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I’ve been subscribed to scribd/Everand for about 10 years. They split apps a few years ago but atleast the functionality was there. Now everything is limited or requires some other plan. I canceled my subscription. Just buy the books elsewhere for cheaper

The app and the web browser will not let you cancel your account. They will continue to charge you even though you have asked for it to be canceled.

Continued to charge my credit card months after cancellation, I came to find out hundreds of customers had filed complaints for same thing, it is completely fraudulent behavior do not give them your credit card information

I have cancelled over a year ago. I kept getting billed even though I reported my card if fraud through my bank and they issued me a new one with a new number. I emailed support because they don’t have a phone number (convenient) and they said my account has been cancelled way back in 2024. I just got charged again on the 30th. I am beyond frustrated. I am reaching out to a lawyer because this is insanity and I’m not the only one this is happening too. Class action lawsuit …get ready scribd or whatever you want to call yourselves these days

Trash

Don’t sign up for the free trial. It says you won’t be charged anything for a free month, but when I canceled, a $1 transaction appeared. It was refunded within a minute, showing that I had received a refund. However, later I was charged twice for $1.50. I hope they don’t take money from my account again without my consent, because this time it was $3, but they could take more from someone else.

Too expensive.

I loved the app I can’t access any accts somehow 3 emails are accts same card charges x3 still can’t open says can’t connect to App Store fix or refund now

Deleted the app and canceled subscription and still charges me every week

i subscribed but its still telling me to subscribe everytime i open a page

I used to subscribe to Everand and Scribd. Last week I was sent a 30 day free trial membership. After I signed up, I realized that most of the books were locked. After I unlocked one book and read it, I started looking for the next read. MOST OF THE BOOKS WERE LOCKED-EVEN OLDER BOOKS THAT HAD BEEN FREE BEFORE. I CANCELLED THE TRIAL MEMBERSHIP IMMEDIATELY. Everand/Scribd made it difficult to cancel. I couldn’t cancel through the app. Did some private equity company buy Scribd and Everand?

You are literally the most expensive monthly subscription for ebook reading. You false advertise about your 30- day free trial with ad free reading and free downloading. Only two books with very annoying consistant ads and my free subscription is over?! You are just a SCAM. Good Luck!

I have been charged $11.99 for a total of $203 over the past 1.5 years. I have cancelled, emailed, requested refunds multiple times. They continue to charge me.

This app doesn’t allow you to cancel recurring subscription from the app, though I signed up on the app. Furthermore, it shows a screenshot of the website with the link to manage the subscription but it is not a link. Why? To dissuade you from actually unsubscribing.
Stay away and use other metrics to read books. What a scam!

App keeps crashing

I have tried five times over five months to cancel this subscription. Every time they say it’s done and the next month it come out of my PayPal account again. DO NOT DOWNLOAD IR USE THIS APP OR EVERLAND THEIR BOOK APP IT IS A BLACK HOLE OF DECIET.

I can’t login on my iPad because of the multiple redirects on Safari. Unable to access the content I pay for on certain devices. I’m paying for this service and can’t utilize it on the tool it’d be perfect for. What am I missing?

This app won’t connect to the App Store I want to give you money but you won’t let me so please fix this

It’s not letting me get past free trial page like another review. Needs some debugging. Or a roll back to a well working version?

Bought a car manual that didn’t include any of the stated information - wasn’t model and engine specific with accurate and relevant specs for vehicle as described. After canceling subscription and obtaining a refund through PayPal’s dispute process, the company had the gall to then attempt to charge my Apple Card multiple times.
Buyer beware - do not trust this company’s word. Their business model is without ethics.

Tier plans a joke. I can get discounted premium books elsewhere and libraries. Price gouging with Scribd and affliates.

Scribd was an amazing app when i joined; a wide selection, easy-to-use interface, and the promise of “unlimited” reading made it one of my go to platforms. Overtime, though, the experience has gone steadily downhill as they keep changing the terms and quietly limiting what paying subscriber’s can actually access.

It’s impossible to get them to stop charging you.

Used to use it had no issues. Didnt wanna pay 11.99 a month for a while, finally came back and all the books arent even FULLY readable? Yeah goodbye. Why pay two websites for ONE BOOK?? herd my warning.

Scammer’s, they charge in your account without consent

It’s good info on the site. As long as you’re able to view it🧑🏾‍🦯

This and Everand were ruining my life. I used to love browsing sheet music from my piano, playing for hours. Now I hardly play because these apps are so confusing and unusable. I’m moving on, I will find my love for music again elsewhere.

I downloaded it one time by mistake and canceled deleted it and it wont stop charging my credit card. Bunch of crooks

I find so many random people’s bank statements with account numbers. you let people upload anything with no control.

Bad review

waste of money, the ebooks that get uploaded aren’t even full of the info once you get to so for example page 20 or so it comes out with some bulk other language with random information that dosent pertain to what the book is about again don’t waste your $ . this dosent even deserve a dayum star

Extremely difficult to cancel subscription.

Customer support is a joke. App never works properly, and constantly freezes/crashes. Trying to look for a specific document is nearly impossible.

They won’t let me delete my account even though I don’t owe them any money. Their customer service is garbage.

this scammer. they evry mounth charge money, but i cancel payment

I have never written a review for an app before but felt the need to share my experience with this app. I only downloaded the app and really never got a chance to use it so I deleted it off of my phone. But for weeks now it attempts to charge my account. Luckily I gave it an account that I use only to pay bills when I transfer money on to the account so it hasn’t been successful in withdrawing the money. But every few days I get the notification of it attempting to charge my account. I can only imagine on of these days if I have only exact money for rent or my car payment and the charge for this app goes through then it will cause my account to overdraft and I will get charged extra fees from the bank. It’s only a matter
Of time till that happens. I have tried to redownload the app and delete it again but to avail. Honestly don’t know what to do at this point. I don’t make much money so I don’t have the luxury of going through that scenario which I feel at this point is inevitable.

No way to cancel the subscription and still looking for a way to contact them. Stay away ⚠️⚠️⚠️

i never applied for a subscription and it keeps charging me every month for it and i can’t cancel it.

When they stopped offering books and forwarded you to Everand “free,” it was odd, but whatever. Now, Everard charges $16.99 per month, and you are limited in the number of books you can access.

Pleees help me. When I enter the PDF and go to the file page browser to resume the search, for example I write P0038 and it shows me the results but when I slide down several times the tab closes and closes the app

They charged me twice for 6 months and when I try to reach out the only answer I get is a link to the chat bot. The chat bot says “good news we can reimburse your last month payment”. How is that good news???

I got it for audiobooks they use to have a good selection. Now none of the audiobooks are included. Waste of money. Don’t buy.

What are the only apps left among all the rest in the world that still have had Absolutely nothing done with them for screen Reading compatibility whatsoever?
Scribed and Everand!
Who turns a deaf ear to any mentioning of this, therefore, completely ignoring their customer’s most basic accessibility needs, no matter how many times any attempt is made to bring it to their attention? Sad to say it’s no one but the very purveyors of these two otherwise rather worthwhile good apps! What do you call that? Tech-nonsupport or how about customer no service for starters?
You won’t believe just how basic of a thing it actually is they failed so miserably to address (anyone Who would let this get by them? should be down right embarrassed!) All I’m talking about is making it so you can automatically scroll or page turn (read continuously) using voiceover. What’s voiceover? Nothing more than the stock built-in screen reader that comes included with all Apple devices. Even so, ubiquitous as it may be, getting their apps to do this thus far is apparently an unsurmountable task well beyond their capabilities.
Frankly, I don’t know of another reading app so limited (user unfriendly) the way they are. In others like Kindle, Apple Books, etc. this is a given. Just the way it works. So common and insignificant elsewhere. Such a major no-brainer. I’ve really never encountered such an asinine problem in all my years of experience with digital media whenever reading anything! Nothing could be more archaic these days. It’s absolutely ridiculous!! Appalling to the point of Ludacris absurdity to say the least. Just try simply navigating and reading anything in these apps with voiceover on. It’s hit and miss at best when attempting to turn a page, which can only be done manually. So tediously, one page at a time. That is if you manage to figure out A working hand gesture, which may or may not work at the time anyway.
Having to turn every single page yourself is alone an unnecessarily obnoxious stupid pain in the …. enough as it is. Having that itself not even be consistent, much less accurate or reliable in doing so, is a flat out reprehensible outrage!! Just imagined reading something and when a page ends, needing to use the device to go to the next. And then not knowing if it ended up there or if it skipped another, or if it even did anything at all. The unmitigated gull of this kind of negligence, is nothing but inexcusable! What kind of “developers,“ write an app that’s so lacking in what couldn’t be more assumingely essential? It’s hard to believe they’re that dense and unintelligent. So that leaves only one conclusion to make. That they couldn’t give less of a sh-t about who can equally use their products. So non-inclusive! How is this not discrimination? Possibly even a violation of the ADA. Definitely should be reported if so. Haven’t done that quite yet. Hope it doesn’t have to go there.
Mind you, this is after already leaving an ignored review. and contacting them numerous times, to which I only got at the most a form letter like response saying “I’ll forward your message to Support.“
Currently at this point, as a now longtime subscriber, it’s downright insulting. At the very least, feeling abandoned and left out in the cold. Once again, fixing this is really no big deal. Certainly not requiring any kind of genius to achieve it at all.
I can’t believe I have to write this today in 2025! What With all that is and ever so much more possible, accelerating every day in how fast things advance technologically, in a time of AI, AR, VR, Meta, and such, we’ll see what happens first to make this all no longer matter. The day I actually get a bionic eye, enabling me to no longer need a screen reader, or these guys finally get it together, catching up to the present and once and for all bringing their apps up to speed? One way or another, that is the day that I will finally be able to use scribed and Everand like I and everyone should, which is simply reading text with them like I can otherwise! That is if I’m ever to live so long. Perhaps, if no sooner, this will come into being by the time we get to the point of inhabiting Mars.
One last question. Will I be able to give this review a final positive update? If so, you can bet that starting with giving them five stars, these guys will have my fullest praise and support.

The book wasn’t even complete! It gave me links for other books that I wasant looking for

They recently removed the sheet music section and other parts that made their content unique. Now they’re just a really bad version of kindle.

This company is a joke, non of the resource is even worth the subscription, I ended my subscription but still got charged every month, even after their customer service said that they going to cancel all auto payment under my account but they sill charging me, and guess what the phone number listed on their company website is non-working number. Don't do the mistake I did, not worth it. They have not even resolving my issues until now.

Run!!! This app has been a nightmare of theft and no customer support!!! Do not give this company a cent you will regret it and Apple is zero help!

Wasted my time

I paid 11.99 and they didn't give me the subscription. I complained and they didn't help me. They stole my money.

I used to LOVE Scribd and Everand, but they’ve changed recently and now they charge you way more money for way less access to their catalog. I wanna use cuss words right now, I’m so mad. Cancelled my subscription!