Apple Books

Apple Books

Read, listen, discover.

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publisher
price
Free
Reviews
3.6 (17.4K)
United States United States
Description
Read, listen, discover.
Apple Books is the best place to discover, read and listen to entertaining and informative books and audiobooks. Browse through top charts, personalised recommendations and expertly curated collections in the Book Store and Audiobook Store, or use search to easily find the perfect read or listen, no subscription needed. Track what you’ve read and want to read, and set your own reading goals—all in one app and across all your Apple devices.

Explore millions of books and audiobooks 

• Check out today’s bestsellers, free books and special offers for readers of all ages, plus personalised recommendations.

• Explore collections curated by the Apple Books team to find your next book or audiobook in your favourite genres, from mysteries and thrillers to romance, history, self-development and kids.

• Sample any book or preview an audiobook to start enjoying the first few pages for free.

• Keep track of the books and audiobooks you’re interested in with your Want to Read list.

Customise your reading experience

• Choose from a selection of reading themes, which include a variety of fonts and background colours.

• Make your book easy to read by adjusting line height and letter spacing to your preference.

•  Use Auto-Night Theme and adjust your screen brightness to make reading more comfortable for your eyes.

• Enable vertical scrolling to move continuously through books instead of flipping pages.

Make reading a habit with Reading Goals

• Set a reading goal to encourage yourself to read daily.

• Track reading streaks and how many books you’ve read this year.

• Get reminders and coaching to help you achieve your reading goals.

Share with your whole family
• Family Sharing lets you enjoy your books and audiobooks with your favourite people. Invite up to five family members.

Apple CarPlay 

• Designed with safety in mind, the Audiobooks app in Apple CarPlay allows you to listen to audiobooks while driving.

• Large buttons make it easy to start and stop, rewind or fast forward, and the simplified library helps you find your next audiobook while still keeping your eyes on the road. 

Apple Watch features

• Use the Audiobooks app on Apple Watch to get back to your recent audiobooks or browse your library right from your wrist.

• Use the Watch app on iPhone to choose which audiobooks to download to your Apple Watch.

Requirements & store availability

• iPhone requires iOS 11 or later.
• iPad requires iPadOS 11 or later.

• Content varies by country or region and may not be available on all devices.
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Sidebar in vertical orientation

The app crashes any time you try to open the sidebar menu in vertical orientation, the orientation in which most people read books. It has been this way for as long as I can remember and Apple has zero interest in fixing it.

rlr524Tue, Mar 26, 2024
United StatesUnited States

PJO

my review is completely unrelated to the books app. it won't let me write a review for percy jackson so i'll write it here. I LOVE WALKER SCOBELL. good book. thanks for reading my review ❤️❤️❤️

anonymous crying donutMon, Mar 25, 2024
United StatesUnited States

Lost books and bookmarks

Moved to shiny new iPhone 15 Pro and lost where I was reading a big thick book (it returned me to page 1), while one other book that I’ve purchased is no longer found in book store. How?! God only knows how much more surprises I’d get further down the road - I cannot check all hundred books I have at once. Things are getting worse and worse under Tim Cook. PS: with all the bigger screen amount of typos I get is astonishing: iPhone 4 with its matchbox-sized screen did way better. I added this thing about typing because typing this review was another train of pain. Apple, you’re getting worse by the day…

PromiceusSun, Mar 24, 2024
United StatesUnited States

WHY???

IF YOU MISSED JUST ONE DAY OF READING YOU BREAK YOUR STREAK I HATE IT SO MUCH FIX IT OR ….. !!!!!!!

vslvskyaSat, Mar 23, 2024
United StatesUnited States

Can be the best reader

Dear Books Product Team, I am delighted to be able to reach out to you in this manner! I am a devoted Apple user and a passionate book enthusiast :P. I thoroughly enjoy your Books app, whether it's on my Mac, iPhone, or iPad. The Books app consistently provides me with a seamless and enjoyable reading experience, and I am truly grateful for your hard work! However, one minor issue I've encountered is that when I read books in the epub format, although I've noticed that the Books app allows for customizing fonts, unfortunately, the selection of fonts provided by the app is a bit limited and doesn't include my preferred ones. I attempted to find a solution through Google but was unsuccessful. The response I received was that the Books app doesn't offer additional font options (sad face). I earnestly request if it would be possible for you to add more font options, preferably allowing the import of TrueType Font files or selecting fonts from the system. Of course, it would be fantastic if I could also choose fonts that I have installed in my system (like Pages, Numbers app). Thank you sincerely! I hope you can accommodate the request of this fervent Apple Books enthusiast. Once again, thank you! Wishing you all the best!

SpringByJSat, Mar 23, 2024
United StatesUnited States

Disappointing. Apple wants you buying books not reading them.

Overall, a fine app. However, I have over 200 Apple books and audiobooks that I have purchased and read very few of them. Why? Most frustratingly is the impossibility of keeping a reading streak going with new design of “Read Now”. Apple seems greedy. They’ve already got 2 of 4 whole sections to advertise their books. Then they invade “reading now” section with advertisements as well. Current books you read are in a TINY sliver at the top. Then a shameless MASSIVE 6 full iPhone screens list for new books in the following order: -Our Picks -Want to Read -For You -Current Best Sellers -Our Picks $4.99 -Fiction & Literature -Top Rated Audiobooks -Mysteries and Thrillers -The $10 collection -Coming soon -Previous read AND THEN FINALLY your Current “Reading goals” and books you’ve read this year. It is very clear Apple cares more about selling books than you reading them. Also: You can’t bookmark audiobooks at all. You cannot zoom into graphic comic books on Mac. Makes me really want to never buy another iBook again. I need to go back to regular books. Disappointing. congratulations Apple. You’ve made a lot of money off me. but you may have lost my trust.

JJ bbghtfWed, Mar 20, 2024
United StatesUnited States

Can’t see all book reviews

To add to the frustrations of the functionality of the app, the fact that I can no longer see and read all the reviews of a book, only the most recent, most helpful (whatever that means, because how am I supposed to know which are the most helpful if I can’t read/see all the reviews), most positive or most critical. I won’t be using this app anymore, which is a shame.

mca-ronWed, Mar 20, 2024
United StatesUnited States
Download & Revenue
DOWNLOAD 126.5KFeb 2024Worldwide
REVENUEN/AFeb 2024Worldwide
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About
Bundle Id
com.apple.iBooks
Min Os. Version
10.0
Release Date
Fri, Apr 2, 2010
Update Date
Wed, Mar 6, 2024
Content Rating
12+
Has IMessage
No
Support Watch
Yes
Support Siri
No
File Size
1.21MB
Has Game Center
No
Family Sharing
Yes
Support Passbook
No
Supported Languages
English, Arabic, Catalan, Crotian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Chinese, Turkish, Ukranian, Vietnamese
What's New
version
4.7
updated
3 weeks ago
Bug Fixes and Feature Enhancements
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