Google Play Books & Audiobooks

In-app purchases
4.5
2.76M reviews
1B+
Downloads
Content rating
Parental guidance
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About this app

Google Play Books is the one app that you need to buy to enjoy eBooks, audiobooks, comics and manga.

Choose from millions of best-selling eBooks, comics, manga, textbooks and audiobooks. Download your book to read or listen on the go. When you’ve finished, find your next favourite from recommendations personalised just for you. Buy audiobooks and eBooks as you go – with no subscription required.


Choose from millions of popular eBooks, audiobooks and comics
* Buy eBooks and audiobooks as you go – no subscription required.
* Preview samples before you buy.
* Get extra discounts on select bundles.
* Receive emails or notifications about new releases from your favourite authors and when your wishlisted books go on sale.
* Earn Google Play Points with every purchase, then exchange them for Google Play credit.
* Receive notifications or emails for price drops in your samples and new releases from your favourite authors and series.
* Discover new releases, best sellers and personalised recommendations across genres like romance, science fiction, mystery and thrillers, self-help, religion, non-fiction and more.

Best-in-class reading and listening experience.
* Read or listen on Android, iOS or your web browser, even when you’re offline.
* Pick up where you left off on any device.
* Customise your reading experience. Adjust the text size, font type, margins, text alignment, brightness and background colours.
* Track your reading progress. See what percentage you’ve read and how many pages you have left.
* Organise your library into shelves. Use the new shelves tab to curate your library by theme or genre. View your shelves across Android, iOS and the web.
* Save to SD card. Choose to save your books to the device or an SD card so that you never run out of space.
* Use reading tools in children's books to get child-friendly word definitions, listen to specific words or hear the book read aloud.
* Use Bubble Zoom for easier comic reading on a mobile device. Tap the page and watch your favourite comic or manga come to life.
* Take notes that sync with your Google Drive and share them with a group for easy collaboration.
* Look up definitions, get translations, save highlights and bookmark your favourite pages while you read.
* Turn on Night Light to automatically adjust the background colour and brightness or set the app to use the OS brightness.
Updated on
20 Jan 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
This app may collect these data types
Personal info, Financial info and 6 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted
Independent security review

Ratings and reviews

4.6
2.48M reviews
A Google user
8 January 2020
It is handy but less so since a couple months ago. It suddenly started to loose track of the page it was reading out loud when you returned to the app. So you would not know on which page you were left, which can be annoying. It did not do that a year ago. Also it would be handy to be able to sort your ebooks in different maps (e.g. based on school or genre). The read out loud function is really great!
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D
22 January 2025
On some books purchased, bookmarks no longer showing on page when clicking on the top-right corner of the page, but are showing in the manual tab. However, it stores duplicated bookmarks. Notes on page don't align with text after app data has been cleared and app restarted. Otherwise it's pretty good and convenient.
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Rachel Romma
23 January 2025
It stops playing every 30 seconds. I just bought a few books from this app as they were having a sale. I've been trying to listen to a book, and it stops playing every 30 seconds, requiring me to stop what I'm doing, switch to the app, and hit play again. This app is basically useless.
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What's new

Arriving in 2023.6.12

* Reading practice feature is now available in select books in Tools for beginning readers. The microphone needs to be turned on to hear you, yet won‘t keep anything that you say.

Recently added
* Multiple library improvements, including multiselect, improved filtering, an unshelved shelf and an alphabetical index to jump to a specific title or author
* Navigation improvements to reach series pages
* The wishlist tab