too expensive
Nobody should have to pay $140 for 110 chapters when you can BUY a great book for under $15 from Amazon. Deleting this highway robbery app
Complete Rip off
This app is a complete joke and waste of money. I love reading but not for the ridiculous amount that is being charged per chapter. The writing is decent but not worth the small fortune that is charged. COMPLETE RIP OFF!!!!
NO
Stay as FAR AWAY from this app as possible. It charges you 100 coins per chapter. It is Ridiculous!
Not worth it
Save your money and time in order to read past a certain point you need points but they don’t offer enough options for you to just do tasks but instead make it so your only choice is to spend money. Not worth it. It’s cheaper to get novels like this on amazon.
Expensive
This app too much expensive. Novel quality is not that outstanding and some times wait is too long new chapters.
Scam
This app took my money and did not give me the coins I paid for, had to put in a dispute. Even the form to fill out for the issue was “invalid”.
Ridiculously Expensive Scam Beware
I started reading a book title “Lost Without
You.” The story is great. I got to the end of the free chapters and wanted to buy coins.
They trick you because they don’t tell you how much the chapter costs until after you’ve bought coins. I paid $4.99 for 500 coins and received 150 bonus coins.
That lasted for about 7 chapters because each chapter is extremely expensive 100+ for what they deem meaty chapters. So, once I finished my small purchase, I clicked on to download the book out of curiosity.
It would cost 34,400 coins for the remainder of the book. 5000 coins cost $49.99. So, to finish this book would cost $350! This is a scam. Too bad because the author has a great story.
You.” The story is great. I got to the end of the free chapters and wanted to buy coins.
They trick you because they don’t tell you how much the chapter costs until after you’ve bought coins. I paid $4.99 for 500 coins and received 150 bonus coins.
That lasted for about 7 chapters because each chapter is extremely expensive 100+ for what they deem meaty chapters. So, once I finished my small purchase, I clicked on to download the book out of curiosity.
It would cost 34,400 coins for the remainder of the book. 5000 coins cost $49.99. So, to finish this book would cost $350! This is a scam. Too bad because the author has a great story.
Problems
The app is good however, it hasn’t given me my 4.99 (500) coins, it just took my money and gave me nothing, they don’t tell you beforehand that the 1.99 is a one time only use, I’ve had this app for about 3 weeks and my problems are just now accruing, and I would love to either have my coins I purchased or my money back. Thank you, and if you want to download this app be particular with how you want to read on here.
App Issues
I enjoy the stories i read but this app has been giving me nothing but problems the last few months. Every time i try to pay for the chapters my purchased coins don’t show up signed in or not they don’t appear or when they do they only show in the balance on the rewards page but not when actually reading. I hate wasting money and time if its just going to steal from me
Story theme
Like the story. A bit different. I will not read anymore chapters because I will NOT “sign up.” My money should be enough. Oh well, no lost on my part.
Female Alpha
This is the most expensive app that I have come across. The longer the story the more expensive the chapters get. Plus there was no editing done
Expensive
The story I have been reading is amazing! This app though on the other hand, is the most expensive novel app I have came across. I have spent $20 just to unlock 14 chapters, even with earning rewards to help unlock them! This is insane, have to give up reading the story because it’s just too much. It’s AT LEAST 200 vouchers to read a single chapter.
DO NOT BUY
This morning I was just charged 1588 for this app that I haven’t opened in a week, I did not make the charge. This app is a scam it will charge you randomly and then it’ll say that you got coins, but coins will never show up do not buy this app. Stories are good being robbed ain’t.
Very expensive $135 minimum to read a story!!!
I spent about $4.00 for 450 coins on a “one time special” which was 300 + a 150 bonus. One chapter cost 100 coins!!! You do the math. Most stories are at least 300-500 chapters, some well over 1000 chapters!!! At 100 coins per chapter…. Even though I’m loving the story I’m reading, it’s not worth it!!! After I finish the coins I will be deleting the app and go back to Audible for my stories! Expensive, but at least you pay a one time fee for the whole story!! So just calculated the cost for a story. The current story that got me to download the app is 135 chapters each chapter costs at minimum 100 coins!!!! So a minimum of $1 per chapter(some chapters have been over 150 coins!). So to read this story will cost a minimum of $135-$150+!!!
Sentiment summary
80%
Positive (4-5★)
3%
Neutral (3★)
17%
Negative (1-2★)