# Overdrive Reviews **Vendor:** Refractiv **Category:** [Website Builder Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/website-builder) **Average Rating:** 4.7/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 6 ## About Overdrive Overdrive is a smart site builder like no other. Overdrive is designed for organizations using Google Workspace in both business and education. It makes great-looking and powerful workspaces and sites, transforming Google Drive and other Google Workspace content into web pages automatically Features Google Drive integration Great choice of page types Wide range of site design options Powerful filters and search Strong security ## Overdrive Reviews ### 1. A great place to start reading! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andrew H. | Education Specialist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2021 **What do you like best about Overdrive?** Overdrive has most popular titles available in e-book or audiobook. Students do not need to go to the library to begin reading. With a connected device, students have access to a vast library of titles. **What do you dislike about Overdrive?** Because there are a limited number of licenses per book, often you will wait for months before being able to begin a book you've selected. Additionally, the 21-day maximum checkout period often leaves students unable to complete their books. **What problems is Overdrive solving and how is that benefiting you?** The best thing about Overdrive is being able to check out numerous books for free with your library card. Students are able to choose books for reading in class. ### 2. Automatic Website Builder **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jayanth T. | Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 06, 2022 **What do you like best about Overdrive?** The level of comfort it provides to design and develop websites with ease. This tool is smart which helps build websites or workspaces with multiple features on the go. **What do you dislike about Overdrive?** There is nothing to dislike in this tool. It works as expected and gives expected results. Pricing might be improved for a better reach to the developers. Support can be improved. **What problems is Overdrive solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use this tool to build multiple workspaces and websites as per the requirements very quickly and hassle free. This helped me save time making me ultimately more productive. ### 3. Essential suite to all businesses **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 17, 2021 **What do you like best about Overdrive?** It's an easy and straightforward suite/platform to use for our team. We have been highly relying on Google products and this is really helpful for our team to collaborate and increase work efficiency. **What do you dislike about Overdrive?** We are a little concerned about over-relying on Google products. That's the only thing I can think of right now. **What problems is Overdrive solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps our team work more efficiently, keeping everyone on the same page with an easy-to-view dashboard that shows everyone's progress, etc. ### 4. Great way to get books but definitely needs improvement **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 24, 2021 **What do you like best about Overdrive?** You can very easily and quickly rent books from the library and download them. **What do you dislike about Overdrive?** The app is pretty hard to use and not extremely intuitive. **What problems is Overdrive solving and how is that benefiting you?** I no longer have to go to the library to rent a book ### 5. Best Web Tool where you can Learn **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ammad T. | Business Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Overdrive?** I Have spend a lot of time here and i found a lot of learning things here where some areas were very user friendly. The base items like files being added, deleted, or moved and organized are pretty similar to other programs and technology - so no surprises, which is good. **What do you dislike about Overdrive?** Some items weren't where I would look for them, So, had to memorize where some things were. If was a little pricey for what was received. The Google Documents did transfer over easily. **Recommendations to others considering Overdrive:** We highly recommendation to other who want to learn through digitization, where he can learn a lot of things and make idea which he can do in his daily life **What problems is Overdrive solving and how is that benefiting you?** i think they need to create more feacture in it where it would be more better and better but overhall best web tool where you can find anything what you want ### 6. Best thing ever where you spend your time **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Muhammad J. | Business Technology Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2019 **What do you like best about Overdrive?** he base items like files being added, deleted, or moved and organized are pretty similar to other programs and technology - so no surprises, which is good. **What do you dislike about Overdrive?** The Google Documents did transfer over easily. Some items weren't where I would look for them, So, had to memorize where some things were. If was a little pricey for what was received. **Recommendations to others considering Overdrive:** Think through your day and the use the product for more than you thought. Compare this to free products that do the same day to day office environment and organization **What problems is Overdrive solving and how is that benefiting you?** its really help us to move forward and get up to date with the help of this ## Overdrive Discussions - [What does Overdrive do?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-does-overdrive-do) - [Is OverDrive still available?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-overdrive-still-available) - [What is the difference between OverDrive and Libby?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-difference-between-overdrive-and-libby) - [What does the OverDrive app do?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-does-the-overdrive-app-do) - [Can we purchase a book on demand](https://www.g2.com/discussions/14666-can-we-purchase-a-book-on-demand) - 1 upvote - [View Overdrive pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/overdrive/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-16+15%3A42%3A06+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=281f3e78-706d-4f51-aef2-5b1f11db3e1e&secure%5Btoken%5D=69fc164b11e0131ec45cb17a3fa6975a56b36ef978f0c2f8f67f3786a1e2281b&format=llm_user) ## Overdrive Features **Customizations** - Templates - Drag and Drop - HTML Input - Domain Name **Growth** - SEO - Site Analytics - Marketing Tools - E-Commerce - Hosting **Content** - Email Integrations - Content Management - Permissions - WordPress Tool **Support** - Customer Support ## Top Overdrive Alternatives - [WordPress.com](https://www.g2.com/products/wordpress-com/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (2,668 reviews) - [Google Workspace](https://www.g2.com/products/google-workspace/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (45,407 reviews) - [Constant Contact](https://www.g2.com/products/constant-contact/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (7,203 reviews)