Google Play Books & Audiobooks
In-app purchases
4.7star
2.82M reviews
1B+
Downloads
Teen
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About this app
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 Android Auto. Plus, you can download books to read offline.
• Earn Google Play Points: Get rewarded with Play Points when you purchase books. Note: Play Points availability, award levels, and multiplier rates differ by country. Play Points isn’t available in all countries.
• Organize with shelves: Personalize your digital library with custom shelves to categorize your books by genre, author, or any theme you’d like.
• Smart notes: Jot down notes that sync with your Google Drive and can be shared for easy collaboration.
• No subscription needed: Buy only the books you want, when you want them.
• Kid–friendly reading tools: Let kids explore word definitions and listen to books aloud. Note: Reading practice tools are available in English only.
• Immersive comics: Experience Bubble Zoom for a specialized comic and manga reading experience.
• Preview before you buy: Check out samples to make sure it’s the perfect book for you.
• Hands–free reading: Control your audiobook with your voice using Google Assistant.
• 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.
Key Features:
• Your library, anywhere: Enjoy books on your phone, tablet, computer, or even in your car with Android Auto. Plus, you can download books to read offline.
• Earn Google Play Points: Get rewarded with Play Points when you purchase books. Note: Play Points availability, award levels, and multiplier rates differ by country. Play Points isn’t available in all countries.
• Organize with shelves: Personalize your digital library with custom shelves to categorize your books by genre, author, or any theme you’d like.
• Smart notes: Jot down notes that sync with your Google Drive and can be shared for easy collaboration.
• No subscription needed: Buy only the books you want, when you want them.
• Kid–friendly reading tools: Let kids explore word definitions and listen to books aloud. Note: Reading practice tools are available in English only.
• Immersive comics: Experience Bubble Zoom for a specialized comic and manga reading experience.
• Preview before you buy: Check out samples to make sure it’s the perfect book for you.
• Hands–free reading: Control your audiobook with your voice using Google Assistant.
• 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.
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Ratings and reviews
4.7
2.54M reviews
Kate Alfrey
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March 18, 2025
The library, sorting, purchasing, and reading options are great. There is a big caveat, though. I am a highlighter, and the functionality is clunky. By far the worst of any reading app, and I use 6 on regular rotation. Dictionaries, downloads, etc. shouldn't need to be cleared to highlight. Holding my finger down and dragging across the text should be all that's necessary. I quite literally stopped reading my book to write this because of my frustration.
88 people found this review helpful
Google LLC
March 18, 2025
Hi Kate. Our product team greatly appreciates feedback. You can submit it via: The Play Books app > Profile Icon > Help & Feedback. Appreciate it.
Sierra Fairbanks
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March 25, 2025
For a long time I loved Play Books for my audiobooks and it was never a problem for me to keep an audiobook playing throughout the night. But lately it will just randomly stop in the night and I don't know why. I don't set a sleep timer so it has no reason to turn off. I like having it running because it makes it easier to fall back asleep after nightmares. But it's frustrating that this keeps happening. My bf as an iPhone and doesn't have this problem.
204 people found this review helpful
Anton Schleef
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March 10, 2025
Overall, it's a rather good ebook app. However, getting into your library to resume a series you've already started (because you read something else while waiting for the latest volume to release) and getting to your wishlist to pick-up a book from it (as you now have the money to buy it) can both be frustrating at times. The second can be mitigated as the wishlist is shared with the Google Play app, and you can get books through it, but they do need to fix the first problem.
837 people found this review helpful
What’s new
Arriving in version 2025.1.10
• An improved ebook text selection menu
Arriving in version 2023.6.12
• Reading practice feature is now available in select books in Tools for beginning readers.
The microphone needs to be turned on to hear you, yet won’t keep anything you say.
• An improved ebook text selection menu
Arriving in version 2023.6.12
• Reading practice feature is now available in select books in Tools for beginning readers.
The microphone needs to be turned on to hear you, yet won’t keep anything you say.
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About the developer
Google LLC
support@google.com
1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy
Mountain View, CA 94043
United States
+1 650-253-0000
