Google Play Books & Audiobooks User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience30.4% of reviews
Neutral16.3% of reviews
Negative experience53.3% of reviews

~ Based on 553 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Google Play Books & Audiobooks Safe?

Google Play Books & Audiobooks appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Google Play Books & Audiobooks is 88/100.

This assessment is based on 9,643 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.4/5.

Safety Analysis

85.6% of ratings point to a safe experience
4.0% of ratings suggest some concerns
10.4% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 9,643 App Store ratings for Google Play Books & Audiobooks.

Is Google Play Books & Audiobooks Legit?

Google Play Books & Audiobooks appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Google Play Books & Audiobooks is 100/100.

Based on 100 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Won’t let me highlight text

Every time I try to highlight text it disappears

Keep losing my spot.

500 pages into a book and it kept losing my spot to where I had to look where I left off, I eventually gave up and just bought a physical copy of the book and a book mark. Horrible app.

Prefer ebook readability on other apps

I like the app in general. The interface is really good with audiobooks and when I’m manually reading e-books, but I find it lacking when I need hands free reading. Apple Books and Kindle allow automatic page turning using the screen reader, but Play stops at the end of every page and I have to change the page manually. It ruins my experience. I’ve searched the help function and enabled it, but nothing has changed. It’s a real bummer. Would appreciate any assistance available. Thanks.
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Books disappear

This app needs major fixing Google

Something wrong with

Man, what can I say? new version on iOS 18.3.2, I cannot download the books I uploaded, and I also cannot open the ones I already downloaded.

Great option

So far, I like the features of this app better than Kindle. I also love how Google books allows you to share e-books and audiobooks with friends just like you can do with physical books - audible does not let you do that. That said, I haven’t read using a Kindle device but only on iPads. So I can’t make a comparison there.
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Muito bom, mas a parte ruim é q não tem como apagar os livros

Formatting is Poor

Good selection of books and audiobooks but formatting of books is broken. 2 inch margins bracket an absurdly small column of text.

Purchase

I read the sample of a book I liked. I tried to purchase it, and there was no link anywhere to purchase it.

Bubble Zoom is constantly broken

This would be the greatest app ever for reading comics except that the bubble zoom feature breaks constantly.

Markierung ist nicht möglich

Seit einem Monat gibt’s es eine fehler kann man nicht mehr markieren oder den Satz in Farbe nehmen
Bitte um Hilfe
Denn fehler zu beheben

Skips back randomly

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.

Need update

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.

Buggy: No download on mobile network

Why

Horribly bad

I hate this app

split screen broken

App is generally good, but the text is not centered when you use the split screen function in ipad os and pin the book the left or right of your screen. This used to work. Now the text goes off the screen.

Não possui a funcao audiolivro

nao consigo usar

I love the app but…

Since the new iOS update, the split screen function no longer works. Please fix this.

Last line on each page not visible

It's effectively "skipping" a line each time I flip a page in EPUB uploads. In fact the top of characters in that line is visible, but the most part of them is covered by the footer (reading progress etc.) making the line unreadable.

SINGLE COLUMN PLEASE

AND OTHER FEATURES THAT ANDROID VERSION HAS HAD FOR YEARS