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

I preferred the original Overdrive but times change. I do appreciate being able to borrow from other libraries beside my local. It gives me access to more titles. The program lags when loading a book to listen. It closes when other apps are opened instead of staying on in the background. If you play an audio book at a higher speed, the app asks you if you want to sync to a previous point in the book. Totally useless. Mostly, everything works well. I am just complaining about minor things.

Libby is nothing short of wonderful. It's like a trip to the library every time I open the app and the reader itself is spectacular to use. It's typically easy to search for anything I could think of, including listed book series, categories, and my own tags. My biggest complaint is just that the UI seems a bit convoluted at times and finding sections can sometimes take a bit of clicking to remember where they are.

I am updating my rating from 3 to 4- really 4.5 stars. They have fixed the bugs that I previously did not like and they made a few cosmetic changes also. This is a great app for free audio books. It runs great. I love that you can tag books and keep track of ones you've read, loved, hated, ect. Always room for improvement in the availability of audio books. I don't know why every book isn't available 😕- ESPECIALLY if it is a series. Don't have 1,2,5,6,7,11... super frustrating. But great.

What's new

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