Kobo Books - eBooks Audiobooks
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3.7star
2.91L reviews
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About this app
Join millions of booklovers across the globe and access your very own portable reading world. Go shelf-less and take your reading adventures on the go. With over 5 million titles to choose from, there’s something for every type of reader and listener.
Introducing audiobooks from Kobo—our brand new expertly curated collection. Discover the best deal on audiobooks when you subscribe. You earn Kobo Super Points every purchase. With all your eBooks and audiobooks together, the Kobo App is all you need.**
The Kobo App allows you to browse our growing collection of the world's best eBooks, audiobooks, graphic novels, and children's books, to enjoy instantly on your smartphone or tablet. Search by author, title, topic or genre to discover your next great read.
Check out Kobo’s free eBook selection to discover a new favourite.
Take a look at our most popular and trending eBooks, updated hourly!
Browse now on the Kobo website.
The Kobo App makes reading even more comfortable and convenient:
• Customize the way you read. Enjoy crisp, clear text in the size and style you prefer. Try Night Mode to make reading easier on your eyes before bedtime, and lock the screen in portrait or landscape mode.
• Our beautifully designed, easy-to-use player makes it simple for you to move through your audiobook with a single touch. Never worry about losing your spot, and see how much time is left at a glance. Schedule it to turn off after a set amount of time—perfect for listening before going to sleep.
• Discover recommendations just for you for eBooks and audiobooks we think you’ll love. Read thousands of free eBook previews or listen to audiobook samples to help you find your next favourite.
• Start reading on one device and pick up on another. The Kobo App always remembers where you left off, so you can keep reading across all your devices.
• Share your love of reading on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Post your favourite quotes, notes, and thoughts from what you’re reading.
• Rate and review the books you’ve read or read reviews from booklovers like you!
• Read in English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese or Japanese.
**Audiobooks available in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. You can listen to audiobooks on smartphones and tablets running Android version 4.4 or higher.
Introducing audiobooks from Kobo—our brand new expertly curated collection. Discover the best deal on audiobooks when you subscribe. You earn Kobo Super Points every purchase. With all your eBooks and audiobooks together, the Kobo App is all you need.**
The Kobo App allows you to browse our growing collection of the world's best eBooks, audiobooks, graphic novels, and children's books, to enjoy instantly on your smartphone or tablet. Search by author, title, topic or genre to discover your next great read.
Check out Kobo’s free eBook selection to discover a new favourite.
Take a look at our most popular and trending eBooks, updated hourly!
Browse now on the Kobo website.
The Kobo App makes reading even more comfortable and convenient:
• Customize the way you read. Enjoy crisp, clear text in the size and style you prefer. Try Night Mode to make reading easier on your eyes before bedtime, and lock the screen in portrait or landscape mode.
• Our beautifully designed, easy-to-use player makes it simple for you to move through your audiobook with a single touch. Never worry about losing your spot, and see how much time is left at a glance. Schedule it to turn off after a set amount of time—perfect for listening before going to sleep.
• Discover recommendations just for you for eBooks and audiobooks we think you’ll love. Read thousands of free eBook previews or listen to audiobook samples to help you find your next favourite.
• Start reading on one device and pick up on another. The Kobo App always remembers where you left off, so you can keep reading across all your devices.
• Share your love of reading on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Post your favourite quotes, notes, and thoughts from what you’re reading.
• Rate and review the books you’ve read or read reviews from booklovers like you!
• Read in English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese or Japanese.
**Audiobooks available in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. You can listen to audiobooks on smartphones and tablets running Android version 4.4 or higher.
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Ratings and reviews
3.7
2.28L reviews
David Mowry
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15 September 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.
22 people found this review helpful
Kobo Books
15 September 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!
Arnie
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8 October 2025
*I did that yesterday and now it's back to doing the same thing. I was just in the middle of re listening to one of my books and it crashed and skipped to the end of the book. Not very impressed... Every time I listen to my audiobooks after the initial listen, it never holds the audio in the right spot. It'll jump way back or way ahead. It also will just crash randomly after listening for a while and won't restart in the last spot you were at. It's also a pain to be able to buy the audiobooks.
Kobo Books
8 October 2025
Hello. This is not the experience we want for you to have. If you need further assistance, please contact the support team via Facebook or chat. http://kobo.com/help so we could address the issue.
erika k
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3 October 2025
I love the kobo service, and really enjoy my kobo device. The phone app, however, leaves much to be desired. My biggest issue is that it sometimes overwrites my phone's brightness settings. Even on dark mode, it is way too bright, and it takes a moment for the brightness to go back to normal when I close out, blinding me. It's also inconsistent. It wasn't happening for awhile, but started again when I updated the app. Lately it's also losing my place in a book on occasion.
2 people found this review helpful
Kobo Books
3 October 2025
Hi! If you are experiencing issues with the brightness of your Kobo App, 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 try and troubleshoot any problems you may be having. Thanks!
What's new
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New in this update:
• We've resolved a problem some users reported signing in with Google.
New in this update:
• We've resolved a problem some users reported signing in with Google.
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About the developer
Rakuten Kobo Inc
sarnold@kobo.com
150 John St
Toronto, ON M5V 3E3
Canada
+1 416-302-2268
