Pratilipi Downloads & RevenuePratilipi - Books and Stories · App Store & Google Play
Pratilipi - Books and Stories gets 10k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, November 2026, rounded down to a band).
Pratilipi - Books and Stories by Pratilipi is on App Store and Google Play. Active Users (MAU & DAU), Downloads, rankings, keywords, revenue, and rating totals.
Pratilipi - Books and Stories update history & changes
Last change · 32 events since 24 Dec 2016Full timeline ↓Full timeline · 32 events
- 📦Pratilipi - Books and Stories updated to version 9.5.0AndroidWhat's New?
Eligible signed-out readers in India can now sign in with their phone number using Truecaller or an SMS code.
Fixes
Author profiles with 1–6 published stories now show a Recent row, so you can browse their work in newest order.… more - 📦Pratilipi - Books and Stories updated to version 5.7.2iOSBug fixes and improvements
- 📦Pratilipi - Books and Stories updated to version 5.7.1iOSBug fixes and improvements
- 📦Pratilipi - Books and Stories updated to version 5.7.0iOSBug fixes and improvements.
- 📦Pratilipi - Books and Stories: now updating weeklyiOS4 updates in 30 days, after a quiet two months
- 📈Pratilipi - Books and Stories entered the top 100AndroidTop Grossing · Books & Reference · TR
- 📈Pratilipi - Books and Stories charting in a new countryAndroidTurkey
- 📈Pratilipi - Books and Stories entered the top 100 in 2 chartsAndroidTop Grossing · Books & Reference · ID · Top Grossing · Books & Reference · TH
- 📈Pratilipi - Books and Stories charting in a new country in 2 chartsAndroidIndonesia · Thailand
- 📦Pratilipi - Books and Stories updated to version 5.6.1iOSBug fixes and improvements
- 📦Pratilipi - Books and Stories updated to version 9.4.0AndroidWhat’s New
Your sharing experience just got smoother. Story previews now appear more reliably on WhatsApp, and text-only shares feel cleaner and easier to send.
We’ve also improved a few important flows behind the scenes — including better updates on the home screen, clearer communication around Superfan purchases, and a smoother path while adding bank account details.
Fixes
Update now for a smoother, more connected experience.… more - 📈Pratilipi - Books and Stories entered the top 10iOSTop Grossing · Books · SA
- 📈Pratilipi - Books and Stories entered the top 100AndroidTop Grossing · Books & Reference · VN
- 📈Pratilipi - Books and Stories charting in a new countryAndroidVietnam
- 📦Pratilipi - Books and Stories updated to version 5.6.0iOSBug fixes and improvements.
- 📈Pratilipi - Books and Stories entered the top 10AndroidTop Free · Books & Reference · AE
- 📈Pratilipi - Books and Stories entered the top 100AndroidTop Grossing · Books & Reference · AU
- 📈Pratilipi - Books and Stories charting in a new countryAndroidAustralia
- 📈Pratilipi - Books and Stories new best rank in the overall chart: #62iOSTop Grossing · All Apps · IN
- 📈Pratilipi - Books and Stories new best rank in the overall chart: #86AndroidTop Grossing · All Apps · AE
- 📈Pratilipi - Books and Stories new best rank in the overall chart: #65iOSTop Grossing · All Apps · IN
- 📈Pratilipi - Books and Stories entered the top 100AndroidTop Free · Books & Reference · SA
- 📈Pratilipi - Books and Stories new best rank in the overall chart: #67iOSTop Grossing · All Apps · IN
- 📈Pratilipi - Books and Stories new best rank in the overall chart: #72iOSTop Grossing · All Apps · IN
- 📈Pratilipi - Books and Stories new best rank in the overall chart: #73iOSTop Grossing · All Apps · IN
- 🆕Pratilipi - Books and Stories first spotted by AppInsiderAndroidUnited Arab Emirates
- 🆕Pratilipi - Books and Stories first spotted by AppInsideriOS#5 in Top Grossing · Books · United Arab Emirates
- 📦Pratilipi - Books and Stories version 5.5.1iOSNo release notes
- 📦Pratilipi - Books and Stories updated to version 9.1.2AndroidWhat’s New
Your sharing experience just got smoother. Story previews now appear more reliably on WhatsApp, and text-only shares feel cleaner and easier to send.
We’ve also improved a few important flows behind the scenes — including better updates on the home screen, clearer communication around Superfan purchases, and a smoother path while adding bank account details.
Fixes
Update now for a smoother, more connected experience.… more - 📦Pratilipi - Books and Stories version 9.2.0AndroidWhat’s New
Your sharing experience just got smoother. Story previews now appear more reliably on WhatsApp, and text-only shares feel cleaner and easier to send.
We’ve also improved a few important flows behind the scenes — including better updates on the home screen, clearer communication around Superfan purchases, and a smoother path while adding bank account details.
Fixes
Update now for a smoother, more connected experience.… more - 🆕Pratilipi - Books and Stories released on the App StoreiOS
- 🆕Pratilipi - Books and Stories released on Google PlayAndroid
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Books GrossingPratilipi - Books and Stories at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-08. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
Pratilipi is a free, multi-language digital reading platform for Indian audiences that hosts user-generated stories, e-books, and poems across twelve languages. The app currently holds the #1 position in India's Books Grossing chart and ranks within the top 20 in several other regional markets, indicating strong monetization performance relative to its high volume of free content.
Similar apps: Wattpad, Kindle, Storytel
App Store
App details
Tech stack
App privacy Measured
Pratilipi - Books and Stories’s App Store privacy label declares 2 data categories used to track you across other companies’ apps and websites, 5 linked to your identity and 0 collected anonymously.
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
Google Play
App details
Tech stack
Android app v9.2.0 · checked 26 Sep 2026
Pratilipi - Books and Stories downloads & installs
Both stores, worldwide. Bands are open; exact numbers are free with an account.
| Store | Downloads / day | Lifetime installs |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | 1k+ | – |
| Google Play | 10k+ | 50M+ Measured |
| Total | 10k+ Confidence | 50M+ Confidence |
How this is calculated
Where Pratilipi - Books and 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.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
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 Pratilipi - Books and Stories makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | Premium Monthly Subscription subscription | |
| 2 | Buy 20 coins | |
| 3 | Buy 100 coins | |
| 4 | Premium 6 monthly Subscription subscription | |
| 5 | Buy 200 coins | |
| 6 | Buy 400 coins | |
| 7 | Premium Yearly Subscription subscription | |
| 8 | Buy 400 coins | |
| 9 | Buy 200 Coins | |
| 10 | Buy 20 coins |
Where it ranks now
Both stores, across every country we track.
| Store | Best rank | Charting in | US Top Free | US Top Grossing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| App Store | #1 Books Grossing | 5 of 30 countries | – | – |
| Google Play | #5 Books & Reference Free | 10 of 23 countries | – | #188 |
Full chart lists: App Store · Google Play.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisGrowing fastest in 
Canada ▲ +240% · 
Saudi Arabia ▲ +50% · India ▲ +29%
New ratings by country (5)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 318 | 88% | ▲ +29% |
 United Arab Emirates | 28 | 8% | ▼ -25% |
 Australia | 7 | 2% | ▼ -24% |
| Canada | 5 | 1% | ▲ +240% |
| Saudi Arabia | 4.5 | 1% | ▲ +50% |
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.
Ratings
Both stores. Store data, measured.
| Store | Rating | Ratings |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | 4.8 ★ | 589 |
| Google Play | 4.8 ★ | 958k 444 written reviews |
| Both stores | 4.8 ★ weighted by ratings | 959k |
What users say about Pratilipi - Books and Stories
From the 28 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users appreciate the extensive library of regional language stories and the availability of an iOS version, but express strong frustration with feature parity gaps compared to Android. Critical complaints focus on the inability to write or publish stories on iPhone/iPad, poor tablet optimization, and login or content loading failures.
Mixed but leaning positive (57% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). The main complaints are about missing features or content, and recent updates.
Common complaints
- Features & content: “There is no option to change the size of the texts”
- Updates: “This app needs to be updated”
About Pratilipi - Books and Stories
Connect with your favourite writers.
Over 400,000 writers in 12 languages (many more coming soon) who have published over 8,000,000 stories across genres including love and romance, suspense and thriller, horror, moral stories, social stories, children's stories, humour, and satire. There are also thousands of poems, ghazals, nazms, autobiographies, and essays!
Stories by Pratilipi unlocks a world of public domain contents, allowing you to read the classic stories of human history. Connects you with the best storytellers and story readers. Read different types of books- Romance, Ghost & Horror, Biography, Suspense & Thriller, Mystery, Travel, Cooking, Science & Technology, Comedy, Politics, Women, Health, Children, Classic tales and much more. It's all here, along with tens of thousands of other literature with some of the best story-lines ever.
Our readers love us for having rating and reviews, author profiles, Night Mode for reading books, reading statistics - and all the other little things about books. Over 300,000 of the greatest stories you’ll ever read, accessible with the tap of your finger.
Choose your favourite format of storytelling - stories, e-books, poems, articles, magazines, novels, essay, available over 8,000,000 contents.
Pratilipi stories are currently available in the following languages -
Hindi, Tamil, Marathi, Gujarati, Kannada, Telugu, Bengali, Malayalam, Odia, Punjabi, English
For full terms of service, visit https://english.pratilipi.com/terms-of-service
Pratilipi - Books and Stories App Store
Pratilipi - Books and Stories gets 10k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, November 2026, rounded down to a band).
Pratilipi - Books and Stories is #1 in Books Grossing in India and charting in 5 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 9 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
24 Sep 2026 Books GrossingPratilipi - Books and Stories at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-08. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
Pratilipi is a free, multi-language digital reading platform for Indian audiences that hosts user-generated stories, e-books, and poems across twelve languages. The app currently holds the #1 position in India's Books Grossing chart and ranks within the top 20 in several other regional markets, indicating strong monetization performance relative to its high volume of free content.
Similar apps: Wattpad, Kindle, Storytel
Pratilipi - Books and Stories on the App Store
App details
Tech stack
App privacy Measured
Pratilipi - Books and Stories’s App Store privacy label declares 2 data categories used to track you across other companies’ apps and websites, 5 linked to your identity and 0 collected anonymously.
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
Pratilipi - Books and 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
Where Pratilipi - Books and 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.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in Pratilipi - Books and Stories before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Business model: Subscription-led
How Pratilipi - Books and Stories makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | Premium Monthly Subscription subscription | |
| 2 | Buy 20 coins | |
| 3 | Buy 100 coins | |
| 4 | Premium 6 monthly Subscription subscription | |
| 5 | Buy 200 coins | |
| 6 | Buy 400 coins | |
| 7 | Premium Yearly Subscription subscription | |
| 8 | Buy 400 coins | |
| 9 | Buy 200 Coins | |
| 10 | Buy 20 coins |
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| India | BooksGrossing | #1 |
| India | BooksFree | #2 |
| United Arab Emirates | BooksGrossing | #6 |
| India | All AppsGrossing | #69 |
| Saudi Arabia | BooksGrossing | #20 |
| United Arab Emirates | BooksFree | #16 |
| Canada | BooksGrossing | #56 |
| Australia | BooksGrossing | #82 |
| Australia | BooksFree | #130 |
| Canada | BooksFree | #187 |
| Saudi Arabia | BooksFree | #150 |
Apps near Pratilipi - Books and Stories on the chart
Books Grossing, around #1.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisGrowing fastest in Canada ▲ +240% · Saudi Arabia ▲ +50% · India ▲ +29%
New ratings by country (5)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 318 | 88% | ▲ +29% |
| United Arab Emirates | 28 | 8% | ▼ -25% |
| Australia | 7 | 2% | ▼ -24% |
| Canada | 5 | 1% | ▲ +240% |
| Saudi Arabia | 4.5 | 1% | ▲ +50% |
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.
What users say about Pratilipi - Books and Stories
From the 28 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users appreciate the extensive library of regional language stories and the availability of an iOS version, but express strong frustration with feature parity gaps compared to Android. Critical complaints focus on the inability to write or publish stories on iPhone/iPad, poor tablet optimization, and login or content loading failures.
Mixed but leaning positive (57% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). The main complaints are about missing features or content, and recent updates.
Common complaints
- Features & content: “There is no option to change the size of the texts”
- Updates: “This app needs to be updated”
About Pratilipi - Books and Stories
Connect with your favourite writers.
Over 400,000 writers in 12 languages (many more coming soon) who have published over 8,000,000 stories across genres including love and romance, suspense and thriller, horror, moral stories, social stories, children's stories, humour, and satire. There are also thousands of poems, ghazals, nazms, autobiographies, and essays!
Stories by Pratilipi unlocks a world of public domain contents, allowing you to read the classic stories of human history. Connects you with the best storytellers and story readers. Read different types of books- Romance, Ghost & Horror, Biography, Suspense & Thriller, Mystery, Travel, Cooking, Science & Technology, Comedy, Politics, Women, Health, Children, Classic tales and much more. It's all here, along with tens of thousands of other literature with some of the best story-lines ever.
Our readers love us for having rating and reviews, author profiles, Night Mode for reading books, reading statistics - and all the other little things about books. Over 300,000 of the greatest stories you’ll ever read, accessible with the tap of your finger.
Choose your favourite format of storytelling - stories, e-books, poems, articles, magazines, novels, essay, available over 8,000,000 contents.
Pratilipi stories are currently available in the following languages -
Hindi, Tamil, Marathi, Gujarati, Kannada, Telugu, Bengali, Malayalam, Odia, Punjabi, English
For full terms of service, visit https://english.pratilipi.com/terms-of-service
Latest updates
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Pratilipi Novel is #5 in Books & Reference Free on Google Play in India and charting in 10 of 23 countries we track.
Updated 9 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
Books & Reference FreePratilipi Novel at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-08. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
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Pratilipi Novel on Google Play
App details
Tech stack
Android app v9.2.0 · checked 26 Sep 2026
Its iPhone app is most likely native Swift.
Pratilipi Novel downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where Pratilipi Novel'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.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in Pratilipi Novel before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Business model: Subscription-led
How Pratilipi Novel makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | Premium Monthly Subscription subscription | |
| 2 | Buy 20 coins | |
| 3 | Buy 100 coins | |
| 4 | Premium 6 monthly Subscription subscription | |
| 5 | Buy 200 coins | |
| 6 | Buy 400 coins | |
| 7 | Premium Yearly Subscription subscription | |
| 8 | Buy 400 coins | |
| 9 | Buy 200 Coins | |
| 10 | Buy 20 coins |
Where it ranks on Google Play
Every top 200 chart it appears in across 23 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| India | Books & ReferenceFree | #5 |
 United States | Books & ReferenceGrossing | #188 |
| Canada | Books & ReferenceGrossing | #37 |
| Australia | Books & ReferenceGrossing | #51 |
| India | All AppsGrossing | #143 |
| India | Books & ReferenceGrossing | #64 |
| United Arab Emirates | Books & ReferenceFree | #32 |
| United Arab Emirates | All AppsGrossing | #106 |
 Indonesia | Books & ReferenceGrossing | #67 |
| Saudi Arabia | Books & ReferenceGrossing | #69 |
 Turkey | Books & ReferenceGrossing | #66 |
| United Arab Emirates | Books & ReferenceGrossing | #67 |
 Thailand | Books & ReferenceGrossing | #65 |
 Vietnam | Books & ReferenceGrossing | #66 |
Apps near Pratilipi Novel on the chart
Books & Reference Free, around #5.
Ratings
Google Play, worldwide.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisReview 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 Pratilipi Novel
From the 200 most recent Google Play reviews in the US.
Users praise the app for its engaging stories and creative writing community. However, significant complaints focus on aggressive monetization tactics, including auto-renewal charges, incomplete stories behind paywalls, and technical bugs like repetitive content.
Mostly positive (93% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for its design, and its features and content.
What people like
- Design: “Soo beautiful app I like it and I love it soo Mac 🌷🙃🌷🥀🥀🥀”
- Features & content: “good option for Hindi literature”
- Fun: “it seems to be a challenging story”
About Pratilipi Novel
With our highly affordable subscription plans, you can enjoy some incredible benefits!
Read across multiple and diverse genres like Romance, Werewolf, Billionaire, Thriller, Horror, LGBTQ, etc.
Read stories on the go - anytime, anywhere!
Download novels and save them in your own personal library.
Continue reading from where you left off - a seamless experience.
Get personalized reading recommendations every day.
Read unlimited stories without hurting your wallet.
So, what are you waiting for? Let’s get started! All you need to do is download the Pratilipi app and start reading your favorite stories!
Want to do more than just read?
Become an author with us!
What's new in 9.5.0
Eligible signed-out readers in India can now sign in with their phone number using Truecaller or an SMS code.
Fixes
Author profiles with 1–6 published stories now show a Recent row, so you can browse their work in newest order.
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