Web Novel Website Script — Read, Publish & Earn

Your own web novel platform — ready to launch

Start a web novel site like the big reading apps, on your own domain, with your own brand. Readers read free chapters, unlock premium ones with coins, or subscribe. You keep the income. Everything is managed from a simple admin panel — no coding needed.

📖 A reading experience readers love

• Mobile-first design with a bottom tab bar, dark and light mode, and an installable phone app (PWA).
• 6 reading themes — Light, Dark, Gray, Sepia, Night and Forest — plus font, text size and line spacing controls.
• Listen aloud — a built-in audiobook player with natural voices in many languages.
• Bookmarks, highlights, favourites, reading history and one-tap Continue Reading.
• Instant search, genres, tags, This Week’s Top 10, leaderboard, ratings and reviews.

💰 Built-in ways to earn

• Coins: readers buy coin packages and unlock premium chapters.
• Subscriptions: monthly or yearly plans that open every premium chapter.
• Stripe, PayPal and Razorpay (cards, UPI and more) — use one or all three.
• Multi-currency: USD and INR built in, add any of 140+ world currencies.
• Referral and reading-streak bonuses that bring readers back.
• Ad slots on the chapter page (shown only to logged-out visitors on free chapters).

✍️ Author panel

• Writers get their own dashboard to add novels and chapters with a rich text editor.
• Schedule chapters, set coin prices, bulk-edit, and see views, likes and ratings.
• New author novels wait for your approval before going live.

✨ Optional AI tools

• AI Story Studio — readers turn an idea into their own novel and download it as PDF.
• Continue With AI, Ask AI and Characters buttons on the novels you choose.
• AI chapter generator, story memory, grammar check and rewrite for you and your authors.
• Sell AI tokens as another income stream. Works with Google Gemini or OpenAI (your own API key). Fully optional — everything else works without AI.

💬 Community

• Let’s Gossip forum with channels, topics, replies and a live “readers online” count.
• Comments on novels and chapters, with moderation, spam control and reader reports.

🛡️ Protect your content

• Reader watermark to trace who leaked a chapter.
• Reading speed limit and scraper report to stop bots copying your library.
• Search & bot protection, login lockout, Google reCAPTCHA and admin two-factor login.

⚙️ Full control, no code

• Admin panel for novels, authors, users, payments, comments, pages, menus and branding.
• Bulk chapter import/export, one-click backups, maintenance mode and an error log.
• SEO-friendly: clean URLs, sitemap, social share previews and structured data.
• Weekly email digest and 10 ready-made legal pages (Privacy, Terms, DMCA, Refund and more).

📦 What you get

• The complete website files.
• One database file to import — database_schema.sql.
• A 38-page Complete Guide (PDF): installation, reader, author and admin manuals, troubleshooting.
• A licence key for one domain, sent instantly after payment.
• [Updates and support for X months]

🖥️ Requirements

• PHP 8.0 or newer (8.1–8.3 recommended) on Apache or LiteSpeed hosting (most cPanel / hPanel hosts, e.g. Hostinger).
• MySQL 5.7+ or MariaDB 10.3+.
• PHP extensions: pdo_mysql, curl, sodium, gd, mbstring, zip, openssl (usually already on).
• A domain or sub-domain with SSL (HTTPS). The site installs at the root of the domain, not in a sub-folder.

🔑 Licence

Each purchase includes one licence key for one domain (www and non-www count as the same domain). The key locks to the first domain you activate it on. Moving to a new domain? Contact us and we will release your key. Need it on more than one site? Buy one licence per site.

❓ FAQ

Do I need coding skills?
No. Upload the files, import one database file, enter your database details and licence key. The guide shows every step with screenshots.

Can I use my own name, logo and colours?
Yes. Change the site name, logo, favicon and app icon from the admin panel.

Can I run it without payments?
Yes. Switch coins and subscriptions off and keep every chapter free.

Do I need AI?
No. AI features are optional and stay off until you add an API key.

Does it work on phones?
Yes — it is designed for phones first, and readers can install it on their home screen like an app.

Refunds?
No.