Apple Books

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 Books: There are lots of really good free books and it is rather easy to find them and it shows me how long I’ve read for and it has a lot of books I have been looking for but couldn’t find.
2. [R13] 5/5 · US Amazing app: I love that you can listen to audiobooks and sample books
3. [R22] 5/5 · US Help: This app is so good for me if I don’t have a book I can come here and get a book or a audiobook. Thank you so Apple Books for getting me to read again.
4. [R40] 5/5 · US Free books!!!: I love how they offer free books to download!!
5. [R4] 5/5 · US This is so fun: Every day I get to learn how to read and I’m out of school so this is very fun for me and my favorite subject is reading
6. [R7] 5/5 · US Apple Books: A good app that could teach kids to read and also if kids don’t want to get up and get a book, they could just go on the app
7. [R10] 5/5 · US Love this: I love reading and whenever I’m in a slump or don’t have a book it’s perfect motivation
8. [R26] 5/5 · US This app helped me with my reading: This is one of the best apps I have on my phone and I’ve been reading this really good book. I like different books and different challenges that I could take. There’s so many books. I can’t even choose one and I like that. It doesn’t have to have service. You can read a book anytime you want so I read this app five out of five stars if I could do more, I would.
9. [R17] 5/5 · US I am reunited with my beloved once again: I am easily able to find series to read here, if I weren’t myself. I prefer being able to import epub files over browsing, although there is nothing wrong with browsing. Do with this what you will!
10. [R18] 2/5 · US Great for reading books, lousy for finding new ones: Generally, I love being able to carry my library wherever I go or picking up wherever I left off even when on a different device (iPad, Macbook, iPhone) and read it at a font size and style that is comfortable. I really dislike searching for new books though, the search interface is generally weak and poorly designed for advanced searches.
11. [R37] 4/5 · US It needs annotations.: I love apple books and its accessibility-friendly interface with different viewing presets, line guide, and light/dark mode. The only thing missing from Books is annotation. I want the ability to create notes inside of the books app (maybe linked to the apple notes app) based on what I read. Annotation is an excellent way to integrate information as you read. Just a thought
12. [R34] 5/5 · US The best app: This app can tell you as many minutes as you want. It’s amazing.
13. [R5] 1/5 · US Apple books: It has bugs and close app suddenly & lost its function
14. [R115] 1/5 · CA VERY GLITCHY: I have so many iBooks … and the app USE to work very well … now books don’t always open, or they disappear altogether… I’ve tried deleting books and reinstalling them… I’ve even deleted the app and nothing seems to fix these problems… why do you keep “fixing” apps that work perfectly fine only to make them WAY WORSE!! I’m very annoyed
15. [R8] 1/5 · US Syncing Problem: Why won’t it stop syncing to my backup ? I physically click it off and it says “no data” I then backup my phone, check and it’s still there ???
16. [R100] 1/5 · US Lost Access to PDFs in Apple Books After Inactivity: I downloaded a lot of PDFs for reading and studying, assuming they’d be stored permanently. However today i discovered that i can’t access them anymore after not using them for a year and a half. The files are visible on my library but i cant open them. They all have small cloud looking icons on the bottom right corner. Is there any way to recov
17. [R110] 1/5 · CA Prenez des notes papier: J’ai eu une livre à lire pour l’école et je l’ai transféré pdf à l’application, je l’ai aussi sauvegardé dans le nuage. Lorsque j’ai ferme l’application quelque seconde à cause que les page ne se tournaient plus et que j’ai réouvert l’application, la mention « impossible d’ouvrir ce document » s’affichait sans cesse quand j’appuyais sur le livre pour le télécharger. En gro
18. [R113] 1/5 · CA SCAM SCAM SCAM TO MAKE YOU BUY ICLOUD STORAGE. DO NOT USE SYNC.: KEEP COPIES OF ALL YOUR PDFS OR EPUBS ELSEWHERE - NOT THE CLOUD OR BOOKS APP. There is no way to export your documents or books from this garbage app. Turning off iCloud sync will DELETE EVERYTHING FROM YOUR DEVICE(!!!) and the cloud and you cannot recover them. You literally cannot store anything from the books app locally onto your
19. [R1] 5/5 · US Pls be free: Bro I’m trying to read my summer book homework 😭😭😭 but I need to pay more just to read than this iPhone
20. [R2] 3/5 · US I just think the books should cost less: I still think Libby is better because all the books are free
21. [R15] 4/5 · US It’s good but: Some books were nice, but other books that I really liked but some books that I really liked cost money
22. [R30] 3/5 · US It’s pretty good: I like the books, love the app, but the cost of the books aren’t very cheap. I kind of wish the costs of the books were lower.
23. [R11] 1/5 · US A BAD BOOK APP!!: So I was scrolling through the app, and I only had three recommendations and had mass of little options to read. This was very disappointing and I couldn’t enjoy a good book.. this had me completely petrified to write this review. i’m sorry if this affected your so-called business. This was absolutely tremendous and I will not stand for this absolutely ridiculous app a part of th
24. [R64] 1/5 · US Search goes to the store, not your Library, book Search down too: No way to search my own library. It automatically goes to their store. I WANT TO FIND A BOOK I HAVE. 👎🏽 Also, book search used to have a memory. Keep the search when going back to check out another result. NOW IT DISAPPEARS. YOU HAVE TO TYPE IN YOUR SEARCH...... AGAIN 👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽 Search in this app is now BROKEN. MORE!!!- the
25. [R170] 3/5 · AU Better genre searching: I love the app for the audiobooks when I’m working, but I’d like it if it was easier to find all the horror books. I don’t want to go searching through fiction to try an find a name I recognise. I can’t even type in the word horror in the search bar as it shows your average ghost stories. I’d really appreciate if horror had its own tab much like how romance has its own tab
26. [R28] 3/5 · US Book mark.: Stop messing with things that work. Put the bookmark in the top right corner like before. Don’t make things more difficult for us. It should be a 1 tap thing.
27. [R45] 3/5 · US Add a bookmark and notes feature to audiobooks: I really love Apple Books. I use this more often than other eReaders. How is it that despite how popular and important Apple Books is to readers everywhere, there is no way to add bookmarks or notes to an audiobook? Right now, I have to try to memorize chapters that have the information I need. I am constantly disappointed as this seems like a low
28. [R106] 3/5 · CA No notes: I can’t write notes, just highlight
29. [R145] 1/5 · CA note mark: In this updated version, note marks cover words to make reader difficult to read the words. please move note marks back to page margin area.
30. [R12] 1/5 · US Hard to purchase books: It doesn’t always work when I wanna purchase a book
31. [R56] 2/5 · US App is bugged: I bought this manga a while ago and tried downloading it so I could read it but no matter how hard I try the download is just frozen and when I go all the way out of the app it restarts and I tried deleting the app and redownloading it but now all my want to reads are gone FIX THIS
32. [R75] 1/5 · US Terrible: Terrible can’t buy or pay for books
33. [R158] 1/5 · AU Wont play an audiobook just purchased from the Apple store.: This app wont play an audiobook i just purchased from the Apple Store. And there's no way to reach the app's tech support to inform them of this ptoblem. Hence the app gets 1 star for being useless and backed by a deaf organisation.
34. [R82] 3/5 · US I want to leave the other company. Please make these improvements!: So, I’m disabled. Reading eBooks is a need rather than a want. This review is for the ways this app could be better and give that other online ebook seller a solid challenger. First, I want to organize my books my way. I have nearly 500 ebooks and only sorting them by recent/title/author/manual is not going to be enough. Sometim
35. [R119] 1/5 · CA Lousy book organization.: The sorting is randomly done by author last name or first name/initial. It makes it tremendously difficult to find a book in my library. Any librarians on your staff should be walking around with their heads inside a paper bag of shame. I have mentioned this before to Apple people but to no avail. I now choose to buy my books through KOBO or Kindle. At least they know the
36. [R226] 3/5 · AU ONLY HALF OF BOOKS IN MY COLLECTION: Books can only find half of the Books in my Prince Collection. Needs to update Database. Please add ‘My name is Prince’. Should have Scan ISBN. Like Book Buddy. Should have a Share Option. Almost Good enough to use.
37. [R14] 1/5 · US Heats up and drains battery: Just listening to an audio book with the screen off, my brand new iPhone gets warm and drained 10% battery in just 20 minutes. Apple! Come on! It’s YOUR app! Why is it so poorly optimized?!
38. [R122] 1/5 · CA Bad: When I made a PDF in this APP, it will not work. It’s wierd. Even though it finally worked, when I exit this PDF, all the notes I made was disappeared. Hope you fix that!!
39. [R232] 3/5 · AU Disappearing handwritten notes: I use books for my assignments. I would write a whole page of notes. Close it and when I return my page of notes written on the document has disappeared. I have rewrite multiple times and it is very distressing
40. [R97] 1/5 · US Tried everything: It doesn’t let me open any books. I’ve reinstalled the app, shut down my device, forced the app closed, checked iCloud and my iOS is up to date.
41. [R6] 3/5 · US Clunky after so many years: Good enough. A bit clunky with all the needless animations. Old version was more intuitive.
42. [R20] 1/5 · US Ability to disable tap to turn page!: Very annoying when zooming
43. [R32] 5/5 · US The books: I didn’t know that you could get the free books for free and they are so good and the auto books were even better!!!🤗🤭
44. [R38] 5/5 · US Good: Samples are very good considering that they are free.
45. [R90] 1/5 · US Horrible: It was wonderful when I was able to highlight and look up words, but that has stopped I will have to join a different book club.
46. [R130] 1/5 · CA Highlighter doesn't work: Literally, Highlughter function isn't working in the text book which I downloaded in my IPAD. But it's working in free book. I wanna take notes in my text book I downloaded. Please fix it.