- Free
- Category: Books
- First released: December 6, 2010
- Versions: 25 archived
- Installable: 5 of 25
- Availability: Still on the App Store ↗
- Seller: Google, Inc.
- com.google.GoogleBooks
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
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Dive into a world of stories with Google Play Books! Explore millions of ebooks, audiobooks, comics, and manga — all in one app.
Key Features: • Your library, anywhere: Enjoy books on your phone, tablet, computer, or even in your car with CarPlay. Plus, you can download books to read offline.
• Organize with shelves: Personalize your digital library with custom shelves to categorize your books by genre, author, or any theme you’d like.
• Audio immersion: Enjoy a vast library of audiobooks with customizable playback speed, sleep timers, and bookmarking to enhance your listening experience.
• Smart notes: Jot down notes while you read that sync with your Google Drive and can be shared for easy collaboration.
• Kid–friendly reading tools: Let kids explore word definitions or listen to books aloud. Note: Reading tools are available in English only.
• Immersive comics: Experience Bubble Zoom for a specialized comic and manga reading experience.
• Hands–free reading: Control your audiobook with your voice using Siri.
• Read your way: Customize your reading experience by adjusting the font, text size, brightness, and more.
Millions of stories await on Google Play Books! Download now and start reading.
Chart History
Ratings Over Time
sampled from 17 archived captures| Date | Version | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 8, 2010 | — | — | 491 | Free |
| January 8, 2011 | — | — | 2,706 | Free |
| January 12, 2012 | — | — | 7,108 | Free |
| January 19, 2013 | — | — | 8,507 | Free |
| December 13, 2019 | — | ★ 4.6 | 8,325 | Free |
| November 27, 2020 | — | ★ 4.6 | 8,809 | Free |
| November 30, 2020 | — | ★ 4.6 | 8,812 | Free |
| December 3, 2021 | 5.9.1 | ★ 4.5 | 9,120 | Free |
| December 3, 2024 | 7.0.0 | ★ 4.4 | 9,501 | Free |
From archived App Store listing data, captured by the Wayback Machine.
Archived Reviews
8 of 26I’m so tired of these big corporations gatekeeping and preventing little tools from being used. “Text to speech is not available”
Borderline unusable app if you have even a modest collection of books! I get a “Network Error” page whenever I try to search for an uploaded book in my library. My network connection is confirmed functional, and the search tool works for samples I have downloaded from the store, just not for uploaded books in my library. I can download and open these books but am unable to search for them because of this incorrect error page. Please fix this, it’s such a stupid bug.
Good selection of books and audiobooks but formatting of books is broken. 2 inch margins bracket an absurdly small column of text.
It’s a real pain to do a book study with this app because if you pause it the app will randomly back up. Sometimes 1 sec, sometimes 5 sec, sometimes 60 sec and everything in between, sometimes it doesn’t back up at all. It’s a real hassle.
I read the sample of a book I liked. I tried to purchase it, and there was no link anywhere to purchase it.
AND OTHER FEATURES THAT ANDROID VERSION HAS HAD FOR YEARS
For the love of god, fix the bug with your bookmarks. It's been going on for years; make a bookmark an it either disappears or ends up on random pages after a while.
I am using an iPad. After updating to the recent iOS version, when I open the app in window mode, the text is pushed to one side, so I cannot see the full content properly. Please fix this issue.
Period reviews recovered from Apple's customer-review feeds via the Wayback Machine.