Libby, by OverDrive

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

Hate this app. Was forced to switch to this from overdrive by Spartanburg SC Library. About 98% of the time I have to close and reopen the app several times to get it to work. It crashes more than it works. If I do finally manage to get into my book, it buffers for several minutes before popping up "An error was encountered while opening this audio book." If I finally manage to get into my book, it plays fine until I have to use another app, answer the phone or just pause it. Irritating!!

Fairly easy to use. Sometimes books don't show up, but when you search again it will be there. The genre search could use more specific types, as that would make searching much easier. Overall it's a pretty decent app. Edit: from 4 to 2 star, due to an issue with the books will now ONLY play when connected to wifi. When I try to use mobile data it says that there is a playback error and to try again. Please, please fix this bug.

I love the Libby app. I have borrowed so many ebooks and audio books from my library. The app always works seamlessly. You can download books so you can read or listen to them even when you don't have service, like on a plane. You can search for books by genre, by books available now, by popular books, etc. My only complaint is that some of the menus aren't very intuitive. For instance, it is hard to find your profile info or settings. Otherwise, it's amazing!

What's new

Fixed a downloading issue that caused audiobooks to skip, be missing content, or start playback in an unexpected place. If you have an affected audiobook, delete and re-download it after updating the app.