The app can be used without spending any money. You get free points daily and can use them on most series. HOWEVER if you are not following a lot of series I think you’ll eventually run out of series to use your daily points on. This is the main problem of the app—updates are weirdly done in chunks. As a mechanism to spread out where you can spend your points, I think it’s fine. But it gets awkward and annoying when it’s also used as the units chapters get updated by. A chapter that should’ve been released all at once monthly or weekly is instead split into two or three timed updates.This is ESPECIALLY frustrating when they do this for finished series—Fullmetal Alchemist, a COMPLETED manga, makes HALF a chapter WEEKLY free point eligible, and won’t be fully “free” until 2027!! This makes the cost of reading it all at once significantly higher and also makes the experience of waiting for chapters of a COMPLETED manga much more aggravating. It should at least be a whole chapter a week?! Like a real manga magazine!Even for ongoing series, you might pay money to read the latest chapters and still have this clunky experience of only reading 2/3 of it and then having to wait another week or two for the last part. I would say if you intend to pay money, the app is mainly worth it for the completed series—it is much cheaper than buying a paperback volume, though I guess it’s typical prices for ebooks. And you get to read what you’ve purchased any time (regardless if purchased with free or premium points). For ongoing series, it’s still pretty price efficient but lacks transparency on update times. There should be more labels on series about when the next update is coming or if a series is going on break (I’ve been waiting multiple weeks for a series that was releasing weekly before and have no idea what’s going on).

i only lasted 35 minutes on the app before deleting for two reasons. first and most noteworthy thing to mention is that the chapters cost 40-90 coins per chapter and those coins can be obtained with money thru the app. normally thats fine, most manga apps have a monthly subscription or the volumes can be purchased as a whole and read that way.. but this app doesn’t allow you to keep the chapters you’ve purchased. they’re merely available to you for up to 3 days. second thing to mention (biggest reason i deleted) is that these chapters that you pay for and are only available to you for 3 days are broken up. i got so confused when i went to read and one single chapter was broken up into 8 segments. EIGHT. 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4 etc. each segment costing 80 coins. that’s 640 coins for a SINGLE chapter. i went to the shop to see what the coin prices were and they’re about on par with other apps. 650 coins for $4. which sounds okay but remember, because they split it up, you’re paying $4 for a single chapter. if the manga you’re reading has 100+ chapters and each chapter is broken into 5-10 segments priced at 80 coins a segment.. you’re spending way more money than it’s worth. imo this isn’t the app for me. truly surprised others even use it, there are far better, cheaper options that allow you to retain what you’ve purchased than this - i suggest one of those.

I’m positively baffled at how this horrid software made it out the door. To begin, the way the service itself is structured is still a mystery to me. There are a total of 3 currencies which you use to unlock chapters, and even if you paid for the currency to unlock chapters they’re only unlocked for three days? On top of that, manga chapters are artificially broken into several parts meaning you have to spend MORE money to read everything. If my math is correct, it’s cheaper to buy print for some of these series. At least then you get to keep the manga forever and not just THREE DAYS. Oh, and screenshooting is a ban-able offense. Furthermore, the catalogue of series on offer is incredibly lackluster, too. Lots of vapid, erotic schlock and only a handful of standout series. Even if you find something you’d want to read, the app has issues of blank pages requiring a restart. I don’t understand why they couldn’t have a monthly subscription like other services do. Every single aspect of this app is so blatantly anti consumer that I’m shocked that it launches in the state it did. If they do a complete overhaul of the entire structure of the app, maybe there’s something here- but for now- don’t even think about downloading this.

the app is rather well put together. The UI is nice, reminds me of the manga plus app, and there are series here I never expected to get an official English release so that’s a nice surprise. Now for the bad. Square enix decided to go with the coin system. You buy coins to read chapters apparently. I say apparently because the whole system is very convoluted. There are 3 types of tokens; coins, UP, and xp. The up replenishes once a day and is enough to Read 8 chapters a day, after that you have to pay to unlock, and that chapter only remains unlocked for 3 days, after that you pay again. Their most expensive coin bundle is $80 and it allows you to temporarily unlock 330 chapters. Let’s say a one piece like series of 1000 chapters was pay to read on this app. It would cost you around $250 to temporarily have access to every chapter. Thank god VIZ understood what a dumb customer pay model this was. If you can ignore the extortionate pay model maybe you can also ignore the egregious censoring. Use your free chapters to check out dress up darling to get a sense of how terrible the censoring is. Full on black censor bars covering even a hint of cleavage. Literally blocking Marin’s entire upper body. I wanted to like this app so bad. I wanted to support the official translations of series I really enjoy. I wanted to enjoy the official release of those series. I can’t do any of that at this point in time. The atrocious pay model and the deliberate misrepresentation of the artists works have made this a complete failure on square enix’s part. I doubt they will care to fix these problems which is why the most dedicated fans will continue to source their reading material elsewhere.