Amazon Kindle

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R3] 5/5 · US Amazing: What makes Kendall amazing is it allows me to do a lot of reading right here on my phone! I used to have tons of books all over the place, and now I pretty much have it in the palm of my hand.
2. [R7] 5/5 · US Different Readings: I have several books I use for study as well as books I enjoy reading. I study music and the Bible so I refer to these books often. I enjoy cooking and leisure reading as well. The Kindle app supplies all these different types of materials for my reading pleasure. All in one app and with an easy interface where I can see all my books and they open right where I left off. I use
3. [R30] 5/5 · US Bottomless Book Bag: Kindle allows me to search for a large number of books in genres I enjoy. I always have a current book with me (as long as I carry my phone) in a print size that works for my vision. I love it!
4. [R34] 5/5 · US My go to App for reading: When I don’t feel like carrying around my backpack full of books I like the ideas of taking out my phone and do some reading .
5. [R4] 5/5 · US Kindle on IPad: The app works very well for me. I love being able to choose the size and appearance of the text. I enjoy the highlighting feature and the available dictionary. It’s convenient to be able to move between devices and be able to pick up in the same place.
6. [R19] 5/5 · US Love Kindle app: Love the settings options that make reading a book suit my style. And especially love the reading challenges. I do wish there were options for different voices on the assistive reading. It’s too mechanical, imo.
7. [R47] 4/5 · US Font size: Increase font size please
8. [R50] 5/5 · US Easy to Use: All of my books are right there when I open the app. I can adjust the font, the light and the background just like on my Kindle. It is easy to use and large enough to find the books that I am looking for and want to read next. Plus, when I finish a book, Amazon interfaces with Goodreads and my review is submitted to both places. Reliable app and easy to use.
9. [R9] 5/5 · US Incredible reading experience: I love this app. I’m a mom of two, my youngest is a baby, and this is just so perfect for nursing or napping or any time I have a little time to myself. I love how easily I can tap on a word to see what it means and the feature that speaks the word to you! Very simple to navigate. I’m so thankful to have this anywhere I go. Absolutely recommend.
10. [R89] 5/5 · AU Love it: I love the app and the fact that it has an assistive reader makes it even better. If Amazon had physical gift cards I would buy books from them all the time!
11. [R69] 5/5 · AU Love it: I alternate between reading on my kindle, phone or iPad. The app works well between all three.
12. [R97] 5/5 · AU Way better than Apple Books: I used to use Apple Books to store my downloaded books and sync across Apple devices but it was unreliable. That was until I found Kindle. I’ve had no issues syncing books across devices. The performance could be better (sometimes the app closes due to low memory on my iPhone XS), but I’m just so happy I can read on the go again with no issues.
13. [R38] 5/5 · US Love Kindle Unlimited!: As someone who reads a lot of books, this app is a life saver! I cannot tell you how much money I have saved using it!
14. [R75] 5/5 · AU Amazing! Would recommend to all book lovers!: Absolutely love this app and that I can use it across multiple devices and pick up right where I left off. SO MANY BOOKS to choose from! Love that the $15 a month gives me unlimited access to pretty much everything. Yes there are many books still that can be brought but most of the time I can find something new in seconds to read on the kindle unlimite
15. [R77] 5/5 · AU My favourite series: Path of the ranger: This book is an exceptional read for all readers and kept me hooked for all 20 books in the series. The way the author tells the story keeps you captivated and I personally love the way Pedro Urvi connected the stories from his other series into this giant magnificent world. Would reread a million times over. And all books of his are free with kindle unlimi
16. [R99] 5/5 · AU Super good and so is premium: We recently upgraded to premium and it has been much better now we are paying for less books which is awesome
17. [R5] 1/5 · US Latest Update: Can no longer view details. Just keep getting taken to a blank screen and if you click on the book series, it does the same thing. Extremely frustrating.
18. [R16] 1/5 · US Every UI update makes it worse: You can’t see other books in a series now. Continually the worst design ever. Did Bezos hire his cousin to design the UI? It gets worse every big update and still lacks a ton of QoL.
19. [R18] 2/5 · US What happened to the entire series option?: Haven’t had any issues in the year since downloading this app however the most recent update broke the series option I can no longer see every book in the series to easily find my next read and download it, please look into it!
20. [R21] 3/5 · US Update needs a fix: I read hundreds of books a year. One of the more recent updates removed the “back” arrow button when browsing books. It is Sooooooooooooooo unbelievably frustrating. WHY!?!? It makes maneuvering around books difficult, nearly impossible to get back to books at times, meaning sometimes I can never find a book again, you have to repeat clicking through tons of books in HOPES to f
21. [R48] 1/5 · US Won’t load since latest update: Favorite app until recent update. Wouldn’t sync on iPad. Deleted and reinstalled. Now won’t even load. Says not connected when connected.
22. [R49] 2/5 · US Update issues: The latest update does not work properly! Books are not automatically syncing/downloading. I can no longer get the Library only screen….. A book I tried to download will only let me read it at Amazon and will not download to my iPad even though I am actively reading the book.
23. [R56] 5/5 · AU Last Update: After the last software update none of my devices syncs. I keep getting “Sync Failed”. Not impressed! Fix it!
24. [R59] 1/5 · AU App Fails To Sync after latest update v7.57: App Fails To Sync after latest update v7.57
25. [R13] 1/5 · US Too many prompts to review app: I’ve been getting way more prompts to review apps lately. This one is prompting me every day. So 1 star.
26. [R62] 1/5 · AU Stop asking for rating: Stop asking for a rating.
27. [R150] 1/5 · AU Annoying Pop ups: If an application is exceptional, people will review it. If an application has to constantly give pop-ups reminding you to review ti, it can’t be that good. Based on that. This application gets only 1 start due to unnecessary and annoying pop-ups. Beyond that the app is a book reader. It doesn’t do anything any other book reader does. It as attached to a big library of books,
28. [R54] 1/5 · AU Astonishingly bad app.: Essential features missing from this app: - List view - Sort by author - Sort by topic. It seems deliberately to have been dumbed down.
29. [R127] 2/5 · AU Updates all the time but still not the very basic feature of folders for books.: Why has this new version of Kindle still not restored some fo the very basic features of the original? Where is the ability to put books in folders so that you can easily see what you have on a subject? This ability was in the original version of the kindle app - the only reason to leave it out is certainly not ca
30. [R23] 4/5 · US Great app: Great app, works great the only con is that you cannot purchase books from the app works well
31. [R51] 5/5 · AU Smashing app gotta love it: Amazingly smashing app, pretty much any title ya like. Always nice being able to send your own saved ebooks to app through email as well. Only pain at times is unable to buy titles straight through the app on none kindle devices without loading into Amazon website from device like apple.
32. [R86] 4/5 · AU Should be able to purchase books: The app is great for reading and it is really easy to use. But the fact you still cannot just purchase books straight from the app is ridiculous.
33. [R139] 1/5 · AU Stop shoving AI down our throats: Amazon is introducing an AI feature that will scan the book and answer questions etc. and authors and users CAN NOT OPT OUT. Kindle has a strangle hold on the publishing industry already and now will scrape every book with their AI and let’s be honest will be training it. The ultimate goal is likely to make AI books so they don’t even have to give the publishing
34. [R143] 1/5 · AU Mediocre app not made better by generative garbage: The Kindle app has always been very Amazon, it has the largest catalogue but no one with the budget has ever really cared to make it great. Shovelling generative garbage into it takes it to another level of mediocrity by showing utter contempt for the very concept of human creativity. I do not want a pile of statistics between me and a book. This
35. [R61] 1/5 · AU Failed: I’ve tried several times to install but various issues, the last couple of times when I try to download a book it goes to Amazon.co.uk and I live in Australia! I then get an error saying Amazon and Apple are set to different countries. No, they aren’t . Looked up issue on Google and several suggestions but none fixed the issue. So again I give up
36. [R84] 1/5 · AU Change countries: I’ve changed country and can’t update the country on kindle. Can’t download any book
37. [R118] 1/5 · AU Kindle transfer: I am having problems transferring paid books from my Kindle phone app to my actual Kindle
38. [R144] 1/5 · AU nah: owned by amazon :(. Had a ridiculous amount of trouble with signing in and creating an account and 2fa. Gave up in the end.
39. [R68] 3/5 · AU Three stars. Wanna know why?: So, you have to PAY for your books. And they’re not cheap! They cost around 19.99 dollars on EACH ONE. And the samples of the book? Well, they are REALLY SHORT. No fun AT. ALL! Well then your probs thinking, “what about kindle UNLIMITED?” Guess what, folks? YOU HAVE TO PAY FIR THAT DANG KINDLE UNLIMITED TOO. Also, kindle unlimited DOES NOT! Give you all the books for
40. [R45] 1/5 · US Update is awful: The newest update has ruined the app. I use Kindle daily and it’s become such a challenge! You can’t “see all details” anymore it just takes you back to the exact place you were. You can’t click the series link to see all the books anymore… it takes you to a weird overview of just the original book page you were already on. It’s terrible and I do NOT understand the purpose of
41. [R104] 4/5 · AU Good, could be better: We need an ability to keep copies of all awesome of the words we look up in Wikipedia or dictionary Sinking between devices does not always work
42. [R6] 5/5 · US Kindle is awesome: Update 7/6/2026: I’ve started getting into some books that don’t always have a lot of Audible options and have been using the assisted reader. It’s really frustrating though that you can’t adjust the voice no matter what I try from various forums for iPhones or within the app itself. it’s really weird because at one point kindle had the option to let you adjust the voice and th