Libby, the Library App

OverDrive, Inc.

About this app

All over the world, local libraries offer millions of ebooks and audiobooks. You can borrow them — for free, instantly — with a library card and Libby: the award-winning, much-loved app for libraries.

• Browse your library’s digital catalog of books — from classics to NYT best-sellers
• Borrow and enjoy ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines
• Download titles for offline reading, or stream them to save space
• Send ebooks to your Kindle (U.S. libraries only)
• Listen to audiobooks via Android Auto
• Use tags to create your must-read list and any other book lists you want
• Keep your reading position automatically synced on all your devices

In our beautiful, intuitive ebook reader:
• Adjust text size, background color, and book design
• Zoom into magazines and comic books
• Define and search for words and phrases
• Read and listen to read-alongs with your kids
• Add bookmarks, notes, and highlights

In our ground-breaking audio player:
• Slow down or speed up the audio (0.6 to 3.0x)
• Set a sleep timer
• Simply swipe to skip forward and backward
• Add bookmarks, notes, and highlights

Libby is built by the team at OverDrive, in support of local libraries everywhere.

Happy reading!

Ratings and reviews

I love that I can use my library card to get all kinds of audiobooks. I don't have a kindle, and don't want to read a book on a tablet, but my wife uses Libby for ebooks too. The audiobook player sometimes has to be force closed on my Android phone, but it doesn't happen too often, so it's not annoying enough to drop a star. Overall, I really like this app.

I love this app very much and all that it does for everyone who uses it. It has a lot of strong points and a lot of useful tools but I had to get a new phone recently and it deleted all of my tagged books even though I'm using the same library card and account info as before. That was four years of tagged books that I no longer have access to. I think the app does a lot of good, but that is an incredibly disheartening issue to deal with.

I'm so glad I found out I could deliver books to my Kindle as long as I had a library car. This is AWESOME! I can plan out my reads in advance then put them on hold. I don't mind the new update to the way suspensions are handled as long as I get my holds faster. I do find the app to be a little more glitchy because it will say all of my books I have a hold for no longer have any copies because they have expired, then it fixes itself once I force close and restart the app. Otherwise, great work!

What's new

Bug fixes, performance optimizations, and preparation for our next round of features. Thanks for supporting your local libraries!