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Kobo Books 12+
eBooks & Audiobooks
Rakuten Kobo Inc.
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- Free
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Description
Join millions of readers around the world and access eBooks and audiobooks all with one app. Go shelf-less and take your reading adventures on the go. With over 6 million titles to choose from, there's something for every type of reader and listener.
Purchase eBooks and audiobooks directly from Kobo. They'll automatically appear in the app immediately afterwards.
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.
• 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, Turkish, Traditional Chinese or Japanese.
• Listen to audiobooks while you drive with CarPlay. Download them before connecting to CarPlay, or else you won’t see them.
What’s New
Version 10.14
With our latest update to the Kobo Books App, you can now sort and filter any annotations you've made in your eBooks. Easily find and manage your bookmarks, highlights, markups and notes from the annotations list. Customize your view with multi-select filters to see results by annotation type or colour.
We can't wait to hear what you think. Happy reading—and writing!
Ratings and Reviews
I love Kobo, but......
I have been using Kobo for some years now. It is by far and away the best reading app available, as it’s flexible, well presented on the page, has a wide range of books in most genres and has great tech support when needed. It also has lots of offers, which over the years have become much better, with popular books included in the offers. For someone like me who usually reads daily, both hard copy and digital books, it’s a great app. BUT......
Why oh why, after years of Insiders trying to persuade Kobo to have a system where read books are marked as “finished” are we now back with “Unread”? It’s infuriating! I have literally hundreds of digital books, both classic and current fiction. Yes I can remember which classics I’ve read, but current fiction, when I buy multiple books at a time, no I can’t. The latest update has, yet again, changed all my “finished” books back to “unread”. It’s infuriating!!! And it will certainly stop me purchasing for quite some time as I try to sort out what has been read and what hasn’t. PLEASE sort this out! I wish I hadn’t updated the app. Too late now.
Kobo App is great but few issues there...
Nicely presented and good range of selections at least for the topics I’ve been searching such as self development matters.
However, when searching books a filter separating audiobooks from e-books when searching would be much appreciated.
Secondly, with audiobooks perhaps better to change the audio track slider mechanism to better get to the point in the audio segment one is interested in.
Lastly when signing out, downloaded books are removed, hope they can remain on rather needing to re-download audiobooks all the time.
In general Rakuten Kobo is a decent app but with these issues resolved I would gladly give it five stars.
Developer Response ,
Rakuten Kobo truly values your feedback. To make sure your suggestion is forwarded please reach us through www.kobo.com and tap on the blue feedback sidebar on the right middle corner, this way we can consider your comments for any future update. If you ever have any questions or need assistance, please reach out to us through our Facebook page or twitter @kobohelp or contact our support team at www.kobo.com/help we're always happy to help.
Horrible App
This App is horrible.
It lost a number of books I had bought before they took over WH smith, and they would not accept that I had bought them so I had to buy them again, which I now regret doing but it was to keep a series together.
Recently two books simply won’t work, if I try to read them they cause the app to crash and the only way I can get it back is by deleting it and re installing it which wastes time. And then I still can’t read those books.
Customer support is useless,you keep getting replies from different people with no continuity about the issue in question. They suggested I use the reader on their web site which is OK, but you need an internet connection, and then, half way through a book it just lost my place entirely.
This app is a complete waste of space on my iPad and I would just like to able to move all my books from kobo to an app that actually works, ideally Apple Books, but even kindle app is better than this. But of course I can’t move my books unless I buy them all over again so I am stuck with it.
Developer Response ,
Hi, We are sorry to hear you’ve had this experience, please don't hesitate to reach out to us via Facebook/Twitter or our support team via chat at http://kobo.com/help. We are always happy to help!
App Privacy
The developer, Rakuten Kobo Inc., 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:
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Search History
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- Rakuten Kobo Inc.
- Size
- 174.1 MB
- Category
- Books
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish
- Age Rating
- 12+ Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humour Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity Infrequent/Mild Medical/Treatment Information Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes
- Copyright
- © 2024 Rakuten Kobo Inc.
- Price
- Free