Royal Road Downloads & RevenueRoyal Road - Read Stories · App Store & Google Play
Royal Road - Read Stories gets 100+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, November 2026, rounded down to a band).
Royal Road - Read Stories by Not Yet Media LTD is on App Store and Google Play. Active Users (MAU & DAU), Downloads, rankings, keywords, revenue, and rating totals.
Royal Road - Read Stories update history & changes
Last change · 50 events since 11 Jul 2023Full timeline ↓⭐iOSPassed 1K ratings⭐iOSPassed 100 ratings📦iOSUpdated to version 2.60📦AndroidUpdated to version 2.60.1186📦iOSUpdated to version 2.59📈iOSEntered the top 100📈iOSCharting in a new country📦AndroidUpdated to version 2.59.1184📈AndroidEntered the top 100 in 4 charts📈AndroidEntered the top 100⭐AndroidRating rose to 4.8★🆕iOSFirst spotted by AppInsider🆕AndroidFirst spotted by AppInsider🆕iOSReleased on the App Store🆕AndroidReleased on Google Play
Full timeline · 50 events
- 📦Royal Road - Read Stories updated to version 2.60iOS- Regression Fix: Audio speaking through device instead of car speakers, this was caused by the previous attempt to fix connecting to CarPlay wirelessly.
- Fix: On user request, removing "SpokenAudio" from the Chapter Audio/TTS mode because it paused the audio on notification interruption instead of ducking.
- Fix: Rotating the phone sometimes does not adjust the UI.
- Fix: Chapter "242: Cool Off" of "There is no Epic Loot here, Only Puns." had messed up UI.… more - 📦Royal Road - Read Stories updated to version 2.60.1186Android- Fix: Rotating the phone sometimes does not adjust the UI.
- Fix: Chapter "242: Cool Off" of "There is no Epic Loot here, Only Puns." had messed up UI. - 📦Royal Road - Read Stories updated to version 2.59iOS- New: Filter to show deleted history entry items + undo deletion button.
- Misc: Show processing indicator when history item is being deleted and success message when deletion succeeds.
- Fix: Knowledgebase link in the review rejection internal email opened the support page in the app instead of opening the knowledgebase page in the browser.
- Probable fix: CarPlay skip and freezing issue + audio not playing for some users.… more - 📈Royal Road - Read Stories entered the top 100iOSTop Grossing · Books · BR
- 📈Royal Road - Read Stories charting in a new countryiOSBrazil
- 📦Royal Road - Read Stories updated to version 2.59.1184Android- New: Filter to show deleted history entry items + undo deletion button.
- Misc: Show processing indicator when history item is being deleted and success message when deletion succeeds.
- Fix: Knowledgebase link in the review rejection internal email opened the support page in the app instead of opening the knowledgebase page in the browser.… more - 📦Royal Road - Read Stories updated to version 2.58iOS- New: Option to delete the history entry, on the reading history page.
- New: In TTS/Chapter audio don't auto load the next chapter, if the next chapter is locked; Change the chapter ended message read when user is done reading all the unlocked chapters.
- New: Indicate that the prev/next chapter is locked in chapter prev/next buttons.
- Misc: Added "when safe to do so" everywhere for TTS action announcement irrespective of car connection.… more - 📦Royal Road - Read Stories updated to version 2.58.1182Android- New: Option to delete the history entry, on the reading history page.
- New: In TTS/Chapter audio don't auto load the next chapter, if the next chapter is locked.
- New: Indicate that the prev/next chapter is locked in chapter prev/next buttons.
- Misc: Added "when safe to do so" everywhere for TTS action announcement irrespective of car connection.
- Probable fix: App not resizing when Samsung Galaxy phone is folded/unfolded.… more - 📈Royal Road - Read Stories entered the top 100 in 4 chartsAndroidTop Grossing · Books & Reference · ID · Top Grossing · Books & Reference · NL · Top Grossing · Books & Reference · SA · Top Grossing · Books & Reference · VN
- 📈Royal Road - Read Stories entered the top 100AndroidTop Grossing · Books & Reference · AE
- 📈Royal Road - Read Stories entered the top 100iOSTop Grossing · Books · FR
- 📈Royal Road - Read Stories charting in a new countryiOSFrance
- 📈Royal Road - Read Stories entered the top 100 in 3 chartsAndroidTop Grossing · Books & Reference · IN · Top Grossing · Books & Reference · TH · Top Grossing · Books & Reference · TR
- 📦Royal Road - Read Stories updated to version 2.57iOS- Probable fix: Audio not resuming after a long pause.
- Probable fix: More fixes for infinite loading.
- Fix: "I" spoken as "one" in TTS/chapter audio sometimes.
- Fix: TTS/Chapter audio should not speak "`".
- Fix: Support ticket's content length validation was not enforced.
- Misc: Internal updates.… more - 📈Royal Road - Read Stories entered the top 100iOSTop Grossing · Books · US
- 📦Royal Road - Read Stories updated to version 2.57.1180Android- Probable fix: More fixes for infinite loading.
- Fix: "I" spoken as "one" in TTS/chapter audio sometimes.
- Fix: TTS/Chapter audio should not speak "`".
- Fix: Support ticket's content length validation was not enforced.
- Misc: Internal updates.… more - 📈Royal Road - Read Stories charting in a new countryAndroidTurkey
- 📈Royal Road - Read Stories charting in a new country in 3 chartsAndroidIndonesia · India · Thailand
- 📦Royal Road - Read Stories updated to version 2.56iOS- Probable Fix: Users behind a proxy or VPN or iCloud+ are not able to login (some users even without proxy are not able to login), they are able to use the rest of the app in guest mode though.
- Probable Fix: Bringing up the chapter header in page mode & landscape caused UI to break.
- Probable Fix: App sometimes went back to the start of the chapter when switching between apps in chapter page mode.… more - 📦Royal Road - Read Stories: now updating weeklyiOS4 updates in 30 days, after a quiet two months
- 📈Royal Road - Read Stories entered the top 100iOSTop Grossing · Books · CA
- 📦Royal Road - Read Stories updated to version 2.56.1178Android- Probable Fix: Users behind a proxy or VPN or iCloud+ are not able to login, they are able to use the rest of the app in guest mode though.
- Probable Fix: Bringing up the chapter header in page mode & landscape caused UI to break.
- Probable Fix: App sometimes went back to the start of the chapter when switching between apps in chapter page mode.
- Probable fix: On BOOX devices, in chapter page mode, after the dictionary is dismissed, the page scrolled back to the start of the chapter.… more - 📈Royal Road - Read Stories charting in a new country in 2 chartsAndroidNetherlands · Vietnam
- 📦Royal Road - Read Stories: now updating weeklyAndroid4 updates in 30 days, after a quiet two months
- 📦Royal Road - Read Stories updated to version 2.55iOS- Fix: "Add to" library button glitched sometimes when going back to the fiction details page from the chapter page.
- Probable Fix: More fixes for users on purely IPv6 network. We heard back from the users that the previous update for Pixel users did not fix the problem. We say Pixel users because they were the ones who brought it to our notice first, but this is for all users on IPv6 only network.
- Misc: Internal updates.… more - 📦Royal Road - Read Stories updated to version 2.55.1176Android- Fix: "Add to" library button glitched sometimes when going back to the fiction details page from the chapter page.
- Probable Fix: More fixes for users on purely IPv6 network. We heard back from the users that the previous update for Pixel users did not fix the problem. We say Pixel users because they were the ones who brought it to our notice first, but this is for all users on IPv6 only network.
- Misc: Internal updates.… more - 📦Royal Road - Read Stories updated to version 2.54iOS- New Beta: Allow partial premium features for fiction subscription i.e. downloads and audio premium, also show proper support author popup with subs.
- New: Added sorting to chapter comments.
- Fix: More Dictionary fixes for words with mixed case.
- Fix: Adding/removing spaces in edit suggestion did not highlight. Though, more than one space is not allowed.
- Fix: Comment edit popup did not scroll until you tap on it.
- Probable Fix: Full screen ads not closing. We have updated the Ad provider SDK.
- Probable Fix: Ghost keyboard issue.
- Misc: Internal updates.… more - 📦Royal Road - Read Stories updated to version 2.54.1174Android- New Beta: Allow partial premium features for fiction subscription.
- New: Added sorting to chapter comments.
- Fix: More Dictionary fixes for words with mixed case.
- Fix: Adding/removing spaces in edit suggestion did not highlight. Though, more than one space is not allowed.
- Fix: Comment edit popup did not scroll until you tap on it.
- Probable Fix: Full screen ads not closing. We have updated the Ad provider SDK.
- Probable Fix: Infinite loading on Pixel phones.
- Misc: Internal updates.… more - 📈Royal Road - Read Stories entered the top 100iOSTop Grossing · Books · IT
- 📈Royal Road - Read Stories charting in a new countryiOSItaly
- 📈Royal Road - Read Stories entered the top 100iOSTop Grossing · Books · RU
- 📈Royal Road - Read Stories charting in a new countryiOSRussia
- 📈Royal Road - Read Stories entered the top 100iOSTop Grossing · Books · IN
- 📈Royal Road - Read Stories charting in a new countryiOSIndia
- 🆕Royal Road - Read Stories first spotted by AppInsideriOS#81 in Top Free · Books · Germany
- 📦Royal Road - Read Stories updated to version 2.53.1172AndroidFix: Figured out the TTS/Chapter audio crash root cause, fixed.
- 📦Royal Road - Read Stories version 2.53iOS- Fix: Chapter prev button sometimes did not work after TTS auto-next, if the app was backgrounded.
- Fix: Dictionary not working with for capital words.
- New: Proper chapter "Early Access" warning for users who are not subscribed to that fiction/author (new beta-feature).… more - 🆕Royal Road - Read Stories first spotted by AppInsiderAndroidSaudi Arabia
- 📦Royal Road - Read Stories version 2.53.1169Android- Probable fix: Some more fixes for TTS/Chapter audio crash.
- Fix: Chapter prev button sometimes did not work after TTS auto-next, if the app was backgrounded.
- Fix: Dictionary not working with for capital words.
- New: Proper chapter "Early Access" warning for users who are not subscribed to that fiction/author (new beta-feature).… more - 🆕Royal Road - Read Stories released on the App StoreiOS
- 🆕Royal Road - Read Stories released on Google PlayAndroid
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
4.7 ★
25k ratings, both stores
Measured
Best rank now
#42
Android · 
Books & Reference Grossing
Books & Reference GrossingMeasured
New ratings a week
128
▼ -10% vs the 2 weeks before (Google Play)
Measured
App Store
App details
App ID
6456945333
Publisher
Not Yet Media Ltd.
Publisher country
Israel
On the store since
Oct 2023
3 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 15.0+
iPhone 6s and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
12+
5 content notes below
Languages
1
EN
Size
194 MB
Also listed in
Books, Entertainment
Content notesInfrequent/Mild Sexual Content and NudityInfrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive ThemesInfrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude HumorFrequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy ViolenceInfrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes
Google Play
App details
App ID
com.NotYetMedia.RoyalRoad
Publisher
NOT YET MEDIA LTD
Publisher country
Israel
Content rating
Teen
Royal Road - Read Stories downloads & installs
Both stores, worldwide. Bands are open; exact numbers are free with an account.
| Store | Downloads / day | Lifetime installs |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | 50+ | 100k+ |
| Google Play | 100+ | 100k+ Measured |
| Total | 100+ Confidence | 100k+ Confidence |
How this is calculated
App Store: chart positions and rating growth per country, anchored on its own Android downloads; lifetime from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Google Play: the daily change in its exact install count. The total adds every store.
Where Royal Road - Read Stories's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend before Apple and Google take their fee.
| Store | Per day | Per month | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| App Store | |||
| Google Play | |||
| Total | Confidence | 100% |
Business model: Subscription-led
How Royal Road - Read Stories makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
SubscriptionsIn-app purchasesAds
Subscriptions
/mo
of revenue
Ads
/mo
of revenue
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | Premium (Monthly) subscription | |
| 2 | Premium (Annual) subscription | |
| 3 | Author Premium (Monthly) subscription | |
| 4 | Author Premium (annual) subscription |
Where it ranks now
Both stores, across every country we track.
| Store | Best rank | Charting in | US Top Free | US Top Grossing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| App Store | #100 Books Grossing | 2 of 30 countries | – | – |
| Google Play | #42 Books & Reference Grossing | 13 of 23 countries | – | #76 |
Full chart lists: App Store · Google Play.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisApp Store
New ratings a week
44
▲ +31% vs the 2 weeks before
Recent ratings
4.8★
vs 4.8★ lifetime
Review momentum
87/100
faster than 93% of Books apps
New ratings by country (5)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
 United States | 36 | 84% | ▲ +21% |
 Germany | 3 | 7% | ▼ -44% |
| Canada | 1.8 | 4% | – |
 Australia | 1 | 2% | – |
 United Kingdom | 1 | 2% | – |
App Store ratings in the countries we track, 4-week average.
Google Play
New ratings a week
84
▼ -10% vs the 2 weeks before
Written reviews a week
6
Google Play
Lifetime rating
4.8★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Recent written reviews
3.4★
people who write skew negative
Review momentum
60/100
faster than 70% of Books and reference apps
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
Ratings
Both stores. Store data, measured.
| Store | Rating | Ratings |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | 4.8 ★ | 5.5k |
| Google Play | 4.6 ★ | 19k 1.1k written reviews |
| Both stores | 4.7 ★ weighted by ratings | 25k |
What users say about Royal Road - Read Stories
From the 131 most recent Google Play reviews in the US.
Mixed but leaning positive (73% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for its features and content, and few ads. The main complaints are about ads, and crashes and bugs. Recent reviews are more negative than earlier ones.
What people like
- Features & content: “Fantastic library with great variety!”
- Ads: “The ads are un-intrusive and customizable”
- Price & subscription: “The best subscription I have hands down!”
- Crashes & bugs: “never had a bug fixed so fast before”
Common complaints
- Ads: “Far more forced ads, including full screen blocking, than the mobile site”
- Crashes & bugs: “It's easy to navigate and any bugs are fixed quickly”
- Price & subscription: “I will no longer be a premium member until they address and fix the poorly written AI generated stories that have infested the site”
- Speed & performance: “The app is slow and you can't write on it”
About Royal Road - Read Stories
Your main source for Action, Adventure, Fantasy, and Science Fiction. Find many stories within your new favorite genres such as Progression Fantasy, Litrpg, Portal Fantasy and Isekai stories, among many others.
Explore over 50,000 novels and be the first to discover captivating stories.
Royal Road Premium - Subscribe to our Premium service to receive the following features:
- Ad-free reading experience
- Downloading chapters for offline reading
- Premium badge on your comments
- Itemized reading history of individual chapters read
- Replace your standard avatar border with a premium one and unlock a new one for each month of your subscription
- Customize your profile page with a banner
For our terms of service, visit https://www.royalroad.com/tos
For our privacy policy, visit https://www.royalroad.com/privacypolicy
Royal Road Author Premium - We offer a subscription service for authors as well; this gives you all of the benefits above, plus extra benefits available on our author dashboard online. Please note that our app does not have features for authors, this subscription tier is present for convenience.
Explore over 50,000 novels and be the first to discover captivating stories.
Royal Road Premium - Subscribe to our Premium service to receive the following features:
- Ad-free reading experience
- Downloading chapters for offline reading
- Premium badge on your comments
- Itemized reading history of individual chapters read
- Replace your standard avatar border with a premium one and unlock a new one for each month of your subscription
- Customize your profile page with a banner
For our terms of service, visit https://www.royalroad.com/tos
For our privacy policy, visit https://www.royalroad.com/privacypolicy
Royal Road Author Premium - We offer a subscription service for authors as well; this gives you all of the benefits above, plus extra benefits available on our author dashboard online. Please note that our app does not have features for authors, this subscription tier is present for convenience.
Royal Road - Read Stories App Store
Royal Road - Read Stories gets 100+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, November 2026, rounded down to a band).
Royal Road - Read Stories is #199 in Books Free in Germany and charting in 2 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperNot Yet Media LTD
CategoryBooks
PriceFree
Released
Rating★ 4.8 (5.5k)
Version2.60
Age rating12+
First seen by us 26 Sep 2026
26 Sep 2026Installs (est.)100k+ worldwide
Rating
4.8 ★
5.5k ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#199
Books FreeMeasured
New ratings a week
44
▲ +31% vs the 2 weeks before
Measured
Royal Road - Read Stories on the App Store
App details
App ID
6456945333
Publisher
Not Yet Media Ltd.
Publisher country
Israel
On the store since
Oct 2023
3 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 15.0+
iPhone 6s and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
12+
5 content notes below
Languages
1
EN
Size
194 MB
Also listed in
Books, Entertainment
Content notesInfrequent/Mild Sexual Content and NudityInfrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive ThemesInfrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude HumorFrequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy ViolenceInfrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes
Royal Road - Read Stories downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where Royal Road - Read Stories's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in Royal Road - Read Stories before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Not in an overall Top Grossing chart, only in category charts: each category position is converted to the overall position it corresponds to, then priced on the same rank-to-revenue curve, inside the part of each market the charted apps leave over.
Business model: Subscription-led
How Royal Road - Read Stories makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
SubscriptionsIn-app purchasesAds
Subscriptions
/mo
of revenue
Ads
/mo
of revenue
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | Premium (Monthly) subscription | |
| 2 | Premium (Annual) subscription | |
| 3 | Author Premium (Monthly) subscription | |
| 4 | Author Premium (annual) subscription |
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | BooksFree | #199 |
| Russia | BooksGrossing | #100 |
Apps near Royal Road - Read Stories on the chart
Books Free, around #199.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.8 ★
5.5k ratings
Measured
Ratings
5.5k
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
44
▲ +31% vs the 2 weeks before
Recent ratings
4.8★
vs 4.8★ lifetime
Review momentum
87/100
faster than 93% of Books apps
New ratings by country (5)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 36 | 84% | ▲ +21% |
| Germany | 3 | 7% | ▼ -44% |
| Canada | 1.8 | 4% | – |
| Australia | 1 | 2% | – |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% | – |
App Store ratings in the countries we track, 4-week average.
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
About Royal Road - Read Stories
Your main source for Action, Adventure, Fantasy, and Science Fiction. Find many stories within your new favorite genres such as Progression Fantasy, Litrpg, Portal Fantasy and Isekai stories, among many others.
Explore over 50,000 novels and be the first to discover captivating stories.
Royal Road Premium - Subscribe to our Premium service to receive the following features:
- Ad-free reading experience
- Downloading chapters for offline reading
- Premium badge on your comments
- Itemized reading history of individual chapters read
- Replace your standard avatar border with a premium one and unlock a new one for each month of your subscription
- Customize your profile page with a banner
For our terms of service, visit https://www.royalroad.com/tos
For our privacy policy, visit https://www.royalroad.com/privacypolicy
Royal Road Author Premium - We offer a subscription service for authors as well; this gives you all of the benefits above, plus extra benefits available on our author dashboard online. Please note that our app does not have features for authors, this subscription tier is present for convenience.
Explore over 50,000 novels and be the first to discover captivating stories.
Royal Road Premium - Subscribe to our Premium service to receive the following features:
- Ad-free reading experience
- Downloading chapters for offline reading
- Premium badge on your comments
- Itemized reading history of individual chapters read
- Replace your standard avatar border with a premium one and unlock a new one for each month of your subscription
- Customize your profile page with a banner
For our terms of service, visit https://www.royalroad.com/tos
For our privacy policy, visit https://www.royalroad.com/privacypolicy
Royal Road Author Premium - We offer a subscription service for authors as well; this gives you all of the benefits above, plus extra benefits available on our author dashboard online. Please note that our app does not have features for authors, this subscription tier is present for convenience.
Latest updates
2.60
- Regression Fix: Audio speaking through device instead of car speakers, this was caused by the previous attempt to fix connecting to CarPlay wirelessly.
- Fix: On user request, removing "SpokenAudio" from the Chapter Audio/TTS mode because it paused the audio on notification interruption instead of ducking.
- Fix: Rotating the phone sometimes does not adjust the UI.
- Fix: Chapter "242: Cool Off" of "There is no Epic Loot here, Only Puns." had messed up UI.
2.59
- New: Filter to show deleted history entry items + undo deletion button.
- Misc: Show processing indicator when history item is being deleted and success message when deletion succeeds.
- Fix: Knowledgebase link in the review rejection internal email opened the support page in the app instead of opening the knowledgebase page in the browser.
- Probable fix: CarPlay skip and freezing issue + audio not playing for some users.
2.58
- New: Option to delete the history entry, on the reading history page.
- New: In TTS/Chapter audio don't auto load the next chapter, if the next chapter is locked; Change the chapter ended message read when user is done reading all the unlocked chapters.
- New: Indicate that the prev/next chapter is locked in chapter prev/next buttons.
- Misc: Added "when safe to do so" everywhere for TTS action announcement irrespective of car connection.
Royal Road - Read Stories Android
Royal Road - Read Stories gets 100+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, November 2026, rounded down to a band).
Royal Road - Read Stories is #76 in Books & Reference Grossing on Google Play in United States and charting in 13 of 23 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperNot Yet Media Ltd.
CategoryBooks & Reference
PriceFree
Released
Installs100k+
Rating★ 4.6 (19k)
Updated
Content ratingTeen
Rating
4.6 ★
19k ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#76
Books & Reference GrossingMeasured
New ratings a week
84
▼ -10% vs the 2 weeks before
Measured
Royal Road - Read Stories on Google Play
App details
App ID
com.NotYetMedia.RoyalRoad
Publisher
NOT YET MEDIA LTD
Publisher country
Israel
Content rating
Teen
Royal Road - Read Stories downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Google Play shows an exact lifetime install count; downloads per day are its daily change (measured). When Play hasn't refreshed the count, they come from new ratings and Top Free chart positions. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where Royal Road - Read Stories's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in Royal Road - Read Stories before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Not in an overall Top Grossing chart, only in category charts: each category position is converted to the overall position it corresponds to, then priced on the same rank-to-revenue curve, inside the part of each market the charted apps leave over.
Business model: Subscription-led
How Royal Road - Read Stories makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
SubscriptionsIn-app purchasesAds
Subscriptions
/mo
of revenue
Ads
/mo
of revenue
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | Premium (Monthly) subscription | |
| 2 | Premium (Annual) subscription | |
| 3 | Author Premium (Monthly) subscription | |
| 4 | Author Premium (annual) subscription |
Where it ranks on Google Play
Every top 200 chart it appears in across 23 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Books & ReferenceGrossing | #76 |
| United Kingdom | Books & ReferenceGrossing | #69 |
| Germany | Books & ReferenceGrossing | #71 |
| Canada | Books & ReferenceGrossing | #42 |
| Australia | Books & ReferenceGrossing | #57 |
 India | Books & ReferenceGrossing | #122 |
 Saudi Arabia | Books & ReferenceGrossing | #125 |
 Indonesia | Books & ReferenceGrossing | #125 |
| Canada | Books & ReferenceFree | #197 |
 Turkey | Books & ReferenceGrossing | #122 |
 United Arab Emirates | Books & ReferenceGrossing | #124 |
 Netherlands | Books & ReferenceGrossing | #129 |
 Thailand | Books & ReferenceGrossing | #123 |
 Vietnam | Books & ReferenceGrossing | #122 |
Apps near Royal Road - Read Stories on the chart
Books & Reference Grossing, around #76.
Ratings
Google Play, worldwide.
Rating
4.6 ★
19k ratings
Measured
Ratings
19k
Measured
Written reviews
1.1k
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
84
▼ -10% vs the 2 weeks before
Written reviews a week
6
Google Play
Lifetime rating
4.8★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Recent written reviews
3.4★
people who write skew negative
Review momentum
60/100
faster than 70% of Books and reference apps
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about Royal Road - Read Stories
From the 131 most recent Google Play reviews in the US.
Mixed but leaning positive (73% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for its features and content, and few ads. The main complaints are about ads, and crashes and bugs. Recent reviews are more negative than earlier ones.
What people like
- Features & content: “Fantastic library with great variety!”
- Ads: “The ads are un-intrusive and customizable”
- Price & subscription: “The best subscription I have hands down!”
- Crashes & bugs: “never had a bug fixed so fast before”
Common complaints
- Ads: “Far more forced ads, including full screen blocking, than the mobile site”
- Crashes & bugs: “It's easy to navigate and any bugs are fixed quickly”
- Price & subscription: “I will no longer be a premium member until they address and fix the poorly written AI generated stories that have infested the site”
- Speed & performance: “The app is slow and you can't write on it”
About Royal Road - Read Stories
Royal Road is your main source for Action, Adventure, Fantasy, and Science Fiction. Find many stories within your new favorite genres such as Progression Fantasy, Litrpg, Portal Fantasy and Isekai stories, among many others.
Explore over 50,000 free novels and be the first to discover captivating stories.
Explore over 50,000 free novels and be the first to discover captivating stories.
What's new in 2.60.1186
- Fix: Rotating the phone sometimes does not adjust the UI.
- Fix: Chapter "242: Cool Off" of "There is no Epic Loot here, Only Puns." had messed up UI.
- Fix: Chapter "242: Cool Off" of "There is no Epic Loot here, Only Puns." had messed up UI.