Wattpad: Free Books and Stories

Whether you feel like expressing your story through the life of a  fictional character, or just want to read a good book, you will find many uses for Wattpad: Free Books and Stories, a simple-to-use and fun free reading tool.

As soon as you open the app, it prompts you to select which books you've read in the past. Based on the inputted data it will create a profile that will enable better future recommendations.  Speaking of which, all the books and stories that the app recommend are separated by categories. For example, it may recommend the past year's most popular book or a certain community's most popular book. It may also show you all the books from a single author that writes in the same style you're past readings were. All these filtering options make it so that you will never run out of interesting things to read about.​

If you're starting to get ideas from reading all those stories that others have written, then you may start writing with the built-in story creator that Wattpad: Free Books and Stories has. You start off by adding a cover from your image library, a title, a description, some tags and then you can get straight to the writing part.

Wattpad: Free Books and Stories lets you make yourself known through the use of some social media platform elements such as a customizable profile picture, a timeline where you can post messages, a "Followers" and "Following" list and subscribed stories. This social aspect can also be seen during story reading in the form of chat bubbles placed in points of interest, such as after important lines are spoken or after a plot-twisting event. Just click on the bubbles and you may see everyone's impressions and comments regarding that given moment.

One drawback about the app is that in between every chapter, you have a page recommending similar authors or stories. This is especially annoying if you're the type of person that gets drawn into the story's plot, and the constant snapping back to reality will most likely make you abandon it altogether.

All aspects considered, Wattpad: Free Books and Stories is a good free story and book reading tool for when you want to entertain yourself one evening, but can also be a stepping stone for any aspiring author.