Kobo Books - eBooks Audiobooks

In-app purchases
3.7
288K reviews
10M+
Downloads
Content rating
Teen
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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
22 Apr 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.
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

3.7
226K reviews
Starla Whitaker
22 March 2025
update: dropped to 1 star because it is actually impossible to read outside in the spring sun with white or even black bg with brightest tone/screen. 1. Highlighting finally works over paragraph breaks, yay! 2. New fonts and colors are good. 3. Brightness (tone) is independent of the phone - incredibly frustrating. 4. Open app and need to click into book rather than just opening the book. 5. Needs options to change remainder in book/time. 6. Needs option to have the clock always visible.
19 people found this review helpful
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Kobo Books
13 October 2024
Thank you for your feedback! If you have any questions or need assistance with, please reach out to us through our Facebook page or twitter @kobo or contact our support team www.kobo.com/help.
Rob Lyons
5 January 2025
It is a shame. They did a major update to the app late 2024, and it absolutely sucks now. Missing features and tons of terrible bugs: Brightness is full manual, no auto and doesn't follow the device settings; no longer can use volume buttons as page turn; screen brightness setting resets constantly, regularly doesn't load the app, just a blank screen, until you close and reopen the app, the lost goes on. The UI changes were nice, but the actual app IS HORRENDOUS.
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Kobo Books
5 January 2025
Hello, this is not the experience we want for you, please don't hesitate to reach out to us via Facebook/Twitter or our support team via chat at http://kobo.com/help so we can assist you with this issue.
Laurette Bradley
24 April 2025
It works, but is pretty minimal. EVERYTIME you switch to the app from another app it does a second of flashing and blinking -- very distracting. I'm reading a book with lots of geography, but no maps, so I switch to the map app a lot. And each time I come back to the Kobo app ... BLAM, FLASH, BLAM. It seems like the developers just got tired and decided that this was good enough. But it really isn't.
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Kobo Books
24 April 2025
Hi! We are sorry to hear you're having this experience with your “Kobo App”. Please try these steps Troubleshoot the Kobo Books app for Android. If you ever need more assistance, please reach out to us through our Facebook page or contact our support team at www.kobo.com/help we will be happy to assist you further!

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