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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
- –
- Closest alternative
- Royal Road
Measured from Wattpad’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Wattpad01 · 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.
- 01 Royal Road royalroad.com
Online webfiction hosting platform
Very close - 02
US fanfiction website
Very close - 03 Very close
- 04
Quotev
Read or write a story, book, quiz, survey, or poll. Follow others who share your interests
Very close - 05
nonprofit online fanfiction repository operated by the Organization for Transformative Works
Very close - 06
Vocal
Vocal is a platform for supporting, discovering and rewarding creators.
Very close - 07
Russian language repository for fanfiction, based in Latvia
Very close - 08
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…
Very close - 09
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.
Very close - 10
【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!
Very close - 11
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!
Very close - 12
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.
Very close - 14 prodaman.ru 1 tracker
ПродаМан - самиздат для любителей проды
Самиздат для сетевых авторов и их читателей
Very close - 15
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!
Very close - 16
portal site where you can enjoy novels, manga, games, book information, etc. for free
Very close - 17
online publishing platform
Very close - 18 Jianshu jianshu.com
internet company
Very close - 19
Home — Weasyl
online art gallery
Very close - 20
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
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Wattpad’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Wattpad 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 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.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-
- Advertising
- Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- Marketing automation
- HubSpot TXT v=spf1 include:4728314.spf04.hubspotemail.net include:_spf.google.com…
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:4728314.spf04.hubspotemail.net include:_spf.google.com…
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust page source: cdn.cookielaw.org
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: vr8WwqDTFx0QSu6mfVHY1QmXLGy3aDInNhDVxGJFHWe2yEcuNwCAnw==
- Web servers
- OpenResty header server: openresty
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace TXT v=spf1 include:4728314.spf04.hubspotemail.net include:_spf.google.com…
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms85435872
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:4728314.spf04.hubspotemail.net include:_spf.google.com…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-200.awsdns-25.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=j3kyFiDYtbl1GtVv
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=jAOhUk38pV1nC4BxVWA/Zfp/p4tFvyd80fDM8n5…
- DocuSign TXT docusign=c32d8ee9-b4fd-407f-a43e-fef18b2eccd2
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=Rx--LUruInggZ9sw1d91kB91zBuClxqbTAdG__XrJLI
- Miro TXT miro-verification=dc1dad461edf1750ee0fb4f5dbbcbbe1af52d762
- Slack TXT slack-domain-verification=zlLDK8zhvs4A2oPtjpEKknt1miVLConm6fhTu0f3
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 16/20
- Google Workspace 10/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on wattpad.com 9/20
- Cloudflare · not on wattpad.com 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 6/20
- Google Tag Manager 5/20
- SendGrid · not on wattpad.com 4/20
- Amazon SES 4/20
- jQuery · not on wattpad.com 4/20
- GlobalSign · not on wattpad.com 4/20
- Google Analytics · not on wattpad.com 4/20
- Microsoft 365 3/20
- Cloudflare Web Analytics · not on wattpad.com 3/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on wattpad.com 3/20
- Next.js · not on wattpad.com 3/20
- React 3/20