Amazon Kindle: Reading App

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• In-app purchases: $1.99 - $11.99 per item

Last verified 31 Aug 2026

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4.9 5807144 ratings · App Store

1. 5/5I promise you you’ll like it

   There isn’t anywhere else I like to get books, even on apple products. There’s are so many free books you’ll probably never read them all, for every age range. Cheaper than buying most books in paperback, though I do collect some books for when I NEED that physical page feel. Access to listings for used books if you want that instead of the kindle version you can, though it’s cheap, not free. Classics also available free though I have bought a few for $1 just for a certain version or illustrations to show my daughter. If you don’t like a book or version you find for free no sweat you can just delete it, and if you do like it then congrats. Don’t be afraid to browse some regular priced books or even the $1 book selection, though I admittedly filter the books by the star reviews so I don’t end up with a bunch of duds by accident. Definitely nice when the power is out and you want something to do, though a word of warning. Adjust your settings according to your device and it’s battery. I have low brightness and page flip off on my phone but higher brightness and page flip on for my tablet since it can handle the extra drainage. I should also mention they have different fonts you can use for your books including one for dyslexia. I use it because I have weak eyes, would definitely recommend it for the long book journeys. You can add notes and highlight things if you want to as well, so that’s readily available if you need it, too. Ok, I’ve said enough, try it for yourself and who knows how many books you’ll find? Happy reading!

   ErenSkye94 · 30 Aug 2026

2. 4/5Overall good but…

   Kindle app is a great reader. However, it contains some extra features which would be AMAZING if they would develop them just a bit further so they could be put to more practical and more productive use. Kindle reader app for me, is more than just a reader like a little kindle device. It’s a productivity and learning tool and with a few little enhancements could be amazingly useful for that. Anyway, updated features are long overdue. 1. It would sure be nice if the highlights had major customizability (best) or at the very least, more color choices. As I’ve expanded my use of them, I have developed a system of highlights that act visual cues for myself for future reference. I have more ideas but the extremely limited choice of colors is frustrating that. 2. The flashcards feature works in a confusing and non-logical way. If I wanted to use the already existing ability to have highlights become flashcards, it only fills one side of the flashcard. It would be better if one could do something like allow me to choose to put adjoining highlights as a pair, the first on the front and the second second on the back. Then I could make flashcards from premises and conclusions in a book. I think that would get a lot of use from people like me who teach. 3. It would sure be helpful if I could select text across a page break with one selection rather than two separate selections. 4. Perhaps an option to read by vertically scrolling text would help with #3?

   Musicus1685 · 30 Aug 2026

3. 4/5New features remove what made Kindle better

   Edit: another user did find a way to make it easier to highlight—yay! Unfortunately, I also discovered that they added several extra steps to DELETE highlights, so my review remains the same. In addition, the once fantastic light periwinkle blue is now a darker color that makes it harder to read what I’ve highlighted. Developers, please lighten it again! Make it a true highlight, otherwise what are we doing here? I’m floored. For months, I’ve been trying to move to other apps to avoid using Amazon’s products, but have remained with previously bought books because of the absolute ease of use, particularly when it comes to highlighting. And now, inexplicably, the app developers have copied what made other apps infuriating—adding features no one asked for and requiring me to choose a color and untap it to delete highlights— an extra step every time. This is hilarious. It totally interrupts the flow of reading and takes a full half a second longer to undo my selection, adding a full second or two to every highlight when it randomly picks up an extra word. For someone who owns and reads over a thousand books in this app alone, that time adds up precipitously. Undo this. Whatever the bug, fix it so that I can easily unhighlight a sentence in one tap and keep reading. Please do NOT worsen your product. It’s such a small thing, but what are the chances of developers mimicking the exact flaws of their competition?

   AJ Hostet · 30 Aug 2026

4. 5/5Love kindle and kindle app

   I have three kindles, an iPad, and a phone. I love how my book progress syncs across devises. When I find myself in a waiting room I read on my phone but otherwise I use larger devises. I download books for free from my public libraries and they are easy to get and return. It is easy to navigate in kindle app; you can move easily to other parts in the book. X-ray helps me keep track of characters by giving me a synopsis of all the major players and allows me to easily find and review a specific name or detail in the book. And I love love love that when I read a reference to something interesting I can easily go to the web to find out more information, look at related pictures, etc. that helps me learn more and increases my enjoyment of my books. When I finish a book, I can read it and give a review. My Kindle app works seamlessly with Goodreads to keep track of my books and it allows me to follow an author so that I get alerts when the new book comes out. I also make it easier to browse my books by keeping books by the same author in a collection folder. It’s also super easy to change the font and the font size if you’re having difficulty with it for some reason. I just can’t say enough about the convenience and pleasure that I get from reading with a Kindle or the Kindle app. I have read books on OverDrive and on Libby as well but I find the Kindle app to be the easiest to maneuver and it offers the most options when reading. It also has a search feature where you could go to a specific location or page in the book which was missing and other apps. I highly recommend the Kindle app!

   maryc0501 · 30 Aug 2026

5. 4/5Incredible for accessibility but lacking some potentially cool customization features

   I absolutely love this app. I love the ability to have the Page turn animation because it makes it feel a little bit more like I'm reading a real book. I enjoy reading in bed, but since I'm quadriplegic I can't actually hold a book and read it while lying down so this app makes it very easy for me to read while using voice control on my iPad to turn pages without the need of help from somebody else. I would love to see some more options for customizing your library. I think it would be awesome if there was an option to display your books with a spine view like a normal library that you would look at in person. It would be even cooler if you could arrange the books however you wanted. It could be a fun game to offer library customization options like backgrounds or shelving options by reaching reading goals within the app. As I stated above, I can't read physical books due to my disability so a virtual library is the main library I have and it would be fun to be able to display it how I want since I can't build a physical library without also having to purchase the physical books for no reason in my case. Functionally, this app is almost perfect and it offers a bunch of cool features. I do wish that I could purchase books directly in the app instead of having to go to the website version of the store and I would also really like the customization options that I listed above. Other than that, I really enjoy and I recommend this app to almost everybody I know that reads.

   QUAD_RNDL · 30 Aug 2026

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4.8 4783221 ratings · Google Play

1. 5/5

   love it

   Jeff Tremblay · 1 Aug 2026

2. 5/5

   Absolutely 💯. it is without a doubt one of the best apps around. I just wish amazon showed books with whisper sync easier so I would know the books that had it.

   Andrew Lewis · 1 Aug 2026

3. 5/5

   Love the Kindle app on my phone!

   Robin · 1 Aug 2026

4. 4/5

   Best app for reading books

   Gurleen Singh · 1 Aug 2026

5. 5/5

   I love the easy access that all my books are in one place and I get to carry them around and read them anytime.

   florence chunga · 1 Aug 2026

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