Open Source Goodreads Alternatives

The best open source alternative to Goodreads is Open Library. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Goodreads and 12 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Goodreads are BookWyrm, lib.reviews, Openreads and inventaire.io.

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Open Library
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Free • Open Source
Online
23 Open Library alternatives
Editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published.
- - Open Library is the most popular Open Source alternative to Goodreads.
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Open Library Features
1. CrowdsourcedOpen Library uses suggestions, information, etc., from a large group of people to improve the quality of the content.
2. Full-Text SearchOpen Library lets you search for specific words or phrases from inside a document or database.
3. Ad-freeOpen Library doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
4. User RatingOpen Library supports user ratings and reviews to help you make up your mind.
Reading list
Wiki-like interface
Book Manager
REST API
Comments about Open Library as a Alternative to Goodreads
Almost everyone thinks Open Library is a great Goodreads alternative.
LucaFinizio
Nice to look, easy to contribute and open-source.
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Douze
Clean interface, efficient search engine, open-source.
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BookWyrm
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Free • Open Source
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Self-Hosted
17 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...
- - BookWyrm is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Goodreads.
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BookWyrm Features
1. DecentralizedBookWyrm is based on a decentralized infrastructure with no single entity controlling it.
2. Support for ActivityPubBookWyrm support ActivityPub, a open and decentralized social network protocol.
Reading list
Fediverse
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Book Manager
Federated
Comments about BookWyrm as a Alternative to Goodreads
Almost everyone thinks BookWyrm is a great Goodreads alternative.
RemovedUser
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!
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lib.reviews
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Free • Open Source
Review Website
Movie Database
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Self-Hosted
47 lib.reviews alternatives
We believe that the information we use to make decisions -- about what book to read, what place to stay at or what product to buy -- will be of higher quality if we organize it transparently, through an open community.
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lib.reviews Features
1. User Ratinglib.reviews supports user ratings and reviews to help you make up your mind.
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Reviews and Recommendations
Openreads
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Free • Open Source
Android
F-Droid
11 Openreads alternatives
An Android app for keeping tracks of books you have read.
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Openreads Features
1. Dark ModeOpenreads supports dark mode for comfortable usage in low light conditions.
2. Works OfflineOpenreads can be used without the need to connect to the internet.
3. Ad-freeOpenreads doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
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inventaire.io
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Free • Open Source
Social Network
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Self-Hosted
27 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).
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inventaire.io Features
1. Support for ActivityPubinventaire.io support ActivityPub, a open and decentralized social network protocol.
2. Crowdsourcedinventaire.io uses suggestions, information, etc., from a large group of people to improve the quality of the content.
Share books
Wiki-like interface
Book Manager
Multiple languages
Fediverse
Catalog
Comments about inventaire.io as a Alternative to Goodreads
Most users think inventaire.io is a great Goodreads alternative.
Florian Schmidt
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.
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arndtadler
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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BookBrainz
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Free • Open Source
Online
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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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BookBrainz Features
1. CrowdsourcedBookBrainz uses suggestions, information, etc., from a large group of people to improve the quality of the content.
Book search
Book Manager
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Comments about BookBrainz as a Alternative to Goodreads
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Douze
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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BiblioteQ
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Free • Open Source
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Linux
32 BiblioteQ alternatives
BiblioteQ strives to be a professional cataloging and library management suite. The SRU and Z39.50 protocols are used for retrieving data for books, journals, and magazines.
- - BiblioteQ is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Goodreads.
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Book Catalogue
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Free • Open Source
Android
37 Book Catalogue alternatives
This is a simple book catalogue application, to store a list of your books. Books can be added either manually, by ISBN, or by barcode.
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Book Catalogue Features
1. Ad-freeBook Catalogue doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
Book Manager
Catalog
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LearnAwesome
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Free • Open Source
Social Network
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10 LearnAwesome alternatives
A social network for learners to share reviews on learning resources like books, courses, apps, podcasts, newsletters, livestreams etc. Open-source and ActivityPub compliant.
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Reviews and Recommendations