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

Spartan, fully sufficient, easy to use. Fully works. I wish all apps were like this. Update 11/24 -- Most recent update is significantly slower than my prior version. Here's hoping tue next update with rectify this. 11/24 -- New software update appears to have corrected the slowness after a few minutes of testing. Here's hoping this is the case, and that the Libby engineers don't succumb to the clarion call of bloatware.

I enjoy being able to get ebooks so easily, and I like listening to audiobooks when I work on things, so this is great for that. My only real problem is the format of description previews, bc when I'm browsing they cut off so short that I only get "This book has X themes and this author liked it" without getting to see the actual plot unless I fully select the book, which sometimes resets my search to the top of the list.

I don't know what I'd do without Libby, absolutely love the app! Except one little thing.... Between audiobook chapters, the app pauses for the briefest moment. When that happens, if I'm in an app that has any sound (like the game I constantly play) the audiobook stops playing. It's a constant, daily frustration. 🥺

What's new

A fix for the issue where an audiobook would skip backward unexpectedly.