🆚 Apple Books vs. Kobo
Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *- 📈 Apple Books is three times more popular than Kobo.
- 🌎 Apple Books is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
- 🌍 Kobo is more popular in Taiwan and Portugal.
Apple Books
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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.
Kobo is a subsidiary of Rakuten that operates a digital bookstore, a subscription service, and a line of E Ink e-reader devices.
It offers a digital library of over 1.5 million ebooks and 150,000 audiobooks, supports open formats like EPUB, provides offline reading and cross-device syncing, and integrates with public libraries for borrowing.
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- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Audiobooks category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Audiobooks category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Australia in the Audiobooks category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Ebooks category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United Kingdom in the Ebooks category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the United States in the Audiobooks category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the United States in the Ebooks category.
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