🆚 Apple Books vs. Google Play Books

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Apple Books is twice as popular as Google Play Books.
🌎 Apple Books is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
🌎 Google Play Books is more popular in Brazil, Indonesia, and Turkey.

Apple Books

Google Play Books

Type

Ebook technology

About

Apple Books is Apple's integrated ebook and audiobook app and digital storefront where users can find, buy, and download ebooks and audiobooks.

It supports EPUB and PDF files, syncs reading progress and libraries via iCloud, offers daily and annual reading goals, and provides access to a wide catalog of commercial titles and public-domain classics.

Google Play Books is a digital storefront and app from Google that offers a large library of ebooks, comics, manga, and audiobooks for purchase.

It claims to host one of the world's largest ebook collections with over five million titles, supports cross-device syncing, offline reading, and sharing of purchases within a Family Library.

Headquarters

Cupertino, California, United States

Mountain View, California, United States

Website

apple.com #8

play.google.com/store/books/

Pricing

Free ✔️

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Apple Books ebook technology is 2.3 times more popular than Google Play Books.

Total websites

Market share

Ebooks

Audiobooks

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Apple Books is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, while Google Play Books is more popular in Brazil, Indonesia, and Turkey.

United States

United Kingdom

Australia

Canada

Germany

France

Italy

Spain

Japan

Netherlands