Kobo | eBooks & Audiobooks
com.kobobooks.android
by 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.
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.
What's New
For our passionate readers who love books as much as we do, we update the Kobo Books app as often as possible to continually improve on its reliability and performance.
Here's what's new in our latest release:
• Bug fixes and general improvements.
Thanks for reading with Kobo Books!
Here's what's new in our latest release:
• Bug fixes and general improvements.
Thanks for reading with Kobo Books!
App Information
Version Name
9.14.4.39801
Version Code
39801
File Size
97.4 MB
Min SDK
Android 26+
Target SDK
Android 33
Developer
Kobo Books
Contact
Website
Content Rating
Teen
Package Name
com.kobobooks.androidPermissions Required
This app may request the following permissions:
Recent Reviews
David Mowry
1.0★
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.
Arnie
1.0★
*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.
erika k
3.0★
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.
Mike Daws
3.0★
I can't purchase books. If I click on one, the app flashes the splash screen, then brings up an empty screen with the title "Store". It's often been glitchy, but now it's unusable. And, how about you reach out to us, if you actually want to help, instead of just telling everybody to reach out to you after they bring up an issue. Like, it's not our job to be beta-testers for your unfinished software.
Michelle Harlan
2.0★
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!
Angela Biscup
1.0★
Per the suggestion below, I have attempted to reinstall the app. This did not fix the problem. The app refuses to sync my audiobook listening to my current location in the book while on mobile data, instead frequently resetting me (every 15 minutes) to the last location it saved while I was on wifi. This makes my Kobo audiobooks useless as I'm spending more time trying to remember where I was than actually getting to listen. I will need to buy my audiobooks elsewhere unless this is fixed.
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