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BookWyrm

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BookWyrm is a social network for tracking your reading, talking about books, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next. Federation allows BookWyrm users to join small, trusted communities that can connect with one another, and with other ActivityPub services like...

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Application type

Platforms

  • Online
  • Self-Hosted
4.4 / 5 Avg rating (5)
31 likes
2comments
0 news articles

Features

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Properties

  1.  Privacy focused
  2.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Reading list
  2.  Fediverse
  3.  Decentralized
  4.  Catalog
  5. ActivityPub icon  Support for ActivityPub
  6.  Federated
  7.  Book Manager
  8.  Ad-free
  9.  Dark Mode
  10.  Book Reviews
  11.  No Tracking
  12.  User Rating

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  • okwithmydecay added Book Reviews as a feature to BookWyrm
    about 1 month ago
  • okwithmydecay rated BookWyrm  
    about 1 month ago
  • okwithmydecay and ij7zx liked BookWyrm
    about 1 month ago
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    POX added BookWyrm as alternative to Tome
    about 2 months ago
  • kaekazeh, UsayIron and ekroberts73 liked BookWyrm
    about 2 months ago
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    yyzzuu added BookWyrm as alternative to Bookmory
    2 months ago
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    JPDev added BookWyrm as alternative to Bookopedia
    3 months ago
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BookWyrm information

  • Developed by

    Mouse Reeve
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.4
  • Alternatives

    26 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

AlternativeTo Categories

News & BooksSocial & CommunicationsEducation & Reference

GitHub repository

  •  2,395 Stars
  •  268 Forks
  •  477 Open Issues
  •   Updated Mar 14, 2025 
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Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about BookWyrm, and it has gotten 31 likes

BookWyrm was added to AlternativeTo by N.A. Ferrell on Sep 5, 2021 and this page was last updated May 9, 2024.

Comments and Reviews

   
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RemovedUser
  
Top positive comment
Pending approval

I like that you can "import" books from other websites instead of adding them manually. The community also seems nice. The servers tend to get overworked more often than alternatives, but that's the price to pay with a small project like this.

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ngoomie
  
Positive commentDec 2, 2022

A bit janky in the state it's in now, but that's to be expected since it hadn't even had its first major release yet. Shows a lot of potential and it feels a bit more fun to use than e.g. Goodreads imo. Excited to see where it goes!

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What is BookWyrm?

BookWyrm is a social network for tracking your reading, talking about books, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next. Federation allows BookWyrm users to join small, trusted communities that can connect with one another, and with other ActivityPub services like Mastodon and Pleroma.

Track your reading

And what your friends are reading Update your reading status as you start and finish books, post status updates as you go, and set an annual reading goal.

Discover books

Recommendations from people, not algorithms See what your friends are reading, and get opinions from your community.

Share your thoughts

The way you want to Write reviews or post casual commentary as you go, and control who gets to see your posts with granular privacy settings.

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