Hoopla Digital

- May 26, 2017

Teen

Books & Reference

( 19,881)

Description

Instantly borrow free digital movies, music, eBooks and more, 24/7 with your library card.
FREEDOM STARTS HERE, NOW.
Bringing you hundreds of thousands of movies, full music albums, audiobooks and more, hoopla is a revolutionary digital service made possible by your local library.

From Hollywood blockbusters to best selling artists and authors – not just the hits, but the niche and hard-to-find as well – you’ll soon discover that hoopla provides you the freedom you've been searching for to experience, explore and enjoy what you want, when you want, and where you want.

Simple to access and use, without the hassle of having to return the items you’ve borrowed, all you need is your library card, a web browser, smart phone or tablet to get started. The freedom you want is here, now. Sign up today!

Reviews

4.2

19,881 total

5 11,410

4 4,654

3 1,535

2 976

1 1,306

Andrew Arnold

I love the capabilities of this app and would give it five stars based on what it should be able to do. Downloading brand new soundtracks is great. But there are two problems. One is that it crashes all of the time. This seems to be when I go out of a coverage area, even if I have the album downloaded. The other major missing feature is Android Auto compatibility. Each of those would earn a star and make this a Five Start app.

Steve Owen

Update: A lot of the bugs I encountered when I first used the app are gone. I use hoopla daily for reading comics and listening to audiobooks, and I'm extremely happy with it. Easy to use, broad and desirable content, personalized recommendations ... Hoopla is great. Original: For the third time, I'm scrubbing through an audiobook to get back to my place. This is a really frustrating user experience. The audio player is far inferior to Overdrive's player, which itself isn't great. But for free, I shouldn't expect much.

M Gotti

I use this to listen to digitally-borrowed library audiobooks. It's a great app when it works, but I've had multiple books that just won't play again when I try to start from where I left off. The play button does nothing, the timer doesn't move, and the audio is frozen. I use up my two "borrows" a month without even getting to finish the books. It's kind of waste to have to borrow them again (using all of the next month's credits) just to hear the endings.

Kristina Latham

Great way to be able to borrpe ebooks from a local library. My only complaint is that I live in Mobile Alabama and thee aren't very many popular books for youth adult to choose from. There's only a limited amount for young adults to read. Wish they had Cassandra Claire books on this app.

Neale Partington

Great selection, well kept secret! Works off your library card. As good as streaming media services. I mostly stream albums, wish I could keep them longer but guess that has to do more with local library agreement than with hoopla itself.

Jorge Teodoro

Crashes ALL of the time. When working, often skips like an old vinyl record. Stop/start rarely works with any headset. These problems have been present since I started using Hoopla. No effort seems to have been made to fix them. Good content but a VERY frustrating app.

User reviews

Andrew Arnold June 10, 2017

Steve Owen June 7, 2017

M Gotti June 24, 2017

Kristina Latham June 19, 2017

Neale Partington June 23, 2017

Jorge Teodoro June 22, 2017

sarah inserra June 24, 2017

It would be great if there was a tts option for the ebooks or let me add to my kindle. Without that it is only good for audiobooks. The ereader sucks big time and i hate reading from a bright screen so unless i can add to my paperwhite or tts from kindle. It blows for ebooks.

N June 24, 2017

Horrible app. I was so excited that I could access pattern ebooks from my library on this app but it doesn't work. Out of 8 books that I borrowed and downloaded, only 1 loaded correctly. All of the other books were almost entirely blank pages or showed the error message "page loading". Complete waste of my time.

Emily Schultz June 22, 2017

Am able to figure out what I like to read, if the books not for me super easy to find a new one. Found a great author with a series of books that I can't wait for next ones to be released, and while I wait there's a lot more for me to choose from. Thank you!

Nicholas Hulett June 22, 2017

I use this app mainly for audio books of which there are many. I love that I never have to wait to check one out. My only complaint with the app is that it does not respond to input from my headphones when I'm listening. If they could fix that it would be perfect

Christopher Breshike June 16, 2017

Love that they work with ny local library. It does have a problem if you start listening offline but is fine if your start while you are online and then turn off data. For instance when you board a olane you should load the book and start listening before you put it into airplane mode

Jessica Reed June 20, 2017

Decent app but buggy. Doesn't pause during other sounds so you can't listen to it and GPS at the same time. Also books will play for a while and then refuse to work. Other books will play but resuming the specific book it just hangs and never plays.

June 22, 2017

The concept is wonderful, but I'm not happy with the offline ability. The app, when I'm not connected to the internet, won't allow me to access my downloaded books. The back 15second feature also sometimes causes it to stop altogether and not continue.

T S June 25, 2017

What good is the download feature if after downloading the movie will not even play with any kind of player? This needs to be fixed. I'm in a place now where wifi is expensive and limited. I download to be able to watch off line.

Mandy C June 12, 2017

I usually use hoopla on our desktop and mostly for audio books for the kids. I think that they have a good amount of media to choose from. Movies, not so much, but I use mostly for books any way. Even though there is an app for everything now, I wasn't aware that hoopla had one and I was pleasantly surprised to see there was one. I enjoy it and it's easy to use. But be aware that you can only check out 15 items per month. I learned the hard way.

June 6, 2017

I love this app! I work long, loooong hours in my ceramic studio, and hoopla has saved my sanity. I can finally explore some of the books and authors I'm interested in, but have no time to read. I highly recommend!

Eva Chowaniec June 24, 2017

I used to run Hoopla on an iPhone, I love the content and the ease of use. I don't have a data plan and therefore really enjoyed that I could download the books for in the run. I recently swapped to an Android phone and still love the content... unfortunately the app won't let me download. This makes the app almost useless for me. I am disappointed.

Hazmat Guy June 24, 2017

This app is great. I read my eight books for this month, so I'm just waiting until next month. I really wish you could borrow more books, and I can't really find all the books I'm looking for, but it's still awesome.

Mary Reilly June 24, 2017

Fair selection of (audio) books but the app stops every few minutes, sometimes a few times in a minute and you have to keep restarting the book. Very frustrating. Overdrive is much more dependable although the selections are different. If I could get all of what I am looking for in Overdrive I would not use Hoopla.

Sushil Tiwari June 11, 2017

Pleasantly found same books I want to purchase through audible but listening experience for audiobook is very user friendly. You cannot jump or even look chapters while other apps like overdrive, one-click digital give me that option

Ashley Burleson June 25, 2017

Great for reading. Streaming music is great but sometimes it cuts out and the album stops mid song have to start it over. Probably my phone not the app.

Timothy Speirs June 25, 2017

App refuses to let me login - keeps saying "something went wrong. Please try again later." Waiting does not help, nor uninstalling/reinstalling. I'm able to login on multiple computers so my I know it's not an incorrect password either. I used to like this app but it's way too buggy anymore

Rachel Oldaker June 3, 2017

I love audiobooks, and hoopla is great for being able to borrow a book for a month, and the selection seems pretty big. I'm not as crazy about the narrators compared to my options on a similar paid app, but that's not worthy of losing a star. I take two stars however, for not being able to divide the book into chapters. I primarily listen to books that I own physical copies of as well, and like to go back and highlight in the physical book. But it takes a long time to figure out how far you are because there are no chapter markings at all in Hoopla. I hope this will change someday, and then hoopla will easily join other audio book apps at the top of everyone's list!

June 24, 2017

I don't like that there is a limit on how many book you can check out per month. At the other library sites you are allowed to check out 10 books at a time, but are allowed to check out more when you return the ones that you had checked out. So you can read as many books per month as you are able, but you can only have 10 books checked out at any given time. Also they are only checked out for 2 weeks at a time, then they are returned so someone else can check it out or you can recheck it out if nobody else wants it at the time.

Shi Shi B June 25, 2017

I love this app but I have 2 Android tablets and the app isn't compatible and the hoopla website won't load in the browsers on the tablets.. Fit that please and then this app will get 5 stars from me.

Kathy Hougham June 19, 2017

The catalog of ebooks is very good. One complaint: If I want to go back to reread something, hoopla doesn't remember the last page I was on like the Kindle app does. I must manually bookmark it.

June 9, 2017

I love being able to listen to books while I do other things. There's a really good selecting of books to choose from, in a lot of categories. However, I am often frustrated by the book stopping, usually when I skip back to hear something I have missed, but sometimes just randomly. It can usually be fixed by exiting hoopla and the going back into it. Right now, my book hasn't worked for several days. I would also love it if we could put other family member's cards on Hoopla and could switch from person to person. Some months, I can't listen to any books because we use up our selections on the kids, even though they have their own library cards.

Candy Cotton May 30, 2017

Update 5/30/17 I cannot watch movies or shows on my iPad or Nextbook. I even downloaded the movies to see if that worked but it didn't. This is very aggravating! I didn't have this issue awhile back. I'm a preschool teacher and this app is very useful for story time. Only thing I don't like about the app is that I cannot preview the books before borrowing. It would be very helpful to be able to preview before downloading.

June 23, 2017

There is a great selection of books in our local library. The used to use a different system and the selection was terrible. Great checkout process, audio books play great in the app as well!

Mark Weible June 24, 2017

Terrible app. Extremely limited selection of libraries to choose from. If you happen to live in Dirtsville Wisconsin, or one of the random libraries offered, the you may be able to use Hoopla. Otherwise try Overdrive, they actually have most libraries available.

Sherry Spradley June 17, 2017

Many times I have to restart it or reload it, to make it work right. I really wish if you return books you could get more, I used 7 in 2 weeks and really am disappointed that I have to wait 2 weeks to get more. We're going on vacation and I'd love to have more.

June 6, 2017

Excellent app... I wish they could break the files into sections tho.. Bookmarking works to break it up but it has a habit of turning the book back on when I get notifications from other apps . of I don't know it is a pain to figure out where I was.

Dari Carre June 13, 2017

Comprehensive range of material, convenient to use, great that you can download material and listen to it later (no extra data charges!!) My only question is that it sometomes asks me to login (inconvenient after the first time!) and other times it doesn't .

Wendy Middleton June 19, 2017

I use it mostly for audio books. Use to be good, but it's gotten glitchy, and has more problems all the time. I don't think they ever update or fix issues. Sadly will probably stop using, too many problems.

Zach Steffens May 31, 2017

Bluetooth controls don't work. The play resumes after a call regardless of whether I was listening or had it paused for hours. The skip back only works sporadically and the audio is jumpy and halting at times. It is also an enormous battery drain even when paused.

David A June 13, 2017

I used to like this app comma but too often it stops working when you're using the audio book portion of it. For no reason at all it was just stop playing and you will just have to wait until it starts again and you never know when that's going to be

Alice H June 19, 2017

The app doesn't use much data, but if the data fails and reconnects, it will stop streaming books entirely. My data is working now but I cannot get the app to stream, it gets stuck on loading after finding the last-streamed time. Edit: I had to uninstall and reinstall the app to get it to work again.

Jami Geserick June 19, 2017

Love the app update that allows for a download. My only issue is trying to figure out the books sequence in order. I wish it was easier to tell.

Melody Hazard June 20, 2017

It's good when it works but it getting old when it constantly says something went wrong please try again later. And won't allow me to download any type of digital media.

Todd Zittlow June 24, 2017

I've been very happy with this interface and usefulness. I do wish there was a larger collection of science fiction, British sci Fi in particular- Adam Roberts, Lauren Beukes, Tricia Sullivan, and others.