Kindle App is Amazon’s free reading application for e-books and other digital publications bought or borrowed through an Amazon account. It runs on iOS and Android phones and tablets, on Windows PCs and Macs, and in a web browser as Kindle for Web, the service formerly called Kindle Cloud Reader. Signing in with an Amazon account connects the app to the reader’s Kindle library. This makes the same titles available on every device where the app is installed.
A library tied to the Amazon account
In the Kindle app, books, magazines and comics belong to the Amazon account. The app shows that library wherever the reader signs in. From the app, readers can browse book recommendations and open a free sample before buying a book.
Sync across phones, computers and the browser
Kindle App gives access to the same books and other content on phones, tablets, computers and Kindle for Web once the reader signs in with the same Amazon account.
Adjusting the page
Readers can change text size, font, font weight, margins, line spacing, alignment and screen orientation, along with brightness and background color. Readers choose between turning pages left to right and continuous scrolling. They can save combinations of these options as reading themes to switch between later. Readers can zoom in on color images in books in high definition.
Looking things up without leaving the book
Pressing and holding a word in the Kindle app opens its definition from the built-in dictionary once the finger is released. The same lookup system offers translation, Wikipedia lookup and X-Ray. In-book search finds words, phrases or character names and jumps to each place they appear.
Page Flip lets the reader skim through other pages and jump to one without losing the current position.
Highlights and notes
Readers can highlight passages or annotate them with notes while reading. Kindle App makes it easy to find and revisit these annotations later.
Audible narration
For select Kindle books with matching Audible narration, the app can switch between reading the text and listening to the audio version of the same book.
Screen readers and accessibility
The Kindle reading apps on iOS, Android, Fire tablets and PC work with screen readers including VoiceOver, TalkBack, NVDA and JAWS, as well as refreshable braille displays. Readers can move through content item by item or explore by touch using standard accessibility gestures. Menus, buttons and titles use consistent labels. Readers can invert background and text colors for higher contrast. In the Kindle Store, readers can filter for books that popular screen readers support. Each book’s details page states whether it has that support, though behavior can vary by title and screen reader.
