BookBub
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| Rating / 5 | 4.7 | 4.9 | 4.8 | 4.9 | 4.9 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 4.1 | 3.5 | 2.1 |
| Reviews | 1.1K | 83K | 45K | 42K | 17K | 4.4K | 3K | 1.1K | 180 | 118 |
| Released | 2015 | 2019 | 2020 | 2016 | 2021 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2021 | 2020 |
| Weekly price | — | — | — | — | — | $3.99 | $9.99 | $9.99 | — | — |
| Monthly price | — | — | $3.49 | — | — | $7.99 | $19.99 | $19.99 | — | — |
| Annual price | — | — | $30.99 | — | — | $24.99 | — | — | — | — |
| One-time price | — | — | — | — | — | $29.99 | $8.99 | $8.99 | — | — |
The going rate for each plan in United States, in its own currency, shaded from the cheapest price on the row to the dearest.
BookBub reviews
4.7 out of 5, based on 1,051 reviews.
What people like
- Finds tons of free and cheap ebooks.
- Daily emails act like a personal newspaper.
- Great way to build a library cheaply.
What they complain about
- No search bar to find specific books.
- Forces you into Apple Books instead of Kindle.
- Filters reset and forget your genre preferences.
- Too many features require visiting the website.
My Go To Book All
This is my go to book app. I have used many and this is hands down my favorite!
Doesn’t work on iPad
Terrible app
Great low cost options, but…
I’ve been a member for a long time and have enjoyed the low-cost and free books offered here. However, I don’t like getting book titles that I can’t purchase because I don’t want to buy a kindle or support Amazon. Can we have the ability to only get options for the e-reader we use? Thank you.
Lost its touch
I have been using this app for 10+ years and I am disappointed with the new updates and qualities they made. I used to have to download them to my apple library but now they are only likely just Amazon books that you could just read off of kindle which I barely use. Nonesense.
The Irresistible Seduction
When on the app the book says free but when you go to read it, it charges you $9.99, why does it not tell you the price to begin with and why say it is free when it’s nothing free about it.
Best deals on new e-books!
I look at Bookbub almost every day for e-book deals! I highly recommend Bookbub for what ever type of genres you love!
How many newsletters did you sign me up for?
I downloaded the app, happy enough with it, recommendations were fine, nothing bad to say about it. I had it for a while, realized that I had never really seen anything that I wanted to buy. I guess I just don’t really read enough to need these deep cuts of books, and best sellers don’t really go on sale much, so I decided to uninstall it and unsubscribe from emails. I have unsubscribed from email newsletters no less than ten times. I feel like I get a new newsletter every day. New deals for less? Roadworthy? Booktalk? The short list? Audiobooks? Enough. My goodness, enough.
Great app to buy cheap ebooks
I recently got a Kindle and wanted to find some books to own, seen how expensive ebooks were and found out about BookBub on Reddit. I have already bought a few from sales and discovered new books from it. My only issue with the app, is that it has one of the worst search features. I’ll type in most of the title and all it wants to show me is gross romance novels I have no interest in. These titles don’t even have any resemblance to whatever it decides to show me. I feel like BookBub might be marketed towards this audience, but not everyone is trying to buy smut books off here 😅
Locks up
Downloaded, signed up but when I get to the select categories it locks up. I can’t click or swipe.
Eh…
It’s basically useless to me. I still have to go to the website to post reviews on books and do things for kindle. Please add this functionality to this app.
Excellent list
BookBub is a great site to locate books.
Doesn’t work on iPad
Not sure what the problem is, but when the app opens, it doesn’t matter where I tap, nothing happens. Tried deleting and reloading the app, no change.
Book Bud — good way to check titles
Boos Bud found this today. Love it cause I can find books I may want. What I hate is that I have to open Barnes and Noble to order. Please see if you can add all readers!
Falls short
BookBub doesn’t update frequently enough to catch any of the day deals on Amazon. I’m better off just looking at the Amazon ebook deals every day. There’s only been a couple times BookBub found a deal I didn’t find by glancing through Amazon.
App is useless unless you buy from apple.
Like it says. Apple doesn’t allow purchases through the app. Just like many other apps. Netflix ring a bell? You’re just as well off using the website so can purchase from where you want. Apple, Amazon Kindle, Google, Kobo, etc. Basically the app is useless.
BookBub
I have had this app for years! I appreciate the concise reviews and especially the book bargains!🤩🤩🤩🤩
A problem
I'm sure it's a fine app, but I can't get it to open. I deleted it twice and reopened it, and it will not load anything. So I have deleted it. I can just go to the website.
Love this app 💕
I came across it by Facebook and decided to download it. But then I saw that I would have to make a account. What I originally thought when I downloaded this, is that I would have to link my google account or gmail so it would be easier to access. I want to be able to afford the books that I want at a low price, but I came across this problem. Could you add gmail or google to the account list? Thank you.
Ok for deals, but…
This app is fine but it would be nice if I could see my purchased books from the app instead of having to log into the website. It’s fine for browsing the deals, but there’s so much functionality missing from the app that the website has, and logging into a website is awkward on mobile. That being said, BookBub still hasn’t changed the iBooks issue on mobile where it’s the only choice when you select a book, and I see reviews from 4 years ago with the same complaint…so I’m not thinking they take reviews into account.
Fan of the website but disappointed by the app
I’ve been receiving bookbub newsletters for awhile now and I was super excited to see that they have an app as well. The app doesn’t link or consider kindle ebooks in deals. I’m just going to use the website from now on.
Love this app
Saw on an instagram ad, I figured why not try it. I love it!! I actually read the daily email like it’s a newspaper or something lol. I’ve gotten some big books, like the body keeps score, for $1.99!! I never write reviews, but this app has so few reviews and proportion too much larger apps that I had to add my input. I can’t tell if it has its own deals or searches daily deals (aka if something is on sale on amazon so bookbub finds it, or it’s an exclusive deal through bookbub). But truly I don’t care either way
Can’t review books?
I don’t understand the point in having an app just for deals that also get emailed to me. I downloaded the app thinking it would be easier to post reviews here, the same way I do on Goodreads. But I can’t review books on the app, I still have to go to the website. That makes the app useless for me.
Good but...
It's good but where is the search bar? I've been wanting to search for books but where is the search bar?
Needs a few more features
Add the option to select where we want to purchase the books from. I don’t want iBooks. I want kindle books rendering this app useless. I’ll go back to using the website
No search option
I’m sure there are some amazing books on here but there is no search option so I can’t search for a particular author. Deleted it
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE
I love this app so much.
Supports Apple Books only
I read on a Kindle and even though this app claims to support other formats, it only allows the book to be opened in Apple Books. However, the daily emails I’ve been getting from the website, will open all books on Kindle. This app needs to be fixed to support Kindle.
Kobo
I have been on the mailing list for a couple of years now . I have used it almost daily to get ebooks for my kobo and some for my iPad as well . I look forward to trying the app instead of the email link
No search option
The inability to search while usung this app baffles me. I like to support authors through as many platforms as i can, but with BookBub, I have to use a web browser.
No search feature?
It's a great app with lots of books but no search feature in the phone app? That would make it 5 stars!
Great value!
Great books for a great value!
Apple Books Only
The website supports different retailers but this app only supports Apple Books. Send me an update when you support Kindle books. Until then, I’ll stick to using your website and email notifications.
Great
Love this app so much. But would really appreciate a search option :)
Use The Web Site
After I bought my new iPad I downloaded this BB app in the App Store. I seem to be unable to search for a certain book without having to browse through many books. Why can I review books on BB using my kindle fire and not on my iPad with this app. I even contacted help support and it seems you can’t pinpoint what you’re looking for when using this app. I deleted the app and found the BB website and my profile came up with all my book reviews. Better to use the Website. You get to browse books there too plus a lot more. This app lacks in so many ways!
Looks good
Just wish there was a search feature!
I like it a lot.
I bet I have had this app for 4 or 5 years. Everyday I get an email that shows me books on sale that might interest me. I usually gives me several new books each day from various categories I selected. Sometimes the books are from little known authors. There are usually books listed that are New York Times best sellers. I do not think that any book there is more than $5 at the most and most are under $3.00. You can also let the app know what authors you like and it will send you notices when one of their books. Is on sale.
The app forces all filters to be active despite user preferences
Perhaps my previous review about the broken filter system was not clear. The developer instructed me how to use filters in response, COMPLETELY MISUNDERSTANDING that my complaint was that the filter settings aren't saved anymore. Thanks for the pedantic reply. BookBub resets the filter settings now. It didn't used to function this way. I can only assume that the app deliberately resets the filters in a lame attempt to get me to buy outside my prefered genres. Prior to Summer 2023, filter settings were saved between sessions. Now they are reset—meaning that the app reenables ALL filters each time I take time to only select a few. I bought at least a book every week with BookBub. Now I deleted the app. I don't buy any deals from BookBub at all. But please explain to me again how to use your filter settings.
Love My BookBub
Love this service. Lots of great books low cost and free. I keep quite a few on my iPhone and iPad. E books don't take up much space. I read them, then delete.
Search?
How is there no search feature? Or my Wishlist?
Very Few that are free
So far, I have found 2 books that were free and interested me. Some are still at higher prices than I care to spend. Would like to see more great offers.
Great Ebook Deals+Amazon Match
I read a lot of the reviews saying that it only opens in Apple Books, but this is just a psa saying that Amazon matches it for the Kindle too. Try any book featured on Bookbub and you’ll see what I mean.
Constantly enables all filters
This and the previous release broke the filter settings. I used to be able to open the app and see just the genres I’m interested in, but the app removes my prefs and auto selects all genres repeatedly multiple times a day. Can’t help but feel this is by design. If they don’t fix it in the next update, I’ll delete the app.
Love BookBub
I think this is a great app for anyone who likes to read eBooks. You can set it up to show books in the categories of your choice and you will definitely get many interesting book offers. Its a great way to build up a library for a low cost or for free!
No search option
I downloaded and deleted almost immediately. You need to give an option for searching a specific book. I appreciate the specials you have but o should be able to search for a specific book I want to read. Not have to search thru the whole list to find a book. 🤦♀️
Decent
This app is decent but it really needs a feature which allows you to list your preferred authors so you can search book deals that way.
BookBub
I just love this app!! It gives so many free and ridiculous reduced priced ebooks. It has so many popular authors and newly released books!
Good start, but...
👎 There are far too many functions that kick you out of the app to the website to make this app useful. 👎 "Get Deal" takes you to Apple Books. This should function like the website and provide a menu to choose where to purchase every time. If there's going to be a default it should be configurable. 👎 No ability to select author on a book to view Author page like website. 👎 No Dark mode? 👍 Overall design is polished.
Great app
Really easy to use!
Doesn’t deliver
I got this and set up my book preferences. But I’m constantly getting book recommendations for ones I have no interest in. I don’t like murder mysteries or chick lit, I didn’t put them in my preferences, so why am I getting them?
Does not work on iPad
I was able to download the app to my phone and was pleasantly surprised with book options, however I have yet to be able to download this for my iPad and that is the device I use for reading eBooks... What's up with that?? Until I can use it on iPad, I won't be purchasing any books free or otherwise.
BookBub FAQ
- Is BookBub free?
- Yes. The app is free, in all 6 countries it sells in, and it sells nothing inside it.
- Does BookBub have a free trial?
- No. None of its offers (US) come with a free trial.
- What are the best alternatives to BookBub?
- Book of the Month (4.9 from 83,359 reviews), Bookmory - reading tracker (4.8 from 44,769 reviews, premium from $3.49) and Libro.fm Audiobooks (4.9 from 42,405 reviews).
BookBub download
Last updated 1 month ago.
BookBub sells in 6 countries. It was released 10 years and 11 months ago, on 1 Nov 2015. It holds a 4.7 rating from 1,051 reviews.
Supports 1 language: English.
How much does BookBub make?
Third-party estimates for the last 30 days, worldwide — not the store's own figures, which Apple publishes for nobody.