Reviews for CloudLibrary

Not worth the time to download this app, not matter how many times ive uninstalled and reinstall it. Unless your interested in looking at the books they offer on the home page, fat chance if your going to find the one book you want through the search engine in the app. It never loads anything, […]

I’ve only used the app to play audio books, so I don’t know how good it is for ebooks. The audio book keeps playing in the background when notifications arrive, so you’ll miss part of the book while notifications are played. The task bar player lacks a play button, so when you pause playing an […]

This is perhaps the worst app I have ever had to use for reading digital content. A move to a new area meant a new library and this is their default app. I had previously used Libby and loved it! Decent selection of books, awful dictionary, app is buggy…I could go on, but most people […]

App has trouble finding books/authors using the search function. One day the book will show up when searching, the next day it just spins and spins until it times out or says the material can’t be found. App is also inconsistent with saved lists. It takes a really long time to load them, and when […]

The Audio Reader has gotten a lot better than my previous review. The book search could be better, especially when I’m following a longer series. The choices seem to be related to the library, not the app, so I’ve been fortunate to have good selections. One of the worst problems is the data size. It […]

Often, the app glitches when I try to view the homepage. If I click “trending audiobooks” it will bring up a blank, white page. I have the same issue when using the “search” option sometimes. It will say nothing is available. After I restart theapp, it’s there. Also, I would love to see how long […]

I love my library, I love getting audiobooks through my library. But Lord, I cannot love this app. For version after version it is crash after crash, bizarre unresponsiveness is the default mode it seems. I fight to get it to work and have to expect it to behave poorly. I hope my library isn’t […]

The selection of books isn’t great and you can only have 5 books total between borrows and hold. On several occasions, a book I had on hold went from available soon to on hold for ANOTHER 30 days within hours. I never got the option to actually borrow it. I only use the app in […]

a fairly new addition to my library, so order books aren’t readily available & new books may (most likely) have a hold time upto a year or longer. You can only “hold” 5 books for the wait list. I have gotten a few books where I didn’t like the narrator’s voice, so now I listen […]

Good points and Bad. I use Cloud Library for audio books. The player is fine, though it could use more flexible rewind control. CL selection is much better than Libby, but that may depend on your library. Libby has better search and tag. One big downside, CL is a HUGE space hog. It used over […]

awesome selection of e and audio books. only thing that is not perfect is that you have to hold some titles of ebooks and sometimes it says up to a month to get the title. other than that it’s really a great way to read current and past titles. I find myself using it more […]

good that i have access to library books but reader could use some work. the reader sometimes flashes to light mode for a sec while in dark mode. it jumps to the beginning of the chapter randomly. will also be good if the audiobook player shows progress of current chapter instead of whole book. It […]

This app gives error messages when you try to check out books, when you try to search for new books, and when you try to listen to an audiobook that you’ve finished before. And the only thing about this app that made it worth having instead of Hoopla was the “renew” option, which they’ve apparently […]

I hate that my local library switched to this app. I can only borrow/hold 5 books at a time. It’s slow to load options on the search screen. Searches have to be exact or it offers no results. It constantly has “web service errors” when I’m listening or even trying to borrow or return a […]

5 stars for years until the last few weeks. Login doesn’t work in phone or tablet app, but it does on the CL web interface and the library website itself, so the login is not the issue. I’ve cleared data/cache, uninstalled, rebooted, and reinstalled on both devices more times than I care to remember. The […]

5 stars for choices, 3 for ease of use. Love the choices! I’m listening to my first book now. The timer has to be reset every every time; I can’t select end of chapter for audiobooks. Too many keystrokes to set a bookmark. No dark mode? ! Also, from full speed to 80% isn’t adequate, […]

Not a bad app. Nice to have options. This is the one my library uses. I was able to download the audio book and listen to it offline. App would benefit from a couple of extra features. 1. Added filter capabilities when searching for books. Genre would be nice. 2. Would be nice to be […]

I wish the app had better listening controls, such as to stop playing at the end of the chapter rather than a # minute count. Doesn’t make sense when listening to a book. I also wish when reading a book in scroll format it didn’t stop at the end of a chapter then just jump […]

The app takes forever to do a search to the point where it will stall out and show a blank screen. And you have to get the title or author exactly correct or it won’t find anything at all, much less results of similar name. **Came back to reduce from 3 to 2 stars. After […]

This app has a lot of improvements to be made. 1. Users should be able to rate a book so that others can quickly decide if they want that book or not. It’s tiring having to Google each book to see how many stars before choosing to read it. 2. The method of searching is […]