J-Novel Club

J-Novel Club

In-app purchases

About this app

Buy and read light novels and manga like Ascendance of a Bookworm, In Another World with My Smartphone, and Black Summoner—while they’re being translated, before they get published!

J-Novel Club is a digital publishing company started by translators and fans just like you! Through our subscription service or with a preorder, you can start reading the latest volumes of your favorite series in weekly parts, fresh from the translator’s hands! Over 60 ongoing series are updated each week, from big-name titles with anime adaptations to newer offerings from small publishers—if it’s a blast to read, we’ll deliver it!

This app allows you to buy and read your favorite light novels and manga on the go, wherever you may be! The first part of every book is always FREE! If you have any feature suggestions or bug reports you’d like to share, please visit our forums at: https://forums.j-novel.club.

All content in this app has been officially and legally licensed from the respective rights holders.

Happy reading!

Ratings and reviews

The app itself is serviceable, but compared to the website, it is severely lacking in features. I understand why they wouldn't add the ability to do stuff like buy the subscription from the app since google and apple takes a cut of the profit, but not even being able to use more filters for searching for novels or viewing the release schedule for upcoming novels is severely aggravating. Please, add those features to the mobile app.

Meh, could be lots better. Needs a "recently read" or "continue reading" feature - anything not current (eg the monthly catchup list) requires numerous interactions to filter, scroll (or search) the series, select the volume, and then select the part you last read. Should be 2 taps. Long-tap on chapter parts to mark as read is nice (but novels only). Would be nice to do this at the volume level as well (10-15x holds 😩) Tracker for novels works, but extremely inconsistent for manga chapters.

It is very frustrating to use this app (or web version) if you have reading accessibility issues. There is no option for text to speech. Due to the way prepub books load, it is outstandingly difficult to get a good reading experience if you need to use something like talkback. I really want to read the prepubs they have here, so I am anxiously awaiting a native text to speech feature.

What’s new

- Fix app startup/hanging issues
- Truncate text of part release titles with ellipses
- Fix arrow key navigation in reader