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

Love this app!! A++. Highly recommend for anyone looking to access their library's digital content. A lot of their UI updates (since my review in 2020) have made the app much more aesthetically pleasing without hurting its ease of use. Works much better now too (glitches/bugs extremely rare). Grateful that a lot of the controls and visuals have different options to choose from. Tags feature is great. Notifications are also customizable and actually accurate to what I care about. It's great!

Edit : I liked Overdrive better. Libby doesn't display recommendations in a way that's helpful and downloading audiobooks has made them fail for me multiple times, so I have to use data to listen when I'm not home. I wish you could recommend purchases in-app the way Overdrive had it, because then the people who recommended books got first dibs on borrowing. I also don't like that reading Libby books that aren't in Kindle prevents you from listening to audiobooks at the same time.

Easy to add/change your local library, perfect listening experience and controls. It's my second most used app after Spotify—I've listen to everything from classics to new releases to fantasy to memoirs for years, which means it's saved me thousands of dollars in books compared to Audible or other booksellers. LOVE this free app so much!

What's new

This release improves processes for synchronizing your reading progress throughout the app and across your devices.