Perlego: Books & Textbooks

In-app purchases
2,11K reviews
Content rating
PEGI 3
100K+
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About this app

Access a wide range of academic textbooks and books with Perlego — the digital library that helps students, researchers, and lifelong learners study on their own terms. Perlego gives you access to over 1 million academic titles across hundreds of subjects, all in one easy-to-use app. Whether you’re revising for exams, writing an essay, or carrying out research, Perlego helps you find, read, and use the resources you need.

Why students choose Perlego

📚 A large library of academic books

Explore more than 1 million books and textbooks across 950+ topics, including Business, Psychology, History, Medicine, and Law. You’ll find essential course texts, non-fiction and fiction favourites, and key supplementary readings — all in one place.

🎧 Listen to books with text-to-speech

Need to give your eyes a break? Use our built-in read-aloud feature to listen to books while you commute, exercise, or unwind. It’s a flexible way to keep learning when you don’t have time to sit and read.

✍️ Study tools designed to help you focus

Highlight important passages, add notes directly on the page, and save bookmarks for quick reference. Whether you’re preparing for exams or researching an assignment, Perlego helps you stay organised and make meaningful progress.

✈️ Read offline, anywhere

No WiFi? No worries. Download your books for offline reading, so you can study on the subway, in a café, or wherever you need to concentrate.

📱 Sync across all your devices

Start reading on your phone and pick up where you left off on your laptop or tablet. Your library stays with you, so you never lose momentum.

Discover a smarter way to learn

Join thousands of learners saving money, finding reliable academic content, and studying more efficiently.

Download Perlego today to access the books you need — whenever and wherever you need them.
1m+ academic textbooks. The digital library for students.
Updated on
27 Oct 2026

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
  • This app may share these data types with third parties
    Personal info, App activity and App info and performance
  • This app may collect these data types
    Location, Personal info and 3 others
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

1,68K reviews
Bashar Almaddan
10 September 2024
I subscribed specifically to read Notes from Underground by Boris Jakim, as advertised. However, upon opening the book, it turned out to be a completely different translation. This was very frustrating and misleading. Additionally, some books don’t allow basic customization like adjusting text size or background color, which greatly impacts the reading experience. Overall, I’m really disappointed after using the app for less than an hour.
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Perlego
12 September 2024
Hi Bashar, thanks for leaving a review with us and I'm sorry to hear that you had issues with the book you were looking to read. We'd be more than happy to investigate this for you if you contact us directly at help@perlego.com. We also appreciate the feedback surrounding customisation which is a feature we have with our ePUBs but not our PDFs.
James Lendrum
03 September 2021
The UI is choppy. PDF viewing is acceptable, but the text is often formatted clumsily, with sentences overlapping. The annotation feature needs improvement; I cannot always locate the highlighted passage in the book by clicking on it. I cannot see which page out of the entire book my annotations belong to. I cannot track my progress through the text as a whole via page numbers. This makes citation laborious. The service is promising, but it falls short of offering serious academic support.
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Perlego
06 October 2021
Hi James, thanks for sharing your thoughts 🙂 We've recently released new updates bringing page numbers to the PDF reader and fixed the issue with locating annotations, we hope this helps! If you can reach out to our support team on help@perlego.com with the books you've found formatting issues in, we'll investigate right away! Best wishes, Perlego
A Google user
27 April 2020
Slow between chapters on downloaded books. If it's downloaded I shouldn't have to see a loading wheel so often. Also adding to library makes the home page reset so I have to scroll all the way back to where I was each time. Finally the BIGGEST failing by far of this app is there's no dB night/dark mode. Fix these and I'll pay for the app once my free trial is up. Otherwise I'll delete it and be done.
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Perlego
28 April 2020
Hi Joe, we are so sorry to hear that you are unhappy with our current app experience - this doesn't sound normal! If you contact us via our website or at help@perlego.com we'd be more than happy to help you out with this. As for the Dark Mode we do have it available in our E-reader so you can customise your reading experience.