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Wattpad

Who runs Wattpad, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest online fiction publishing alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
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Closest alternative
Royal Road

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Wattpad

Wattpad wattpad.com

Wattpad connects a global community of millions of readers and writers through the power of story

Wikidata: online community themed around reading and writing

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What Wattpad 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

8 of the 12 alternatives below have fewer, 1 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
OneTrust
US company
3 tools
  • Advertising and retargeting

    Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.

  • Marketing and email tracking

    Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.

  • Tag manager

    Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Wattpad

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Wattpad, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Fewer trackers than WattpadNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English
  1. 01
    Royal Road royalroad.com

    Online webfiction hosting platform

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  2. 02
    FanFiction.Net fanfiction.net Top 10K

    US fanfiction website

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  3. 03
    webnovel.com Top 10K
    Compare webnovel.com with Wattpad →
  4. 04
    Quotev quotev.com No trackers

    Quotev

    Read or write a story, book, quiz, survey, or poll. Follow others who share your interests

    Compare Quotev with Wattpad →
  5. 05
    Archive of Our Own archiveofourown.org Top 10K

    nonprofit online fanfiction repository operated by the Organization for Transformative Works

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  6. 06
    Vocal vocal.media English 3 trackers

    Vocal

    Vocal is a platform for supporting, discovering and rewarding creators.

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  7. 07
    Ficbook ficbook.net Top 10K

    Russian language repository for fanfiction, based in Latvia

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  8. 08
    Kakuyomu kakuyomu.jp Top 10K Japanese No trackers

    無料で小説を書ける、読める、伝えられる - カクヨム

    様々なWeb小説を無料で「書ける、読める、伝えられる」、KADOKAWA × はてな によるWeb小説サイトです。ジャンルはファンタジー、SF、恋愛、ホラー、ミステリーなどがあり、二次創作作品も楽し…

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  9. 09
    litnet.com Top 10K Russian 3 trackers

    Читать книги онлайн бесплатно полностью, скачать в fb2, epub, mobi — «Литнет»

    Самая крупная литературная платформа и библиотека, которая превращает чтение и публикацию книг в удовольствие. Более 180 000 книг, которые можно бесплатно читать онлайн и скачать. Все популярные жанры: любовный роман, фэнтези, фантастика и другие.

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  10. 10
    estar.jp Japanese 4 trackers

    【エブリスタ】おすすめの携帯・web小説が無料で読める/小説投稿サイト

    【エブリスタ】は、おすすめ/人気の恋愛小説・ファンタジー小説・BL小説などを無料で読める小説投稿サイトです。大人の恋・学園・オフィスラブなど、細かなジャンルまで検索できます。エブリスタから誕生した作品も多数!誰にでも小説家デビューのチャンスがあります!

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  11. 11
    syosetu.com Top 10K Japanese 3 trackers

    小説家になろう - みんなのための小説投稿サイト

    日本最大級のWeb小説投稿サイト「小説家になろう」。作品数100万以上、登録者数240万人以上、小説閲覧数月間25億PV以上。パソコン・スマートフォンのどれでも使えて完全無料!

    Compare syosetu.com with Wattpad →
  12. 12
    GoodNovel goodnovel.com English 1 tracker

    GoodNovel - Read Web Novel Stories & Fiction Online

    GoodNovel offers abundant web novels in every genre, like Romance, Mystery, Fantasy, Sci-fi, etc. A must-have novel website & good novel app for book lovers.

    Compare GoodNovel with Wattpad →
  13. 13
    author.today Russian 2 trackers

    Книги читать онлайн бесплатно без регистрации, FB2 и EPUB, электронная библиотека

    Читать книги онлайн полностью бесплатно и без регистрации. Электронная библиотека современной литературы Самиздат Author.Today - читать и скачать книги онлайн с телефона или компьютера, полные версии, все жанры.

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  14. 14
    prodaman.ru 1 tracker

    ПродаМан - самиздат для любителей проды

    Самиздат для сетевых авторов и их читателей

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  15. 15
    Tapas tapas.io English 2 trackers

    Home | Spotlight

    Your home for the world’s most exciting and diverse web comics and novels. Discover stories you’ll love from all genres, only on Tapas!

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  16. 16
    Alphapolis alphapolis.co.jp Top 10K

    portal site where you can enjoy novels, manga, games, book information, etc. for free

    Compare Alphapolis with Wattpad →
  17. 17
    Medium medium.com Top 1K English

    online publishing platform

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  18. 18
    Jianshu jianshu.com

    internet company

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  19. 19
    Weasyl weasyl.com No trackers

    Home — Weasyl

    online art gallery

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  20. 20
    Tumblr tumblr.com Top 1K English 1 tracker

    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.

    Compare Tumblr with Wattpad →

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04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Wattpad 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 · 19 technologies
Neighbours
k = 20
Sites searched
9,192
Vector
384-d
Query
31 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Wattpad’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.

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