AO3 FanFic Reader - unofficial

look I love this app but is it just me or does this app have been under maintenance for almost a month now 😔 please AO3 I wanna read 🙏

i love the imagination I get 😅

I can every genre here it's good and easy to use

amazing

it's okay, just laggy

worked the first time, now it just doesn't let me use it, even if it works for my friend.

please don't download this app ao3 does not have an app and this is a scam

I just downloaded it and now its saying that the server is down, its been like this for a goddamn week.

this is the worst app ever I can't read anything off of it now either fix it or I'm deleting it I'm giving it until 3 weeks

ao3 is honestly one of the best apps I've read on but recently it has been glitching and isn't letting me read story's of any kind saying that there a malfunction with the server and I dont know why

This app is very good for my English learning. I can write stories about my OCs now!! But unfortunately i joined RIGHT before the shutdown so i kinda had to rely on downloaded fanfics from TikTok users' google drives agghh.

I love it, but my account was temporarily blocked, when are you going to fix this?.

Made me good at English finally Noone has to bully me thanks

I LOVED this app but everytime I try to continue my stories now it tells me that the app is working on maintenance but thats been over a day ago now and its still giving me that issue no matter how many times I refresh! so mad right now!! And anytime I click the "check AO3 Status" it just wants me to download this completely different app 😡

Still haven't used it but ao3 is out rn so i have to use this 💔💔💔

sometimes I don't get the full chapter of the books I'm trying to read

As someone who loves reading fanfics as a former of reading, thos has everything the website has and a sprinkle more. the ads to get annoying after a while like most apps do, but it's not as harsh as I think a lot of other apps have.. looking at you, wattpad. Anyways!! yes, I love the app. Shout out to all my young years on this app 100/10

great app bit searching is a bit too complex

love the VIP listening function which is very fluent. Hope to get more smoother and emotional voice loaded in the future

I love how smooth it goes and the variety of fanfics is amazing! Honestly there isn't anything bad that I would say and I don't even have premium

it's easy to navigate and i love it

i love this app

I KOVE IT.

I feel like I got scammed. I bought the annual pass to get the extras because I wanted access to the history and no adds. Within an hour of purchase my search function has failed. Short of choosing a language, I can not use any other filter functions.

im so new to this haha! does anyone know how to get rid of saved books on this app? any way! really fun do recommend

the new update makes it much better but the app still spontaneously relaunches itself and you lose your place and what you were reading and where you're reading. I do love the new update where on premium subscription I can listen to all the stories! the home screen does not show you what you've been reading in your current history. you also cannot add comments to the authors writing. but you can give kudos. also when I try to flag a story is finished it does not save it is finished.

I can't really say much because I haven't really delve deep into it, but it looks promising

it's not like ao3 but a great alternative only thing sucks is that not all the stories are on here and every new story you open there's an ad

excellent

i like it so much

the only thing that can make this app perfect is a filter for the saves fics section, a continue reading button, and maybe a progress tracker on the saved fics section.

They reset my entire app recently. They did away with the "finished" category. So every fic I've finished, which was around 230, became "unread." This means I don't have a record of them. They're no longer in my words read which was over 8 million and it's now 1 million. I can't go back and look at them for reference. I loved this app and recommended to everyone and now I'm annoyed and upset about it.

its time

discusting

fantastic app, however there seems to be a bug at the moment where going to the next chapter just restarts the one you're currently on and you have to close out and reopen. Other than that one issue. I love it.

I couldn't even sign up. apparently the app has bugs I tried redownloading and clearing cache but it didn't work edit I got past the bug but there's this annoying glitch at the search tab

don't actually like the new update bcs firstly I didn't even know how to use it before the new update of the app and secondly when I get a new update notification for the stories, it doesn't show shen I click on the updated story. 👎👎👎👎

don't force me to pick fandoms.

awsome

I really enjoy it for the most part but it's very frustrating when the app just kicks you off mid-fic. especially when you're listening and rather than letting you pick up where you left off, it goes back to the very beginning.

personally it makes it so easy to read my a03 and I love it

I downloaded this app just be able to leave a review ALL of these apps are garbage stealing your data and serving you ads. Why?? the mobile site does everything and does it *better* with NO ADS. you can download for offline reading, get notified of updates, etc, ALL ON THE SITE. JUST USE THE MOBILE SITE FFS. not everything needs an app! stop letting yourself be scammed!

it used to be really good but I've found the right of the latest update to be terrible. I don't know why theres a massive block at the end of each chapter now that hides the last paragraph. Please remove the next chapter box, I want to read the end of my chapters

AO3 has a functional mobile site and this app was bad in comparison. they are also taking money for something that is available for FREE. they are also hiding important information about the stories instead of displaying it. also stories would jump around instead of showing me the one I wanted. ugh. just use the mobile site and support your local fanfic author directly. don't give these bozos money.

Girl, if you don't just go on the ao3 website lol. It is much better. But, I guess I'll give the app props for basically being the app.

good app

the app's great and all but there are some REALLY weird stuff on there like really weird but other than that the app is really good like r@pe is insane dawg with irl people

gud nice

yay

so peak I'm reading yaoi rn

This app drained my battery insanely fast. The newest update (Sept 2026) has a pop up that blocks the last sentence of the chapter. The ads are annoying. AO3 through a browser is better.

this latest update has absolutely ruined to ui for finding story's, it has also added an absolutely massive "next chapter" button the pops up and covers the last paragraph of said chapter which is very annoying. they have also ramped up ads by a factor of 10. all in all it has been ruined by the latest update and I can no longer recommend even trying it

if there wasn't a massive next chapter box covering half of a paragraph and the authors notes it would be a higher rating but no, was this last update really necessary i have to just guess what the writing says now.

just downloaded it today I found great stories so far but the app is starting to irritate me with the sudden force close hopefully it gets fixed soon

I love the app, so many books to read but since it updated when it brings up the chapter finished I can't read the last parts of the chapter. So that part sucks if you can fix it, that would be great.

adds man they ruin the experience just like everything else at least they're not popping up mid read

Not that good. Had it for about 10 minutes and I'll never get those 10 minutes back. There is an ad every now and then, the search engine is just a nightmare and didn't have a lot of options so in my opinion it's not that good sadly ):

I'm having the absolute time of my life reading fanfics

exciting

it's pretty good I just hate that after two stories I'm not allowed to download anymore without paying.

it would be great it it stopped logging out every like 10 minutes or so... the adds I can deal with. The "next chapter" section pops up at times and DOES NOT go away, and it cuts off some of the story. It is aggravating that I can't finish the chapters and I have to guess what it says. it would also be good that when you hit Exclude, it freaking excluded what you told it too....

This app is so good

they update it all the time which is fine most of the time but this time it messed it up. At the end of the chapter it shows up with a big 'NEXT CHAPTER' box and covers an entire paragraph of text. how am I supposed to know whats happening if the last bit AND author's note is being covered??? I liked it fine before the most recent update.

wayyy too many ads

ao3 is the best thing ever created

unfortunately the most recent update completely ruined it for me. Every time you arrive at the end of the chapter, a massive square telling you how much chapters are left and offering you to continue to the next chapter pops up.....which hides the last few lines of the chapter. And you can't get rid of it too. So basically you can read the fic, except for the last 4 lines of every chapter. Unfortunately I will stop using the app because it just isn't possible to ignore.

minsung fan fics yes yes yes

love the depression stories but too much porn

umm it was good plus it's dark mode 😩

wow I had to come leave a review after the new update because you guys have outdone yourselves with this new ui. its absolutely terrible and confusing. now the story titles are the exact same font as the summaries so you they blend in and it hurts the eyes

It's a nice app! after wattpad it felt really hard to understand how to use it but after you learn it, it makes much better!!

I'm literally being forced to give a review 😭

amazing

good

it's good although everytime I want to press to read an ad will show up and I can't download them offline like Wattpad, it says that I have to pay if I want to read offline:)

AO3 IS MY HEAVEN I LOVE IT I SPEND HOURS READING YAOI AND YURI BECAUSE THEY ARE PEAK I LOVE YURI 😍😛✂️✂️

I had Archive Reader downloaded on my old iPhone while it was available. Best app ever. Sometimes I just use my old phone to use Archive Reader because my new android phone don't have it and I think they took it down. So I searched for an alternative and stumbled across this. It's literally perfect. Some things are a bit buggy, like when I'm reading and scrolling, on the corner on the right there are two buttons on top of eachother. Otherwise this app is a 10/10.

Brilliant fan based stories on every genre you can imagine. All free, Tags, age warnings and trigger warnings all in place. lots of reading abilities and languages catered to and the chance to get your own creative writing out there anonymously too! Love it ❤️

Terrible app

It'd be nice if you could swipe left or right to change chapters. Other than that, it's a great app.

Too many ads! But apart from that it's perfect.

would really enjoy if line breaks were used properly. its hard to tell who is speaking sometimes when a conversation is going. seems to be an issue with how the app is rendering the enter key

cant find some of the stories i want to find

I lov3 how the app has a notification system about the stories.

its basically really good, but I dont like that I can't see or read comments. let alone make a comment, also sometimes I can't find certain works even though I know its on AO3

ad experience is horrible and is not user friendly.

I love Soukoku

👍

It's a great app. Though, it'd be nice if users could swipe left and right to change the chapters instead of using the button.

v good, but I can't figure out the comments.

couldn't even get in😒

Ao3 says they don't have an ap, so this one is not affiliated with them. I wasn't impressed with it at all anyway and I uninstalled it shortly after I tried using it for the first time.

use it if you need to quit your polybuzz/character ai addiction

too hard to find the types of stories I like

literally love it i love reading satosugu fanfics on this this app is so good

any fiction obsessed soul must install this app rn. plenty of good novels. good writers. almost no ads. best appp😩❤️‍🩹

it keeps breaking down

ts app is amazing, the only problems is when you click/search up tags, not all works pop up (theyll stop at a certain point) because i know there are WAYYY more than what it shows lol and also its became somewhat laggy since the new update

This app does make reading fics on your phone a cleaner experience. However, I bought the paid version and the app still asks me if I want to "upgrade". Also there seems to be a bug where some stories don't update in spite of the updates being posted to the AO3 site. This has led to me thinking some great stories were abandoned by their authors. The "listen" button also doesn't work; I'm hoping this feature may be added in the future.

very easy to use, there's no ads in the middle of chapters while you're reading.

good

Generally good, but I don't like that it seems really difficult to reliably select text while reading to use Google translate, and any special formatting, especially in socmed fics, is obliterated.

this app is great! I love all the fan work on here and it's a genuinely nice place to read. the only thing I d8slike is that some fanfictions are locked so you have to create a account on the website

I keep getting notifications that a story I've followed has a new chapter posted, but I can't find a way to find what story they're talking about. Is there a way to search the stories I'm following? The search feature could use some fine tuning.

It's nice having another app to read fanfiction on, however I'm giving ⭐⭐⭐ because of the battery drain. The phone is overheated and the battery is almost gone after only a couple of hours.

great app love it but stop asking me to rate it constantly and show premium IN MY FACE 24/7 with NO OPTION to click off I'm trying to read in peace and all i see is "get premium" NO. otherwise it's good I like the customization like dark mode and stuff just wish you could actually have a account on it like the website???

This app is pretty useful, I have to admit. It's a great reader for the fanfiction on AO3, but I can't give it more than 3 stars. This is because we can't log in with an AO3 account, and we can't leave Kudos and Comments on the works, which I believe are very important, even if it's just a reader. I use AO3 myself, and I sadly have to admit, even if I didn't get ads, I would prefer to use the website instead.

I love this app, it's a bit laggy at times, bought the monthly subscription since it was a very reasonable price and the fact that you can change the color of the page and increase text size and font is a god send for someone like me with light sensitivity, and getting constant double vision while binge reading a 34 chapter fanfic.

just a 1 star to grab attn from dev. the notification system doesn't tell you what story updated. so its kind of pointless please add a section in the notification mentioning what story updated and if you click on the notification it should take you that story please and thank you!

I like the app, but don't love it. can't seem to make the audio work. some of the buttons cover other buttons. can't figure out how to follow stories or people. when I resume my story, it shoots back over to new stories and I have to hunt for what I was reading. when I get a notification for a story and hot the link, it takes me to new stories (and the story i want isn't there). Lots of potential. Will be great once it's fixed!

Honestly it's a decent app I've been using it on and off for a while now it's just what bothers me is you have the dumbest stuff under a paywall. I love how there's rarely an ad but to have something as simple as a reading list, for example, locked under premium seems a bit much since it's usually a free feature.

Loading issues for the app and ads mean it sometimes has to be restarted. Doesn't automatically save your search or your spot on it so there's a lot of reconfiguring and scrolling required. looks nice though.

App sucks. Not only does it require you to pay money to download stories offline, which is already a massive red flag since the website this app is leaching off of is a non-profit site, the app doesn't even open without internet.

I like ao3 a lot! but for some reason, when I try to read the next chapter, it displays the previous one, (for ex. chap 1 keeps repeating) dunno why this happens.

As a multi fandom myself, Ao3 is my absolute 2nd go-to (First is imagination) I sometimes get tired of making chats with bots or chatting with bots which that also includes imagination, But reading in Ao3—Which where you can see other people's imagination and some of them; I have actually never imagined before, I love having new ideas. (Just to be clear I do not write anymore because I do run out of ideas and I do know I won't continue them unlike my imagination) I hope this review helps:)

this app is trying to profit from a website that is design and must be free. they are infringing international and local (in most of the countries) copyright laws. and profit from works that they don't own. to be clear, this is not and interface, THIS IS AN AI SLOP APP PUTTING A PRICE ON COPYRIGHTED CHARACTERS AND ARTISTIC WRITING ABOUT THEM. THEY DON'T HAVE THE RIGHTS TO ANY OF THEM.

ok this is so annoying. I downloaded the app sometime last year and haven't used it in a while. Now when I get back on it, there's ads!! I'm just trying to do a little relaxing reading withoutany distractions, and the tiny little bar at the top is so annoying! TAKE OFF THE STUPID ADS

it's not bad. at first, I thought this would be basically another fanfic website and not have any of the fics I was already reading on ao3, but I looked some up and they were there. there are, like, ad thingies sometimes? like the trial or something? idk, you'd have to buy the trial to download the fics, it's not completely free.

it is so frustrating, incredibly slow loading times, if you can get chapters or search pages to load at all. I'd be happy to support the platform with the subscription, but it's a joke to ask for money when your app just blatantly doesn't run correctly 👎

first, you can't read comments, and second, there's a bug that won't let you read some chapters at all, like it skips to chapter 12 after chapter 10 and you can't go to 11 no matter how many times you reload. The search feature is also only satisfactory, I'd recommend searching for books in the official ao3 site and then adding them in the app through the name/author. Overall I think the app does the job but definitely not a great alternative.

I use the website from time to time and came to use the app, it won't let me do anything I got the pop up to allow notifications and it won't let me tap either option. very disappointed however I enjoy the website too much to give any less than 3 stars

It could be better. I've been having some problems. First, as I'm reading paragraphs will cut off. When I try to reopen them it gives me a blank grey screen, so I have to exit the app and try again. Second, is the search is not accurate. I can't find anything, even when I know my info is correct. It tells me nothing was found and to use a new filter.

love the app, had it on my previous phone and it was just amazing. the only negative (which might be a me problem) is that I keep getting stuck on the screen that asks if it can send notifications, even after repeatedly deleting and re-downloading it.

Fix this app already. I like this app but there's a problem. When I'm reading a story it doesn't show the whole chapter when I'm reading it only shows a part of the chapter. I keep having to exit out of the app then go back on the app to read more of the chapter but it still doesn't show the whole chapter. It's doing that again.

it only works like 25% of the time. I scroll for a bit and the text disappears. so I close the app and come back, but I sometimes have to scroll all the way back down to my spot or it only lasts a few more paragraphs before it disappears again. at this point I might as well just read on the ao3 site

I downloaded the app it asked for permissions to send notifications and to acknowledge the terms and services but unfortunately both buttons i cannot interact with at all I take allow and continue but no mater how many times I tap it does nothing at all and is completely broken just found a solution had to hit the back button and suddenly I was able to interact with the app

Really? Ads? Isn't it enough that we get bombarded by these things in every other facet of life? I just want to read. I don't want to have Shiteout Survival shoved in my face every time I switch off to a different app. Also what the hell is with the AI art? Just... why?

its fine but the fact that there is a subscription makes it pretty sketchy especially since ao3 is free just read on the browser. otherwise it is utilizing ao3s features like the filters(it doesnt have the tag typing, sadly). the only real reason to have this app is so you dont open the browser or you want an app like wattpad or ffn

This app is buggy and difficult to use. If you use the back gesture/button, it closes the app, so you'd better not use that android function that works fine literally everywhere else in this app. I'm only leaving a review because the modal prompting me to leave a review won't close when I hit "Not Now" or use the back gesture.

Not worth the $. The app isn't very useful and it's definitely not worth paying for. Especially since Ao3 doesn't even allow you to charge for their service. I know because an actual good app that I would have been willing to pay for got shut down for it. This app makes no sense, it's not helpful, it's hard to navigate, and there are no drop down options unlike the website so you have to manually type in all your search criteria. Too bad I was hoping for a good app like the last one but its not

I used to love the app now after an update I can't read any of the stories I read before. It won't let me read anything. 🙁🙁 Update: it's been over a month since I posted my first review, when will the app be fixed. on the plus side I found out I can go online and read the stories on AO3 website but not all of them are on AO3 website like the ones on the app so you're missing out..

Highly recommend if you read alot (Edit) -> there have been issues with leaving kudos and when u close out the app to long it closes what you read and if you didn't favorite it or forget the title good luck finding what you were reading again (Edit) -> they've worked on the app alot since the first and second time I edited this It be great tho if they added a preferred reading language option for the app to filter

Half the time I tried to open the app I couldn't get past an "allow notifications" popup (who's allowing notifications from a fanfic app?). After I fianlly got it to go away after a couple crashes by clicking around the screen without actually making a selection, im greeted with Ai category images. Thanks, I'll pass.

I find this app very easy to use on my tablet, however on my phone it is unusable as many of the buttons seem to disappear. Other than that, I love this app. I do wish that the log in screen had stories from your interests, such as searches you have made.

Love the concept, but 40 chapters into the 75 of the first book I am reading, and it keeps kicking me out every few pages after prompting to upgrade. Forcing upgrade is not going to entice me, it will help make my decision to uninstall.

when I look up an author all there works don't pop up and I have to directly look up the name. Also the app sent me a message about making 500$ or whatever but I'm gonna assume that's a scam obviously. the app needs better organization for sorting so if ur looking something specific you can find it faster. obviously I know it probably won't have everything but still. also if this app is not associated with ao3 then you don't have permission from the creators of the works? besides that it's good!

Kinda dissapointed...works okay for what it is, but missing tags and filters. Plus, tried to get the subscription to try it out and got a 401 error and couldn't use any of the premium features. Tried again, same thing. Tried uninstalling, reinstalling, updating, nothing. One week later, I get simultaneously billed $1.99 AND $3.99 for subscriptions that never worked, because it somehow allowed me to subscribe twice without actually granting me any of the features. Still get the error 401 code.

Fails to load chapters. Sometimes, it will display a screen's worth other times, nothing but the background loads. Would be great if it worked. The search function was intuitive and helped me to find exactly what I was looking for.

clearly meant to sell you things, with fairly unobtrucive ad banners and, far more damning, locking what should be base services behind a premium. this includes a direct way to get back to the story you are reading. maybe its just me but finding ways to monitize free content other people made is off putting. that being said it gets the job done well enough and i like how it syncs up your ao3 book marks

Pay to use certain features, and it can't be a one time payment, no it's a subscription search feature is subpar, and excludes certain tags, including the ones I'm most interested in the website itself is more intuitive to use than the app I tried it, uninstalled Not recommended

Consistently getting a 507 and 403 error code Considering that this app has services that I am paying for it is highly frustrating that it so rarely works. This app has crashed, thrown error codes and failure to load more times than it has actually functioned in the time I have had it installed.

It is a great app, I love it but at the moment it won't load or open even though there is nothing wrong with the internet but overall a perfect app for fanfiction intrest [edit] the loading issue is fixed but now none of the book I have read and favorite will open, well the chapters won't show up and so I can't open the stories so I hope that gets fixed

This app needs work, the fact that you have to pay in order to say, authors works, that you are in the middle of reading, is ridiculous, and unfair to the authors, as I doubt they are being paid by the app. Do not charge the readers is you are not going to pay the authors, the only reason the a03 website and app even exists is because of its writers. Even if the app is unofficial, it is still using multiple authors works to make a profit.

The app offers less features than available on the site or other free unofficial platforms. To even charge or have advertisements goes against AO3 when they have previously tackled against their platform being used for monetary gain. You're not paying for anything you can't get for free on the site already. Not worth it at all, it's really just another money scheme stealing from an existing source and unsuspecting authors without authorization.

Honestly, it is not a terrible app. Their is a variety of stories, longer ones, and overall, a good app. But the lagging! The unable to load! It is horrible! When are they going to fix it, because every time I just want to read a story, it won't load! This is a daily occurrence. After this review, I am done with this app. I'm deleting it and going back to Wattpad

The app was working wonderfully before it started to repeatedly lag, telling me things like it failed to load, or the app has a bug . This has just started to happen, and now I can't even read the stories without it either not loading or just simply kicking me out of the app because of a "bug." Please get this fixed. This app was my favorite app to use before these things started to happen

This app was amazing when I first used it it was very smooth and ran quickly, but after a couple days I couldn't even open the app I was stuck on the opening page which refused to load and after a while got rid of me. If that was fixed this app would be the best. (Though the purchasing I feel is unecessary.)

Occasionally it updates and you can't read the story you were in the middle of, but I can still find and read it on the website. I love that you can change the background colors and font to make it easier on the eyes. I wish the filters changed and updated like the do on the website, after clicking on tag that I don't want, it doesn't refresh and show more tags. But overall it's very good for being "unofficial"

Not worth the subscription which is ridiculous. $17 per year? why not offer a one-time payment for a lifetime subscription? Also, there's already another ao3 app which has more features like the ability to browse through the public bookmarks of an author. You can do all if this from the site for free. The app doesn't offer much other than the looks imitating social media

It looks nice but you have to pay to look at your history, Your own history. And they butchered the search engine. It still has warnings, ratings and categories. But you can no longer exclude certain things like crossovers or certain relationships you don't want to see, as well as you can no longer include the specific tags, we've been sent back to mindlessly scrolling trying to find what we're looking for. Well unless you also have to pay for that to work.

This app is so polished, I love how it looks, and it flows so nice. Only problem I have is that I wasn't able to transfer over my 900 bookmarks, but that's understandable given the magnitude of bookmarks I have. It would also be nice to have the option to view all the tags as I scroll.

Would be a higher rating, but the app does not allow one to manually add (i.e. type-in) story Tags to the Include or Exclude lists in the search filter functions, very much unlike the full site; you can only use the pre-selected lists, which are based on the most-recurring tags. There's no way to deep-filter stories without manually crushing through hundreds of tags, and potentially blocking out wanted stories and not the unwanted ones.

Not as much variety as the other AO3 app, but otherwise amazing!!! It's like a better, less restricted Wattpad. Allows you to change the color of the chapters, enlarge the font, change the boldness of the font, and even the alignment of what you're reading. Fewer ads than Wattpad and just a wonderful experience. Not five stars simply because the other AO3 app has more variety.