Last updated on 12 May 2026
What is the best app to read a book or ebook on a phone or tablet? While mobile phones and other tablets have taken up our available time for reading books, these mobile devices also offer the opportunity to take with you and be able to read all your favourite books everywhere.
Here are six iOs and Android compatible apps to comfortably read your books on smartphone or tablet.
Whether to buy the latest bestseller in two clicks or browse one of the thousands of free books in the public domain, these applications for reading ebooks in mobility are very complete and offer options to enjoy your books without internet connection, by plane, train or at the bottom of the mountain.
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Aldiko Next
This application is one of the references of online reading with a large catalogue and a very ergonomic interface. It allows you to read ePUB, PDF, CBZ, and other formats, and offers features such as library management, bookmarking, and display customisation.
Aldiko allows you to customize your books by changing the font, colors and margins for a more comfortable reading experience. In addition, you can add bookmarks and have a search function.
Aldiko Next can also read comics and audiobooks. The application connects to the Feedbooks shop and knows how to retrieve your catalogue or Personal Library on Calibre.
Link: Aldiko Next for iOs – Aldiko Next for Android
WattPad
WattPad is one of the most popular apps for reading books on Android or iOs. It offers several million free books and offers many options to customize the reading mode. WattPad is much more than an ebook reader. It is a real network of book lovers that allows you to discover new authors but also … to write them yourself and publish them directly on the platform. To discover.
Link: Wattpad
Eboox
Simple and efficient, Eboox is an e-book reader that knows how to decrypt and read most ebook formats: fb2, epub, mobi,txt, pdf…
You will be able to discover many free books and without advertising. It offers a simple interface and no frills. The application offers many options for personalising reading, including a ‘night’ mode that will relieve your eyes.
Link: Eboox for iOs – Eboox for Android
Kindle
With Kindle, place to the giant bookstores of the Web. Real flawless apps that work on both Android and iOs. Kindle is Amazon’s reader. It only reads the proprietary format of the global giant .mobi. The integrated bookshop offers no less than two million books with many free books. Search engine, bookmarks, built-in dictionary and read synchronization between all your devices are some of the options offered.
Link: Kindle
Google Play Books
Another very complete application, like all those developed by Google. You can read books online or offline and change the font. In Google Play Books, you can also get audiobooks. The app allows you to resume reading where you left off. You can also add bookmarks, highlight important texts, and add notes. This Google-signed ebook reader offers less aggressive day, night and sepia modes for your view.
Link: Google Play Books
iBooks
The third larron of the giants of digital reading is signed Apple. Available on IOS only, iBooks offers a huge collection of books for all ages including illustrated and interactive books especially for children but also beautiful books on art, photography that will be highlighted by the quality of the beautiful screen of an iPad. Designed for Apple’s sharing ecosystem, iBooks lets you share all your books across all devices in the family via iCloud.
Link: iBooks
So much for your mobile readings. Troubleshooting readers in the event of a pressing urge to read. This will not replace a good ebook reader much more respectful of your eyes or …a good old paper book.
English
Hello Fidel and thank you for all the tools offered.
On Apple’s Ibooks app, it is possible to search, directly by highlighting it, for the definition of a word, a very practical function.
On Google play books, which I now use every day, apparently it is not possible to get a dictionary other than English.
Which other (Android) reading application makes it possible to obtain an integrated French dictionary? I searched without finding.
Thank you for your help.
Thank you for the article
On Android there is also the excellent Moon Reader 😉
Thank you Fidel.
Thank you for these leads. For my students, who are blind and visually impaired, I recommend the EASY READER application (on IOS and Android), free of charge, to manage many display settings and to have the text read by a speech synthesis. The text read is highlighted what can be useful for some students with reading difficulties? VOICE DREAM READER provides the same services on IOS.
On iOS, there is the prodigious Marvin who makes it much more than just an ePub reading app: https://blog.marvinapp.com
Yes it is really cool, especially wattpad
Fortunately, there are such applications! Very interesting.