BiblioReads is a free and open source alternative Goodreads front-end focused on privacy.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Online


WorldCat is described as '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' and is an app in the education & reference category. There are more than 50 alternatives to WorldCat for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, iPhone, Android, iPad and Android Tablet apps. The best WorldCat alternative is Internet Archive, which is free. Other great apps like WorldCat are Goodreads, Discogs, LibraryThing and Google Scholar.
BiblioReads is a free and open source alternative Goodreads front-end focused on privacy.


Online marketplace offering a vast selection of new, used, rare, and out-of-print books from independent sellers, including first editions, signed copies, textbooks, fine art, and collectibles, with monthly discounts and worldwide shipping to readers.

AbeBooks is the most popular commercial alternative to WorldCat.
BookSurfAI analyzes your preferences and recommends books you’ll love! Find the books you want as quickly as possible with BookSurfAi's search engine.



Buy. Sell. Simple. The largest mobile marketplace for local buyers and sellers. Great Deals. Better than Classified Ads.



BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources. BASE provides more than 300 million documents from more than 10,000 content providers. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free (Open Access).

Buy and sell great things locally. More than 13 Million people are listing and discovering items in their neighborhoods. Wallapop is in major cities like NYC, Chicago, Miami, Philadelphia, Charlotte, DC, Los Angeles and many more.







Bibliotheca is a self-hosted personal library and reading tracker web app built with Flask. It lets you log, organize, and visualize your reading journey. Add books by ISBN, track reading progress, log daily reading, and generate monthly wrap-up images of your finished titles.


Bibliotheca is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to WorldCat.
A complete iOS companion for book readers: taking notes, tracking quotes, listing characters, saving new words and so on.



Discover comprehensive book information with just an ISBN number. Get covers, descriptions, and AI-powered overviews for any book.



The Digital Public Library of America, or DPLA, is a website that collects materials from museums, libraries, etc around the country and links to them, acting as a directory.



Find nearly any book: new, used, rare and textbooks. Get the best deal by comparing prices from over 100000 booksellers.


