Where the facts come from
In this order: the service's own website, its pricing page, its help centre, its App Store listing, its Google Play listing, its creator documentation, its terms, its privacy policy, and its own announcements. App and tech press is used for events such as launches, acquisitions and shutdowns. Reddit and community threads are used only to describe what readers say, and they are labelled as such wherever they appear.
Marketing copy is recorded as a claim, not as a measurement. "Thousands of stories" is what the company says about itself, and that is how we print it.
What we refuse to guess
Prices, free-tier limits, coin and chapter-unlock costs, library sizes, royalty rates, payout thresholds, offline support, audio support, AI features, region availability, cancellation steps, refund rules and anything a privacy policy does or does not promise. If we cannot find it on a page the service publishes, we write that it is not published. An empty field on this site means nobody would tell us, not that the answer is no.
Money
Prices are shown in US dollars. Where a service publishes only in euros or pounds, we convert at the European Central Bank reference rate recorded in our build configuration and mark the result with a tilde, so you can see it is a conversion rather than a price anyone charges.
Web prices and in-app prices often differ, because the app stores take a cut and companies price around it. Where a service has both, we say so and give both.
Coin and credit economies get the arithmetic written out. A pack of coins has a price, a chapter has a cost in coins, and the number that matters is what one chapter works out at.
What we did not do
We did not create accounts, subscribe, pay, or install anything to write these pages. Nothing here is a first-hand account of using a service, and we never pretend otherwise. What we can tell you is what the public pages, the store listings and the policies contain, which is exactly the part that tends to be misquoted elsewhere.
How often we check again
Pricing pages are checked monthly. App and platform reviews, feature pages and lists are checked every one to three months, which is also how often store availability changes in this niche. Privacy pages are checked whenever a policy changes and at least twice a year. Guides are checked yearly. Every page carries the date of its last check, and so does every fact box.
When we get it wrong
Tell us. A price that moved, a feature that shipped, a service that shut down: all of it is easier to fix than to find. The address is on the contact page.