The Best Goodreads AlternativesTop Social Networks and other similar apps like Goodreads

Goodreads is described as 'See what your friends are reading. Keep track of what you've read and organize your books into virtual bookshelves. Join a book club to discuss your favorite books. A better way to find good books to read!' and is a very popular Social Network in the news & books category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Goodreads for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, iPhone, Android, iPad and Android Tablet apps. The best Goodreads alternative is LibraryThing, which is free. Other great apps like Goodreads are Open Library, BookWyrm, StoryGraph and Openreads.

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  1. LibraryThing icon

    LibraryThing

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    LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for people who love to read. It allows users to easily create their own catalogs of books that they have read, own, or would like to read.

    84 LibraryThing alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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    Comments about LibraryThing as an Alternative to Goodreads
    Top Positive Comment
    Awfki
    4

    Books cataloging, by dorks, for dorks. No mega-corps involved.

    Top Negative Comment
    Alexandre ZANNI
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    There are a lot of import systems but you can't search by ISBN.

    JonNotJon
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    it's janky but the best and most comprehensive of the options available

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    • Most users think LibraryThing is a great Goodreads alternative.

    • LibraryThing is the most popular Web-based, Android & iPhone alternative to Goodreads.

    • LibraryThing is the most popular free alternative to Goodreads.

    • LibraryThing is Free and ProprietaryGoodreads is also Free and Proprietary
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    Open Library

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    Editable online catalog with user-sourced entries, metadata, cover art, and digital lending for millions of books, searchable by author, subject, or ISBN, including over one million Public Domain works available for download or borrowing via various digital formats.

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    Comments about Open Library as an Alternative to Goodreads
    N.A. Ferrell
    Positive
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    Open Library lacks some of Goodreads social functionality but it offers the same personal reading tracking, including reading challenges. It is easy to contribute new books or update information about books already in Open Library.

    Douze
    Positive
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    Clean interface, efficient search engine, open-source.

    LucaFinizio
    Positive
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    Nice to look, easy to contribute and open-source.

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    • Almost everyone thinks Open Library is a great Goodreads alternative.

    • Open Library is the most popular Open Source alternative to Goodreads.

    • Open Library is Free and Open SourceGoodreads is Free and Proprietary
    • Open Library is Lightweight and Privacy focusedGoodreads is not according to our users
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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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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
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    Comments about BookWyrm as an Alternative to Goodreads
    RemovedUser
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    I like BookWyrm as an alternative to many known services because of the ActivityPub-approach and the already great level of maturity in the current code stages. Bringing your own instance online (or joining one) is by far no rocket science and supporting native S3-integration for storing media files is built in. Definitely one of the best ActivityPub-projects, fitting in the footsteps of Mastodon or Pixelfed!

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Almost everyone thinks BookWyrm is a great Goodreads alternative.

    • BookWyrm is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Goodreads.

    • BookWyrm is Free and Open SourceGoodreads is Free and Proprietary
    • BookWyrm is Privacy focused and LightweightGoodreads is not according to our users
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    StoryGraph

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    The StoryGraph helps you track your reading and choose your next book based on your mood and your favorite topics and themes.

    36 StoryGraph alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
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    Comments about StoryGraph as an Alternative to Goodreads
    mrmbl
    Positive
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    Great recommendations, much more focused on what a book is like (instead of its star ratings), and not owned by Amazon. I've been looking for a Goodreads alternative for a long time, and for me, this one is it.

    Paulina Ruiz
    Positive
    0

    It's more straightforward and less biased. Also less reliant on star ratings and reviews are hidden more towards the end. The content warnings are also very useful

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
    Positive
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    Easy to use interface, better personalized recommendations with adjustable preferences, easy synchronization with challenges like BookRiot Read Harder, ability to filter read and to-read piles

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    • Almost everyone thinks StoryGraph is a great Goodreads alternative.

    • StoryGraph is the most popular iPad & Android Tablet alternative to Goodreads.

    • StoryGraph is Freemium and ProprietaryGoodreads is Free and Proprietary
    • StoryGraph is Privacy focused and LightweightGoodreads is not according to our users
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    Openreads

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    An Android app for keeping track of books you have read and want to read.

    26 Openreads alternatives

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    • F-Droid
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    inventaire.io

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    Inventaire is a book sharing webapp, inviting everyone to make the inventory of their books, define what they want to do with it (giving, sharing, selling), as well as who should be able to see it (shared publicly, or only visible to your friends and groups).

    34 inventaire.io alternatives

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    Comments about inventaire.io as an Alternative to Goodreads
    Florian Schmidt
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    It is not owned by Amazon, and book data is linked openly with the Wikidata project for everyone, not closed down for the owner alone.

    arndtadler
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    inventaire.io is a good Idea but does not have the Community functions of goodreads. If you just Want to store you're book lists it is an interesting alternative and it is even possible to import from goodreads.

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    • Most users think inventaire.io is a great Goodreads alternative.

    • inventaire.io is Free and Open SourceGoodreads is Free and Proprietary
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    Hardcover

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    Track every book, share them with the world (or don't) and find new life-changing reads.

    23 Hardcover alternatives

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    • Freemium (Subscription)
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    neotrino
    Positive
    2

    Very fully featured, and in active development

    gramblo353
    Positive
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    It's not owned by a megacorp and the UI is very pleasing to the eye

    Guest
    Positive
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    Very good alternative but lacks users

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Almost everyone thinks Hardcover is a great Goodreads alternative.

    • Hardcover is Freemium and ProprietaryGoodreads is Free and Proprietary
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    ratehouse

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    Ratings, reviews, discussions, recommendations, lists for all media genres: music, movies, tv shows, books, video games, and podcasts. Like IMDb or Goodreads, but with more media types. Join ratehouse to consolidate your entertainment and art interests.

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    rate.house is a media database to rate, track, and discover music, movies, TV, books, games, and podcasts.
     
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    neotrino
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    For like movies and stuff, not a proper alternative

    Guest
    Positive
    1

    Looks better and has more types of things.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    tomhorford
    Positive
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    rate.house has books, music, movies, TV, video games, and podcasts. And it looks better.

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    • Most users think ratehouse is a great Goodreads alternative.

    • ratehouse is Free and ProprietaryGoodreads is also Free and Proprietary
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    Literal

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    Track what you're reading, follow friends and join clubs to collectively explore the ideas of the world's greatest authors.

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    • Free
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    BookBrainz

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    BookBrainz is a project to create an online database of information about every single book, magazine, journal and other publication ever written. We make all the data that we collect available to the whole world to consume and use as they see fit.

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    Comments about BookBrainz as an Alternative to Goodreads
    Douze
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    BookBrainz is very much a work in progress, but aims to become the Discogs of books, with reivews and quotes and all. While it's very much work-in-progress, and in a very limited usable state, the project is commendable and would highly benefit from contributors like YOU :)

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    • BookBrainz is Free and Open SourceGoodreads is Free and Proprietary
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    Tome

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    Join a vibrant community of fantasy readers to share memes, fan art, and book recommendations. Rate and organize reads into customizable collections, follow creators, and enjoy an ad-free, spoiler-protected environment with no AI interference.

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    • Free
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    WorldCat

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    WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services. WorldCat libraries are dedicated to providing access to their resources on the Web, where most people start their search for information.

    58 WorldCat alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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    Comments about WorldCat as an Alternative to Goodreads
    Alexandre ZANNI
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    Goodreads is a book-tracking application while Worldcat is a library search engine.

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    • WorldCat is Free and ProprietaryGoodreads is also Free and Proprietary
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