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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

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Goodreads

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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

No ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree plan

None of the 60 sites closest to Goodreads match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

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 and search numbers · 9 technologies
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Sites searched
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Vector
384-d
Query
493 ms

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