Bloom Stories
AI Dungeon
DreamPress AI
NovelX
Audible (Erotica category)
SudowriteA platform here is a store, library or archive with its own catalogue, as opposed to the story apps in our apps section, whose product is the mobile app. The platforms sort into four kinds, and the kind tells you more about what you will pay and what you may read than the name does.
The first kind is the free community site or archive, where members publish and nothing is for sale: Literotica and Archive of Our Own. The second is the per-title store, with no subscription, where each book has its own price: Apple Books, Google Play Books and Smashwords. The third is the subscription library, a flat monthly fee for a large catalogue: Kindle+ and Everand. The fourth is the general fiction site that readers try first and that has its own limits on adult material: Wattpad, Tapas, FanFiction.Net and FictionPress. Those four are explainers, because the reason to read about them is to find the rules before spending an evening on the wrong site.
The audio platforms, such as Bloom Stories and femtasy, are here too, and the audio erotica section compares them. Interactive stories and AI story tools have their own sections: interactive erotica and AI erotica.
The reading platforms at a glance
The table gives the price in the form the service publishes it and the rule in the service's own words where we can. Where a platform's terms and its store ratings disagree, its page publishes both sides. Prices are US dollars, checked October 2026.
| Service | Kind | What a reader pays | Explicit fiction under its own rules | Says all characters are adults |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Literotica | Free story site, web only | Free; membership optional and free | Yes, adults only; a published list of what is not accepted | Yes, in the footer of every page |
 Archive of Our Own | Nonprofit fan-work archive, web only | Free, no ads | Yes, works of every rating are allowed | Not found |
 Kindle+ (formerly Kindle Unlimited) | Borrowing library | $11.99 a month plus taxes in the US; 30-day trial for new subscribers | Not stated: pornography is not sold, and the word is not defined | Not found |
 Everand | Subscription library | From $11.99 a month; 30-day trial on the website | Erotica category for mature audiences; limits for licensed titles not stated | Not found |
 Apple Books | Per-title store | No subscription; titles priced individually | Unclear: "prohibited explicit or objectionable content" is banned and undefined | Not found |
 Google Play Books | Per-title store | No subscription; titles priced individually | Only with educational, artistic, historical or documentary value, and a mature flag | Not found |
 Smashwords | Per-title store, web only | No subscription; nearly 100,000 free titles by the store's claim | Yes, hidden until a registered user switches it on; pornography never | Not found |
 Wattpad | Social reading site | Free with ads; Premium from $4.99 a month | Only in stories rated Mature (17+); pornography banned | Not found |
 Tapas | Webcomics and web novels | Free on timers; Ink unlocks early; Ink prices not published | No: content intended for sexual gratification is not allowed; the web markets a Mature tab | Not found |
 FanFiction.Net | Free fan fiction archive | Free | No: explicit content (rating MA) is not accepted | Not found |
 FictionPress | Original fiction archive | No price or paywall stated | No: explicit content (rating MA) is not accepted | Not found |
"Not found" means we looked for a sentence saying that all characters are adults and did not find one on the pages we read. It does not mean the service allows the opposite, and it describes the pages, not the catalogue. Literotica is the only one of these eleven that publishes such a sentence.
How to use these pages
If you want something free, start with our guide to finding free erotica and the ranking of free erotica options. If you want the platforms ranked against each other, the best erotic fiction platforms page does that with its criteria stated. If you came because a site refused a story, platforms that ban erotica explains where the lines fall, and why erotica apps disappear from the App Store explains the store rules behind many of them.
Two recent changes affect this list. Kindle Unlimited is now Kindle+, and Smashwords is now a store only. Every figure on these pages comes from a service's own pricing page, policy or store listing, and we have not subscribed to or used any of them.