Libby, the Library App

4.8
449K reviews
10M+
Downloads
Editors' Choice
Content rating
Teen
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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!
Updated on
Nov 11, 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
This app may collect these data types
Personal info, App activity, and App info and performance
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.8
392K reviews
Jasper Profio
November 12, 2024
I enjoy being able to get ebooks so easily, and I like listening to audiobooks when I work on things, so this is great for that. My only real problem is the format of description previews, bc when I'm browsing they cut off so short that I only get "This book has X themes and this author liked it" without getting to see the actual plot unless I fully select the book, which sometimes resets my search to the top of the list.
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Lucas Fowler
November 14, 2024
I don't know what I'd do without Libby, absolutely love the app! Except one little thing.... Between audiobook chapters, the app pauses for the briefest moment. When that happens, if I'm in an app that has any sound (like the game I constantly play) the audiobook stops playing. It's a constant, daily frustration. 🥺
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L. -Miche-
November 14, 2024
I really miss Overdrive. I seem to have one problem after another with Libby. The newest issue: Tags aren't working (apparently, they haven't been saving or syncing for a while now, and all the categorizing I've done over the last few months is gone). I can tag something, but if I back out and open the book again, no tags appear. When I try to remove an existing tag (e.g., wish list), it will come back. Tagging works on the web and in the Apple app, so this seems to be an Android problem.
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What's new

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