O'Reilly

O'Reilly Media, Inc.

About this app

Take O'Reilly online learning with you wherever you go, and put the knowledge of experts and the skills to stay ahead of business and technology trends in your pocket.

With the O’Reilly app, you can:

Read, watch, or listen on the go: Explore books, videos, training sessions, courses, and more—online or off.

Never lose your place: With automatic syncing, you can start reading on one device and pick up where you left off on another.

Discover and organize with Playlists: Search for the exact content you want to read, watch, or listen to—then add it to a playlist and revisit it any time.

Personalize it: Adjust the text display for comfort with font size controls and a night mode setting.

Find what you need: Get the answers you need, fast, with the ability to easily search across books, videos, and more.

Make it work for you: Control the app with an external keyboard

** Please note that to use this application you must have an active (or trial) O'Reilly account created after July 2014. If you are an O'Reilly customer who joined before July 2014, please use our Safari To Go app, also available in the Play Store.**

Ratings and reviews

If you're expecting a Kindle level reader this isn't it. Loses access to content (even downloaded), doesn't sync well, loses highlights between readers and the website and loses track of where you left off even if you're not reading the same title across different devices or the website. Could be better but what other choice do you have?

First, I really like the O'Reilly service. They offer so much that no other technical learning platform does. Unfortunately, the mobile platform is a hot mess. It doesn't seem to play videos without wifi, unless they are downloaded. When I have enough mobile data signal that I can watch any YT video without interruption, these videos stop and studder so bad they are unusable. Books don't sync between PC and mobile. Lots more then I can post here.

This review is for the app itself, not the content. I mostly use it for audiobooks and... it's not great. The back and forward buttons on the mini player and the ones that get mapped to my headphone's buttons skip entire chapters, when it should just do 15-30 seconds like other audiobook and podcast apps. Also, on several occasions the audiobook will randomly restart from the beginning of the book and I have no idea where I left off.

What’s new

We’ve made some minor bug fixes to highlights as well as addressed an audiobook display issue for our friends using Pixel 9s.