Alternatives to hoopla

Library app for borrowing ebooks, audiobooks, comics, movies and music free with a library card. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

  • hoopla

    Library app for borrowing ebooks, audiobooks, comics, movies and music free with a library card.

    FreeProprietaryAndroidiOSWeb

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as hoopla.

  • Libby

    Borrows ebooks and audiobooks from a local library for free with a library card.

    FreeProprietaryAndroidiOSWeb

    Libby also borrows ebooks and audiobooks free with a library card, but licensed copies often mean wait lists rather than hoopla's instant streaming.

  • Palace

    A library app for borrowing ebooks and audiobooks from participating public and academic libraries.

    FreeProprietaryAndroidiOS

    Palace is a nonprofit-run mobile app for borrowing ebooks and audiobooks from participating libraries, with no web version and no comics or video.

Also worth comparing

These listings name hoopla as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.

  • Everand

    A subscription service for reading ebooks and listening to audiobooks on mobile and the web.

    PaidProprietaryAndroidiOSWeb

    hoopla lends ebooks, audiobooks, comics and video free with a participating library card, streaming instantly without holds, with a catalog that varies by library.

  • Marvel Unlimited

    A subscription comics reader app with access to more than 30,000 Marvel digital comics.

    PaidProprietaryAndroidiOSWeb

    hoopla lends comics, ebooks and audiobooks from many publishers free with a participating library card, though the catalog varies by library.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.