Apple Books 12+
Read, listen, discover.
Apple
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- Free
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Description
Apple Books is the best place to discover, read and listen to entertaining and informative books and audiobooks. Browse through top charts, personalised recommendations and expertly curated collections in the Book Store and Audiobook Store, or use search to easily find the perfect read or listen—no subscription needed. Track what you have read and want to read, and set your own reading goals, all in one app and across all your Apple devices.
Explore millions of books and audiobooks
• Check out today’s bestsellers, free books and special offers for readers of all ages, plus personalised recommendations.
• Explore collections curated by the Apple Books team to find your next book or audiobook in your favourite genres, from mysteries and thrillers to romance, history, self-development and kids.
• Sample any book or preview an audiobook to start enjoying the first few pages for free.
• Keep track of the books and audiobooks you are interested in with your Want to Read list.
Customize your reading experience
• Choose from a selection of reading themes, which include a variety of fonts and background colours.
• Make your book easy to read by adjusting line height and letter spacing to your preference.
• Use Auto-Night Theme and adjust your screen brightness to make reading more comfortable for your eyes.
• Enable vertical scrolling to move continuously through books instead of flipping pages.
Make reading a habit with Reading Goals
• Set a reading goal to encourage yourself to read daily.
• Track reading streaks and how many books you have read this year.
• Get reminders and coaching to help you achieve your reading goals.
Share with your whole family
• Family Sharing lets you enjoy your books and audiobooks with your favourite people. Invite up to five family members.
Apple CarPlay
• Designed with safety in mind, the Audiobooks app in Apple CarPlay allows you to listen to audiobooks while driving.
• Large buttons make it easy to start and stop, rewind or fast forward, and the simplified library helps you find your next audiobook while still keeping your eyes on the road.
Apple Watch features
• Use the Audiobooks app on Apple Watch to get back to your recent audiobooks or browse your library right from your wrist.
• Use the Watch app on iPhone to choose which audiobooks to download to your Apple Watch.
Requirements & store availability
• iPhone requires iOS 11 or later.
• iPad requires iPadOS 11 or later.
• Content varies by country or region and may not be available on all devices.
Ratings and Reviews
bookmarks
The iOS 16 update was pretty good overall, as well as its new layout for the reading view, but the difficulty i’ve encountered with this is the amount of bookmarks i didn’t mean to add because of the new feature to add a bookmark every time you double tap. I see how that may be a good idea, but ever since i updated, i tend to somehow accidentally double tap and end up with way too much bookmarks than i actually meant to have. I checked the settings and even googled it if there was a toggle to turn it off somehow but there isn’t. Please at least add that.
This does not spark joy.
Way to ruin a perfectly decent app. Would’ve preferred to have a simple interface with all MY books neatly displayed on a library every time I open the app, instead of whatever this mess of an interface is. I don’t need to see top sellers or recommendations every time I open the app, what’s worse is none of y’all even bothered to at least give an option for defaulting to the Library screen. And boy who ever decided to replace that page-turning effect to a freaking robotic powerpoint presentation transition have absolutely trash taste and should rethink their life choices. That floating X button is fugly and irritating, I appreciate the new themes but this new interface is just unnecessary. Bookmarking is now a two-step process, why? Make ugly changes all you want but at least give people the option to change things back, even the page-turn animation at the very least. Good job making a simple reading app bafflingly irritating and disappointing.
Aesthetics of A Bookshelf, Gone
I loved the older version of the app wherein I can admire my bookshelf, cover titles on display against a virtual, wooden shelf. Why would you take away such a wonderful feature? Now this looks impersonal, and to be honest, boring. I haven’t used the app for ages. And don’t let me start on the “Reading Now” section that was ALL TOO CONFUSING. Why was the More To Explore under this section, anyways? I think it should be under Search, instead of cluttering the books we’re currently reading. Sheesh. Everything is in disarray.
I hope you can revisit this app and add a little bit of flexibility wherein you can personalize your bookshelf, the tabs, maybe change the background or what. Or better yet, just give us back the old, wooden bookshelf.
App Privacy
The developer, Apple, 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:
- Purchases
- Financial Info
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Search History
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- Apple Distribution International
- Category
- Books
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 10.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 10.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 10.0 or later.
- Apple Watch
- Requires watchOS 5.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Arabic, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
- 12+ Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence Infrequent/Mild Medical/Treatment Information Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humour
- Copyright
- ©2024 Apple Inc. All rights reserved.
- Price
- Free