Cantook by Aldiko

2.5
213K reviews
10M+
Downloads
Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Welcome to Cantook! The favorite reading app for the true bookworms.

Bring all your eBooks and audiobooks in the same place, no matter where they're coming from. Available on iPhone, iPad or macOS.

With Cantook, we make it easy to bring all your books in the same place:
• Built-in support for public libraries, allowing you to easily browse your library's catalog and borrow books from them
• Thousands of public domain books from the Cantook Bookstore
• Import your own EPUB or PDF files
• Add your own catalogs, for example using Calibre

Cantook provides an extensive set of features for both casual and power users:
• Customize your reading experience with multiple fonts and themes
• Full support for dark mode throughout the app
• Organize your bookshelf with categories and collections

Our philosophy is to contribute to and leverage open standards:
• Read EPUB files via a Readium Mobile based reading experience
• Explore catalogs using OPDS
• Full support for Readium LCP based on EPUB, PDF and audiobooks
Updated on
Aug 19, 2025

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.
No data shared with third parties
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
This app may collect these data types
Personal info, Financial info and 3 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

2.6
185K reviews
Melissa Edwards
October 26, 2025
I originally installed aldiko, and it did what I needed for some time. however, after it changed to cantook it is not great. when I went to attempt to move my files to a better app, I can suddenly no longer find them! they are nowhere to be found in my local files. these are files that I purchased, not from cantook but they are no longer in my local storage and I cannot export from within the app either. Tell me where you hid my books!
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Andrew Terentyev
October 11, 2021
It's clear the developer forgot why people downloaded Aldiko in the past. It's so bad now, used to be simple: open app, see files that were imported, could open one and scrub through it... Finding what I want to read should not be an experience, you're doing a good job when people don't know you're there. Time to find a different reader. Coolreader still works!
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De Marque
November 2, 2021
Hello, we are sorry you did not have a positive experience with our app. Could you please explain in more details the problems you had with the app? We will forward it to our tech team for future developments. Thank you.
A Google user
October 28, 2018
More than happy to pay for an app, but not going to subscribe to an ereader, no matter how good the previous version was. Give me a perpetual option or I'll have to find something else. Edit: It's a little disingenuous to reply that you sell a perpetually licensed version at the same time that you announce you're not going to be updating that particular product anymore. I paid a while ago for the full version of Aldiko and I'd be more than happy to pay for the development of a newer product, just not on a subscription basis.
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De Marque
October 28, 2018
Hello Fred, There's a perpetual option available as well, it's "Aldiko Classic Premium". Update: While "Aldiko Classic Premium" itself won't be updated anymore, it'll work as an unlock key for Aldiko 4.0 (Q1 2019) to unlock premium features. Best, The Aldiko Team

What’s new

- Various bug fixes and improvements.