Top 10 MOBI readers
Updated: March 12, 2026 | Editor: Maria Lin
These reading apps allow to open and read MOBI books. MOBI is a e-book file format developed by french company Mobipocket that was bought by Amazon. It's supported by Amazon's Kindles and all Amazon's own formats (AZW, AZW3, KFX) are based on MOBI. MOBI is supported by most readers on PC, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS and even on Windows Phone, Symbian and Blackberry. There are also some cloud services that allow to read MOBI books online.
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Free e-book reader that supports multiple file formats, including ePub, fb2, mobi, HTML, RTF, HTML, plain text, doc, and more. FBReader uses its own page parsing and rendering engine - very lightweight, fast and customizable. It supports embedded images, footnotes, hyperlinks, text search, full-screen reading. It also automatically creates bookmarks so you don't lose track of where you left off after closing a book. It works on iOS, Android, Windows, Mac OS, Linux, and Chrome OS. Books can be synced across devices or stored in Google Drive. For Android and iOS there are both free and paid versions. Free versions have some limitations.
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Cute and simple mobile app for reading books on iOS and Android. Provides bookmarks, 3-colors highlights, interactive links and notes, dark mode, customized settings (Fonts, Fields, Text size, screen Brightness, Page scrolling, ets). Suppots text formats: EPUB, MOBI, DOC, DOCX, TXT, FB2, PRC, RTF, ODT, HTML, AZW, AZW3. Completely AD-FREE. Syncs ebooks and reading progress between devices. Free web e-reader is also available. You can upload books via iTunes, import your files from the email, web browser, cloud storages (iCloud, Google Drive, Dropbox, Yandex.Disk etc).
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Free eBook reader app for iOS and Mac. Yomu's design is carefully optimized in Apple style: flexible layout dynamically adjusts all text properties and margins based on your preferences and device. You can choose your favorite theme, reading mode (day, sepia, gray, twilight, night, black), select a preset or custom font size, content layout (page, scrolling), and many other options. All settings can be saved separately for each book. You can view the TOC, copy text, take notes, and search within books. EPub, Mobi, PDF, and Kindle formats are supported. You can download books directly from the browser, add them via AirDrop, iCloud Drive, iTunes File Sharing, or from Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, OPDS, and Calibre.
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Popular Android app that lets read books offline or directly from online book sites and OPDS. It features a comfortable viewing mode with smooth scrolling, full set of visual settings: line spacing, font size, bold, italic, shadow, alpha channel, smooth edge transitions. Over 10 built-in themes, including a day/night mode switch. Various page navigation options: touchscreen, volume keys, even the camera, search, or back buttons. The free version is ad-supported, while the paid version offers TTS engine, PDF support, more beautiful backgrounds, fonts and reading themes, password protection on startup, annotation sharing, reading statistics.
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Desktop reader that supports EPUB, MOBI, FB2 and CBR formats (DRM-protected content is not supported) and provides basic functionality for managing your digital library. Allows to read in full-screen mode, night mode, track your reading progress, use bookmarks, search inside text, adjust the font family, font size and line spacing, set the text layout to two or one page. You can add notes, search and sort notes by text or color. Copying text from books and adding notes are only available in the paid version, which also offers text-to-speech (different voices available depending on your system settings) and text translation.
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Free open-source, XML/CSS-based e-book reader for Windows and Linux. There's also mobile version for Android and some eInk devices. Supported formats include FB2, TXT, RTF, DOC, TCR, HTML, EPUB, CHM, PDB, and MOBI. The program offers numerous settings for improved reading experience. It's arguably the best reader for Linux, but on Windows, it has some issues, such as linking e-book extensions to the program so it opens when clicking on a book file.
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Free Android reader that supports formats fb2, fbz, txt, epub, html, doc, odt, rtf, mobi, prc, archives. Its local library allows to sort books by author, series, title, year of publication, genre. The app provides such functions as converting text to speech, downloading from OPDS, setting file encoding, dictionaries, editing Fb2 and TXT files, profiles with independent settings of font, color, brightness, gamma correction and text indentation. You can choose one- and two-page reading mode with automatic switching to two-page mode in landscape orientation. Appearance adaptation for E-Ink screens, support for "fast" update for Sony T1/T2, Nook Simple Touch/Nook Simple Touch with Glow Light, Onyx Maxwel/Kopernik/Kepler, Texet 138.
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SumatraPDF, also known as Sumatra, is a free and open-source software PDF reader for Microsoft Windows only. The program also opens Open XML Paper Specification, DjVu, EPUB, XPS, CHM, CBZ and CBR, and MOBI files
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Free online service in which you can upload, preview and read your ebooks in EPUB, MOBI, AZW3, PDF, and CBR formats. Doesn't require downloading any software. Even large ebooks are rendered instantly. It provides easy book navigation thanks to a built-in thumbs pane and table of contents and full-text keyword search. It offers numerous customization options to enhance your reading experience. You can customize the font size, typeface, color scheme to make reading as comfortable as possible. You can also adjust the brightness to suit your surroundings and reduce eye strain.
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KOReader is a document viewer for E Ink devices. Supported file formats include EPUB, PDF, DjVu, XPS, CBT, CBZ, FB2, PDB, TXT, HTML, RTF, CHM, DOC, MOBI and ZIP files. It’s available for Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook, Android and desktop Linux.
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Multi-functional Android app for reading books. It features automatic folder scanning and adding books to the library, bookmarks, annotations, TOC, online catalog and dictionary support, syncing between Android devices via Google Drive (reading progress, bookmarks, etc.), day and night modes, custom CSS support, "Musician mode" with adjustable scrolling speed, TTS reading, built-in media player and online format conversion. The volume control functionality, background and fonts can be customized. All collections can be viewed in a list or grid view. Books are easily identified by thumbnail covers with adjustable size and style, as well as detailed descriptions. The free version contains ads.
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Not only an eBooks, Comics reader but also a tons-of-free-ebook-downloader, with dictionary inside for you to studies languages.
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A simple, focused eBook reader for Linux. Read the books you love without having to worry about different format complexities like epub, pdf, mobi, cbr, etc.
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ReadEra is an Android application for reading books and viewing documents, free and without ads. Open and read book files in EPUB, FB2, PDF, DJVU, MOBI, DOC, RTF, TXT and CHM formats. Automatically detects and displays the list of all supported documents on your device, Identifies duplicate files. Support for a table of contents, bookmarks, visual styles. Automatically saves the current reading position, even if the files are moved or temporarily deleted.
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eReader Prestigio: Book Reader is a multi lingual, multi format text and audio books reading app. Intuitive interface in over 25 languages and an in app store library with over 50,000 text (for children and adults) books and Text-To-Speech (read along) functionality.
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Okular is a universal book viewer based on KPDF for KDE 4. This means Okular works on multiple platforms, including but not limited to Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, *BSD, etc. Okular combines the excellent functionalities of KPDF with the versatility of supporting different kind of documents, like PDF, Postscript, DjVu, CHM, XPS, ePub and others.
