Tapas – Comics and Novels

NEW REVIEW: Oh, how the mighty have fallen! I used to love MANY things about this app...until they got too greedy! I WILL admit that I BELIEVE my connectivity issues mentioned in my old review may have been due to my device (s) reaching the end of their ability to have their hardware & software mesh together properly because I haven't had that particular issue since upgrading my devices. However, I only use tapas to read stories that have completely free stories now as all the things that made it possible to earn ink in the past are no longer possible/effective enough to make it worthwhile to subscribe to any of the 24 hour WUF or even the 3 hour WUF stories either when all ink that are possible to earn have expiration periods! At least that is the case for any ink on any of the Apple devices that my husband insisted on getting &, unfortunately, the only android device I had isn't capable of having tapas installed and I don't know if it's because my Kindle is too old or if tapas is no longer available via the Google play store anymore. Either way, the point is that I have no way to earn free ink that doesn't expire and...at this point, there's no point to using the tapas app to read anything that isn't already completely unlocked and free! Especially since even the WUF stories are only free until the last however many episodes which you HAVE to use ink to open! OLD REVIEW: I'd GLADLY rate this app higher if it didn't have such regular issues with it freezing up! There are SO VERY MANY things to absolutely LOVE about this app! Sure, like all apps, there are both pros and cons to it but I strongly believe that (for the most part) the pros outweigh the cons...or, at least, they WOULD if the app itself didn't have such issues causing it to consistently freeze up and shut down which makes the most important pro (which I'll put a "*" next to in my pros list {since there are actually 2 pro's that make this a great app, I'll put 2 "*" next to the reason why I would rate this 5 star's if it wasn't for the shut down/connectivity issues}) almost useless! As I just mentioned, I'll list the pros and cons below, starting with the cons and I'll put a "*" next to what I feel is the best and worst: CONS: ~*Regardless of your WiFi or Data connectivity the app has times where it will simply freeze up and shut down and/or simply fail to sign in to your user...it will literally NOT connect to the tapas server AT ALL despite the fact that both my iPhone 11 AND the app are completely up to date and I have even tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app to see if that would help...it seems to be a server issue!* ~While you can unlock new episodes for ink, too many episodes cost 300 ink per episode and too few comics are available under the "Wait Until Free" category ~I don't like how quickly titles are taken OFF of the "Wait Until Free" category and I don't like how the titles on that category have such a WIDE range of available episodes...some allow all but the last 2 episodes, some all but the last 6, 8, 30, and EVEN 300?!? PROS: ~*You can earn 10 ink per ad you watch and you can watch 30 ads PER HOUR every single day!!!* ~Every Monday you are given a "Fortune Cookie" with free ink ~Every Saturday you are given free episode tickets that do not expire so...even if you are COMPLETELY up-to-date with whichever comic the ticket is for...accept the ticket/tickets (sometimes it's for 3 episodes)! ~Sometimes, like now, they run promo's where you can get a free "Fortune Cookie" daily for extra free ink on top of the Monday and hourly!!! ~They have ink sales on a fairly regular basis for, in my opinion, a fairly decent price...although I'm not going to be able to buy anything I did want to mention it as a pro since I consider the sale price as pro compared to the regular price and I consider the fact that they have the sales fairy often another pro of the app. ~**You can/use your ink for things like"Weekly Missions" or "Events" and even earn ink by using ink that you have earned! LOL!!!!** As I said, that LAST one would be reason enough to give it 5 Stars if it wasn't for the connectivity issues!

The app says connection error. The website either doesn’t load at all (connection protocol issue)or shows a totally flat UI besides one giant top picture. Like the other recent app, all my other apps and websites are fine. ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR

I was excited to try this app out just to spend 20+ minutes trying to figure out why it keeps saying “ no network connection “ its literally only this app doing this

For weeks now Everytime it says I’m offline but every other app works it’s not a internet problem but I can’t click on any thing or log in just keeps saying connection error but it’s just the app

Why change it where we have to pay after reading all the WUF episodes when we had it where we could watch ads to read the next episode

I really enjoy reading on the app but recently (1-3 months) I’ll have ink in my balance but then the next time I log in I’ll have a significantly lower amount. Such as I went from 860-411 and from 380-8 (my most recent decreases). Overall it’s just very off putting, especially after I went from 2600 to 1260.

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Tapas has a great variety of comics and novels available! However, they have changed up their unlock methods sooo many times. Right now their “Watch ad for 1 free ep” hasn’t worked for months on android or ios. Also unable to find any info about it or a way to ask/report the issue (though I imagine it’s not unknown at this point). Not to mention ink you get from events has an expiration date so you have to try to use it or you lose it, instead of being able to save it for a series you like.

Hi! I just wanted to say that this is a great app and has many wonderful comics but I have run into a problem. I’m not sure if it’s really a bug or it’s me doing it without realizing. But recently I’ve noticed that my ink has been mysteriously disappearing. Here’s what I mean I would have 600 some ink then after a few days I would only have about 300 some but the thing is I never used the ink. I just wanted to know if this is something I should be worried about, if anyone else is experiencing this. Or if it’s just my carelessness. Thank you for your time! And have an amazing day. 🥰

I have had tapas for about two years now and to be honest the quality of this app has gone down, because of having manhwas and etc that are readily available in other apps and also sometimes there aren’t a lot of titles available for some genres, and I wish tapas was able to translate more Chinese manhwas. Also to note about accessing chapters you need to have the money to access the chapters which the currency is labeled as “ink” or you could earn “ink” by completing odd questionnaires or completing challenges to earn ink if you don’t have the money to be spending on chapters (please do note that to complete these challenges you need to be 18+) (however most of the ongoing series will be locked or have this thing called WUF) so you would be able to have money to spend the ink on these chapters or else you have to risk waiting for them for 3 hours or so ( but this waiting is only available to some series) others will be locked, however the series that are finished will be free thankfully, so to sum it up this app is friendly to those who are broke to those who can afford to unlock the chapters