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CLUSTER AUDIOBOOKS-LIBRARY-MOBILE · 6 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2016-12-12

Library ebook and audiobook lending apps

The cluster comprises mobile and digital apps that let users borrow ebooks, audiobooks, and other media from public, school, or community libraries using a library card, often with built-in readers and offline access. Entries appear intermittently between January 2013 and October 2025, showing no clear trend in the dated history. The traction leaders are ePlatform Digital Libraries, Hoopla: Your Library Anywhere, and Sora, by OverDrive Education, though all show zero stars on the activity signal.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

JAN 2013: 1SEP 2014: 1DEC 2016: 1MAY 2018: 1AUG 2021: 1APR 2023: 1
JAN 2013APR 2023

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 6 unlabelled

Operator · 4 commercial · 2 enterprise

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 6 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01ePlatform Digital Libraries0★1 molivecommercialLibrary lending app that lets students and library members borrow and read ebooks and audiobooks from their school or public library, with offline access and synchronized progress.
  2. 02Hoopla: Your Library Anywhere0★1 moliveenterpriseDigital library app that lets users borrow ebooks, audiobooks, comics, movies, music, and TV from their local public library.
  3. 03Sora, by OverDrive Education0★1 molivecommercialMobile app for borrowing and reading eBooks and audiobooks from a school library, with a built-in reader, audiobook player, and reading trackers.
  4. 04The Palace Project0★1 molivecommercialMobile e-reader app that lets users borrow and read or listen to library books and audiobooks using a library card.
  5. 05Libby, the library app0★2 moliveenterpriseMobile app that lets users borrow ebooks and audiobooks from local libraries for free using a library card.
  6. 06Blackstone Unlimited0★2 molivecommercialDigital library service that allows users to borrow and listen to audiobooks for free with a library card.

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