Alternatives and competitors

Sites like addthis.com

The 20 closest social sharing widgets alternatives to addthis.com, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 5 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to addthis.com? The closest matches are ShareThis, AddToAny and Canva. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.

Neighbours: k = 20
Sites searched: 4,032
Vector: 384-d
Query: 17 ms

01 · Entity

About addthis.com

addthis.com

Technical Difficulties

Wikidata: social bookmarking service

Top 10K · #2,920 English 5 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026

Visit addthis.com

Summary by Claude

AddThis was a free social sharing and bookmarking widget for websites, owned by Oracle and since discontinued. The domain now shows only an Oracle error page.

Who it’s for: Website publishers and bloggers
Business model: Behavioral data and advertising

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to addthis.com’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). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to addthis.com

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

Only in English

We can’t read addthis.com’s homepage (HTTP 403), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.

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ShareThis sharethis.com Top 10K English

ShareThis | Share Buttons | Website Tools | Behavioral Intelligence

Discover how social sharing tools can drive traffic and help you understand consumer intent for better targeting and personalization.
Very close cos 0.932
02
AddToAny addtoany.com Top 1K English

AddToAny: Share Buttons by the Universal Sharing Platform

Get share buttons for your website visitors to share content on any social sharing service. AddToAny is the universal sharing platform for websites and apps.
Very close cos 0.923
03
Canva canva.com Top 1K English

Canva

online graphic design platform
Very close cos 0.905
04
SlideShare slideshare.net Top 1K English

Client Challenge

American hosting service, owned by Scribd, for professional content including presentations, infographics, documents, and videos
Very close cos 0.904
05
Slashdot slashdot.org Top 10K English

Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters, & software

Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters. Timely news source for technology related news and B2B software reviews & comparisons.
Very close cos 0.902
06
Habr habr.com Top 10K English

Publications / My feed / Habr

collaborative blog
Very close cos 0.900
07
Drupal drupal.org Top 10K English

Client Challenge

free and open-source web content management system
Very close cos 0.899
08
Product Hunt producthunt.com Top 10K English

product discovery website
Very close cos 0.898
09
ResearchGate researchgate.net Top 1K English

ResearchGate - Temporarily Unavailable

commercial scientific social network
Very close cos 0.897
10
XDA Developers xda-developers.com Top 10K English

XDA

The world’s best source for computing news, reviews, editorials guides, and more.
Very close cos 0.900
11
Instructables instructables.com Top 10K English

Yours for the making

Instructables is a community for people who like to make things. Come explore, share, and make your next project with us!
Very close cos 0.895
12
GitHub github.blog Top 10K English

Home - The GitHub Blog

Updates, ideas, and inspiration from GitHub to help developers build and design software.
Very close cos 0.895
13
Boing Boing boingboing.net Top 10K English

Boing Boing - A Directory of Mostly Wonderful Things

Boing Boing is the Web's favorite site devoted to technology, entertainment, and culture. Launched in 1989 as a print 'zine and still...
Very close cos 0.896
14
Quizlet quizlet.com Top 10K English

Captcha Challenge…

online studying platform
Very close cos 0.894
15
SurveyMonkey surveymonkey.com Top 1K English

SurveyMonkey: The World’s Most Popular Survey Platform

Easily create surveys and forms with AI and templates for employee and customer feedback, market research, event registrations and more. Get started free.
Very close cos 0.894
16
W3Schools w3schools.com Top 10K English

W3Schools Online Web Tutorials

Well organized and easy to understand Web building tutorials with lots of examples of how to use HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, Python, PHP, Bootstrap, Java, XML and more.
Very close cos 0.894
17
Dribbble dribbble.com Top 10K English

promotion & networking platform for digital designers and creatives
Close cos 0.893
18
MakeUseOf makeuseof.com Top 10K English

MUO - Technology, Simplified.

MUO is your guide to modern tech. Learn how to make use of the tech and gadgets around you, and discover cool stuff on the internet.
Very close cos 0.897
19
How-To Geek howtogeek.com Top 10K English

How-To Geek - We Explain Technology

We explain technology. Learn more with our articles, reviews, tips, and the best answers to your most pressing tech questions.
Very close cos 0.896
20
Khan Academy khanacademy.org Top 10K English

Client Challenge

non-profit educational organization
Close cos 0.893

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to addthis.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones addthis.com uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What addthis.com is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

Built with

Fonts: Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Roboto:wght@400;500&display=swap
CDN: Akamai header server: AkamaiGHost
Email hosting: Proofpoint MX mxa-00069f01.gslb.pphosted.com
DNS hosting: Akamai Edge DNS NS a18-67.akam.net
SaaS tools (verified in DNS): GlobalSign TXT globalsign-domain-verification=Wq9iztGUzQcBBi1OLrEOlXtefwOzX7yfvhbsw-…

Stack changes

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what addthis.com adds or drops shows up here.

What competitors use

Across the 20 closest sites.