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OverDrive
Who runs OverDrive, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest library digital lending alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Hoopla Digital
Measured from OverDrive’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit OverDrive01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs OverDrive
OverDrive overdrive.com
Thousands of libraries & schools offer free digital content thru OverDrive's suite of products/services. Learn more about Libby, Kanopy, Sora & TeachingBooks.
Wikidata: American digital distributor of eBooks, audiobooks, music, and video titles
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What OverDrive tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 16 alternatives below has fewer; 7 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on OverDrive’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to OverDrive
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to OverDrive, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
North American digital media streaming service for public libraries to provide for their patrons
Very close - 02 kanopy.com No trackers
Streaming service for libraries
Very close - 03
Homepage | Bibliotheca
Bibliotheca is creating the library of tomorrow, while engineering the solutions that help engage people, connect communities, and evolve service today.
Very close - 04
Client Challenge
digital library
Very close - 05
Scribd: Home to the world’s documents.
Get to the source. Specialized knowledge on any topic, and answers you won’t find anywhere else. Home to the world’s documents, 300M+ and counting.
Very close - 06
Gale: Historical Archive, Educational & Library Resources
Gale, part of Cengage Group, provides historical archive, library solutions, and trusted educational resources for academic, K-12, and public libraries.
Very close - 07
digital newspaper distribution and technology company based in Canada
Very close - 08
Canadian subsidiary of Japanese e-commerce conglomerate Rakuten
Very close - 09
EBSCO - Research Databases, EBooks, Discovery Service
EBSCO is the leading provider of research databases, e-journals, magazine subscriptions, ebooks and discovery service for academic libraries, public libraries, corporations, schools, government and medical institutions
Very close - 10
♫ TuneCore: Digital Music Distribution Services | Start Now!
Sell your music worldwide with our digital music distribution services & enjoy your royalties! Get your music online in 150+ stores. FREE SIGNUP! ✔
Very close - 11
Электронная библиотека MyBook — читайте книги в онлайн библиотеке. Новинки и бестселлеры литературы в библиотеке электронных книг.
В электронной библиотеке MyBook можно прочитать более 1125000 электронных книг. Для онлайн чтения доступны шедевры современной и классической литературы. Новинки и бестселлеры, отзывы, рекомендации, популярные авторы.
Very close - 12 ByWater Solutions bywatersolutions.com
Open source software company
Very close - 13
Draft2Digital
Very close - 14
YUMPU - Publishing digital magazines worldwide
YUMPU releases magazines, documents and catalogs on the internet. Publish for free. Gain new readers and costumers worldwide.
Very close - 15
Elementary Learning Experience Platform | Seesaw
Seesaw is a Learning Experience Platform with 25M+ users, enhancing elementary education, engagement, and school culture while improving academic success.
Very close - 16
Amuse
Empowering independent artists, teams and labels around the world with an alternative to the traditional industry model.
Very close - 17
Audible | Listen to Audiobooks, Podcasts, & Originals
Try Audible free for 30 days. Discover best-selling audiobooks, free podcasts, and exclusive Audible Originals. Listen offline with the Audible app.
Very close - 18 proquest.com Top 10K
set of journals
Very close - 19
Storytel International - Audiobooks and eBooks for everyone
Read in bed – listen on the road. Explore over 800 000 books and have a laugh, rewind, or gain a new perspective.
Very close - 20
Audiobooks.com | Get 3 Audiobooks Free
Signup for a free trial and get 3 audiobooks free. Audiobooks.com Members get free access to 10,000+ audiobooks, exclusive offers, and so much more!
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles OverDrive’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones OverDrive uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what OverDrive adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 10 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 44 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to OverDrive’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
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- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT v=spf1 ip4:207.54.136.3 ip4:207.54.136.2 ip4:207.54.136.4 include:_sp…
- Proofpoint MX mxb-0057c701.gslb.pphosted.com
- Email delivery
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 ip4:207.54.136.3 ip4:207.54.136.2 ip4:207.54.136.4 include:_sp…
- DNS hosting
- Azure DNS NS ns3-05.azure-dns.org
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=Br4EabUYyGqVOFO5dQFoeMbXNsHOTrqFRtG7hsZ…
- Canva TXT canva-site-verification=dQhk03PhyvIE_RUfjl8qZQ
- DocuSign TXT docusign=2144f067-4ef1-41c0-8c8e-ccee63ee0ec9
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: w23kN0ygbxxrf4-Z6ITOgUY8Gy_QZTkQ2dyJbAhDYyA
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=ywzlhjiwei4pz4qt6gryr1jfudusjk
- Salesforce TXT v=spf1 ip4:207.54.136.3 ip4:207.54.136.2 ip4:207.54.136.4 include:_sp…
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Microsoft 365 13/20
- Atlassian 10/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on overdrive.com 10/20
- Google Workspace · not on overdrive.com 9/20
- Zendesk · not on overdrive.com 9/20
- Next.js · not on overdrive.com 8/20
- React · not on overdrive.com 8/20
- Meta Business Suite 8/20
- Amazon SES · not on overdrive.com 7/20
- Cloudflare · not on overdrive.com 5/20
- Proofpoint 5/20
- Google Fonts · not on overdrive.com 5/20
- jQuery · not on overdrive.com 5/20
- Apple Business · not on overdrive.com 5/20
- Zoom · not on overdrive.com 5/20