Kobo | eBooks & Audiobooks

In-app purchases
3.7
288K reviews
10M+
Downloads
Content rating
Teen
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About this app

Join millions of readers across the globe and access your very own portable reading library. Take your bookshelf on the go. With over 8 million eBooks and audiobooks to choose from, there’s something for every type of reader or listener.

Discover unlimited reading and listening when you subscribe with Kobo Plus. Access over 1.5 million eBooks and 150,000 audiobooks with a subscription that’s right for you. With all your books together, the Kobo reading app is all you need to read and listen at home or on the go.

The Kobo App allows you to browse our growing collection of the world's best ereader for ebooks, audiobooks, graphic novels, comics and children's books: enjoy instantly on your smartphone or tablet.

Search by author, title, topic or genre to discover your next great read, or browse Kobo’s free ebook selection to discover a new favourite. Read and listen to your favourite stories with a digital library in the palm of your hand.

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



The Kobo App makes reading even more comfortable and convenient:

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

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

• Discover 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 book.

• Subscribe to Kobo Plus Read for only $9.99 a month, and access hundreds of thousands of all-you-can-read eBooks and audiobooks.

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

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

• Access your ereader and read in English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese or Japanese.

Find us on social media!
https://www.facebook.com/Kobo
https://www.instagram.com/kobobooks
https://twitter.com/kobo

**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
Mar 20, 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
March 22, 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.
9 people found this review helpful
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Kobo Books
October 13, 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
January 5, 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.
49 people found this review helpful
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Kobo Books
January 5, 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.
Lillian Bates
January 27, 2025
I like Kobo as an alternative to Amazon. The app isn't great, however. I use it for audiobooks and the sound quality is bad. It's very grainy. My progress in the audiobook I'm listening to will randomly jump forwards or backwards and I'll have to find where I was. And there's no chapter selection when using Android Auto.
30 people found this review helpful
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Kobo Books
January 27, 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.

What’s new

For our passionate readers who love books as much as we do, we update the Kobo Books app as often as possible to continually improve on its reliability and performance.

Here's what's new in our latest release:

• Bug fixes and general improvements.

Thanks for reading with Kobo Books!