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

This has been a great way to access audiobooks. In general, the app works well. There is, however, one rather frustrating issue that I have repeatedly incountered over the several years that I have used this app. The rewind function is a bit chaotic. While it is supposed to jumpback 15 seconds, an acceptable amount of time, it does so unreliably, sometimes jumping back much, much further (25 minutes for example). It can then take several minutes for me to then find where I had left off.

I LOVE this app! It's helped get me back into reading like when I was younger and support my library. If I go to a book store, I check the app to see if my library has a digital version. My biggest annoyance is the wait times but that's really an issue with the library rather than the app. There was a glitch a while back where opening a book on the Kindle app caused all of my Chrome windows to close with no chance of recovery, but I don't know if that was resolved. (I'm too scared to test it.)

Edit 12/5/2024 please fix the audiobook issues!! Playback doesn't work right. The pause play button isn't working either. Have to tap the buttons several times and/or close it out! I use this app 24/7 for all my library books. The last week or so it's so slow. I have to hit the pause and play button several times. The skip back and forward for audiobooks doesn't register either. Haven't had this problem before so hopefully it's fixed soon. Been using audible lately instead due these issues.

What's new

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