Kobo | eBooks & Audiobooks

In-app purchases
3.4
293K reviews
10M+
Downloads
Content rating
USK: Ages 12+
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About this app

Your library, always with you:

Step into a world of words and voices with the Kobo Books App, your ultimate companion for reading and listening. Designed with booklovers in mind, this app transforms your device into your own digital library, capable of carrying millions of eBooks and audiobooks with you anywhere.

With access to browse millions of eBooks and audiobooks, there's something for every reader to discover and enjoy. Our growing collection spans every genre imaginable: from thrilling mysteries and captivating romances to insightful nonfiction, imaginative fantasy, vibrant graphic novels, classic comics, and enchanting children's stories. Explore our selection with ease and search effortlessly by author, title, topic, or genre. Enjoy a truly integrated library experience, keeping all your eBooks and audiobooks perfectly organized in one place.

Want to know what's popular? Our most trending eBooks are updated hourly.

Discover more reading and listening with Kobo Plus:

Where endless reading sprees begin, Kobo Plus offers unlimited access to more than 3 million eBooks and 400,000 audiobooks. Discover exclusive originals and hidden gems you won't find anywhere else. Choose the perfect plan that meets your reading needs with plans offering limitless access to eBooks, audiobooks, or both. Enjoy total flexibility with zero commitments.

An app designed for your comfort and convenience:

The Kobo Books App was created to make every moment with your stories as enjoyable and effortless as possible:

• Tailor your experience by adjusting text size and style, or activate Night Mode to enjoy comfortable, eye-friendly reading. Choose to set your screen to portrait or landscape for ultimate comfort.

• Listen effortlessly with our intuitive audiobook player, allowing you to navigate, pause, and track your progress with ease. Plus, easily set a sleep timer for perfect bedtime listening.

• Pick up where you left off, without ever losing your spot. Your reading progress automatically syncs between the Kobo Books App, Kobo Web Reader, and your Kobo eReader, letting you read across all your devices.

• Enjoy reading books in your preferred language, with support for English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Japanese.

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

**Audiobooks available only in select countries. You can listen to audiobooks on smartphones and tablets running Android version 4.4 or higher.
Updated on
Sep 10, 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

3.3
229K reviews
Mike Daws
September 23, 2025
I can't purchase books. If I click on one, the app flashes the splash screen, then brings up an empty screen with the title "Store". It's often been glitchy, but now it's unusable. And, how about you reach out to us, if you actually want to help, instead of just telling everybody to reach out to you after they bring up an issue. Like, it's not our job to be beta-testers for your unfinished software.
50 people found this review helpful
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Kobo Books
September 23, 2025
Hi! We are truly sorry that you are experiencing issues with your App. May we request you to re-install the App on your device. If the issue persists, please don't hesitate to reach out to us via our Facebook page or contact our support team www.kobo.com/help so we can assist you with this issue. Thanks!
David Mowry
September 15, 2025
Used to be a great app. Since the last update though, it's very hard to use. The links for footnotes no longer appear to work. When you open a book, it automatically turns the screen brightness up to maximum, which makes it almost impossible to look at because it's so bright. You can't turn the brightness down either because it somehow overrides the phone settings. None of the settings seem to allow you to change any of this and re-installing it didn't do anything.
29 people found this review helpful
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Kobo Books
September 15, 2025
Hello! We are sorry to hear that you are having this experience with the Kobo app. Please try to repair your account. To receive further support, please provide photos or videos through a message on our Facebook page or contact our support team at www.kobo.com/help. Thank you so much!
Federico Vigolo
September 20, 2025
The app is technically terrible. It freezes and consumes data for no reason (I only used it to look up one single tourist guide. How does it manage to need 830mb for it?). One would have imagined that writing an e-book reader was a comparatively easy task, but this one is real trash. Incredible.
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Kobo Books
September 20, 2025
Hi, we are sorry to hear you’ve had this experience with the Kobo App, please don't hesitate to reach out to us via Facebook or our support team via chat at http://kobo.com/help. We are always happy to help!

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!