Apple Books

Read, listen, discover.

Published by: Apple

Description

Apple Books is the best place to discover, read and listen to entertaining and informative books and audiobooks. Browse through top charts, personalised recommendations and expertly curated collections in the Book Store and Audiobook Store, or use search to easily find the perfect read or listen, no subscription needed. Track what you’ve read and want to read, and set your own reading goals—all in one app and across all your Apple devices.
Explore millions of books and audiobooks 

• Check out today’s bestsellers, free books and special offers for readers of all ages, plus personalised recommendations.

• Explore collections curated by the Apple Books team to find your next book or audiobook in your favourite genres, from mysteries and thrillers to romance, history, self-development and kids.

• Sample any book or preview an audiobook to start enjoying the first few pages for free.

• Keep track of the books and audiobooks you’re interested in with your Want to Read list.
Customise your reading experience

• Choose from a selection of reading themes, which include a variety of fonts and background colours.

• Make your book easy to read by adjusting line height and letter spacing to your preference.

• Use Auto-Night Theme and adjust your screen brightness to make reading more comfortable for your eyes.

• Enable vertical scrolling to move continuously through books instead of flipping pages.
Make reading a habit with Reading Goals

• Set a reading goal to encourage yourself to read daily
• Track reading streaks and how many books you’ve read this year.

• Get reminders and coaching to help you achieve your reading goals.
Share with your whole family

• Family Sharing lets you enjoy your books and audiobooks with your favourite people. Invite up to five family members.
Apple CarPlay 

• Designed with safety in mind, the Audiobooks app in Apple CarPlay allows you to listen to audiobooks while driving.

• Large buttons make it easy to start and stop, rewind or fast forward, and the simplified library helps you find your next audiobook while still keeping your eyes on the road.
Apple Watch features

• Use the Audiobooks app on Apple Watch to get back to your recent audiobooks or browse your library right from your wrist.

• Use the Watch app on iPhone to choose which audiobooks to download to your Apple Watch.
Requirements & store availability

• iPhone requires iOS 11 or later.
• iPad requires iPadOS 11 or later.

• Content varies by country or region and may not be available on all devices.
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Apple Books FAQ

  • Is Apple Books free?

    Yes, Apple Books is completely free and it doesn't have any in-app purchases or subscriptions.

  • Is Apple Books legit?

    🤔 The Apple Books app's quality is mixed. Some users are satisfied, while others report issues. Consider reading individual reviews for more context.

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  • How much does Apple Books cost?

    Apple Books is free.

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User Rating

4.25 out of 5

4,265 ratings in Australia

5 star
2,665
4 star
518
3 star
218
2 star
135
1 star
429
Ratings History

Apple Books Reviews

Harry

Stitch the great on

Australia

Best book ever.

Storage sync fail

Review4freeHints on

Australia

I quite like the books app but recently I’ve noticed that the books I read stopped syncing the page im on between my devices. Seems I have to pay to increase my iCloud storage for a basic feature. Instead I just buy from the Kindle store now and don’t have to worry about it.

Poor feedback options

Snow.in.hell on

Australia

Unable to report pirated books or provide a feedback in any way. 3rd party scamming consumer and the author.

Book App review

12345Nude on

Australia

I only just joined this app, but so far it’s really good. The only thing that I don’t really like is the buying of books. Sure, the more expensive the better, but there are some books I have been looking at the prices are really huge. I have a strict spending budget for each app I use and some books are way over budget. Apart form that I would say this (so far) is the best reading app I have ever used. I would recommend it to people who like a good book. What is also really good is if you have a hard time concentrating is that you can by the audio book version, and it comes with a reasonable price, maybe about double the budget. So in conclusion, I didn’t like the price that much (they are okay), and I am happy they have an audio book version. I would recommend this app to anyone who likes a good book Thanks for reading my review.

Update rarely an improvement

J-Z1 on

Australia

Each update seems to remove a previous function. When you add a Note it places an icon above the first word of the highlighted passage, obstructing the word. It was previously placed in the margin to the right, out of the way. You used to be able to bookmark a page with ease. Now it takes more steps. You used to be able to email all of your Notes to yourself. There have been many changes since I first started using iBooks. I don’t know why many of them have been necessary. I wish Apps in general would stop updating for the sake of updating. If you’re onto a good thing stick to it.

Wont play an audiobook just purchased from the Apple store.

ForTheLoveOfGodIsThisTakenToo on

Australia

This app wont play an audiobook i just purchased from the Apple Store. And there's no way to reach the app's tech support to inform them of this ptoblem. Hence the app gets 1 star for being useless and backed by a deaf organisation.

Sometimes corrupts PDFs

jwksjq on

Australia

Has an issue where it sometimes corrupts PDFs. Has happened two separate times and was not possible to recover. Offloading of books to iCloud can be very annoying.

Just amazing

Amzbooth on

Australia

It’s so good when you don’t have much time for reading

Highlights get corrupted

Martin33434 on

Australia

I rely on highlighting text, but unfortunately they get corrupted pretty easily. The highlights shift up or down on their own, covering the wrong text or even just white space where there are no words at all. This has happened for years with different books, to the point that I now need to give up on this app.

Dont save files here

Lexjcid on

Australia

Auto delete zz

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Top Free
176
Top Free
178
Top Free
192
Top Free
192

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App Info

Category
Books
Publisher
Apple
Languages
Arabic, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek (modern), Hebrew (modern), Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
Recent release
5.1 (2 weeks ago )
Released on
May 25, 2010 (14 years ago )
Last Updated
1 day ago
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