Kobo Books

eBooks & Audiobooks

Published by: Rakuten Kobo

Description

Join millions of readers around the world and access eBooks and audiobooks all with one app. Go shelf-less and take your reading adventures on the go. With over 6 million titles to choose from, there's something for every type of reader and listener.
Purchase eBooks and audiobooks directly from Kobo. They'll automatically appear in the app immediately afterwards.
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.
• 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, Turkish, Traditional Chinese or Japanese.
• Listen to audiobooks while you drive with CarPlay. Download them before connecting to CarPlay, or else you won’t see them.
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    Yes, Kobo Books is completely free and it doesn't have any in-app purchases or subscriptions.

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User Rating

4.56 out of 5

659 ratings in Ireland

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Kobo Books Reviews

Excellent

Batman2807 on

Ireland

Have had a Kobo account for many years and the app is really handy especially for when travelling super light. The only drawback is you can’t access the store and order books directly from the app. Maybe something to think about for the upcoming updates 🙏🏻

Useful dictionary

thatonemutantninjaturtle on

Ireland

The dictionary gives two definitions: one in the language of the book and one in your native language. This is a very useful feature. Just highlight the word with your finger and the options will come up.

Great app

Carrawayy on

Ireland

Great app for reading anywhere. New 2023 version has issue with settings that keep reverting to default. Really irritating but other than that love it.

Деньги на ветер

марияууее on

Ireland

Ничего не понятно . Подключиться невозможно , нет синхронизации с apple. Но самое ужасное нет русского языка . Хочу вернуть деньги

Good but …

NoBrainerNeeded on

Ireland

As Kobo started already selling audiobooks I’m missing AppleWatch app to listen to them on the walks or run. Any chance this can be done?

useless

ioncoma on

Ireland

They only sync the books from their library between devices, which is useless for me as I only read my own uploaded epub books. Now, considering that the kobo reader is not of much use itself, as it is laggy and annoying,I think I will switch to a decent company alltogether. Wasted money on the device.

Doesn’t remember last read page.

diaismuireduit on

Ireland

It doesn’t remember the last read page most of the time. The highlighting is hard to use. The dictionary lookup is clunky and it’s not the default iOS one 80% of the time. And the dark mode isn’t across the whole app. Honestly you’re better off with the kindle app. I tried to use this instead of the kindle but it’s awful.

Top marks

DaraghMc10 on

Ireland

It’s the perfect ebook platform for studying, research etc.

Excellent App

Georgek.s on

Ireland

I have this app for years and I love it. New update is a bit complicated though. And it has a tendency to freeze sometimes when I return to reading after being away from it. Keeps saying it’s loading. I find if I go out of it and go back into it again this helps though so it’s not too bad. I still love it and I recommend it to all my friends. Updated review; the freezing problem has been fixed, thanks kobo for listening. If I could suggest one thing it would be to be more clear on books that are part of a series and the order that they come in, for example if you put book 1 beside the title as well as in the synopsis. It’s disappointing to get into a story and then realise you’ve missed the first book. But I still love kobo and would highly recommend it to all.

Needs work

Rory James Maunsel on

Ireland

The functionality is not particularly intuitive hard to find the commands you want no apparent access to the main site if yo want to get more audio books Really need a rethink to clarify and simplify

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Kobo Books Competitors

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browse, borrow and enjoy
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Book Tracker: TBR
Reading list
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Book recommendations and stats
TBR - Bookshelf
The most in depth book ratings
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Find, discuss, & organize
eBook Search - download books
Paper free book library

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App Info

Category
Books
Publisher
Rakuten Kobo
Languages
Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Chinese, Turkish
Recent release
10.16.2 (2 weeks ago )
Released on
Feb 26, 2009 (15 years ago )
Last Updated
3 days ago
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