Amazon Kindle: Reading App

United States

4.86★ from 5,858,942 ratings · version 7.68 · 31 of the last 118 written reviews are one or two stars

Review prompt appears repeatedly and persistently

5of the 31 read16%

App constantly asks for reviews even after users already submitted one, interrupting reading multiple times daily.

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“Review prompt — Having the review prompt pop up every like 5th time I️ open the app is insane. Especially after I’ve already reviewed the app. I’m giving 5 stars for now, but will change back to 1 when it happens again. Update: left this review like 2 days ago. Back to 1. If I️ could give 0 I️ would.” — ★☆☆☆☆“Suddenly REPEATEDLY OFTEN started bugging me REPEATEDLY to rate it. REPEATEDLY 🤬🤬🤬 — UPDATE: it keeps asking me to review even though I already did. Kindle is doing exactly what it's designed to do. It is super annoying to have to stop in the middle of a sentence when it starts asking for reviews. TWO DAYS AFTER I WROTE THIS REVIEW IT ASKED ME AGAIN🤬 🤬 AND AGAIN.And again” — ★☆☆☆☆“Forced to give a review by incessant prompting so this is what they get. F Amazon — If you care about books (or anything), boycott Amazon whenever possible. I use the kindle app for some library loans through Libby, but hope Libby will host more books internally soon” — ★☆☆☆☆

Poor interface design and missing navigation features

3of the 31 read10%

Recent UI updates removed useful features like continue reading and continue series tabs, making it hard to find books.

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“Format — New format is abysmal can’t find anything.” — ★★☆☆☆“Continue series you’ve started. — Please return the continue series you’ve started tab. It’s one of the most important ways I come back to series. I have over 20 series that I am always waiting for and without this feature it’s nearly impossible” — ★★☆☆☆“Every UI update makes it worse — The fixed the glaring flaw of not being able to see books in a series but took away the ability to see the continue reading section. Terrible UI is their theme Did Bezos hire his cousin to design the UI? It gets worse every big update and still lacks a ton of QoL.” — ★☆☆☆☆

Apple publishes the most recent written reviews, up to five hundred, and that is what was read — not a search for bad ones. Why so many of them are angry. The complaints above come from the 31 most recent negative ones. Newest review 23 days ago (08.09.2026), last collected 22 days ago.

Britain

4.81★ from 806,326 ratings · version 7.68.1 · 22 of the last 106 written reviews are one or two stars

Not enough negative reviews here to group anything honestly. There are 22, and the threshold is twelve.

Apple publishes the most recent written reviews, up to five hundred, and that is what was read — not a search for bad ones. Why so many of them are angry. The complaints above come from the 22 most recent negative ones. Newest review 23 days ago (08.09.2026), last collected 21 days ago.

Germany

4.74★ from 322,038 ratings · version 7.68 · 15 of the last 51 written reviews are one or two stars

Not enough negative reviews here to group anything honestly. There are 15, and the threshold is twelve.

Apple publishes the most recent written reviews, up to five hundred, and that is what was read — not a search for bad ones. Why so many of them are angry. The complaints above come from the 15 most recent negative ones. Newest review 23 days ago (08.09.2026), last collected 21 days ago.

France

4.76★ from 132,594 ratings · version 7.68.1 · 3 of the last 50 written reviews are one or two stars

Not enough negative reviews here to group anything honestly. There are 3, and the threshold is twelve.

Apple publishes the most recent written reviews, up to five hundred, and that is what was read — not a search for bad ones. Why so many of them are angry. The complaints above come from the 3 most recent negative ones. Newest review 24 days ago (07.09.2026), last collected 22 days ago.

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