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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User Rating

4.57 out of 5

509 ratings in Saudi Arabia

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Kobo Books Reviews

Works well!

Deviation42 on

Canada

Does what it needs to. I'm happy to have the app for when my e-reader isnt nearby. Simple and easy to read from.

You can’t buy audio/books via the iOS app. 🤡🌎

BahHumbug1984 on

Canada

App is a joke. This is why people are driven back to Audible. Kobo is incompetent. Fire the iOS dev team. Drunk monkeys could write a better app. Great monthly price, $10CAD. But say you hear about a book on a podcast & you want to quickly grab it & start listening? Nah bruh. You can’t actually BUY BOOKS VIA THE APP. One gets a pop up basically saying “u can wish list or favorite but not buy”. Soooo, if you don’t have your kobo e reader or laptop on u, too bad. Sure, one could fire up mobile browser but that’s not the point. Not being able to quickly & efficiently buy and start listening to an audiobook in seconds VIA THE APP, is absolute CLOWN WORLD. Uninstalling after this and installing the audible app. Amazon wins again I suppose.

Still wonky

anothergadfly on

Canada

After writing a review about the poor syncing of this app, nothing has changed. I foolishly bought another e-book for this platform because it was less expensive, but paying more to read on Kindle or iBooks is more than adequately compensated by their far superior syncing utility. This used to be such a great app for reading and the ebook prices were good, but now highlights and annotations are disappearing, and bookmarks don’t always sync between devices. What happened? Why is this app so wonky now?

Worst app ever!

Joyful Hound on

Canada

So complicated, so not intuitive, SO frustrating! I hate it!! I keep trying because Libby is only linked to Kobo - if only I could actually figure it out!!!

Poor quality app

SpeMarX on

Canada

No dark mode icon, the page turn effect is broken in dark mode… the whole Koko app experience feels cheap and it’s frustrating.

FIX THE ANNOTATIONS

mynombregoeshere on

Canada

FIX THE ANNOTATIONS FIX THE ANNOTATIONS FIX THE ANNOTATIONS FIX THE ANNOTATIONS FIX THE ANNOTATIONS FIX THE ANNOTATIONS FIX THE ANNOTATIONS FIX THE ANNOTATIONS FIX THE ANNOTATIONS FIX THE ANNOTATIONS FIX THE ANNOTATIONS FIX THE ANNOTATIONS

Can’t search the app

Bkrchk989 on

Canada

Update: Search not working again. Update: There was an update to the app that fixed the issues. Search is not working on app. When you hit the search bar there is a constant spinning with no results. Used to be a good app but basically useless now.

no dark mode in reader settings

steamyrapini on

Canada

no way to access reader settings and turn on dark mode. instructions on help site are outdated, no gear icon and no reader settings from within a book. trash app

Need more manga on kobo readers

Falcos01 on

Canada

Hello, Please allow more manga from Viz media I want to have access from my Kobo Sage, it can be in french or english Thank you :)

Can’t buy books… tf

Baffledami on

Canada

I can’t fathom why you would create a reading app in which I cannot purchase full audiobooks. When I tried to purchase a book, I received a notification that said I could only listen to samples and create a wish list using the app - not purchase books. It’s hard to articulate just how counterintuitive that is. I’m baffled.

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Kobo Books Competitors

Name
Ebook Reader
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Track books and reading list
cloudLibrary
browse, borrow and enjoy
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Book Tracker: TBR
Reading list
StoryGraph: Reading Tracker
Book recommendations and stats
TBR - Bookshelf
The most in depth book ratings
Fable: Books & TV
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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