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Hoopla pricing
Hoopla publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the libraries tools listed alongside it.
As of 1 September 2026, Hoopla pricing is free. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Free with a participating library card, capped by monthly borrow limit
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Hoopla plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hoopla | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
Where Hoopla stops being free
Hoopla, Free
- Free with an eligible library card
- Monthly borrow limit set by your library, commonly 5 to 15 items
- No holds queues, instant availability
No paid tier on record
Hoopla lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Hoopla feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- Instant borrowing
- Video and music
- Monthly borrow cap
- Comics and graphic novels
- Kids mode
- Offline downloads
People bring Hoopla in for a patron who wants to watch a specific movie or listen to an album tonight without waiting in a queue, a family wanting streaming video and music alongside books in one library-card app, a light-to-moderate reader whose habits fit comfortably inside a monthly borrow cap, someone using a roku or fire tv who wants library video content on the living room screen. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Hoopla are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Libraries
Too few libraries tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hoopla (this page) | Free | Free with a participating library card, capped by monthly borrow limit | - | |
| Libby | Free | Free with a participating library card, no subscription | - | vs Hoopla |
| Leafmap | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Hoopla |
| PDAL | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Hoopla |
| daisyUI | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Hoopla |
| Mantine | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Hoopla |
| Ant Design | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Hoopla |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Hoopla badges page.
Before you pay for Hoopla
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: a single tier at Free. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Hoopla runs on ios, android, web, roku, amazon fire tv, and is published by Midwest Tape, LLC of Holland, Ohio, United States. The full record is on the Hoopla review, and the rest of the category is under best libraries tools.
Hoopla pricing questions
- How much does Hoopla cost?
- Hoopla publishes a single tier, Hoopla, at Free.
- Does Hoopla have a free plan?
- Yes. The Hoopla tier costs nothing and covers free with an eligible library card, monthly borrow limit set by your library, commonly 5 to 15 items, no holds queues, instant availability.
- Which libraries tools can I use without paying?
- 8 of the 8 libraries tools listed alongside Hoopla have a free tier: Libby, Leafmap, PDAL, daisyUI, Mantine.
- What am I actually paying for with Hoopla?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a patron who wants to watch a specific movie or listen to an album tonight without waiting in a queue, a family wanting streaming video and music alongside books in one library-card app, a light-to-moderate reader whose habits fit comfortably inside a monthly borrow cap.
- Does Hoopla charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Hoopla prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Hoopla against before paying?
- The closest libraries tools in this directory are Libby, Leafmap, PDAL, daisyUI. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Hoopla covering price, platforms and features.