It’s mind-boggling that the company who made the wonderful Destiny Quest app still has not succeeded in developing a halfway decent library catalog app to replace it. With school libraries as a major client for Follett Destiny and the print collection being a really key part of school libraries, they need a basic app for searching the print collection on iOS. Right now, this app requires logging in and going to a different app tab just to get to the basic search screen, and even then it only searches e-books by default. I understand that they’re a commercial company and really trying to encourage districts to purchase Follett e-books, but they’re failing to provide needed services to many school libraries. It’s too much work for students to log in just to do a quick search, especially younger ones.It is better than the original Destiny Discover app that didn’t remember our school and regularly had the little spinning circle for far too long.

First off I love that patrons can search, checkout, and read all in one app. However, I wish they would’ve included the features the Destiny Discover shortcut has like new releases, popular titles, ebooks, and audiobooks all displayed with book covers. This would certainly help younger readers and readers who are undecided about what they want to check out. As it is, a patron would have to know what they are looking for and type it into the search bar. Also, the app is defaulted to search ebooks, and if the user isn’t aware of this, they will often come back with no results. Patrons that use this new app have to login since there is no option to search as a guest user, which again makes it difficult for younger users. As another reviewer pointed out, there is no option to place titles on hold. It would be helpful for Follett to update existing apps, rather than continue to release new apps, as it is confusing to most users to try and keep up with which app they need to use.

I downloaded this app about a year ago, and it kind of worked then. I could see books I’d already checked out, and sometimes was allowed to search for new books. The audiobooks I checked out usually played just fine. However, as of November 2025, I cannot see any of my checked out books, and I keep getting a screen that says “Unable to process your request”. I have checked for an update, and there isn’t one. I guess I’m headed back to Libby!

This is much better than the version I had been using. Searches quickly and gives me basic information about titles. I use this app on my phone as I’m walking around the library helping students find books. I no longer have that sense of absolute dread that I had before tapping to open the previous “app” which was no more than a shortcut and NEVER worked efficiently or even correctly.I know updates are coming but here’s what it still needs:-Ability to place holds -ability to browse titles or genres- linked authors name in details to find more books by the same author- default to “all materials” rather than “ebooks”It would be nice to have:- ability to access and create lists- ability to edit recently read list (just because I open an ebook doesn’t mean I’ve read it.)Again I’m using this app in the library as a handheld version of Destiny. I don’t expect all of the functionality of the desktop version but adding those suggested features would make the app more useful to librarians and patrons. It seems the developers were going more for an ebook reader vibe. Most of my ebooks and audiobooks are housed on a different platform so my patrons can’t access the content through the Destiny Discover app.