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
Can’t access full version of the app
I love reading in Apple Books, however I have very limited number of books available for me. There aren’t audiobooks or books that can be purchased in the app. I have very few free books, but I want to be able to have wider selection of paid books as well as audiobooks. I have a confirmed payment method linked to my iCloud, so I have no idea what can be the problem. Would appreciate any help.
The app has interface issues and a strange library
First of all, the positives - UI looks sleek, book covers are nice, the library features titles on many languages other than english, including but not limited to: chinese, german, polish, bulgarian and serbian. But that's when we pretty much run out of positives and come to the problems. You have no way to sort books by languages and you won't know which language a book is until you open its information and scroll down. The books of many classical authors are present in a strange state. Here are some examples: Goethe's Faust has 5 editions, 2 of which are in german and 3 in english, one of the english books has only the first part of the original. "Nikolai Gogol" and "Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol" are registered as two separate authors. Not only that, but Gogol's books, originally written in russian, are only present in english (occasionally german, french or other) translations. The latter is sadly true for most authors I've checked: Pushkin, Dostoyevsky, Honoré de Balzac, Nietzsche. The app has not even one book in russian language. Many books which are public domain aren't present. For example, there are no works of H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Nikolai Lermontov or Stanislaw Lem. Also there is no Bible.
Comments on iOS 16 update
The last update of a reading mode is really annoying
- buttons are always remaining and I regularly pay attention to them when scrolling text, because they are stable in contrast to moving text. Also they cover some words and hide them. This is very irritating
- There is also some bug with back to page number. It is constantly available not regarding I wasn’t on that page recently
- while 30 min reading session I accidentally make bookmarks around 5 times because of a new gesture. So I open that tools panel to remove it every 5 min. And still don’t understand the gesture that stands for it and if I’d like to make a bookmark, I’d use a button.
- the tools panel (menu you can open with right bottom button) has really poor contrast (dark mode reading, dark iOS mode). Because of buttons located on separate panels and I can see book’s text between them, it’s really difficult to read those buttons labels.
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 Horror/Fear Themes Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References Infrequent/Mild Medical/Treatment Information Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humour
- Copyright
- ©2024 Apple Inc. All rights reserved.
- Price
- Free