r/Wattpad↗
Wattpad: Where stories live.
Wattpad is a website and app for readers and writers to publish user-generated stories in different genres. r/Wattpad is meant for users to come talk with others, share their or other's works, and more!
116k subscribers1,645 posts / mo in Sep 2026 (incl. <1% by known bots)1,104 authors / mosince 2011
r/Wattpad has 116k members (+30% over the last 12 months). It gets about 1,645 posts a month from 1,104 people. Top topics: Wattpad Stories, Wattpad Writers Lounge and Story Hits and Rankings.
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How r/Wattpad has grown
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Topics and brands on r/Wattpad
Top topics
Share of the subreddit's posts
- Wattpad Stories8.9%
- Wattpad Writers Lounge5.9%
- Story Hits and Rankings5.3%
- Wattpad Writing Community3.0%
- Self-Publishing & Promotion1.5%
Brands people mention
Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months
- Goodreads
- Inkitt
- Fanfiction
- Royal Road
- BookFunnel
Everything else about r/Wattpad
Posting rules and account requirements, how often posts get removed, who writes here (age, gender, countries), what people ask for, how they talk, and related subreddits — all in the full report.
Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research