Kobo | eBooks & Audiobooks

Kobo Books

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About this app

Discover immersive storytelling with Kobo, your all-in-one app for eBooks and audiobooks. Whether you're on the move, at home, or settling in for the night, Kobo brings a world of stories to your fingertips. Read or listen anywhere, anytime.

Choose from over 8 million titles across the genres you love. From contemporary fiction and memoirs to thrillers, fantasy, and wellness reads, Kobo has something for every kind of reader and listener. Find your next obsession or revisit a timeless classic.

Build your digital library and make it truly yours. Browse trending titles, top charts, or curated collections to spark your curiosity. Save favourites, sample audiobooks and eBooks, and subscribe to Kobo Plus for unlimited reading and listening.


AUDIOBOOKS THAT FIT YOUR LIFE

Whether you're commuting, exercising, working, or winding down, Kobo makes audiobook listening seamless:

• Intuitive audiobook player with one-touch skip, bookmarks, and time-left display
• Sleep timer for uninterrupted bedtime listening
• Adjustable playback speed from 0.5x to 3x
• Offline downloads for listening on the go
• Seamless transition between chapters and synced progress across devices
• Sample audio clips before committing to a title
• Discover narration styles that suit your mood—calming, dramatic, fast-paced, and more


READING, YOUR WAY

Customize your eBook experience to match your environment and preferences:

• Crisp text with adjustable fonts, sizes, margins, and brightness
• Night Mode and Sepia for low-light reading
• Orientation lock in portrait or landscape
• Highlight, annotate, and look up definitions on the go
• Sync your bookmarks, notes, and reading progress across devices


KOBO PLUS SUBSCRIPTION

Enjoy unlimited access to hundreds of thousands of eBooks and audiobooks:

• One low monthly fee with no hidden charges
• Read and listen across a wide range of categories and genres
• Cancel anytime with no strings attached
• Perfect for binge readers and audiobook lovers alike


DISCOVERY & PERSONALIZATION

Discover titles tailored to your taste with Kobo’s smart recommendation engine:

• Explore curated collections by mood, theme, or genre
• Follow favourite authors or series and get alerts on new releases
• Read user reviews and share your own
• Discover Kobo Editor’s Picks and seasonal spotlights


MULTILINGUAL & MULTI-DEVICE EXPERIENCE

Read and listen in English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, or Japanese.

• Available on smartphones and tablets
• Pick up where you left off across Android, iOS, and Kobo e-Readers
• Set language preferences within your Kobo profile for localized suggestions


STAY CONNECTED

Follow us on social media for the latest updates, reading tips, and recommendations:

https://www.facebook.com/Kobo

https://www.instagram.com/kobobooks

https://twitter.com/kobo

Note: Audiobooks are available worldwide except in Japan and Turkey. You can listen on smartphones and tablets running Android version 4.4 or higher.

Download the Kobo app today and rediscover the joy of reading and listening—your next great story is just a tap away.

Ratings and reviews

I went with a Kobe e-reader for features for the price. It's still great, but this app is awful. It's stuck at loading the library and no books show up. I tried everything customer support said, multiple times. No luck. It's worked in times past and is okay then. But these sync issues happen often. When I check out or buy a new book it often doesn't appear. (I've tried repairing my account, repeatedly. It doesn't work).

I use the app for audiobooks and want to love it, but the app has been very buggy lately. It was not saving where I left off in my audiobooks, just constantly restarting me at previous chapters. I had to write down or screenshot where I was pausing an audiobook. Today a tech helped me fix that issue, but I still don't have an option for bookmarks in my audiobooks. Their suggestion was that I uninstall and reinstall the app. I had already done that 3 times with no success. Hope they fix it soon!

I mean it's decent. pretty bare bones for a reader and for some reason has to load every single time it opens, including when offline or with poor signal, which means sometimes it takes over a minute just to open a book I have downloaded. there's not much in the way of app settings, so you can't hide the top bar (time, battery, etc) and small stuff like that. overall it's not bad, but I expected better especially considering the quality of other ebook readers you can download.

What’s new

Our latest update to the Kobo Books App offers hands-free reading with Read Aloud's text-to-speech feature, available for select eBooks.

Plus, you'll find enhanced support for Android accessibility tools like TalkBack.