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.
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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.
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**Audiobooks available only in select countries. You can listen to audiobooks on smartphones and tablets running Android version 4.4 or higher.
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Sep 10, 2025
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Judith Lutton
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November 12, 2025
This is the worst app I have used to listen to audiobooks. You can't navigate the audiobooks with their bizarrely designed scroll wheel, so skipping back a few minutes is a struggle, the sleep function has limited options and doesn't allow you to keep it on automatically, it starts playing as soon as you look at a book, and it seems to ignore dark mode when the book has a bright colour. i could go on, but this app is the reason I won't be buying any more audiobooks from kobo.
Kobo Books
November 12, 2025
Hi! We're sorry for your experience. If you are experiencing issues with the application and with playing your audiobooks, you can try to re-install the application. If you still experience difficulties, please reach out to us through our Facebook page or contact our support team at www.kobo.com/help and we would be more than happy to help. Thanks!
Alex Reid
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October 9, 2025
The font choices have been improved, including adding Vollkorn, which is lovely. Unfortunately, they seem to have forgotten to include the italic version, so all italics are instead just a skewed version of the regular Vollkorn, which is ugly, hard to read, and causes spacing issues. The other fonts have real italics, but aren't as nice for novels as Vollkorn. Please add the real italic so I can give a better rating!
2 people found this review helpful
Kobo Books
October 9, 2025
Thank you for your feedback! If you ever have any questions or need assistance, please reach out to us through our Facebook page or contact our support team www.kobo.com/help.
Mike Daws
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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.
53 people found this review helpful
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!
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.