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

When it's working Libby is excellent. Of late there seem to be large periods of time, especially in the middle of the night, where it's unable to verify my library card. Obviously during these times (as much as 6 or 8 hours in some instances) I am unable to check out any books. After several hours the problem seems to resolve itself with no action needed on my part, so I know it's a just a glitch. This is currently happening several times a week. It's highly irritating if you're depending on it.

excellent reference and reader. Lots of choices for font and size, 3 brightness options. Problems; 1- it doesn't properly track books I've finished reading (they sometimes stay on my wishlist ) 2-it won't list series in order when searching 3- you can only have 15 books on hold 4- I find it annoying that the"search" icon is on the bottom of the screen yet the search window then opens at the top of the screen.

I can't believe it took 9 years of paying for Audible before I found this! Now I want an E-Reader, too. Overall a fantastic app. Great playback when interrupted by other notifications, format is easy to use. Sleep timer/playback speed/bookmark options = 👍🏼👍🏼. Only one suggestion: it's too easy to accidentally return a book with a fat finger move. Please add secondary confirmation before returning loans. Great work, devs!

What's new

Bug fixes, performance optimizations, accessibility improvements, and preparation for our next round of features. Thanks for supporting your local libraries!