Kobo Books - eBooks Audiobooks

In-app purchases
3.5
287K reviews
10M+
Downloads
Content rating
Parental guidance
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About this app

Join millions of booklovers across the globe and access your very own portable reading world. Go shelf-less and take your reading adventures on the go. With over 5 million titles to choose from, there’s something for every type of reader and listener.

Introducing audiobooks from Kobo—our brand new expertly curated collection. Discover the best deal on audiobooks when you subscribe. You earn Kobo Super Points every purchase. With all your eBooks and audiobooks together, the Kobo App is all you need.**

The Kobo App allows you to browse our growing collection of the world's best eBooks, audiobooks, graphic novels, and children's books, to enjoy instantly on your smartphone or tablet. Search by author, title, topic or genre to discover your next great read.

Check out Kobo’s free eBook selection to discover a new favourite.

Take a look at our most popular and trending eBooks, updated hourly!

Browse now on the Kobo website.

The Kobo App makes reading even more comfortable and convenient:

• Customize the way you read. Enjoy crisp, clear text in the size and style you prefer. Try Night Mode to make reading easier on your eyes before bedtime, and lock the screen in portrait or landscape mode.

• Our beautifully designed, easy-to-use player makes it simple for you to move through your audiobook with a single touch. Never worry about losing your spot, and see how much time is left at a glance. Schedule it to turn off after a set amount of time—perfect for listening before going to sleep.

• Discover recommendations just for you for eBooks and audiobooks we think you’ll love. Read thousands of free eBook previews or listen to audiobook samples to help you find your next favourite.

• Start reading on one device and pick up on another. The Kobo App always remembers where you left off, so you can keep reading across all your devices.

• Share your love of reading on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Post your favourite quotes, notes, and thoughts from what you’re reading.

• Rate and review the books you’ve read or read reviews from booklovers like you!

• Read in English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese or Japanese.

**Audiobooks available in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. You can listen to audiobooks on smartphones and tablets running Android version 4.4 or higher.
Updated on
9 Dec 2024

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.
This app may share these data types with third parties
App activity
This app may collect these data types
Personal info, App activity and 2 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

3.3
226K reviews
Paula den Ouden
3 January 2025
Let's be clear, I like reading with this app. However, it is fairly buggy. It doesn't seem to remember your custom settings, so sometimes you'll open it to a very bright screen. That also happens when the screen times out and you turn it back on. I don't like apps that override system brightness settings anyway. It switched to light mode when I put the system on dark mode, very odd. The widget often opens to a blank page, which is fairly useless. Once I'm reading, it's pretty good though.
1 person found this review helpful
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Kobo Books
3 January 2025
Hi, We are sorry to hear you’ve had this experience, please don't hesitate to reach out to us via Facebook/Twitter or our support team via chat at http://kobo.com/help. We are always happy to help!
Wouter Bos
17 July 2024
Highlighting parts of the text works poorly. Often text selection fails or the highlight is not saved. Flipping pages is also a poor experience as I often get the same page after going to the next page. Sometimes it even skips a page! Maybe these issues are related to the book I'm reading now but one would expect the quality of each Kobo book, bought in the store, behaves the same.
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Kobo Books
17 July 2024
Hi, We are sorry to hear you’ve had this experience, please don't hesitate to reach out to us via Facebook/Twitter or our support team via chat at http://kobo.com/help. We are always happy to help!
Guus Crielaard
13 September 2024
Download function for audiobooks completely stopped working. Lots of other users seem to experience the same problem but all kobo does is refer them to their facebook support team instead of actually fixing the bug. Ebooks work fine. But overall the app feels like it was designed as an afterthought. It even includes ads for the kobo ebooks app... and im talking embedded links that refer you, in app, to the playstore page where you can download the very app youre already using.
3 people found this review helpful
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Kobo Books
13 September 2024
Hi, We are sorry to hear you’ve had this experience, please don't hesitate to reach out to us via Facebook/Twitter or our support team via chat at http://kobo.com/help. We are always happy to help!

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