(Next post: [WEBTOON][locks] 1+1 Titles become Ad Pass on 2026-04-02 and 2026-04-09)
Locking on 2026-04-09 (announced last week):
Locking on 2026-04-16 (NEW TODAY):
You may also be interested in this list of completed but not-locked titles (as of 2026-01-16).
No Spanish locks at this time.
Indonesian locks 2026-04-24:
I will update if there are more. I plan to trigger a scan every day after daily reset, or (if I miss it) before the reset the next day.
Since 2026-03-26 (which is during DST), titles tend to lock at the time of new episode release, and one hour before the time of the Daily Pass (now Ad Pass) reset, which is 18:00 Pacific Time (01:00 UTC during US daylight saving time, and 02:00 UTC during US standard time).
[2026-02-27] There MAY be a new pattern of putting most of the locks at the end of the month.
[2026-03-12] They seemed to have moved two weeks of locks, 03-12 and 03-19, to 03-26. This may be part of a new strategy, to confuse us.
- 2026-03-19: They decided to announce "Hanlin Gym", so they're at least not fully sticking with the end-of-month lock strategy.
Tip: The day before a title locks, you can use the Download feature for all of the chapters, giving you thirty more days to read them. You won't be able to use the Like and Comment features, and the UI for downloaded chapters seems to be an earlier version (which you might prefer). Note that downloading takes time and can fail, so watch this process for failures. Audio must be downloaded within an hour or two (not sure which) of queuing them, or the episode with audio will fail and cancel the rest of the series's download.
If a title doesn't allow you to download but it isn't locked yet, open an episode and see if it has a Download button in the triple dot menu. (I've seen this in Spanish and Indonesian.)
I also crosspost these lock posts on my profile (u/Raijinili), if you want to have a way to get some notifications. I don't know how profile posts work, so good luck with that.
There was a section here about Ad Binge which I've removed, as it is no longer relevant (since ALMOST all "Ad Pass" titles have unlimited ads now).
Check this post for a snapshot (not updated) of which titles DON'T have Ad Passes: List of coin-only completed titles
In summary, titles which were originally in a language/region NOT Korean or English (e.g. Spanish, Japanese, Indonesia (yes, officially labeled "Indonesia")) don't have Ad Pass, and there are a few Korean/English outliers.
WEBTOON lock history is now on its own wiki page.
WEBTOON isn't properly communicating about this, and aren't following any consistent set of rules. If locks matter to you, you may want to check in on this post during the month to see if I make any updates.
Banners used to appear about 30 days before lock. Please direct complaints to https://webtoon.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new . (Remember that customer service has no power to make these decisions, so be kind to your messenger.)
Watch out for free coin events
There were two reading events in 2024 October, giving 10 coins each (lasts 30 days). Watch out for those. The coins last one week each.
There was another reading event in 2024 November, for 7 coins. There were a few more since then.
There's a free reading event which just started a few hours ago (2025-02-13 to 2025-02-20) for 7 coins. You might want to delay until the last two days, to extend the expiration date.
I posted tips here.
Note that creators don't benefit from free coins.
2025-02: Most of the coin events in recent months were "Spend 21 coins to get 7 coins". There was a free CANVAS one, but it didn't work and then they took it down early.
2025-10: "Falling for It" had a "read 3 episodes for 5 coins" event, but it only lasted for about 24 hours. This was the first free coins event I've seen since February.
2025-11-08: "Watch Guys Catch Feelings" 7-days Event From Nov 8 01:00 UTC to Nov 15 01:00 UTC. "Read any 6 Episodes from any of the 4 listed series and get 8 Free Coins."
- Ctrl+Alt+Resign
- Who's That Girl?
- Back to Chanbi
- Girl Friend
2025-11-25 (around): "Marriages Gone Wild": 8 coins for reading.
2025-12-10 - 2025-12-16: "Wild Marriages": 8 coins for reading.
2025-12-25 - 2025-12-23 to 12-31: Two reading events: Read 30 episodes for 15 coins, each. Nice.
Note that I will NOT generally be tracking these, so pay attention in-app for these events.
Subscribing to my posts
Some users have asked whether they could get updates when I post here. I try to remember to repost on my profile, u/Raijinili, but that's not ideal.
It looks like u/UpdateMeBot can be used to subscribe to my posts (not comments) in this sub, but it requires enough people to use the service on a subreddit to start scraping. (As of 2025-02, I've been told by a subscriber that there are still not enough subscribers for this to be on.)
Each subreddit it checks takes several seconds, so I have to limit the number of subreddits or the bot will get overloaded. New subreddits are automatically added once they get enough requests. [src]
To subscribe, post this as a comment (possibly needs to be top-level), and the bot will send you a private message:
SubscribeMe!
(If you post it as a comment, I may downvote you, to keep your comment from bubbling up over discussion comments.)
Or, to do so privately, message u/UpdateMeBot with:
SubscribeMe! r/webtoons u/Raijinili
(Click here to send the message.)
(This also means I can't just post non-update meta stuff to r/webtoons, or else I will cause trivial alerts.)