Access the library's catalog, manage your account, and check out books from your mobile device. You can also find branches, reserve rooms, and explore library resources.
4.2(23 ratings)
Free
Top Picks for The Seattle Public Library
4.9😊(4.4M ratings)
Free
#3in Books
Access millions of free ebooks and audiobooks from your local library. Borrow titles instantly with your library card, download for offline enjoyment, and enjoy a customizable reading and listening experience.
What We Love
- 📚 Extensive library of books and audiobooks
- 🔍 Convenient search and browsing features
- 🔖 Easy to manage holds and returns
- 🔄 Seamless syncing across devices
- 🕰️ Automatic returns to avoid late fees
- 🎧 High-quality audiobook experience
- 🆓 Free access with library card
Room to Improve
- 🕰️ Long wait times for popular titles
- 🔍 Confusing search and filtering options
- 🤯 Buggy and unstable performance
- 🔒 Lack of offline reading/listening
- 📚 Limited selection in some genres
- 🔙 Unintuitive navigation and UI
KCLS by King County Library System
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📚 Books
3.9😞(16 ratings)
Free
Manage your library account conveniently from your mobile device. Discover new books, place holds, renew borrowed items, and easily locate library branches and their hours.
What We Love
- 👍 Easy to log in
- 👍 Fun books to read
- 👍 Excellent app
- 👍 Helpful for all ages
- 👍 Convenient for managing holds
- 👍 Convenient for managing returns
- 👍 Easy to renew books
- 👍 Easy to check due dates
- 👍 User-friendly interface
- 👍 Pleasing to the eye
- 👍 Easy to navigate
- 👍 Easy to search for known books
- 👍 Essential app
- 👍 Very convenient
- 👍 Well designed and implemented
- 👍 Can check books out
- 👍 Can hold books
- 👍 Works great
- 👍 Much improved from older version
Room to Improve
- 🐛 Unreliable app
- 🐛 Constant sign in issues
- 🐛 Failed sign in attempts count against user
- 🐛 Return book function doesn't work
- 🐛 Search bar coded too narrowly
- 🐛 No notifications for holds ready
- 🐛 App times out
- 🐛 Bookshelf features show blank
- 🐛 Glitching frequently
- 🐛 Kicks user out
- 🐛 Won't accept card or passcode
- 🐛 System errors after login prompts
- 🐛 Search results blank
- 🐛 Borrowing tab won't show books
- 🐛 Opening a book doesn't work
- 🐛 App crashes when viewing 'For Later' shelf
- 🐛 App loads website in all views
- 🐛 Navigation is a mess
- 🐛 Wasted space
- 🐛 Hard to find things
- 🐛 App gets worse with each update
- 🐛 Developers lack common sense
- 🐛 Borrowing section takes long to load
- 🐛 Borrowing section often blank
- 🐛 App not reliable
- 🐛 App didn't resize on iPad
- 🐛 App remains small on iPad
- 🐛 Confusing new UI
- 🐛 Horrid update
- 🐛 New version doesn't let you search by genre
- 🐛 New version doesn't let you search by type of item
- 🐛 App bounces user to multiple other apps
- 🐛 Forces multiple sign-ins
- 🐛 Doesn't work in the end
- 🐛 Completely useless
- 🐛 Confusing vocabulary
- 🐛 Counterintuitive product
- 🐛 Horrible new update
- 🐛 App is slow
- 🐛 Cumbersome new version
- 🐛 Less visually attractive new version
- 🐛 Missing 'On Order' filter
- 🐛 Lacks website functionalities
- 🐛 Awful new version
- 🐛 Not visual
- 🐛 Not user friendly
- 🐛 Worst App ever
- 🐛 Missing 'Just Ordered' option
- 🐛 Useless to user
- 🐛 Landing page shows holds, not borrowed
- 🐛 Takes long to open Borrowing page
- 🐛 Real drag to wait every time
- 🐛 Easier to use browser version
- 🐛 Black bars on top and bottom of iPhone X screen
- 🐛 App is adequate at best
- 🐛 App is unloved compared to website
- 🐛 Design is outdated
- 🐛 Keyboard and popup windows target non-Retina devices
- 🐛 App forced into portrait on iPad
- 🐛 Cannot be used in landscape on iPad
- 🐛 Does not scale to iPad screen
- 🐛 App is almost unusable due to instability
- 🐛 Very buggy
- 🐛 Features to refine searches not working
- 🐛 'Done' button doesn't work for refinements
- 🐛 'Done' or 'Cancel' button doesn't work for refinements
- 🐛 'Refine' feature stopped working
- 🐛 'DONE' button for refining results isn't working
- 🐛 App looks horrible on an iPad
- 🐛 App keeps crashing
- 🐛 App closes within seconds of opening
- 🐛 App tells user something's on hold when it's not
- 🐛 Lag with dialogue boxes
- 🐛 Invalid Patron Access error
- 🐛 App had a bunch of issues initially
- 🐛 App won't stay open
- 🐛 Redirected to mobile website for holds
- 🐛 Redirected to mobile website for ebooks
- 🐛 Slow when placing a hold
- 🐛 Slow when checking account
- 🐛 Difficulties with logging in/out
- 🐛 Difficulties with changing accounts
- 🐛 Can't suggest authors
- 🐛 Can't recommend other books in a series
- 🐛 Doesn't mark books read through Overdrive app
- 🐛 New version is confusing
- 🐛 New version is slow
- 🐛 New UI very difficult to use
- 🐛 Can't listen to audiobooks through Apple Music
- 🐛 App gets worse with each update
- 🐛 Developers don't have common sense
- 🐛 App times out
- 🐛 Bookshelf features show blank
- 🐛 Glitching frequently
- 🐛 Kicks user out
- 🐛 Won't accept card or passcode
- 🐛 System errors after login prompts
- 🐛 Search results blank
- 🐛 Borrowing tab won't show books
- 🐛 Opening a book doesn't work
- 🐛 App crashes when viewing 'For Later' shelf
- 🐛 App loads website in all views
- 🐛 Navigation is a mess
- 🐛 Wasted space
- 🐛 Hard to find things
- 🐛 App gets worse with each update
- 🐛 Developers lack common sense
- 🐛 Borrowing section takes long to load
- 🐛 Borrowing section often blank
- 🐛 App not reliable
- 🐛 App didn't resize on iPad
- 🐛 App remains small on iPad
- 🐛 Confusing new UI
- 🐛 Horrid update
- 🐛 New version doesn't let you search by genre
- 🐛 New version doesn't let you search by type of item
- 🐛 App bounces user to multiple other apps
- 🐛 Forces multiple sign-ins
- 🐛 Doesn't work in the end
- 🐛 Completely useless
- 🐛 Confusing vocabulary
- 🐛 Counterintuitive product
- 🐛 Horrible new update
- 🐛 App is slow
- 🐛 Cumbersome new version
- 🐛 Less visually attractive new version
- 🐛 Missing 'On Order' filter
- 🐛 Lacks website functionalities
- 🐛 Awful new version
- 🐛 Not visual
- 🐛 Not user friendly
- 🐛 Worst App ever
- 🐛 Missing 'Just Ordered' option
- 🐛 Useless to user
- 🐛 Landing page shows holds, not borrowed
- 🐛 Takes long to open Borrowing page
- 🐛 Real drag to wait every time
- 🐛 Easier to use browser version
- 🐛 Black bars on top and bottom of iPhone X screen
- 🐛 App is adequate at best
- 🐛 App is unloved compared to website
- 🐛 Design is outdated
- 🐛 Keyboard and popup windows target non-Retina devices
- 🐛 App forced into portrait on iPad
- 🐛 Cannot be used in landscape on iPad
- 🐛 Does not scale to iPad screen
- 🐛 App is almost unusable due to instability
- 🐛 Very buggy
- 🐛 Features to refine searches not working
- 🐛 'Done' button doesn't work for refinements
- 🐛 'Done' or 'Cancel' button doesn't work for refinements
- 🐛 'Refine' feature stopped working
- 🐛 'DONE' button for refining results isn't working
- 🐛 App looks horrible on an iPad
- 🐛 App keeps crashing
- 🐛 App closes within seconds of opening
- 🐛 App tells user something's on hold when it's not
- 🐛 Lag with dialogue boxes
- 🐛 Invalid Patron Access error
- 🐛 App had a bunch of issues initially
- 🐛 App won't stay open
- 🐛 Redirected to mobile website for holds
- 🐛 Redirected to mobile website for ebooks
- 🐛 Slow when placing a hold
- 🐛 Slow when checking account
- 🐛 Difficulties with logging in/out
- 🐛 Difficulties with changing accounts
- 🐛 Can't suggest authors
- 🐛 Can't recommend other books in a series
- 🐛 Doesn't mark books read through Overdrive app
- 🐛 New version is confusing
- 🐛 New version is slow
- 🐛 New UI very difficult to use
