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

This app has two major problems, and they combine to make using this app extremely frustrating at unpredictable intervals. 1) Anytime you hit a prompt in any menu, there's about a 70% chance that it doesn't work and it just closes the menu. 2) When using this on tablet, the app may or may not actually download anything it's told to download. If it doesn't, there is no way to force it to. I've closed the app, restarted the tablet, restarted wifi. I lose days of checkout time to this. Routinely.

I feel I had more control and options with overdrive, I remember being able to change the font colors. This would be extremely helpful for me as I do most of my reading at night. I've had to download other apps and also use the phones settings to keep from messing up my circadian rhythm. I've gotten it pretty dark with these combined methods but I could really use some red colored font. Help please? With this one feature added, Libby would be an amazing 5 Star app! Thx!

this is a great app for you to listen to your books on audio. great features and great tools. the only reason it is missing one star is that it's not intuitive as an interface in how to get access to certain features, especially books that you've tagged and want to read later, it can be confusing for some. some. it took me a while!

What's new

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