The free length of Tomato Novels listening books is half an hour.

Tomato Novels' free member reading and listening time is only half an hour. After half an hour, you need to watch a video of about 30 seconds, and you can watch another 30 minutes for free. If you find it troublesome, you can buy a membership, and when you become a member, there is no time limit, and you can read for as long as you want in a day.

Tomato novel is a free online reading APP under today's headlines, dedicated to providing readers with the ultimate reading experience without spending money, officially launched in November 2019.

On December 5, 2019, according to the National Cybersecurity Notification Center, since November 2019, the cybersecurity departments of public security organs across the country have focused on investigating and rectifying 100 illegal and irregular APPs and their operating Internet enterprises. These include: tomato novels.

On April 21, 2020, today's headline novel channel announced that it had updated its brand to "tomato novel".