Book Dash creates beautiful African children's books for anyone to enjoy!
4.00·720 reviews·100,000+ downloads
About Book Dash: African Storybooks
Book Dash: African Storybooks is an education app developed by Book Dash.
Download Statistics
Book Dash: African Storybooks has been downloaded 210 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 250 times.
User Ratings
Book Dash: African Storybooks is rated 4.00 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 720 ratings.
App Information
Book Dash: African Storybooks is FREE to download. The APK download size is 5.43 MB. The latest version available is 2.9.4. The last update was on February 12, 2025.
Technical Requirements
Book Dash: African Storybooks requires Android 6.0+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play November 2015.
Description
Thank you for your interest in the Book Dash app. It will unfortunately no longer receive updates or technical support. So please head over to www.bookdash.org to read and download over 200 free storybooks for children in many different languages!
Books are available in the 12 official languages of South Africa: English, isiZulu, Afrikaans, Sepedi, isiXhosa, Sesotho, isiNdebele, Setswana, Siswati, Tshivenda, Xitsonga, and South African Sign Language.
What is Book Dash?
Book Dash gathers volunteer creative professionals to create new, African storybooks that anyone can freely translate and distribute.
Why Book Dash?
Children in South Africa need more books, but they cost too much purchased from publishers. The cheapest books have no publisher – then the only cost is printing. So our participants do the work of publishers in a single day. After that, anyone can get print runs sponsored and put finished books into the hands of children.
We believe every child should own a hundred books by the age of five. In South Africa, that means giving 600 million free books to children who could never afford to buy them. Every day we lose, more children grow up unable to read and write well, and to enjoy the worlds that books open up.
You can see more about our cause here: http://bookdash.org/
Contact us: app@bookdash.org
With this app, you were able to: - View a catalog of over 200 free children's storybooks - Select a language preference for the books - Download and Read your favourite stories on the go! - The books are uniquely African and tell great African stories - Two free watch faces for Android Wear!
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Comments on Book Dash: African Storybooks for Android
★★★★★Abigail Martinez· Sep 7, 2020
I love this. The stories are nice and the app makes it really easy to choose a book and flick to the pages. I just wish there was a way to filter or search for the right books based on age/grade... would be useful for kids who are learning or can already read by themselves.
★★★★★Eddah Waweru· Aug 2, 2020
My kids love Book dash. We read a story each every night. Some books don't download though. I love the african themed stories.
★★★★★Pru M· Apr 26, 2020
Love the short stories. Thank you. My kids can't read, but they are able to make up the story lines.
★☆☆☆☆richa kapoor· May 8, 2020
This app have no problem but not having proper books for my son and no more books
★☆☆☆☆law jia en· May 3, 2020
They never categorized for primary what? I don't know where to start from. Still need to download before you read.
★★☆☆☆Ambresh Gawda· Jul 12, 2023
I like this app but there 20 to 30 stories so if it had more stories it was good and there should be levels like 1,2,3,4, etc
★☆☆☆☆Thamisanqa Phillip· Aug 15, 2021
I put one star becoz I had to delete an app to install this app😤
★★☆☆☆Shah Riezha Syam· Jul 23, 2020
I can't seem to zoom the book in my phone. Where is the zoom button?
★★☆☆☆Ettina Kitten· Jun 17, 2025
Limited selection compared to the website, and it doesn’t work with portrait mode.
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