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 50 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 inventaire.io.
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Goodreads alternatives are mainly Social Networks, but if you're looking for Library Managers or Ebook Libraries you can filter on that. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Goodreads.- Social Network
- Free • Proprietary
- 77 LibraryThing alternatives
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.
License model
- Free • Proprietary
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Country of Origin
United States
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- Online
- Android
- iPhone
LibraryThing Features
Comments about LibraryThing as an Alternative to Goodreads
Top Positive CommentTop Negative CommentAlexandre ZANNIThere are a lot of import systems but you can't search by ISBN.
Most Recent CommentJonNotJonit's janky but the best and most comprehensive of the options available
- 28 Open Library alternatives
Editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published.
License model
- Free • Open Source
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Country of Origin
United States
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- Online
Comments about Open Library as an Alternative to Goodreads
Most Recent CommentN.A. FerrellOpen 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.
DouzeClean interface, efficient search engine, open-source.
LucaFinizioNice to look, easy to contribute and open-source.
- 27 BookWyrm alternatives
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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Country of Origin
United States
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- Online
- Self-Hosted
Comments about BookWyrm as an Alternative to Goodreads
RemovedUserI 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!
- 29 StoryGraph alternatives
The StoryGraph helps you track your reading and choose your next book based on your mood and your favorite topics and themes.
License model
- Freemium • Proprietary
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Country of Origin
United Kingdom
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- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
Comments about StoryGraph as an Alternative to Goodreads
Most Recent CommentmrmblGreat 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 RuizIt'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
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
- 33 inventaire.io alternatives
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).
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Country of Origin
France
EU
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- Online
- Self-Hosted
inventaire.io Features
Comments about inventaire.io as an Alternative to Goodreads
Florian SchmidtIt is not owned by Amazon, and book data is linked openly with the Wikidata project for everyone, not closed down for the owner alone.
arndtadlerinventaire.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.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Platforms
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- F-Droid
License model
- Freemium • Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
Hardcover Features
Comments about Hardcover as an Alternative to Goodreads
neotrinoVery fully featured, and in active development
- 115 ratehouse alternatives
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.
Top ratehouse Features
Comments about ratehouse as an Alternative to Goodreads
Most Recent CommentneotrinoFor like movies and stuff, not a proper alternative
Looks better and has more types of things.
tomhorfordrate.house has books, music, movies, TV, video games, and podcasts. And it looks better.
Books cataloging, by dorks, for dorks. No mega-corps involved.