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Goodreads
Who runs Goodreads, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest social book cataloging alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- librarything.com
Measured from Goodreads’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Goodreads01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Goodreads
Goodreads goodreads.com
Find and read more books you’ll love, and keep track of the books you want to read. Be part of the world’s largest community of book lovers on Goodreads.
Wikidata: social book catalog website (2006-)
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
02 · Privacy
What Goodreads tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 11 alternatives below has fewer; 7 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Goodreads’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Goodreads
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Goodreads, thumbs down if it isn’t.
20 of the 60 sites closest to Goodreads match.
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Avis de musiques, films, jeux vidéo, BD, livres et séries TV à découvrir sur SensCritique
Donnez votre avis sur la culture et découvrez les avis de vos amis. Votre collection en ligne accessible à tout moment sur Senscritique.
Very close - 02
豆瓣
提供图书、电影、音乐唱片的推荐、评论和价格比较，以及城市独特的文化生活。
Very close - 03
AniList: Track, Discover, Share Anime & Manga
Track, discover, and share anime and manga with AniList. Discover top-rated and popular shows through reviews and recommendations. Sign up for free!
Very close - 04
MyAnimeList.net - Anime and Manga Database and Community
Welcome to MyAnimeList, the world's most active online anime and manga community and database. Join the online community, create your anime and manga list, read reviews, explore the forums, follow news, and so much more!
Very close - 05
Welcome to Open Library | Open Library
Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Read, borrow, and discover more than 3M books for free.
Very close - 06
Instagram
Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.
Very close - 07
LinkedIn: Log In or Sign Up
1 billion members | Manage your professional identity. Build and engage with your professional network. Access knowledge, insights and opportunities.
Very close - 08
はてな
はてなが運営するポータルサイト。ブログもウェブアルバムもニュースも、はてながあればネットがさらに便利になります。
Very close - 09
Comick has a new home — comick.dev
Comick.io is now Comick.dev: your manga and anime tracker, database, and community. Discover our next chapter.
Very close - 10
Tumblr
Tumblr is the place you go to be yourself on the internet. No performance, no perfection. Just you, and the people who get it.
Very close - 11
Meetup | Find Local Groups, Events, and Activities Near You
Find Meetup events, join groups, or start your own. Make new friends and connect with like-minded people. Meet people near you who share your interests.
Very close - 12
Deine Plattform für Petitionen · Change.org
Mehr als 500.000.000 Menschen setzen sich in ihrem Umfeld für Veränderungen ein. Mach mit.
Close - 13
Best Free Online Dating Site & App - Friends, Chat, Flirt | Badoo
Join Badoo’s community - the best free online dating app. Chat before you match, meet & date people in your area or make new friends from all over the world.
Close - 14
Vocal
Vocal is a platform for supporting, discovering and rewarding creators.
Close - 15
Client Challenge
American hosting service, owned by Scribd, for professional content including presentations, infographics, documents, and videos
Close - 16
A-Z Quotes | Quotes for All Occasions
Discover inspirational quotes, collect and share famous and rare quotes. Create beautiful and unique picture quotes in one click. Sayings from famous authors, movies and people.
Very close - 17
DeviantArt - The Largest Online Art Gallery and Community
DeviantArt is where art and community thrive. Explore over 650 million pieces of art while connecting to fellow artists and art enthusiasts.
Close - 18
Answers - The Most Trusted Place for Answering Life's Questions
Answers is the place to go to get the answers you need and to ask the questions you want
Very close - 19
photo sharing website
Close - 20
Hornet | Hornet, the Queer Social Network
Meet, chat and connect with 100 million+ queer men worldwide
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Goodreads’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Goodreads uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Goodreads adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 9 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,200
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 128 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Goodreads’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- React page source: data-reactid=
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: _5VYoHmoe-a39ATWwwiqbhDYZZjO_pEV75GxhTccqyXhlg1Aig_JqQ==
- Languages & backends
- Ruby on Rails page source: <meta name="csrf-param" content="authenticity_token"
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms94409222
- Email delivery
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 include:amazon.com include:sendgrid.net include:fdspfus.freshe…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-778.awsdns-33.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=ZT4AapXgobCpXIWoNcd7gtMjZyOUdr4EDFMnFUW…
- Canva TXT canva-site-verification=KNCIlqOo2g54DYpVP8KINQ
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: PfFjeZ9OK1RrUrKlmAPn_iZJ_vgHaZO1YQ-QlG2VsJs
Sitemaps
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What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace · not on goodreads.com 13/20
- Cloudflare · not on goodreads.com 10/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on goodreads.com 8/20
- Zendesk · not on goodreads.com 8/20
- Atlassian 7/20
- Apple Business · not on goodreads.com 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 5/20
- DocuSign · not on goodreads.com 5/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on goodreads.com 4/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on goodreads.com 4/20
- HubSpot · not on goodreads.com 4/20
- Microsoft 365 4/20
- Amazon SES · not on goodreads.com 3/20
- React 3/20
- Miro · not on goodreads.com 3/20