A whole new Kobo Books App experience is here: more modern design, smoother navigation, audio and reading upgrades, and easier access to the stories you love.
Get ready for a whole new way to read eBooks your way! We've rebuilt the Kobo Books App from the ground up, focusing on what matters most: you and your love of the story, whether you read, listen, or are just dropping by.
Dive into millions of eBooks and audiobooks, all tailored to your reading life. Customize, sync, scroll seamlessly, and discover stories that stay with you, all in one powerful app.
Rediscover the joy of reading your way
Kobo seamlessly blends eBooks, audiobooks, and intuitive tools into your daily rhythm. From cozy nights to busy commutes, we keep your place, your pace, and your story alive.
Read and listen seamlessly
Customize fonts, enjoy Night Mode, set a sleep timer for audio playback, and experience natural-sounding text-to-speech for hands-free reading! Read Aloud available on select eBooks only.
Explore before you dive in
Our Guest Mode lets you browse books, save previews, and discover your next favourite read, all without any Kobo account required.
Pick up where you left off
Your bookmarks, highlights, and notes sync automatically across phone, tablet, Kobo eReader, or Kobo Web Reader, so your story always stays with you.
Designed for real life
From road trips with CarPlay to daily routines with our new Listen Bar, Kobo fits seamlessly into your day. Read in 13 languages including English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Turkish, and more.
Why Kobo?
Whether you’re into bestsellers, romance, thrillers, self-development, or audiobooks for your next run, Kobo’s intuitive app helps you rediscover the joy of storytelling.
Download the Kobo Books App and fall in love with reading all over again. Explore, highlight, review, read and listen your way, with full support for iOS accessibility features.
I have been using Kobo for some years now. It is by far and away the best reading app available, as it’s flexible, well presented on the page, has a wide range of books in most genres and has great tech support when needed. It also has lots of offers, which over the years have become much better, with popular books included in the offers. For someone like me who usually reads daily, both hard copy and digital books, it’s a great app. BUT...... Why oh why, after years of Insiders trying to persuade Kobo to have a system where read books are marked as “finished” are we now back with “Unread”? It’s infuriating! I have literally hundreds of digital books, both classic and current fiction. Yes I can remember which classics I’ve read, but current fiction, when I buy multiple books at a time, no I can’t. The latest update has, yet again, changed all my “finished” books back to “unread”. It’s infuriating!!! And it will certainly stop me purchasing for quite some time as I try to sort out what has been read and what hasn’t. PLEASE sort this out! I wish I hadn’t updated the app. Too late now.
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GinaD19
I really like Kobo but I opened the app on my Ipad yesterday to continue reading my book and my library was empty. Since then I have been trying, unsuccessfully, to retrieve my books and a popup asking me to rate Kobo keeps appearing so I am filling in this form in the hope that I will get my books back by doing so. I really like Kobo and download lots of books to read. I get mad that I receive lots of emails advising me of special offers from Kobo, 20% discounts, etc but none of the discounts ever apply to me because I do not live in the area where the discounts apply. I feel that my money is as good as anyone else's and as Kobo accept my money via my credit card they should give me their discounts, that they keep writing to me about!!
Buggy and inconsistent
Frank_the_phone
Do not use the kobo app to search for books you might fancy, its database is rubbish. If you visit the kobo website and write the exact same words into the search box you are offered a wider range of titles…… and unlike the app, quite afew of the results match your search. As you use your kobo device, it gradually gets more and more sluggish, takes longer and longer to start up and freezes and goes crazymore frequently until the device dies completely on its third birthday. The only reason I replace old devices is because i have so many books in my library. You can access your library from a computer or tablet using the app, but my ipad takes hours to update my library, even when it is downloading only the metadata and not the book.Kobo does have a wide range of titles n lots of languages and on the kobo devices there are dictionaries and language to language dictionaries. So the idea is good but you should be prepared to replace your reader every three yars and put up with and find workarounds for sloppy software.
Developer Response
Hi, we are sorry to hear you had this experience and thank you for your valuable feedback. Rest assured that we take this feedback of yours seriously as a guide for us to improve our service. Any other help, please do not hesitate to contact us through our official Facebook page, or by reaching out to our support team at www.kobo.com/help.
Horrible App
BCrevs
This App is horrible. It lost a number of books I had bought before they took over WH smith, and they would not accept that I had bought them so I had to buy them again, which I now regret doing but it was to keep a series together.Recently two books simply won’t work, if I try to read them they cause the app to crash and the only way I can get it back is by deleting it and re installing it which wastes time. And then I still can’t read those books.Customer support is useless,you keep getting replies from different people with no continuity about the issue in question. They suggested I use the reader on their web site which is OK, but you need an internet connection, and then, half way through a book it just lost my place entirely.This app is a complete waste of space on my iPad and I would just like to able to move all my books from kobo to an app that actually works, ideally Apple Books, but even kindle app is better than this. But of course I can’t move my books unless I buy them all over again so I am stuck with it.
Developer Response
Hi, We are sorry to hear you’ve had this experience, please don't hesitate to reach out to us via Facebook/Twitter or our support team via chat at http://kobo.com/help. We are always happy to help!
Thank you for reading with the Kobo Books App. In this update, we’ve made improvements across the reading experience, audiobook listening, accessibility, and overall app stability.
• More reliable reading progress and syncing, including fixes for issues around your last-read position
• Improved audiobook playback reliability
• Better accessibility and voiceover support
• Performance and stability improvements, including faster library loading
• General bug fixes and improvements
Version 11.5.4
The developer, Rakuten Kobo Inc., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
Contact Info
User Content
Identifiers
Usage Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
Search History
Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary based, for example, on the features you use or your age. Learn More
The developer indicated that this app supports the following accessibility features. Learn More
Infrequent Cartoon or Fantasy Violence Realistic Violence Profanity or Crude Humour Mature or Suggestive Themes Horror/Fear Themes Medical Treatment Information Alcohol, Tobacco, Drug Use or References Sexual Content or Nudity Guns or Other Weapons
Contains User-Generated Content Health or Wellness Topics
