Everand Unlimited Is Now 3 Unlocks: 484 Reviews (2026)

Everand sells itself as a reading subscription. For most of its life as Scribd, one monthly fee bought the catalogue. In the 4,000 most recent US Google Play reviews, 484 people write about what replaced that: a monthly allowance of "unlocks" that decides which books the subscription actually opens.

A rip-off with their new unlocks! They have locked the far majority of their books behind a secondary paywall. Now you pay a subscription fee just so that you can't read most of their books.

theyve changed, before you could explore their entire catalogue for a fixed price, now you pay 12 usd to only have access to one book per month. its a complete joke.

The interesting part is not that people dislike the change. It is that the corpus contains a clean before and after, and the line falls in a single month.

What We Read

We pulled the 4,000 most recent US Google Play reviews for Everand on 7 September 2026, along with the live store metadata. The listing shows 3.52 stars from 614,520 ratings on more than 10 million installs, at version 16.22. On the App Store the same app holds 4.28 from 27,449 ratings, a gap we come back to at the end.

Because Everand collects reviews slowly, those 4,000 reach a long way back: 22 April 2024 to 4 September 2026, 866 days. Of them, 2,146 were 1-3 stars, and 1,658 were long enough to describe something at 120 characters or more. Every count below comes from those 1,658.

One caveat before the numbers. A 3.52 average is low for a large paid app, but 1,854 of the 4,000 reviews we pulled were 4 or 5 stars. The shares below are shares of complaints, not shares of customers.

Quick Answer: What Does an Everand Subscription Open?

According to these reviewers, a curated free tier plus a small number of premium titles per month. A keyword screen for the words unlock or credit returned 484 of the 1,658 substantial complaints, 29.2%, and 349 of those, 72.1%, are one-star. The number reviewers name most often is 1 or 3 titles a month: 52 reviews say three unlocks or credits, 47 say one. Forty-six say the allowance does not roll over. Thirty say that cancelling removes access to titles they already unlocked. The complaint is not about the price of a book. It is about what the monthly fee stops buying.

The Month the Complaints Changed

Split those 1,658 complaints at 1 November 2024 and the corpus stops looking like a mood and starts looking like an event.

Monthly volume moves the same way. The six complete months before the split average 29.0 substantial complaints per month. The six after average 110.2, a 3.8x step that never returns to the old level.

This is a step, not a slope, and that matters for how you read the rest of the piece. A slope is usually an app decaying. A step in one month is usually a decision.

The three pre-November mentions are worth reading rather than rounding away. All three describe two unlocks a month, which means a limited tier existed before the step for at least some subscribers. What November 2024 changed was not the invention of unlocks. It was how many people hit them.

Decided to subscribe. Certain more popular titles are "locked." You get 2 unlocks per month. I used one of my 2 unlocks and started listening to the book. 24 hours later the title was suddenly unavailable (!?!) when I'd already listened to half the book.

1. What Reviewers Say the Allowance Is

Fifty two reviews name three unlocks or credits a month and 47 name one. The spread is real rather than a contradiction: reviewers are on different tiers and in different countries, and several say so explicitly.

This used to be a good app when it was paired with scribd. You could read any books you wanted to. Now you have "credits" and can only borrow 1 book a month (depends on your subscription).

Would you pay your local library $16.99 a month so that you have the ability to listen to 3 books a month? That's what this is - a library with a hard limit, that you can't access without membership.

Ludicrously overpriced and now trying to go for a greedy Audible model where you only get one book per month unless you pay a ton extra. How much of that do the authors actually see? Unsubscribe.

Do not download if you read more then 3 books a month!!!!! it use to be a good app now they suck by charging you more and giving you only 3 books.

Forty six of the 1,658 say the allowance expires rather than accumulating. Forty four of those 46 sit inside the unlock cluster, which is what you would expect if the two facts are parts of one complaint.

I used to love this app when I first had it more than a year ago. I decided to subscribe again not realizing they had changed everything. The fee is higher per month with a limit of 3 books per month. The unlocks do not roll over and you can't change your mind if you hit unlock on the wrong book.

I was sucked in by the cheaper price point, but I don't like the way the service is run. Firstly, losing your "unlocks" if you don't use them by renewal time is bogus. It really sucks for an ADHD brain like mine.

2. The Free Half Is the Half People Do Not Want

The subscription still includes a tier that needs no unlock. Fifty five reviews describe that tier, and 44 of them are one-star.

They get you with the 3 unlocks vs audible giving you 1 credit per month for the same price. BUT I can still log into audible and listen to all the books I've already unlocked with my credit.

I was hoping this would be a good alternative to Audible Plus, but they have a really terrible selection of books in their "unlimited" library and the "unlocks" you pay for monthly you don't get to keep if you end your subscription.

It used to be the greatest app. Now, with their new subscription packet, it's just 1 book per month (or 3 if you pay 25$!!!) that you're allowed to have and their unlimited library are literally books nobody's ever heard from in this century.

this used to be such an amazing app. I recommended it to everyone I know! I could read/listen to so many books! now with the new plan they don't allow many reads per month and everything I want to read is not part of the "unlimited" library.

One reviewer states the arithmetic that the whole cluster is circling, and it is the clearest single line in the corpus about what changed.

This used to be a great alternative to Audible. They had unlimited listening for just $12.99/mo. I would go through 10, 20 books a month.

3. Thirty Reviewers Say Cancelling Takes the Books Back

This is the sharpest checkable claim in the corpus, so we treated it carefully. A screen for losing access after cancelling returned 31 reviews. We read all 31 and dropped one, a review about being unable to cancel at all rather than about losing books. That leaves 30 confirmed reports, 1.8% of every substantial complaint, and 20 of the 30 are one-star.

The options are limited, the books don't always load even if downloaded and if you pause or cancel your subscription you lose access to all the books you already unlocked. And the shelf of saved books is not easy to organize.

If I could give -5 I would. If you cancel your subscription, you no longer have access to the books you've purchased.

This is a more affordable app then audible. However, it is affordable because YOU DONT OWN THE BOOK!!! If at any time you cancel the subscription you lose access to all of your books. which is NOT the case with audible.

used to be great before they turned "credit system". what's worse now is that you dont even "keep" what books you use these credits on! so when you cancel you lose everything you spent.

Used to be my favorite app. Now it sucks. Now you pay $12 to 'unlock' a book instead of buying one, and if you ever stop giving them money, you lose access to all the books you already paid for.

Two describe the same rule biting on a pause rather than a cancellation, which is the version most likely to catch someone by surprise.

cheaper option but has its problems. It's hard to use and if you pause your subscription you lose your books. pretty much a ripoff.

My first time listening to audio books. I was excited at first with my free trial, but I think my excitement was only due to the audio book. The app bugs out often enough, but its tolerable. One day all my downloads disappeared unexpectedly and I wasnt near wifi to download my current book. And I'm stunned to find out I lose access to the books I unlocked if I pause my subscription.

What we can and cannot say here. We cannot confirm what any account retained. What 30 separate reviewers describe, in their own words and across 16 months, is opening a title with an allowance they paid for and then losing it when they stopped paying. If that matters to you, it is the sentence to look for in the plan terms before you subscribe.

4. Titles Go Missing While People Are Reading Them

One hundred and ninety three of the 1,658, 11.6%, use the words unavailable, not available or locked, and 135 of those are one-star. Most are about a title that changed status rather than an app that failed to load.

BEWARE! THIS APP LOCKS TITLES! I do not recommend Everand! Don't use this app if you want to have access to any book you choose!

After the change of plan, I find the books I was reading differently become unavailable. I love this app and recommended it to people all the time.

books are constantly unavailable until the following month, then a 2 day window to listen to them again before they are available. whats worse you are in the middle of a book & poof its unavailable. Custom service is a bot who keeps having errors & is not helpful.

Fifty three reviews name a waiting period, usually the next month, and one German reviewer names an exact return date, which is the most specific version of this complaint anywhere in the corpus.

German

Neben den üblichen, nervigen Bugs sind seit neuestem unfassbar viele Bücher nicht mehr verfügbar und alle kommen aber am 27.02. wieder? es hat nichts mit Lizenzen zu tun, weil meine Freunde können die Bücher alle lesen.

I used this service for over a year and would recommend it to everyone I know. But now twice in a row as I’ve been in the middle of a book they have suddenly become “currently unavailable “ without any warning

What Reviewers Name In Money

Here is where we have to be honest about how thin the numbers are. People rarely write the price down, so this is not a rate card. It is a tally of the dollar figures that appeared in the text of 1,658 reviews, and several are old prices being contrasted with new ones rather than current charges.

Twenty eight mentions of $12 cannot establish what Everand charges, and we are not presenting them that way. Check your own screen. What the table does show is which two numbers people keep putting next to each other: a figure around $12, which reviewers describe as what they used to pay for the catalogue, and a figure around $17, which they describe as what they pay now for an allowance. Thirty nine reviews say the price went up.

I've used this since 2019, until last week my rate was 5 stars, I changed it to 1. I can read 3 books in a week, now I get 3 books a month and it cost more.

Gotta say, whoever came up with your new "plan" should be fired, One single premium book a month for £10.99 or three for £14.99 is frankly, laughable and absurd.

Prices outside the US move much harder, and one reviewer does the multiplication out loud.

At a Nigerian price of N4,680, this was expensive but I paid a subscription when I could afford to, and I enjoyed listening to and reading an unlimited number of books. Now at N17,500? From N4,680? Cheers to capitalism, I guess.

One in Five Complaints Names Audible

Three hundred and thirty four of the 1,658 substantial complaints, 20.1%, mention Audible. That share is not stable either: before November 2024 it was 14 of 177, 7.9%. After, it was 320 of 1,481, 21.6%.

That is a useful signal precisely because nobody was asked. When a product changes and a fifth of the people complaining about it start naming one competitor unprompted, they are telling you which shelf they now think it sits on, and the comparison is rarely flattering to the newcomer.

Been a longtime user, ever since they were known as Scribbr. This used to be like Netflix for books, but with the new credit system, this is just as horrible to use as Audible. 12$/Month for 1 Book per month?.... I'll subscribe to Kobo Plus instead.

I really loved Everand, until they changed the way subscriptions work. Now, it's like audible, except credits don't roll over, and if you stop your subscription, you lose all the books you unlocked.

A smaller group, 75 reviews, names Kindle, Kobo, Storytel, Libby, hoopla or Spotify instead.

Apparently if you cancel you lose access to all the books you "bought" with unlocks. Also very glitchy. Going back to Kindle.

The Same Complaint In Five Languages

We ran the same screen across 19 additional storefronts. Three of them, Mexico, Egypt and the Philippines, returned the exact reviews we already had, which is why any international count has to deduplicate by review id before it means anything. The other 16 added 2,868 new reviews and 457 substantial negatives. The cluster survives translation almost word for word, including the detail about losing unlocked titles.

Portuguese

Não sei se está valendo mais a pena. Antes dava para ter acesso a vários livros de uma vez, agora você só pode "desbloquear" um livro por mês. Parou de pagar, você perde acesso aos livros desbloqueados.

Portuguese

Estou profundamente decepcionada com a atualização. o plano de 28 reais só pode ouvir ou ler um livro por mês, se eu terminar um audiobook antes, não consigo ouvir outro pq o desbloqueio por mês é só um, os outros planos são muito caros!

Spanish

Arruinaron el servicio. Antes era una biblioteca ilimitada, ahora con el nuevo modelo de "desbloqueos" pagas una mensualidad alta por leer solo un libro premium al mes, que ni siquiera te pertenece. No gasten su dinero aquí.

Spanish

No me gusta el nuevo sistema de créditos. Antes escuchaba unos tres libros y leí uno o dos al mes, ahora me limitan todo. Tendré que cancelar una suscripción que mantuve un par de años.

Spanish

No me gusta el sistema de créditos, prefiero una sola suscripción por las lecturas que yo necesite. Si cambian eso, subo la calificación.

French

L’application proposait de passer de l’offre héritage à l’offre standard en laissant comprendre qu’on aurait un accès illimité au catalogue ET qu’on aurait le droit à un débloquage en plus pour les titres qui n’était pas disponibles. Résultat tous les livres que j’avais en illimité sont tous bloqués et je dois utiliser un crédit pour les lire.

German

Die Auswahl in der App ist ziemlich gut, leider ist die App technisch aber nicht sehr gut. Die Suchleiste zeigt keine guten Ergebnisse und wenn man sein (nicht transparent kommuniziertes) Guthaben an Hörzeit für bestimmte Bücher aufbraucht, findet man diese gar nicht mehr außer über die Autorenseite.

One reviewer writing from an Italian storefront, in Spanish, gives the version of this complaint that has nothing to do with money.

Spanish

Desde que se ha introducido el nuevo sistema de créditos, he perdido el acceso a títulos que había subrayado y anotado.

Two Things We Are Deliberately Not Saying

That Everand misled anyone. Reviewers use the words scam and rip-off freely. We cannot check what any given subscriber was shown at signup, and the word unlimited has appeared on plenty of products with a fair-use ceiling. What we can count is how many people say the ceiling was not where they expected it.

That the App Store rating contradicts the Android one. Everand holds 4.28 on iOS from 27,449 ratings against 3.52 on Android from 614,520. That is a real gap, and the honest explanation is that we did not measure iOS. A rating built from 27,449 votes and one built from 614,520 are not the same instrument, and none of the counts in this piece were taken on Apple's side.

What This Does Not Show

Negative reviews are self-selected. Of the 4,000 reviews we pulled, 1,854 were 4 or 5 stars, and the app is still a paid subscription that hundreds of thousands of people renew.

Every outcome is as the reviewer describes it. We cannot confirm from a review that a title was locked, that an allowance expired, or that a cancellation removed anything.

Plans differ by country and by signup date. The reviewers quoted here name one book a month, three books a month, five credits, a legacy plan and several different prices. Any of those can be true at once, which is exactly why the number on your own screen is the only one that binds you.

Read the Full Breakdown

You can read the full negative review breakdown for Everand on Android and Everand on iOS, or go straight to the cancellation guide, the trust check and apps like it. For the competitor a fifth of these reviewers name, see what Audible reviewers say about the player losing their place. For the wider category, see Audible, Spotify, Libby and Kindle compared and the ereader apps. For the same allowance mechanic in serialised fiction, see the web novel apps.