Kobo | eBooks & Audiobooks

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Kobo | eBooks & Audiobooks

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By: Kobo Books

Users: 26,854,758

15.49K

Rating: 3.84

(287,167)

24 new ratings

Version: VARY (Last updated: 2024-11-21)

Creation date: 2010-06-15

Email: an*****@kobo.com

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

Permissions

Identity: find accounts on the device, add or remove accounts

Contacts: find accounts on the device

Phone: read phone status and identity

Photos/Media/Files: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage

Storage: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage

Wi-Fi connection information: view Wi-Fi connections

Device ID & call information: read phone status and identity

Other:

download files without notification
receive data from Internet
view network connections
create accounts and set passwords
full network access
use accounts on the device
prevent device from sleeping

Ranking

# 4,697 ▼ 2

Other rankings

#50 in Books and reference (Gross) ▼ 4

#121 in Books and reference (Free) ▲ 9

#12 in kindle keyword 89 ▼ 6

#12 in rakuten keyword 74

#16 in book keyword 92 ▲ 1

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App summary

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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.

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Google Play Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Good text readability and options for font sizes and colors.
Longstanding users appreciate the recommendations and organization of the library.
Highlighting features have seen improvements.

Cons

Frequent crashes and loading issues, especially after recent updates.
Inability to sync properly across devices, leading to lost content.
Recent updates have removed useful features like volume button page turning and landscape mode.
App requires an internet connection to start or function properly, which is inconvenient.
Dictionary functionality is lacking and sorting options are limited.

Most mentioned

App crashes and hangs frequently, especially after updates.
Loss of previous features and functions in recent updates.
Poor handling of offline reading, refusing to work without internet.
Syncing issues across devices.

User reviews

Latest UI really breaks brightness control on Pixel 7. No use of ambient light sensor, and app's own brightness setting is not calibrated for the phone. Only half of the slider is useful. Please change this back to defer to the phone's brightness controls. Update 2024-11-29: it got even more broken. On reopen, brightness gets stickyly reset at some very low level *even after I have explicitly increased it* in the unfortunate new UI introduced in the recent major UX revision.

Dimitris Kogias, 2024-11-29

This is by far the worst reader app I've used. Most apps when you download a book (audio or ebook) will load up at least your library and alert you to your being offline and those features being unavailable. Kobo gets stuck on the loading screen. What use is a reader if you can download books but not use them when there's no service? If I could rate this app any lower than 1, I would. Absolutely worthless.

Tom Sljukic, 2024-11-27

Immediately regret my purchases now locked here. Awful app, slowest app on my tablet. Constantly hangs and crashes. Won't let you change your download location to an sd card so I cannot download my purchased books. I thought maybe I could migrate them from the desktop app but guess what, that's more broken than the mobile app. Desktop app won't let you complete the captcha to log in no matter how many times you answer it correctly. Stick to apps like kindle and play books that actually work.