Reviews for Kobo | eBooks & Audiobooks

I like this app for reading ebooks. But the app is terrible for audiobooks. My big issue is how often the audiobooks lose my place. I’ll hit pause and the book will jump forward a few chapters. I’ll try to go back 10 seconds; the book will go to a random chapter. If you touch […]

recent app update is bad. it reset all my settings and i can’t find a way to make some of them how they were before (like the pagination setting — suddenly I can’t set it as having a fun page turning animation). the contrast is different and I can’t change it, and it’s losing my […]

Kobo, as a service, is a very solid ebook option. However, with the recent update, they’ve completely changed the way the reader works in this app. Not only did it totally screw up the settings I was comfortable with (and I can’t get them back) but it also removed things like the option to have […]

The app constantly closes on me when I’m reading, and recently, when I get near the end of the chapter, unless my font setting is on the smallest one, it will cut off the last few pages of the chapter and start a new one. I have to backtrack one page, change the font to […]

Please let us fine-tune the playback speed. The playback speed adjustment is currently extreme. Speeding up to 1.05 to 1.10 or down to 0.95 or 0.9 would be great. I’d never isten to anything at +3.0 speed… The search results aren’t that easy to navigate, a minor gripe. Membership read/listen library is awesome! I hope […]

Overall a good app for ebooks, although it can be annoyingly slow to open sometimes. In the most recent update, pages at the end of some of my book’s chapters are missing, with the chapter ending in the middle of a sentence. I’ll keep using Kobo because it’s a decent alternative to Kindle, but I […]

unfortunately, there is a flaw in the audiobook app. it doesn’t keep your place in the book. It also doesn’t allow for bookmarking it, so when it jumps around, you can’t find where you last were. It’s happened constantly to me and my husband. I contacted the company and told them the issue and that […]

I went with a Kobe e-reader for features for the price. It’s still great, but this app is awful. It’s stuck at loading the library and no books show up. I tried everything customer support said, multiple times. No luck. It’s worked in times past and is okay then. But these sync issues happen often. […]

I have reached out, spoken to a person, they don’t seem to understand the words I say or type, and keep asking me things over and over., like they only read from a script and don’t understand English. Very disappointed. having so many issues. Can’t even download an audiobook to listen to it, so annoying. […]

Works fine with regular ebooks, but I just got an eaudiobook and it keeps skipping chapters when I close and open the app sometimes. I don’t know why, it’s very frustrating having to remember what chapter I left off on when I close the app. I like that it works with overdrive ebooks from the […]

Update 8/6: app is now working properly. Customer service was great with responding to my email & providing updates. 7/31: I love kobo for the audio book selection, but all of a sudden I can’t download any audiobooks and the app doesn’t offer a stream option. I reached out to customer service. I was told […]

I mean it’s decent. pretty bare bones for a reader and for some reason has to load every single time it opens, including when offline or with poor signal, which means sometimes it takes over a minute just to open a book I have downloaded. there’s not much in the way of app settings, so […]

it’s a good reader, and books selection is great but the library manager is lacking working filters. also, the login screen is not user-friendly as you need to know that you have to go to the library link, remember which one you have and select it to be able to access your account and library. […]

App cannot start if you are not connected to the internet, which defeats the whole point of having offline book files. I have received tech support and it basically boiled down to “uninstall, reinstall, and sign out and in until it works.” This did work eventually, but I can’t reasonably uninstall and reinstall the app […]

Per the suggestion below, I have attempted to reinstall the app. This did not fix the problem. The app refuses to sync my audiobook listening to my current location in the book while on mobile data, instead frequently resetting me (every 15 minutes) to the last location it saved while I was on wifi. This […]

Used to be a great app. Since the last update though, it’s very hard to use. The links for footnotes no longer appear to work. When you open a book, it automatically turns the screen brightness up to maximum, which makes it almost impossible to look at because it’s so bright. You can’t turn the […]

I use the app for audiobooks and want to love it, but the app has been very buggy lately. It was not saving where I left off in my audiobooks, just constantly restarting me at previous chapters. I had to write down or screenshot where I was pausing an audiobook. Today a tech helped me […]

I can’t purchase books. If I click on one, the app flashes the splash screen, then brings up an empty screen with the title “Store”. It’s often been glitchy, but now it’s unusable. And, how about you reach out to us, if you actually want to help, instead of just telling everybody to reach out […]

I love the kobo service, and really enjoy my kobo device. The phone app, however, leaves much to be desired. My biggest issue is that it sometimes overwrites my phone’s brightness settings. Even on dark mode, it is way too bright, and it takes a moment for the brightness to go back to normal when […]

*I did that yesterday and now it’s back to doing the same thing. I was just in the middle of re listening to one of my books and it crashed and skipped to the end of the book. Not very impressed… Every time I listen to my audiobooks after the initial listen, it never holds […]