Royal Road - Read Stories

Contains adsIn-app purchases
4.6
12.8K reviews
100K+
Downloads
Content rating
Parental guidance
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About this app

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.
Updated on
Jul 28, 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Personal info and App activity
This app may collect these data types
Personal info, Financial info and 4 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.6
11.9K reviews
Talmage Coates
June 2, 2025
So, until today I was planning to rate the app 5 stars. The ads have been reasonable, the search functionality extensive, and it does have a lot of good stories. Then they removed their best feature: inline edit suggestions. I was about to start putting my own story here, but maybe I'll look at other platforms instead now. Edit: the inline suggestions are back
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21guns
November 5, 2024
it good not much to say. much better than the web because there are recommendations. Also, the web always has a button to view the app and is annoying. ads have 3 choices how they appear to you. Trust me, I recommend that the top or bottom of the screen options for placement as 30-second full screen ads are not really immersive and annoying. A tiny bit laggy when pressing back option, and no, my phone is good samsung A14 5g.
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Rick & Cat Kukowski
November 30, 2024
edit: it's greatly improved and moved up to 4 stars. has some good reading options and isn’t too bad. sometimes a page just ends and I need to restart the app to continue reading. sometimes it automatically moves me to an advertisements website even though I didn't click on the ad. both are irritating but only occur often enough for me personally to only take off 1 star.
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What’s new

- New: Added release notes page. It can be accessed from Home page's s user menu in the top right corner.
- Fix: Settings page crashed for users who didn't have birth date set.
- Fix: Chapter audio/TTS auto next didn't work if you skipped the last line of the chapter.
- Fix: Chapter audio/TTS play button infinitely spinning sometimes.
- Removed the user card added to home. It has now been shifted to home page's user menu.
- Internal fixes.