

But it’s fair to say the app was beginning to show its age in more recent years, requiring this shift.

The OverDrive app had been a part of readers’ workflows for many years, offering an easy way to access your digital library. Readers will be directed to use the newer digital app Libby instead. After announcing its plans to sunset the app and removing it from app stores last year, the company now says that OverDrive will fully shut down on May 1, 2023. Now, this longtime digital reading companion will be shutting down for good. Our digital collection will continue to be available as a browser-based experience.For over a decade, the OverDrive app has offered a service that allows institutions, including public libraries and schools, to lend their digital catalogs of e-books, audiobooks and other digital media to online users. OverDrive will continue to provide help and support resources for the OverDrive app. When the OverDrive app is removed from app stores, users who already have it installed can continue to use it with no disruption. What does this mean for current OverDrive app users? Our OverDrive partner has notified us that they will be removing the OverDrive app from the Apple App Store, Google Play, and Microsoft Store in February 2022, and new users will only be able to download the Libby app going forward.
