Worldreader - Free Books
Want to read without using data? You can now download books, read them offline, and take them anywhere. Simply choose a digital book, download it via the book details screen, and have it appear in your offline reading library.
Do you love playing games? Reading free books has never been so amazing! This is the only free book library that gives you prizes for reading your favourite books and stories. Worldreader allows you to set reading goals, check your reading progress, and see how you stand against other readers in your country via reading leaderboards!
Discover amazing free books and create your own bookshelf from stories organised by categories (romance, children’s books, worship, sports, science, thriller, fantasy or poetry) including:
- Books and stories from top authors around the globe.
- Caine Prize winning short fiction stories
- Free books from Mills and Boon
- Books in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French.
- Children's books: Great children's books to help toddlers, kids and preschoolers learn to read with ease
- Latest information from Wikipedia
- Science books: practical health information on safe sex, HIV, Ebola, Zika, maternal health, and more
- Romance novels: Love stories from Africa and beyond
- Religion and spiritual books: The Bible, prayer books, sermons and devotionals
Want audio books? Listen to any book in the Worldreader library via the Read Out Loud feature. Hear the whole book or learn how to pronounce an individual word or phrase. Simply open any book, tap the screen to open the reading menu, and select Read Out Loud.
Love free books and stories? Want to create your own free library? Download Worldreader now!
Check out what the press has said about the Worldreader app:
“eBooks like Pride and Prejudice and A Tale Of Two Cities are at the fingertips of thousands of kids who would have never had the opportunity to read them before, and Worldreader wants that to grow quickly. Along with ebooks, the organization has shared educational information about HIV/AIDS and malaria, instantly turning the device into a life-saver as well as a learning tool.”
- TechCrunch
“Since 2010, the non-profit organization Worldreader has provided school children in a number of developing countries with access to free digital books through donated Kindle ereaders. Recently, it has begun to publish the ebooks via a mobile phone-based ereader.”
- BBC
“In August and September, over 50,000 people used Worldreader Mobile eReader to read information about Ebola provided by the Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization. “
- allAfrica
“It is not hyperbole to suggest that if every person on the planet understood that his or her mobile phone could be transformed – easily and cheaply – into a library brimming with ebooks, access to text would cease to be such a daunting hurdle to literacy.”
- The Guardian
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Reviews (25)
Refused to even Log me in. I tried to log in with Google and all it kept doing was loading. After a few minutes the app kicked me out back to my phone home screen and my phone told me "the app crashed" I tried clearing cache and stuffs and my network was completely fine yet it kept happening. At the end my phone told to me uninstall the app as it kept crashing and I did.
This app was quite good cos i could save stories and read offline but its currently frustrating now cos you would have to sign in each time you visit , even if you haven't signed out previously and whenever you fill in the very username and password you've always used , they'll tell you its incorrect. You'll have to keep trying the same username and password and when you're lucky enough it'll open. My main concern is not been able to read offline without data cos you always need to sign in.
The achievement "Congrats. You've read 15 pages" overlap top of the screen and interferes with reading. Move the notification to the bottom of screen. Also app is a bit slow on my Meizu (which I consider mid-to-highend device).
Add a tiny note pad to it, so the reader can write what they think privately and be able to go back to the notes. Overall this app is great in mb wise, accessibility and the books are great. I love this app.
Just downloaded the app but the first step which is to select the categories I like keeps saying oops something went wrong and I have been trying) to move from that page for over an hour but am still stuck. And without moving from dat page, I cant move to the next page.
One can easily access books of different categories easily. Also,the fonts are convenient to read,one doesnt have to tilt his phone in order to read. I really love this app.
I first heard of freebasics years ago; a free website from airtel and browsing through i immediately fell in love with worldreader. I hadn't realized there was even an app for it! Now I'll continue with my harmony high series(great books) You guys rock! 😍😍
All was good at the beginning but now am facing some issues, the app can't allow me to access collections and it gets worse when i connect to the network, it keeps telling me that there is a connection error, please fix this problem for me, thank you
Brilliant. It's always available and the books are wonderful. Can't wait for a free hour to read some more. They truly are a good entertaining read. Would recommend Worldreader to anyone who loves a great book to relax with.
I love this app very much but lately I have been facing a few problems with this app.I have installed the app for a year now,at first I could download as many books I want but now there is a book limit( and I think the book limit is 5 books only and you have to come the next day to be able to download more).So when I see a book and I can't download it,I add it to my books but when I go to my books I can't find it there but it says added to my books.Please fix it at least make the book limit ten.
I really did like reading the Vampire series, it was so good seeing all kind of vampire stories in one place, then I lost my phone and got a New one and when I reinstalled the app, I've been trying to read those books I added to my library before but I can't. Even if I search for them I don't see them...! Why? I'm so sad right now. Fix it or I'm out 😭😭😭
You can never be bored with this app... Always something new to read and which ever category you feel like reading at any particular time.
Horrible the app always does retry every single time and it takes me over 4 minutes to get to the next episode its frustratung!!!!!!!!
It is an amazing as one can assess lot of books. It is dissappointing though some books dissappeared from the app
Thanks so much for the wonderful stories and lessons you teach me through the books in this app.. keep up the good work🥰
the authors so far from the books I read on the app make the stories come alive . I like the app as it is ok to download books on line and read them offline, convenient. So far ni ads👍👍👍👍👍
I once lost this app but I'm glad I found it. This is one of the best apps ever. I would've rated it 5 stars but it doesn't have all the books of some series, other than that...it's a great app. Keep up the good work!🙂♥️
I will give it 4 stars because the books are very limited, like my favorite author, Lynda La Plante, isn't featured and the books are always classical, so if add new books every week, it would be great!
This is the best app I have ever seen, very good, nice books ,congrats keep it up. If it's possible to have professional books as well, such as finance, ICT, banking etc
World reader is highly appreciated but for those who can't read in other languages, I think books that are written in other languages are not useful to them like me. I want Denver cereal series back. Thanks
This was a nice place to be when it was a website but now I don't know what is happening. I can't search for anything when using this app, even when see the title and search for it. And please at least let us be able to read offline. Thank you
I used to enjoy books on worldreader especially riley paige mystery by Blake pierce, but all of a sudden, it stopped showing any book at all, each time I open it, I will show blank space. What could be the problem?.
One of the worse apps i have come accross. I signed in on opera mini and later deceided to download the app to have a better experience but unfortunately when i try to signed it the app stopped and closed repeately
I loved this App at first because the books were amazing then I switched phones and downloaded the app only to find out the books I had saved weren't there. I think they should check that out please because this app is really good
This is an excellent reading app. But, I cannot access reader option, to reduce the brightness or change to dark mode and the brightness is set really high. The only thing working is ability to scroll left or right. It is making for very uncomfortable reading. Fix it please!