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About Google Play Books
Google Play Books sells ebooks, audiobooks, comics, manga and textbooks, and keeps purchases in a library you can read or listen to on your devices, including in a web browser.
It suits people who already use a Google account and want their books available across a phone, tablet and computer without installing anything on the computer. Books are bought individually from the store.
Strengths
- Reads and plays books in a web browser as well as on mobile
- Ebooks, audiobooks, comics and textbooks in one library
- Library available across devices
Limitations
- Requires a Google account
- Purchases are tied to Google's store
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree to use; ebooks and audiobooks are bought individually.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- Platforms
- Android, iOS, Web
- How it runs
- Downloadable app, Web application
- Account
- Required
- Best suited for
- Google account holders who want books on phone and browser
- Categories
- Audio tools, Ebook tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Google Play Books
Compare allSoftware that can replace Google Play Books for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Amazon Kindle
Amazon's free Kindle reading app for phones, tablets and computers.
Amazon Kindle adds Windows and macOS apps and gives access to the Kindle Store, with purchases tied to Amazon's ecosystem instead of Google's.
Apple Books
Apple's app for buying, reading and listening to ebooks and audiobooks on iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Apple Books has a store with ebooks and audiobooks, iCloud sync and family sharing, but runs only on macOS and iOS with no web reader.
Everand
A subscription service for reading ebooks and listening to audiobooks on mobile and the web.
Everand swaps individual purchases for a paid subscription to ebooks and audiobooks on Android, iOS and web, with monthly title limits outside the unlimited catalog.
Kindle for Web
Amazon's browser-based reader for Kindle books, formerly called Kindle Cloud Reader.
Kindle for Web reads Amazon Kindle purchases in a browser with highlights and notes, but requires an Amazon account and only reads your Kindle library.
BookFusion
An ebook reader and cloud library that syncs your own EPUB and PDF collection across devices.
BookFusion syncs your own EPUB and PDF collection across Android and web through a hosted cloud, without a book store or audiobooks.
Koodo Reader
A modern ebook reader for fifteen-plus formats that syncs your library and reading progress through storage you already own.
Koodo Reader is open source and runs on desktop, mobile and web with sync through storage you own, but has no store and reads DRM-free files only.
Google Play Books as an alternative
Listings that name Google Play Books as an alternative.
Marvel Unlimited
A subscription comics reader app with access to more than 30,000 Marvel digital comics.
Google Play Books sells comics individually through Google's store alongside ebooks and audiobooks, instead of an all-Marvel subscription catalogue.
Similar software
Related functionality, not necessarily a direct replacement.
Libby
Borrows ebooks and audiobooks from a local library for free with a library card.
hoopla
Library app for borrowing ebooks, audiobooks, comics, movies and music free with a library card.
Palace
A library app for borrowing ebooks and audiobooks from participating public and academic libraries.
Adobe Digital Editions
A free ebook reader from Adobe for EPUB and PDF books on desktop and mobile.
