Hoopla Digital

Name: Hoopla Digital
Rating: 4.8 (1303168 reviews)
Author: Midwest Tape, LLC

Books, Comics, Movies & more

Free

1.3M Ratings
Ages

13+
In-App Controls
Category

Books
Developer

Midwest Tape, LLC
Language

EN
+ 2 More
Size

99.7
MB

Discover limitless entertainment and knowledge with Hoopla Digital. Access more than 1.5 million audiobooks, eBooks, comics, graphic novels, manga, music, movies, TV, and more with BingePass. Read, listen, and watch 24/7 without ads or late fees, free with your library card! eBooks: From gripping mysteries to thought-provoking non-fiction; heartwarming romance to captivating historical tales, hoopla's vast eBook collection celebrates diversity by offering titles that resonate with readers from all walks of life. Audiobooks: Turn your commute, workout, or leisure time into an enriching experience with our extensive audiobook collection. Listen to captivating narrations by talented performers that bring stories to life. Movies and TV: Hoopla's expansive video content library offers popular movies, TV shows, and BingePasses for every age and interest. Whether you're in the mood for Hollywood blockbusters or indie gems, you'll find it all here. Music: From chart-topping hits to hidden gems, dig into a music library that suits your every mood. Create playlists, check out new artists, and enjoy uninterrupted album streaming. Or use the shuffle feature to have songs randomly played from one album or all albums you have currently borrowed. Comics and Manga: Read classic comic, graphic novel, and manga series, discover fresh titles, and follow your favorite characters on exciting adventures. Our groundbreaking ActionView reading technology brings comics and manga to life with a panel-by-panel reading experience. Hoopla BingePass: With just one borrow, get unlimited access to entire collections of content for a limited time. It’s a great way to explore awesome online content Stream or Download: With no waiting, titles can be streamed immediately or downloaded to phones or tablets for offline enjoyment. Apple CarPlay: Access your favorite content on the go—whether you're embarking on a road trip or just running errands—by integrating your entertainment experience with your vehicle using Apple CarPlay. Easy Access: Seamlessly switch between devices and pick up right where you left off. Your bookmarks sync across platforms, ensuring you never lose your place in a great story. Dark Mode: Enjoy reading and browsing comfortably in low-light environments with Hoopla's Dark Mode. Enhance your viewing experience and reduce eye strain during nighttime use. Hoopla puts your public library at your fingertips—all you need is a library card. Download the app today! Content availability may vary based on library.

Ratings & Reviews

4.8

out of 5

1.3M Ratings

Love this app
08/09/2024

Flashlapcats
I have been using Hoopla for a little over two years now, to listen to audio books. In the beginning, it was frustrating, because the stories would quit once you got to the end of a streamed part. As time passed, they kept making updates to the sight, which cured the interruptions. Then they added more content to stream, besides the audio books, movies and music. I still mostly use the audio book feature. My son and I enjoy listening. The only thing I hope they consider changing is to decrease the price of the service that they charge libraries. I am lucky that the township that I work for lets school district employees have a library card. The library system in the community that I live in decided that Hoopla was too expensive for the amount of people that actually use the service and discontinued Hoopla. This was much to the disappointment and frustration of the patrons who use it. They kept limiting the number of collective borrows allowed to 4 in a month. Then, even that became too expensive so they made the decision not to carry it any longer. They suggested to the patrons to use Libby instead. I kept pointing out that you have to wait up to 6 months to listen to a new or requested book. I wonder now how long it will be before the my work library system has to cut it as well. Until then, I will continue to let my students and their families know what Hoopla is and how to get it from the library.
Love this app
08/09/2024

Flashlapcats

I have been using Hoopla for a little over two years now, to listen to audio books. In the beginning, it was frustrating, because the stories would quit once you got to the end of a streamed part. As time passed, they kept making updates to the sight, which cured the interruptions. Then they added more content to stream, besides the audio books, movies and music. I still mostly use the audio book feature. My son and I enjoy listening. The only thing I hope they consider changing is to decrease the price of the service that they charge libraries. I am lucky that the township that I work for lets school district employees have a library card. The library system in the community that I live in decided that Hoopla was too expensive for the amount of people that actually use the service and discontinued Hoopla. This was much to the disappointment and frustration of the patrons who use it. They kept limiting the number of collective borrows allowed to 4 in a month. Then, even that became too expensive so they made the decision not to carry it any longer. They suggested to the patrons to use Libby instead. I kept pointing out that you have to wait up to 6 months to listen to a new or requested book. I wonder now how long it will be before the my work library system has to cut it as well. Until then, I will continue to let my students and their families know what Hoopla is and how to get it from the library.
Problems
01/08/2024

vdguujfdt
I really think I could like this app of hoopla if you would fix a few problems. I use the Libby app and really like it. So I thought I would try hoopla as a second choice to Libby since they’re both related to the library. The first problem is I like to read my books with the two column choice. So when I select that option on hoopla, it duplicates a lot of sentences and paragraphs. And that happens too often for me. Then comes the bookmark, which is laughable. Sometimes the bookmark will take you to where you’re supposed to be and sometimes it won’t. You need to set up your bookmarks like Libby does. So that your bookmark tab is showing the whole time you are reading that page so it reminds you to disable the tab, while you are reading. the way you have it set up is very awkward. Another problem is that when you quit reading for a while during the day, or power down for the day, a lot of times when you go back to read, you have to start from the very beginning, instead of taking you right to your place that you left off. Another situation I ran into , when you go to the area where you read a few paragraphs of what a book is about so you’ll know whether you want to choose that book or not. A lot of the words are running together. Is there no proofreading? like I said, in the beginning, I think I could really like this app of hoopla, but the website itself needs quite a bit of work.
Problems
01/08/2024

vdguujfdt

I really think I could like this app of hoopla if you would fix a few problems. I use the Libby app and really like it. So I thought I would try hoopla as a second choice to Libby since they’re both related to the library. The first problem is I like to read my books with the two column choice. So when I select that option on hoopla, it duplicates a lot of sentences and paragraphs. And that happens too often for me. Then comes the bookmark, which is laughable. Sometimes the bookmark will take you to where you’re supposed to be and sometimes it won’t. You need to set up your bookmarks like Libby does. So that your bookmark tab is showing the whole time you are reading that page so it reminds you to disable the tab, while you are reading. the way you have it set up is very awkward. Another problem is that when you quit reading for a while during the day, or power down for the day, a lot of times when you go back to read, you have to start from the very beginning, instead of taking you right to your place that you left off. Another situation I ran into , when you go to the area where you read a few paragraphs of what a book is about so you’ll know whether you want to choose that book or not. A lot of the words are running together. Is there no proofreading? like I said, in the beginning, I think I could really like this app of hoopla, but the website itself needs quite a bit of work.
Problems
12/22/2019

casa viejo
Originally I liked the Hoopla app. Now not so much. It seems to be having what I consider insurmountable annoyances. It first started with the app freezing right in the middle of a book. I switched from using the app to read a book to just clicking on read now without using the app. That worked for a while but is now doing the same thing. Very frustrating when you have only so much time to read and then it freezes and you can’t. It isn’t my device at fault either since it happens not only on both tablets I use but also on my phone. I’ve written to them twice with no response about this problem. I was sure they would fix it but no such luck. Also it doesn’t sync between devices. The other library apps like Overdrive will pick up whatever page you’re on when you change devices. Not Hoopla. I’m sorry to say. This means endless scrolling page by page in order to get to your current page. Oh and the latest annoyance is after reading maybe 10 pages a banner pops up and you have to click out of the book, it comes up with the download page and you then have to click on resume in order to keep reading. It’s almost enough to quit using this app. The only reason I come back to it occasionally is they have some books that the other services do not..if you want to try an app that works the way it should try Libby. They’ve got their act together. Merry Christmas one and all. Hope the powers that be read this and fix these basic problems.
Problems
12/22/2019

casa viejo

Originally I liked the Hoopla app. Now not so much. It seems to be having what I consider insurmountable annoyances. It first started with the app freezing right in the middle of a book. I switched from using the app to read a book to just clicking on read now without using the app. That worked for a while but is now doing the same thing. Very frustrating when you have only so much time to read and then it freezes and you can’t. It isn’t my device at fault either since it happens not only on both tablets I use but also on my phone. I’ve written to them twice with no response about this problem. I was sure they would fix it but no such luck. Also it doesn’t sync between devices. The other library apps like Overdrive will pick up whatever page you’re on when you change devices. Not Hoopla. I’m sorry to say. This means endless scrolling page by page in order to get to your current page. Oh and the latest annoyance is after reading maybe 10 pages a banner pops up and you have to click out of the book, it comes up with the download page and you then have to click on resume in order to keep reading. It’s almost enough to quit using this app. The only reason I come back to it occasionally is they have some books that the other services do not..if you want to try an app that works the way it should try Libby. They’ve got their act together. Merry Christmas one and all. Hope the powers that be read this and fix these basic problems.
Great selection, dislike the collective daily limit
04/19/2024

Mamamuhs2
App gives me this message more often than not- “The collective daily borrow limit set by your library has been reached and will reset at midnight. Please browse and add titles to favorites so you can easily access them after midnight,” despite not having a single item checked out, often times for weeks at a time. I will try to check out a single book here and there (like one every 2 months), but will still receive this message, and it never “resets at midnight” like it says it should. Very frustrating…! Edit: I take back what I said, now understanding that this message I’m receiving (often late at night, when I have time to sit down to read, with young children being a factor in my life) is due to the total limit for daily borrows set by my library, not just for me individually. (It would be like going to the library at 6 PM and being told “sorry other people were here before you to check out all the books they wanted and so you can’t check a single item out”). Though that limit seems to be unfair, and a flawed option to even have available, I do now understand this is not entirely Hoopla’s fallout. That being said, I do really enjoy the app when I can check out a book. There are a lot of selections available compared to other online library apps! Thanks for the feedback and explanation of the problem I’ve been encountering… Will check things out earlier in the day from now on!

Developer Response
Thank you for using hoopla! Although hoopla delivers the content, your library determines and implements daily borrow limits. As a suggestion, you may have more success by logging in earlier in the day since daily limits reset at midnight. For questions or concerns pertaining to these limits, please contact your library directly. If you have other questions about hoopla, please email us at feedback@hoopladigital.com.
Great selection, dislike the collective daily limit
04/19/2024

Mamamuhs2

App gives me this message more often than not- “The collective daily borrow limit set by your library has been reached and will reset at midnight. Please browse and add titles to favorites so you can easily access them after midnight,” despite not having a single item checked out, often times for weeks at a time. I will try to check out a single book here and there (like one every 2 months), but will still receive this message, and it never “resets at midnight” like it says it should. Very frustrating…! Edit: I take back what I said, now understanding that this message I’m receiving (often late at night, when I have time to sit down to read, with young children being a factor in my life) is due to the total limit for daily borrows set by my library, not just for me individually. (It would be like going to the library at 6 PM and being told “sorry other people were here before you to check out all the books they wanted and so you can’t check a single item out”). Though that limit seems to be unfair, and a flawed option to even have available, I do now understand this is not entirely Hoopla’s fallout. That being said, I do really enjoy the app when I can check out a book. There are a lot of selections available compared to other online library apps! Thanks for the feedback and explanation of the problem I’ve been encountering… Will check things out earlier in the day from now on!
Developer Response 04/18/2024
Thank you for using hoopla! Although hoopla delivers the content, your library determines and implements daily borrow limits. As a suggestion, you may have more success by logging in earlier in the day since daily limits reset at midnight. For questions or concerns pertaining to these limits, please contact your library directly. If you have other questions about hoopla, please email us at feedback@hoopladigital.com.

Our team is continually making improvements to the Hoopla app to make it faster and more reliable. This update includes minor updates to the store listing. Thanks for supporting your local library!

Version 4.64.2

Oct 15

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