Google Play Books & Audiobooks

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4.42star9,632 ratings

BookBooks & reading shelfNo in-app purchasesUpdated Aug 14, 2026

Biggest complaint · Sync & data

10.8%

27 of 250 negatives · store typical 2.2%

Recent reviews negative

69%

its 10 shelf rivals run 30% · 361 reviews held

Counted from real App Store reviews · 2026-08-24 · nothing estimated or modelled

Read those two together. Ratings are cumulative, reviews are recent — a 4.42star average beside 69% negative is the finding, not an error.

Ratings.

4.5out of 5

9,632 ratings · Apple’s own count, fetched daily

57,140

41,110

3388

2262

1732

4 decisions.

Investigate sync & data first

extreme · 10.8% of this app’s 250 negative reviews, against 2.2% typical store-wide.

How it compares

this app: 10.8%; 27 of 250
its shelf: 3.9%; rivals only
store-wide: 2.2%; typical

Watch performance

elevated · 25.6% of this app’s 250 negative reviews, against 16.9% typical store-wide.

How it compares

this app: 25.6%; 64 of 250
its shelf: 15.6%; rivals only
store-wide: 16.9%; typical

Skip accuracy, ux, limits & caps and ads work

Accuracy, UX, Limits & caps, Ads all run at or below the store’s typical rate.

How it compares

Accuracy10.8% of 250 · shelf 7.3% · store 11.5%
UX2.8% of 250 · shelf 3.6% · store 2.9%
Limits & caps2.4% of 250 · shelf 3.2% · store 2.8%
Ads0.4% of 250 · shelf 20.2% · store 10.7%

Protect billing, login & auth and support

Billing, Login & auth, Support all run well below the store’s typical rate.

How it compares

Billing10% of 250 · shelf 32.2% · store 32.1%
Login & auth4.4% of 250 · shelf 9.8% · store 13.2%
Support5.6% of 250 · shelf 6.5% · store 9.2%

The shelf in numbers

All 11 panel members · 2026-08-24 snapshot.

App	Ratings	Sync & data
Bookmory - reading tracker	16,071	36.4%
Apple Books	87,192	11.9%
Google Play Books & Audiobooks	9,632	10.8%
Skybrary – Kids Books & Videos	3,305	4.1%
Goodreads: Book Tracker & More	747,877	3.5%
Wattpad - Read & Write Stories	705,970	2.6%
Manobook: My Good Story Reader	36,575	2.3%
WeRead: Popular Books & Novels	1,347	2.1%
Yestory - Read Books & Booktok	10,461	1.3%
Inkitt Galatea: Audio & eBooks	287,824	0%
Epic - Kids' Books & Reading	518,633	0%

The whole shelf, counted

Every complaint across books & reading, frequency-ranked from real App Store reviews — the gaps nobody on this shelf has fixed.

Read the books & reading report

How this is counted

Every number is arithmetic over the reviews we hold, re-counted weekly — nothing modelled, nothing scored. Themes come from a frozen pattern classifier rather than a model reading reviews, so the same review always lands in the same bucket. Shares are of this app’s own recent negative reviews; the shelf figure is its rivals with this app excluded. The graded words have fixed cutoffs against the store’s typical rate: elevated from 1.15, high from 2, extreme from 3.5 times it. The page says what is broken and how it compares — never how to fix it, and never whether this app can win.