- Free
- Category: Books
- First released: April 2, 2010
- Versions: 27 archived
- Installable: 27 of 27
- Availability: Still on the App Store ↗
- Seller: Apple
- com.apple.iBooks
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
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Report an issueApple 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.
Bundle Size Over Time
Chart History
Ratings Over Time
sampled from 102 archived captures| Date | Version | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 5, 2010 | — | — | 894 | Free |
| January 9, 2012 | — | — | 50,469 | Free |
| October 18, 2014 | 3.2 | ★ 3.5 | 95,440 | Free |
| December 26, 2014 | 3.2 | ★ 3.5 | 95,658 | Free |
| February 7, 2015 | 3.2 | ★ 3.5 | 95,744 | Free |
| August 29, 2015 | 3.2 | ★ 3.5 | 95,902 | Free |
| October 16, 2015 | 3.2 | ★ 3.5 | 95,899 | Free |
| December 21, 2015 | 3.2 | ★ 3.5 | 95,912 | Free |
| December 24, 2015 | 3.2 | ★ 3.5 | 95,916 | Free |
| February 19, 2016 | 3.2 | ★ 3.5 | 95,874 | Free |
| February 22, 2016 | 3.2 | ★ 3.5 | 95,878 | Free |
| December 10, 2018 | — | — | — | Free |
| January 31, 2019 | 4.2.1 | — | — | Free |
| December 15, 2019 | — | — | — | Free |
| March 20, 2026 | 5.3 | ★ 4.4 | 75,612 | Free |
From archived App Store listing data, captured by the Wayback Machine.
Archived Reviews
8 of 190I try to use iBooks over kindle, but it is buggy and slow on iPhone 5 64gb with no other apps open. Makes frustrating to scroll. Going back to kindle.
It's frustrating to find out that I lost several ebooks after the latest ibooks update. Even with the icloud, i still cant retrieve it!
I tried 4x restarted my phone and so forth still couldn't purchase the book I wanted to read during Memorial Day weekend
I like this app because I now read at a 8th grade level and I'm in 6th grade
I haven't updated and won't until I start seeing good reviews of the update. Don't need crashes and long updates. I like iBooks and have hundreds of books on my iPad. I wish the library would sort by most recently opened book. If I start reading a book and forget the name of it, I have to scroll down so far to try to find it. Most other reading apps I have used sort by most recently opened book automatically and it's very helpful to have the book u were just reading come to the top of the list, especially if u have a big library.
This is a HUGE f'ing problem. It's impossible to vertically scroll PDFs. Wish there was an app with the functionality of Preview
I really enjoy iBook however the things I enjoy I can't use on documents I add to it. For example a friend sent me a PDF to review and I wanted to highlight a portion and that can't be done. I'd pay for some upgrades highlighting in PDFs and underlining feature as well as the ability to annotate in both books and my own files. If I was able to do that than this would be 5 stars. Till than I'll keep buying real books and highlighters :)
It was working perfectly fine for the past two months, but all of a sudden when I opened it, the app closed and it won't open back up, even if I uninstall it and install it again.
Period reviews recovered from Apple's customer-review feeds via the Wayback Machine.