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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

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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

Fewer trackers than WattpadNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

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

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 and search numbers · 19 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,217
Vector
384-d
Query
59 ms

Built with

JavaScript frameworks
  • React implied by Remix (page source: window.__remixContext)
  • Remix page source: window.__remixContext
Tag managers
Advertising
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
Email hosting
Email delivery
  • Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:4728314.spf04.hubspotemail.net include:_spf.google.com…
DNS hosting
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

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