Google Play Books & Audiobooks

In-app purchases
4.5
2.76M reviews
1B+
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Content rating
USK: Ages 12+
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About this app

Google Play Books is the one app you need to buy and enjoy ebooks, audiobooks, comics, and manga.

Choose from millions of best selling ebooks, comics, manga, textbooks, and audiobooks. Download your book to read or listen on the go. When you’re finished, find your next favorite from recommendations personalized just for you. Buy audiobooks and ebooks as you go - with no subscription required.


Choose from millions of popular ebooks, audiobooks, and comics
* Buy ebooks and audiobooks as you go - no subscription required.
* Preview samples before you buy.
* Get extra discounts on select bundles.
* Receive emails or notifications about new releases from your favorite authors and when your wishlisted books go on sale.
* Earn Google Play Points with every purchase, then exchange them for Google Play credit.
* Receive notifications or emails for price drops in your samples and new releases from your favorite authors and series.
* Discover new releases, best sellers, and personalized recommendations across genres like romance, science fiction, mystery & thrillers, self-help, religion, nonfiction, and more.

Best in class reading and listening experience.
* Read or listen on Android, iOS, or your web browser, even when you’re offline.
* Pick up where you left off on any device.
* Customize your reading experience. Adjust the text size, font type, margins, text alignment, brightness, and background colors.
* Track your reading progress. See what percent you’ve read and how many pages you have left.
* Organize your library into shelves. Use the new shelves tab to curate your library by theme or genre. View your shelves across Android, iOS, and the web.
* Save to SD card. Choose to save your books to the device or an SD card, so you never run out of space.
* Use reading tools in children's books to get kid-friendly word definitions, listen to specific words, or hear the book read aloud.
* Use Bubble Zoom for easier comic reading on a mobile device. Tap the page and watch your favorite comic or manga come to life.
* Take notes that sync with your Google Drive and share them with a group for easy collaboration.
* Look up definitions, get translations, save highlights, and bookmark your favorite pages while you read.
* Turn on Night Light to automatically adjust the background color and brightness or set the app to use the OS brightness.
Updated on
Jan 20, 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
This app may collect these data types
Personal info, Financial info and 6 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted
Independent security review

Ratings and reviews

4.5
2.48M reviews
Min Soo Kang
November 8, 2024
The delete book to hide book is the least of what this app needs fixing. Its userface occasionally becomes larger than what the smartphone screen can show, making it hard to search titles or hide/delete books. Also the app has become more laggy and heavy compared to just several months ago. (Nov, 2024 edit) I upgraded the phone's software and the issue is now resolved. It's still a bit laggy/slow with loading and searching books compared to last year, though.
649 people found this review helpful
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Google LLC
October 22, 2024
Hi Min. Sorry to hear you're having issues with your app. These steps are for the Play Store but should also help with your Play Books app: https://goo.gle/2tPy0rx. If not, please contact us directly: https://goo.gle/2QyJZSb. Thanks.
Aneek Sanyal
November 6, 2024
After the recent update, the option to permanently delete uploaded epub files is gone. To delete an uploaded book, I need to go to the website using a browser and from there I can delete the book. This is such a basic option to have, and it was working perfectly fine, but now I have to deal with this whole inconvenience. Also books that are 'hidden' can nowhere be found. There's supposed to be a 'hidden' shelf, but there's nothing even on a browser. Such a mess!!
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Google LLC
November 7, 2024
Hi Aneek. Our product team greatly appreciates feedback. You can submit it via: The Play Books app > Profile Icon > Help & Feedback. Appreciate it.
Michelle
October 4, 2024
No return policy, you buy a book or audiobook, then you are stuck with it. I flipped through one and then listened to the first chapter of the other and wanted to return both items after not wanting them for different reasons. I realized I already owned the book in another app, that actually cost me a ton more through Google play, and the audiobook's narrator was awful. Yet even after appealing the decision twice, I was told they couldn't refund me. I AM A DIAMOND MEMBER! Never again using this!
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What’s new

Arriving in 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.

Recently added
* Multiple library improvements, including multiselect, improved filtering, an unshelved shelf, and an alphabetical index to jump to a specific title or author
* Navigation improvements to reach series pages
* The wishlist tab