scribd.com
Scribd
Who runs Scribd, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest digital document library alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- SlideShare
Measured from Scribd’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Scribd01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Scribd
Scribd scribd.com
Get to the source. Specialized knowledge on any topic, and answers you won’t find anywhere else. Home to the world’s documents, 300M+ and counting.
Wikidata: digital library
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Scribd 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.
tracker that follows visitors
5 of the 14 alternatives below have fewer, 4 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Scribd
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Scribd, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 02
Issuu | Create Interactive Flipbooks on our Digital Publishing Platform
Issuu converts PDFs and documents into an interactive flipbook and marketing assets. Embed flipbooks onto your website and distribute online. Create yours with Issuu.
Very close - 03
Client Challenge
digital library
Very close - 04
Course Hero | Own the study hour
Instant access to millions of Study Resources, Course Notes, Test Prep, 24/7 Homework Help, Tutors, and more. Learn, teach, and study with Course Hero. Get unstuck.
Very close - 05
Speaker Deck | Easily Share Your Presentations Online
Speaker Deck is the best way to share presentations online. Simply upload your slides as a PDF, and we’ll turn them into a beautiful online experience. View them on SpeakerDeck.com, or share them on any website with an embed code.
Very close - 06
digital newspaper distribution and technology company based in Canada
Very close - 07
Digital Publishing and Content Experience Platform | Joomag
Joomag is a leading Content Experience Platform for creating and distributing high-design content — magazines, catalogs, brochures, proposals and reports that are personalized and interactive.
Very close - 08
YUMPU - Publishing digital magazines worldwide
YUMPU releases magazines, documents and catalogs on the internet. Publish for free. Gain new readers and costumers worldwide.
Very close - 09
Online digital publishing software / HTML5 flipbook maker
Very close - 10
Publuu | Digital Publication Maker
Turn your PDFs into stunning, interactive flipbook with Publuu! Easily create engaging content with realistic page-flipping. Start today now!
Very close - 11
FlippingBook | Flipbook Maker for Digital Publishing
Convert PDFs into online flipbooks with FlippingBook digital publishing tool. Brand your flipbook, share it with clients, track stats, and more.
Very close - 12
Calaméo - Publishing Platform for Documents and Magazines
Publishing platform for digital magazines, interactive publications and online catalogs. Convert documents to beautiful publications and share them worldwide
Very close - 13
Client Challenge
distributor of eBooks and other digital media
Very close - 14
OverDrive: Free ebooks, audiobooks & movies from your library.
Thousands of libraries & schools offer free digital content thru OverDrive's suite of products/services. Learn more about Libby, Kanopy, Sora & TeachingBooks.
Very close - 15
Online Flipbook Maker - Create Interactive Flipbooks | Flipsnack
Create flipbooks online using our interactive flipbook maker. Flipsnack is the easiest way to make brochures, magazines & catalogs. Upload PDF or design online!
Very close - 16
Piano | Data-Driven Customer Engagement Solutions
Welcome to Piano, the leading platform for data analytics, audience segmentation, and customer engagement. Discover how we help businesses grow through data-driven insights.
Very close - 17
Digital magazine subscriptions. Over 10,000 publications.
Read your magazines anytime, anywhere. Over 10,000 magazines at your fingertips on the world's largest digital magazine newsstand.
Very close - 18
Archbee — The First Knowledge Portal Platform
Build beautiful knowledge portals that are easy to navigate, search, share and contribute to: user guides, API docs, knowledge bases and SOPs in one platform.
Very close - 19
The knowledge layer for AI | GitBook
GitBook is a knowledge platform that connects your docs, product and users, answers user questions, and identifies knowledge gaps. Docs-as-code support & AI insights included.
Very close - 20
De Gruyter Brill
De Gruyter Brill | Over 300 years of publishing excellence
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Scribd’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Scribd 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 Scribd 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 · 20 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 23 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Scribd’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
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Payments
- Stripe page source: js.stripe.com/
- CDN
- Web servers
- Envoy header server: envoy
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms82626852
- Proofpoint MX mxb-00957a01.gslb.pphosted.com
- Email delivery
- Mailgun TXT v=spf2.0/mfrom v=spf1 include:_s00992988.autospf.email include:mailgu…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-2000.awsdns-58.co.uk
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=eURIxHjDOv6GMt8T
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=suO/cHhqQzi2PxMPyb8WEZvFWrAq3fuOv1RfohR…
- DocuSign TXT docusign=fd9b486a-4340-4798-abab-26ce168b0f1b
- GlobalSign TXT globalsign-domain-verification=Bo6R5k9s2Zwdk5OoeybGk6L2EHx_oV1TqLgGiM…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=GggGFvM_T09I1X94IiW555WcOjp5NmcZm-GVh406J44
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=svgb7p4y0mkb2o8bjoufff7qvp8f10
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-eOTOMtNqRWMP9Hwl6UWrtzxb
- Slack TXT slack-domain-verification=rE0mmFiijlRHx0MJFMrECYj8tKn4ziruI0Y2Bba6
- Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_qVwNF9TlQp6oTxlx4v4GaA
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Amazon Route 53 12/20
- Google Workspace · not on scribd.com 11/20
- Zendesk · not on scribd.com 11/20
- Amazon SES · not on scribd.com 9/20
- Meta Business Suite 8/20
- Microsoft 365 8/20
- Apple Business 7/20
- Atlassian 6/20
- Google Tag Manager 6/20
- Cloudflare · not on scribd.com 6/20
- nginx · not on scribd.com 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on scribd.com 5/20
- Fastly 4/20
- DocuSign 4/20
- Miro · not on scribd.com 4/20