Libby, the Library App

4.8
452K reviews
10M+
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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
11 Nov 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
395K reviews
John L. Edwards
17 November 2024
Spartan, fully sufficient, easy to use. Fully works. I wish all apps were like this. Update 11/24 -- Most recent update is significantly slower than my prior version. Here's hoping tue next update with rectify this. 11/24 -- New software update appears to have corrected the slowness after a few minutes of testing. Here's hoping this is the case, and that the Libby engineers don't succumb to the clarion call of bloatware.
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Sarah Korth
20 November 2024
I love Libby. I've used it for years and it's really amazing. It's so easy to use and my library has acquired copies of so many books, it's rare I don't find something on Libby. Unfortunately the latest update has made it impossible for me to listen to an audio book. When I try, it continuously plays and pauses, multiple times a second, skipping back a bit each time. I unplug my headphones, it plays normally. Plug them back in, same thing. The latest update claims to fix it but didn't for me.
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Chevelle Snyder
20 November 2024
This app is, in my opinion, super easy to navigate for anyone who knows how to use a phone or tablet and read a book. It is mostly the same system as your public library, with a specific amount of copies for you to be able to read, as well as audio books (yet to try), a hold system for books that all the copies are taken, and loans must be returned in (in my experience) 21 days, to give everyone a chance to read the books. I really enjoy this app because it makes reading easy for anyone.
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What's new

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