Wattpad alternative
Wattpad, without the ads between every chapter.
No autoplay video ads. No surprise Paid Stories paywall in the middle of a series you're binging. No Tap mode shoehorned into your novel. Just web fiction, the way the author wrote it.
Wattpad has the largest English-language web fiction audience on the planet — and the worst reader experience to match. Aggressive autoplay video ads run between chapters. Paid Stories paywall the middle of series readers are already invested in. Tap mode tries to retro-fit a chat interface onto traditional prose. IlorisNovel is what Wattpad used to be before the ads — a place to read, ad-free, on any device.
Wattpad vs. IlorisNovel
Ads
Autoplay video and banner ads between chapters. Repeatedly cited as the #1 reader complaint.
Zero ads. No banners, no video, no autoplay.
Surprise paywalls
Paid Stories often appear mid-series — readers report being cut off from stories they were already invested in.
Authors set chapter-level paywalls upfront. No mid-story rug-pulls.
App bloat
Tap mode + push-notification heavy. App reviews cite frequent crashes.
No app required. Reads great in any mobile browser.
Audio
No native text-to-speech on novels.
Free TTS on every chapter.
Author payouts
Paid Stories revenue split favors Wattpad heavily; opaque to readers.
Authors keep 93% of every coin you spend. Transparent.
Trackers
Heavy third-party advertising and analytics stack.
No third-party trackers.
Bottom line
The same Wattpad audience is migrating off the platform — Royal Road, AO3, Substack, and IlorisNovel are all picking up the readers and writers tired of the ad experience. If you've been clicking through three video ads to read the next chapter, you don't have to anymore.
Read without three video ads per chapter.
Romance, fantasy, sci-fi, LitRPG, slice of life — every genre Wattpad has, ad-free, on any device.