Kobo Books & Audiobooks Downloads & RevenueKobo Books & Audiobooks · App Store & Google Play
Kobo Books & Audiobooks gets 1k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, November 2026, rounded down to a band).
Kobo Books & Audiobooks by Rakuten Kobo Inc. is on App Store and Google Play. Active Users (MAU & DAU), Downloads, rankings, keywords, revenue, and rating totals.
Kobo Books & Audiobooks update history & changes
Last change · 62 events since 25 Feb 2009Full timeline ↓✏️iOSAdded hidden keywords: inkitt, fable✏️iOSAdded hidden keywords: storytel, gleeph, bookmory, goodreads +1 more📈AndroidNew best rank in the overall chart: #32📈AndroidNew best rank in the overall chart: #33📦iOSUpdated to version 11.5.4📦iOSUpdated to version 11.5.3🔎AndroidTop 10 for “reader”📈iOSEntered the top 10📈iOSCharting in a new country⭐iOSPassed 100K ratings🆕AndroidFirst spotted by AppInsider🆕iOSFirst spotted by AppInsider🆕AndroidReleased on Google Play🆕iOSReleased on the App Store
Full timeline · 62 events
- ✏️Kobo Books & Audiobooks added hidden keywords: inkitt, fableiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️Kobo Books & Audiobooks added hidden keywords: storytel, gleeph, bookmory, goodreads +1 moreiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️Kobo Books & Audiobooks added hidden keywords: novelbariOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈Kobo Books & Audiobooks new best rank in the overall chart: #32AndroidTop Grossing · All Apps · NL
- ✏️Kobo Books & Audiobooks added hidden keywords: everand, novelbar, hoopla, joyread +2 moreiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈Kobo Books & Audiobooks new best rank in the overall chart: #33AndroidTop Grossing · All Apps · NL
- ✏️Kobo Books & Audiobooks added hidden keywords: libbyiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📦Kobo Books & Audiobooks updated to version 11.5.4iOSThank you for reading with the Kobo Books App. In this update, we’ve made improvements across the reading experience, audiobook listening, accessibility, and overall app stability.
• More reliable reading progress and syncing, including fixes for issues around your last-read position
• Improved audiobook playback reliability
• Better accessibility and voiceover support
• Performance and stability improvements, including faster library loading
• General bug fixes and improvements… more - 📈Kobo Books & Audiobooks new best rank in the overall chart: #34AndroidTop Grossing · All Apps · NL
- 📈Kobo Books & Audiobooks new best rank in the overall chart: #35AndroidTop Grossing · All Apps · NL
- 📈Kobo Books & Audiobooks entered the top 10 in 4 chartsAndroidTop Grossing · Books & Reference · ID · Top Grossing · Books & Reference · NL · Top Grossing · Books & Reference · TH · Top Grossing · Books & Reference · TR
- 📈Kobo Books & Audiobooks new best rank in the overall chart: #37AndroidTop Grossing · All Apps · NL
- 📈Kobo Books & Audiobooks entered the top 10AndroidTop Grossing · Books & Reference · IN
- ✏️Kobo Books & Audiobooks added hidden keywords: inkittiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️Kobo Books & Audiobooks added hidden keywords: goodreadsiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈Kobo Books & Audiobooks entered the top 10AndroidTop Grossing · Books & Reference · VN
- 📈Kobo Books & Audiobooks entered the top 100AndroidTop Free · Books & Reference · SE
- ✏️Kobo Books & Audiobooks added hidden keywords: authoriOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📦Kobo Books & Audiobooks updated to version 11.5.3iOSThank you for reading with the Kobo Books App. In this update, we’ve made improvements across the reading experience, audiobook listening, accessibility, and overall app stability.
• More reliable reading progress and syncing, including fixes for issues around your last-read position
• Improved audiobook playback reliability
• Better accessibility and voiceover support
• Performance and stability improvements, including faster library loading
• General bug fixes and improvements… more - 📈Kobo Books & Audiobooks entered the top 100AndroidTop Free · Books & Reference · BR
- 📦Kobo Books & Audiobooks: now updating weeklyiOS4 updates in 30 days, after a quiet two months
- ✏️Kobo Books & Audiobooks added hidden keywords: libby, goodreads, readiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 🔎Kobo Books & Audiobooks reached Top 10 for “reader”Android#10 in Canada search · popularity 42
- 📈Kobo Books & Audiobooks new best rank in the overall chart: #38AndroidTop Grossing · All Apps · NL
- ✏️Kobo Books & Audiobooks added hidden keywords: libby, authoriOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈Kobo Books & Audiobooks entered the top 10AndroidTop Free · Books & Reference · TW
- 📈Kobo Books & Audiobooks entered the top 100AndroidTop Grossing · Books & Reference · TH
- 📈Kobo Books & Audiobooks charting in a new countryAndroidThailand
- 📈Kobo Books & Audiobooks entered the top 100AndroidTop Free · Books & Reference · TR
- 📈Kobo Books & Audiobooks entered the top 10AndroidTop Grossing · Books & Reference · TW
- 📈Kobo Books & Audiobooks entered the top 100AndroidTop Free · Books & Reference · TW
- 📦Kobo Books & Audiobooks updated to version 11.5.2iOSThank you for reading with the Kobo Books App. In this update, we’ve made improvements across the reading experience, audiobook listening, accessibility, and overall app stability.
• More reliable reading progress and syncing, including fixes for issues around your last-read position
• Improved audiobook playback reliability
• Better accessibility and voiceover support
• Performance and stability improvements, including faster library loading
• General bug fixes and improvements… more - 📈Kobo Books & Audiobooks entered the top 10AndroidTop Free · Books & Reference · NL
- 📈Kobo Books & Audiobooks entered the top 100 in 7 chartsAndroidTop Grossing · All Apps · ES · Top Free · Books & Reference · ES · Top Free · Books & Reference · MX · Top Grossing · All Apps · NL · +3 more
- 📈Kobo Books & Audiobooks entered the top 10 in 2 chartsAndroidTop Grossing · Books & Reference · ES · Top Grossing · Books & Reference · SE
- 📈Kobo Books & Audiobooks new best rank in the overall chart: #39AndroidTop Grossing · All Apps · NL
- 📈Kobo Books & Audiobooks charting in a new country in 7 chartsAndroidSpain · Mexico · Netherlands · Sweden · +3 more
- ✏️Kobo Books & Audiobooks added hidden keywords: goodreadsiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️Kobo Books & Audiobooks added hidden keywords: novelsiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️Kobo Books & Audiobooks added hidden keywords: authoriOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️Kobo Books & Audiobooks: app got biggeriOS235 MB → 818 MB (+249%)
- 📈Kobo Books & Audiobooks new best rank in the overall chart: #44AndroidTop Grossing · All Apps · CA
- 📦Kobo Books & Audiobooks updated to version 11.5.1iOSThank you for reading with the Kobo Books App. In this update, we’ve made improvements across the reading experience, audiobook listening, accessibility, and overall app stability.
• More reliable reading progress and syncing, including fixes for issues around your last-read position
• Improved audiobook playback reliability
• Better accessibility and voiceover support
• Performance and stability improvements, including faster library loading
• General bug fixes and improvements… more - 📈Kobo Books & Audiobooks new best rank in the overall chart: #45AndroidTop Grossing · All Apps · CA
- 📈Kobo Books & Audiobooks entered the top 10iOSTop Free · Books · AU
- ✏️Kobo Books & Audiobooks added hidden keywords: booktokiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈Kobo Books & Audiobooks new best rank in the overall chart: #49AndroidTop Grossing · All Apps · CA
- ✏️Kobo Books & Audiobooks added hidden keywords: readiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️Kobo Books & Audiobooks added hidden keywords: galateaiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️Kobo Books & Audiobooks added hidden keywords: readiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈Kobo Books & Audiobooks entered the top 10AndroidTop Grossing · Books & Reference · SA
- ✏️Kobo Books & Audiobooks added hidden keywords: reading, readiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈Kobo Books & Audiobooks charting in a new countryiOSRussia
- 📈Kobo Books & Audiobooks new best rank in the overall chart: #51AndroidTop Grossing · All Apps · CA
- 📈Kobo Books & Audiobooks charting in a new countryiOSSouth Korea
- 🆕Kobo Books & Audiobooks first spotted by AppInsiderAndroidAustralia
- 📈Kobo Books & Audiobooks new best rank in the overall chart: #53AndroidTop Grossing · All Apps · CA
- 🆕Kobo Books & Audiobooks first spotted by AppInsideriOS#24 in Top Free · Books · France
- 📦Kobo Books & Audiobooks version 11.5iOSNo release notes
- 🆕Kobo Books & Audiobooks released on Google PlayAndroid
- 🆕Kobo Books & Audiobooks released on the App StoreiOS
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
4.3 ★
336k ratings, both stores
Measured
Best rank now
#3
Android · 
Books & Reference Grossing
Books & Reference GrossingMeasured
New ratings a week
343
▼ -21% vs the 2 weeks before (Google Play)
Measured
Kobo Books & Audiobooks at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-08. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
A free reading and listening platform for book lovers that integrates eBooks, audiobooks, and a subscription service (Kobo Plus) with cross-device syncing. The app consistently ranks in the top 10 grossing charts across diverse markets including Canada, Spain, Italy, and Taiwan, indicating strong monetization performance relative to its free download status.
Similar apps: Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, Audible
App Store
App details
App ID
301259483
Publisher
Rakuten Kobo Inc.
Publisher country
Canada
On the store since
Feb 2009
17 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 18.0+
iPhone XS and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
17+
8 content notes below
Languages
18
CS DA NL EN FI FR DE IT JA NB PL PT …
Size
818 MB
Also listed in
Books, Entertainment
Content notesInfrequent/Mild Sexual Content and NudityInfrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy ViolenceInfrequent/Mild Realistic ViolenceInfrequent/Mild Horror/Fear ThemesInfrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or ReferencesInfrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude HumorInfrequent/Mild Medical/Treatment InformationInfrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes
Google Play
App details
App ID
com.kobobooks.android
Publisher
Rakuten Kobo Inc
Publisher country
Canada
Content rating
Teen
Tech stack
Trackers and permissions of build v11.1.1, from the εxodus privacy report (CC BY-SA).
Trackers
3
Permissions
43
Trackers
Facebook LoginFacebook ShareGoogle Firebase Analytics
Full permission listProSee plans
Kobo Books & Audiobooks downloads & installs
Both stores, worldwide. Bands are open; exact numbers are free with an account.
| Store | Downloads / day | Lifetime installs |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | 1k+ | 10M+ |
| Google Play | 1k+ | 10M+ Measured |
| Total | 1k+ Confidence | 10M+ Confidence |
How this is calculated
App Store: chart positions and rating growth per country, anchored on its own Android downloads; lifetime from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Google Play: the daily change in its exact install count. The total adds every store.
Where Kobo Books & Audiobooks's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend before Apple and Google take their fee.
| Store | Per day | Per month | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| App Store | |||
| Google Play | |||
| Total | Confidence | 100% |
Business model: In-app purchase-led
How Kobo Books & Audiobooks makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
In-app purchases
One-off purchases
/mo
of revenue
Where it ranks now
Both stores, across every country we track.
| Store | Best rank | Charting in | US Top Free | US Top Grossing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| App Store | #8 Books Free | 11 of 30 countries | #60 | – |
| Google Play | #3 Books & Reference Grossing | 20 of 23 countries | #122 | #22 |
Full chart lists: App Store · Google Play.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisApp Store
New ratings a week
139
▲ +20% vs the 2 weeks before
Written reviews a week
6.5
US App Store
Lifetime rating
4.5★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Recent written reviews
4.5★
people who write skew negative
Review momentum
81/100
faster than 97% of Books apps
Growing fastest in Canada ▲ +37% · France ▲ +33% · 
United States ▲ +25%
New ratings by country (8)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 47 | 34% | ▲ +25% |
| Canada | 46 | 34% | ▲ +37% |
 Australia | 12 | 9% | ▲ +17% |
 Italy | 10 | 7% | ▼ -35% |
| France | 10 | 7% | ▲ +33% |
 United Kingdom | 9.2 | 7% | ▼ -23% |
 Germany | 1.2 | 1% | – |
 India | 1.2 | 1% | – |
App Store ratings in the countries we track, 4-week average.
Google Play
New ratings a week
204
▼ -21% vs the 2 weeks before
Written reviews a week
under 1
Google Play
Lifetime rating
4.5★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Recent written reviews
3.0★
people who write skew negative
Review momentum
65/100
faster than 82% of Books and reference apps
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
Ratings
Both stores. Store data, measured.
| Store | Rating | Ratings |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | 4.5 ★ | 28k |
| Google Play | 4.2 ★ | 309k 21k written reviews |
| Both stores | 4.3 ★ weighted by ratings | 336k |
What users say about Kobo Books & Audiobooks
From the 98 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users highly value the extensive book selection and competitive pricing compared to Amazon or Audible, often citing it as a superior alternative for both ebooks and audiobooks. However, recent updates have introduced significant technical frustrations, including sync failures, search glitches, and missing metadata like narrator names.
Mostly positive (80% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for its features and content, and being easy to use. The main complaints are about crashes and bugs, and login and account problems.
What people like
- Features & content: “Plus you can organize your library”
- Ease of use: “I love how easy this app is to use”
- Useful: “I highly recommend it!!!!!”
- Fun: “Fun books to read and listen to”
Common complaints
- Crashes & bugs: “First, the app is maddeningly glitchy”
- Login & account: “iPad can not login with google”
- Privacy & data: “Trash App and Spammy Pop-Ups”
About Kobo Books & Audiobooks
Get ready for a whole new way to read eBooks your way! We've rebuilt the Kobo Books App from the ground up, focusing on what matters most: you and your love of the story, whether you read, listen, or are just dropping by.
Dive into millions of eBooks and audiobooks, all tailored to your reading life. Customize, sync, scroll seamlessly, and discover stories that stay with you, all in one powerful app.
Rediscover the joy of reading your way
Kobo seamlessly blends eBooks, audiobooks, and intuitive tools into your daily rhythm. From cozy nights to busy commutes, we keep your place, your pace, and your story alive.
Read and listen seamlessly
Customize fonts, enjoy Night Mode, set a sleep timer for audio playback, and experience natural-sounding text-to-speech for hands-free reading! Read Aloud available on select eBooks only.
Explore before you dive in
Our Guest Mode lets you browse books, save previews, and discover your next favourite read, all without any Kobo account required.
Pick up where you left off
Your bookmarks, highlights, and notes sync automatically across phone, tablet, Kobo eReader, or Kobo Web Reader, so your story always stays with you.
Designed for real life
From road trips with CarPlay to daily routines with our new Listen Bar, Kobo fits seamlessly into your day. Read in 13 languages including English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Turkish, and more.
Why Kobo?
Whether you’re into bestsellers, romance, thrillers, self-development, or audiobooks for your next run, Kobo’s intuitive app helps you rediscover the joy of storytelling.
Download the Kobo Books App and fall in love with reading all over again. Explore, highlight, review, read and listen your way, with full support for iOS accessibility features.
Dive into millions of eBooks and audiobooks, all tailored to your reading life. Customize, sync, scroll seamlessly, and discover stories that stay with you, all in one powerful app.
Rediscover the joy of reading your way
Kobo seamlessly blends eBooks, audiobooks, and intuitive tools into your daily rhythm. From cozy nights to busy commutes, we keep your place, your pace, and your story alive.
Read and listen seamlessly
Customize fonts, enjoy Night Mode, set a sleep timer for audio playback, and experience natural-sounding text-to-speech for hands-free reading! Read Aloud available on select eBooks only.
Explore before you dive in
Our Guest Mode lets you browse books, save previews, and discover your next favourite read, all without any Kobo account required.
Pick up where you left off
Your bookmarks, highlights, and notes sync automatically across phone, tablet, Kobo eReader, or Kobo Web Reader, so your story always stays with you.
Designed for real life
From road trips with CarPlay to daily routines with our new Listen Bar, Kobo fits seamlessly into your day. Read in 13 languages including English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Turkish, and more.
Why Kobo?
Whether you’re into bestsellers, romance, thrillers, self-development, or audiobooks for your next run, Kobo’s intuitive app helps you rediscover the joy of storytelling.
Download the Kobo Books App and fall in love with reading all over again. Explore, highlight, review, read and listen your way, with full support for iOS accessibility features.
Kobo Books & Audiobooks App Store
Kobo Books & Audiobooks gets 1k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, November 2026, rounded down to a band).
Kobo Books & Audiobooks is #8 in Books Free in Canada and charting in 11 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperRakuten Kobo Inc.
CategoryBooks
PriceFree
Released
Rating★ 4.5 (28k)
Version11.5.4
Age rating17+
First seen by us 24 Sep 2026
24 Sep 2026Installs (est.)10M+ worldwide
Rating
4.5 ★
28k ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#8
Books FreeMeasured
New ratings a week
139
▲ +20% vs the 2 weeks before
Measured
Kobo Books & Audiobooks on the App Store
App details
App ID
301259483
Publisher
Rakuten Kobo Inc.
Publisher country
Canada
On the store since
Feb 2009
17 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 18.0+
iPhone XS and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
17+
8 content notes below
Languages
18
CS DA NL EN FI FR DE IT JA NB PL PT …
Size
818 MB
Also listed in
Books, Entertainment
Content notesInfrequent/Mild Sexual Content and NudityInfrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy ViolenceInfrequent/Mild Realistic ViolenceInfrequent/Mild Horror/Fear ThemesInfrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or ReferencesInfrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude HumorInfrequent/Mild Medical/Treatment InformationInfrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes
Kobo Books & Audiobooks downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where Kobo Books & Audiobooks's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in Kobo Books & Audiobooks before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Top Grossing positions in every country we track, converted to dollars per store and country, sized by each market's published consumer spend and calibrated on revenue companies publish.
Business model: In-app purchase-led
How Kobo Books & Audiobooks makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
In-app purchases
One-off purchases
/mo
of revenue
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | BooksFree | #8 |
| Australia | BooksFree | #9 |
| United States | BooksFree | #60 |
| France | BooksFree | #21 |
| United Kingdom | BooksFree | #35 |
| Italy | BooksFree | #14 |
| Germany | BooksFree | #66 |
| India | BooksFree | #60 |
 Brazil | BooksFree | #71 |
 United Arab Emirates | BooksFree | #59 |
 Indonesia | BooksFree | #97 |
Apps near Kobo Books & Audiobooks on the chart
Books Free, around #8.
Amazon Kindle: Reading App#3
Goodreads: Book Tracker & More#4
Hoopla: Your Library Anywhere#5
Wattpad - Read & Write Stories#6
Janitor: Interactive Stories#7
GoodNovel - Booktok, Stories#9
Fable: Track & Discuss Books#10
Inkitt Galatea: Audio & eBooks#11
NovelO - Read Books & Novels#12
MegaNovel - fiction & webtoon#13
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.5 ★
28k ratings
Measured
Ratings
28k
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
139
▲ +20% vs the 2 weeks before
Written reviews a week
6.5
US App Store
Lifetime rating
4.5★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Recent written reviews
4.5★
people who write skew negative
Review momentum
81/100
faster than 97% of Books apps
Growing fastest in Canada ▲ +37% · France ▲ +33% · United States ▲ +25%
New ratings by country (8)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 47 | 34% | ▲ +25% |
| Canada | 46 | 34% | ▲ +37% |
| Australia | 12 | 9% | ▲ +17% |
| Italy | 10 | 7% | ▼ -35% |
| France | 10 | 7% | ▲ +33% |
| United Kingdom | 9.2 | 7% | ▼ -23% |
| Germany | 1.2 | 1% | – |
| India | 1.2 | 1% | – |
App Store ratings in the countries we track, 4-week average.
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about Kobo Books & Audiobooks
From the 98 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users highly value the extensive book selection and competitive pricing compared to Amazon or Audible, often citing it as a superior alternative for both ebooks and audiobooks. However, recent updates have introduced significant technical frustrations, including sync failures, search glitches, and missing metadata like narrator names.
Mostly positive (80% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for its features and content, and being easy to use. The main complaints are about crashes and bugs, and login and account problems.
What people like
- Features & content: “Plus you can organize your library”
- Ease of use: “I love how easy this app is to use”
- Useful: “I highly recommend it!!!!!”
- Fun: “Fun books to read and listen to”
Common complaints
- Crashes & bugs: “First, the app is maddeningly glitchy”
- Login & account: “iPad can not login with google”
- Privacy & data: “Trash App and Spammy Pop-Ups”
About Kobo Books & Audiobooks
Get ready for a whole new way to read eBooks your way! We've rebuilt the Kobo Books App from the ground up, focusing on what matters most: you and your love of the story, whether you read, listen, or are just dropping by.
Dive into millions of eBooks and audiobooks, all tailored to your reading life. Customize, sync, scroll seamlessly, and discover stories that stay with you, all in one powerful app.
Rediscover the joy of reading your way
Kobo seamlessly blends eBooks, audiobooks, and intuitive tools into your daily rhythm. From cozy nights to busy commutes, we keep your place, your pace, and your story alive.
Read and listen seamlessly
Customize fonts, enjoy Night Mode, set a sleep timer for audio playback, and experience natural-sounding text-to-speech for hands-free reading! Read Aloud available on select eBooks only.
Explore before you dive in
Our Guest Mode lets you browse books, save previews, and discover your next favourite read, all without any Kobo account required.
Pick up where you left off
Your bookmarks, highlights, and notes sync automatically across phone, tablet, Kobo eReader, or Kobo Web Reader, so your story always stays with you.
Designed for real life
From road trips with CarPlay to daily routines with our new Listen Bar, Kobo fits seamlessly into your day. Read in 13 languages including English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Turkish, and more.
Why Kobo?
Whether you’re into bestsellers, romance, thrillers, self-development, or audiobooks for your next run, Kobo’s intuitive app helps you rediscover the joy of storytelling.
Download the Kobo Books App and fall in love with reading all over again. Explore, highlight, review, read and listen your way, with full support for iOS accessibility features.
Dive into millions of eBooks and audiobooks, all tailored to your reading life. Customize, sync, scroll seamlessly, and discover stories that stay with you, all in one powerful app.
Rediscover the joy of reading your way
Kobo seamlessly blends eBooks, audiobooks, and intuitive tools into your daily rhythm. From cozy nights to busy commutes, we keep your place, your pace, and your story alive.
Read and listen seamlessly
Customize fonts, enjoy Night Mode, set a sleep timer for audio playback, and experience natural-sounding text-to-speech for hands-free reading! Read Aloud available on select eBooks only.
Explore before you dive in
Our Guest Mode lets you browse books, save previews, and discover your next favourite read, all without any Kobo account required.
Pick up where you left off
Your bookmarks, highlights, and notes sync automatically across phone, tablet, Kobo eReader, or Kobo Web Reader, so your story always stays with you.
Designed for real life
From road trips with CarPlay to daily routines with our new Listen Bar, Kobo fits seamlessly into your day. Read in 13 languages including English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Turkish, and more.
Why Kobo?
Whether you’re into bestsellers, romance, thrillers, self-development, or audiobooks for your next run, Kobo’s intuitive app helps you rediscover the joy of storytelling.
Download the Kobo Books App and fall in love with reading all over again. Explore, highlight, review, read and listen your way, with full support for iOS accessibility features.
Latest updates
11.5.4
Thank you for reading with the Kobo Books App. In this update, we’ve made improvements across the reading experience, audiobook listening, accessibility, and overall app stability.
• More reliable reading progress and syncing, including fixes for issues around your last-read position
• Improved audiobook playback reliability
• Better accessibility and voiceover support
• Performance and stability improvements, including faster library loading
• General bug fixes and improvements
11.5.3
Thank you for reading with the Kobo Books App. In this update, we’ve made improvements across the reading experience, audiobook listening, accessibility, and overall app stability.
• More reliable reading progress and syncing, including fixes for issues around your last-read position
• Improved audiobook playback reliability
• Better accessibility and voiceover support
• Performance and stability improvements, including faster library loading
• General bug fixes and improvements
11.5.2
Thank you for reading with the Kobo Books App. In this update, we’ve made improvements across the reading experience, audiobook listening, accessibility, and overall app stability.
• More reliable reading progress and syncing, including fixes for issues around your last-read position
• Improved audiobook playback reliability
• Better accessibility and voiceover support
• Performance and stability improvements, including faster library loading
• General bug fixes and improvements
Store changes
What Kobo Books & Audiobooks changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
App got bigger
235 MB → 818 MB (+249%)
More from Rakuten Kobo Inc.
Kobo | eBooks & Audiobooks Android
Kobo | eBooks & Audiobooks gets 1k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, November 2026, rounded down to a band).
Kobo | eBooks & Audiobooks is #3 in Books & Reference Grossing on Google Play in France and charting in 20 of 23 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperKobo Books
CategoryBooks & Reference
PriceFree
Released
Installs10M+
Rating★ 4.2 (309k)
Updated
Content ratingTeen
Rating
4.2 ★
309k ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#3
Books & Reference GrossingMeasured
New ratings a week
204
▼ -21% vs the 2 weeks before
Measured
Kobo | eBooks & Audiobooks at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-08. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
A free reading and listening platform for book lovers that integrates eBooks, audiobooks, and a subscription service (Kobo Plus) with cross-device syncing. The app consistently ranks in the top 10 grossing charts across diverse markets including Canada, Spain, Italy, and Taiwan, indicating strong monetization performance relative to its free download status.
Similar apps: Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, Audible
Kobo | eBooks & Audiobooks on Google Play
App details
App ID
com.kobobooks.android
Publisher
Rakuten Kobo Inc
Publisher country
Canada
Content rating
Teen
Tech stack
Trackers and permissions of build v11.1.1, from the εxodus privacy report (CC BY-SA).
Trackers
3
Permissions
43
Trackers
Facebook LoginFacebook ShareGoogle Firebase Analytics
Full permission listProSee plans
Kobo | eBooks & Audiobooks downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Google Play shows an exact lifetime install count; downloads per day are its daily change (measured). When Play hasn't refreshed the count, they come from new ratings and Top Free chart positions. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where Kobo | eBooks & Audiobooks's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in Kobo | eBooks & Audiobooks before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Top Grossing positions in every country we track, converted to dollars per store and country, sized by each market's published consumer spend and calibrated on revenue companies publish.
Business model: In-app purchase-led
How Kobo | eBooks & Audiobooks makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
In-app purchases
One-off purchases
/mo
of revenue
Where it ranks on Google Play
Every top 200 chart it appears in across 23 countries.
Spain
Taiwan
Netherlands
Saudi Arabia
Mexico
Turkey
Sweden
Thailand
VietnamApps near Kobo | eBooks & Audiobooks on the chart
Books & Reference Grossing, around #3.
Ratings
Google Play, worldwide.
Rating
4.2 ★
309k ratings
Measured
Ratings
309k
Measured
Written reviews
21k
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
204
▼ -21% vs the 2 weeks before
Written reviews a week
under 1
Google Play
Lifetime rating
4.5★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Recent written reviews
3.0★
people who write skew negative
Review momentum
65/100
faster than 82% of Books and reference apps
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about Kobo | eBooks & Audiobooks
From the 200 most recent Google Play reviews in the US.
Users frequently report critical bugs where audiobook progress resets to the beginning and navigation buttons malfunction or disappear. While some appreciate the book selection and synchronization with devices, many are frustrated by poor app stability, lack of offline functionality, and inability to manage library filters effectively.
Mixed (47% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for its features and content, and being easy to use. The main complaints are about crashes and bugs, and price and subscriptions.
What people like
- Features & content: “Great price and selection”
- Ease of use: “easy reading and great stories”
- Price & subscription: “Great price and selection”
- Useful: “I will recommend Kobo Books to others”
Common complaints
- Crashes & bugs: “Constantly freezes or crashes”
- Price & subscription: “Definitely going to be canceling my subscription”
- Updates: “newest update breaks the store alot”
- Features & content: “There is a search feature”
About Kobo | eBooks & Audiobooks
Your library, always with you:
Step into a world of words and voices with the Kobo Books App, your ultimate companion for reading and listening. Designed with booklovers in mind, this app transforms your device into your own digital library, capable of carrying millions of eBooks and audiobooks with you anywhere.
With access to browse millions of eBooks and audiobooks, there's something for every reader to discover and enjoy. Our growing collection spans every genre imaginable: from thrilling mysteries and captivating romances to insightful nonfiction, imaginative fantasy, vibrant graphic novels, classic comics, and enchanting children's stories. Explore our selection with ease and search effortlessly by author, title, topic, or genre. Enjoy a truly integrated library experience, keeping all your eBooks and audiobooks perfectly organized in one place.
Want to know what's popular? Our most trending eBooks are updated hourly.
Discover more reading and listening with Kobo Plus:
Where endless reading sprees begin, Kobo Plus offers unlimited access to more than 3 million eBooks and 400,000 audiobooks. Discover exclusive originals and hidden gems you won't find anywhere else. Choose the perfect plan that meets your reading needs with plans offering limitless access to eBooks, audiobooks, or both. Enjoy total flexibility with zero commitments.
An app designed for your comfort and convenience:
The Kobo Books App was created to make every moment with your stories as enjoyable and effortless as possible:
• Tailor your experience by adjusting text size and style, or activate Night Mode to enjoy comfortable, eye-friendly reading. Choose to set your screen to portrait or landscape for ultimate comfort.
• Listen effortlessly with our intuitive audiobook player, allowing you to navigate, pause, and track your progress with ease. Plus, easily set a sleep timer for perfect bedtime listening.
• Pick up where you left off, without ever losing your spot. Your reading progress automatically syncs between the Kobo Books App, Kobo Web Reader, and your Kobo eReader, letting you read across all your devices.
• Enjoy reading books in your preferred language, with support for English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Japanese.
Find us on social media!
https://www.facebook.com/Kobo
https://www.instagram.com/kobobooks
https://twitter.com/kobo
**Audiobooks available only in select countries. You can listen to audiobooks on smartphones and tablets running Android version 4.4 or higher.
Step into a world of words and voices with the Kobo Books App, your ultimate companion for reading and listening. Designed with booklovers in mind, this app transforms your device into your own digital library, capable of carrying millions of eBooks and audiobooks with you anywhere.
With access to browse millions of eBooks and audiobooks, there's something for every reader to discover and enjoy. Our growing collection spans every genre imaginable: from thrilling mysteries and captivating romances to insightful nonfiction, imaginative fantasy, vibrant graphic novels, classic comics, and enchanting children's stories. Explore our selection with ease and search effortlessly by author, title, topic, or genre. Enjoy a truly integrated library experience, keeping all your eBooks and audiobooks perfectly organized in one place.
Want to know what's popular? Our most trending eBooks are updated hourly.
Discover more reading and listening with Kobo Plus:
Where endless reading sprees begin, Kobo Plus offers unlimited access to more than 3 million eBooks and 400,000 audiobooks. Discover exclusive originals and hidden gems you won't find anywhere else. Choose the perfect plan that meets your reading needs with plans offering limitless access to eBooks, audiobooks, or both. Enjoy total flexibility with zero commitments.
An app designed for your comfort and convenience:
The Kobo Books App was created to make every moment with your stories as enjoyable and effortless as possible:
• Tailor your experience by adjusting text size and style, or activate Night Mode to enjoy comfortable, eye-friendly reading. Choose to set your screen to portrait or landscape for ultimate comfort.
• Listen effortlessly with our intuitive audiobook player, allowing you to navigate, pause, and track your progress with ease. Plus, easily set a sleep timer for perfect bedtime listening.
• Pick up where you left off, without ever losing your spot. Your reading progress automatically syncs between the Kobo Books App, Kobo Web Reader, and your Kobo eReader, letting you read across all your devices.
• Enjoy reading books in your preferred language, with support for English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Japanese.
Find us on social media!
https://www.facebook.com/Kobo
https://www.instagram.com/kobobooks
https://twitter.com/kobo
**Audiobooks available only in select countries. You can listen to audiobooks on smartphones and tablets running Android version 4.4 or higher.
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!
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