Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Goodreads
The 20 closest social book cataloging alternatives to Goodreads, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 9 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Goodreads? The closest matches are MyAnimeList, Open Library and ResearchGate. 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
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01 · Entity
About Goodreads
Goodreads goodreads.com
Goodreads | Meet your next favorite book
Find and read more books you’ll love, and keep track of the books you want to read. Be part of the world’s largest community of book lovers on Goodreads.
Wikidata: social book catalog website (2006-)
Summary by Claude
Social cataloging website where users track books they have read and want to read, write and read reviews, get book recommendations, browse quotes and lists, and join discussion groups. Owned by Amazon.
- Who it’s for
- Readers and book lovers; authors and publishers
- Business model
- Advertising and author/publisher promotion
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Goodreads’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 Goodreads
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Goodreads, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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MyAnimeList.net - Anime and Manga Database and Community
Welcome to MyAnimeList, the world's most active online anime and manga community and database. Join the online community, create your anime and manga list, read reviews, explore the forums, follow news, and so much more!
Very close cos 0.914 - 02
Welcome to Open Library | Open Library
Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Read, borrow, and discover more than 3M books for free.
Very close cos 0.910 - 03
ResearchGate - Temporarily Unavailable
commercial scientific social network
Very close cos 0.904 - 04
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 0.903 - 05 Very close cos 0.899
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American social news aggregation website and discussion portal
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豆瓣
提供图书、电影、音乐唱片的推荐、评论和价格比较，以及城市独特的文化生活。
Very close cos 0.898 - 08
American online social media and social networking service
Very close cos 0.897 - 09
social network service for films
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De Gruyter Brill
De Gruyter Brill | Over 300 years of publishing excellence
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Penguin Random House
Committed to publishing great books, connecting readers and authors globally, and spreading the love of reading.
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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 cos 0.896 - 13
Bazaarvoice | The UGC Platform for Authentic Shopper Experiences
The leading UGC platform for authentic ratings, reviews, visual UGC, and review syndication that powers discovery, shopper trust, and higher ecommerce conversion.
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Simple Page
food focused online social networking service
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Wattpad - Stories to obsess over
Wattpad connects a global community of millions of readers and writers through the power of story
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open repository of academic articles
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Deine Plattform für Petitionen · Change.org
Mehr als 500.000.000 Menschen setzen sich in ihrem Umfeld für Veränderungen ein. Mach mit.
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LinkedIn: Log In or Sign Up
1 billion members | Manage your professional identity. Build and engage with your professional network. Access knowledge, insights and opportunities.
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Client Challenge
American hosting service, owned by Scribd, for professional content including presentations, infographics, documents, and videos
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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to goodreads.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Goodreads uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Goodreads is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- React page source: data-reactid=
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: _5VYoHmoe-a39ATWwwiqbhDYZZjO_pEV75GxhTccqyXhlg1Aig_JqQ==
- Languages & backends
- Ruby on Rails page source: <meta name="csrf-param" content="authenticity_token"
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms94409222
- Email delivery
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 include:amazon.com include:sendgrid.net include:fdspfus.freshe…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-778.awsdns-33.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=ZT4AapXgobCpXIWoNcd7gtMjZyOUdr4EDFMnFUW…
- Canva TXT canva-site-verification=KNCIlqOo2g54DYpVP8KINQ
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: PfFjeZ9OK1RrUrKlmAPn_iZJ_vgHaZO1YQ-QlG2VsJs
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Goodreads adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace · not on goodreads.com 12/20
- Apple Business · not on goodreads.com 11/20
- Atlassian 10/20
- Amazon Route 53 8/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on goodreads.com 7/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on goodreads.com 7/20
- DocuSign · not on goodreads.com 7/20
- Miro · not on goodreads.com 7/20
- Zendesk · not on goodreads.com 6/20
- Cloudflare · not on goodreads.com 5/20
- Amazon CloudFront 5/20
- Microsoft 365 5/20
- OpenAI · not on goodreads.com 5/20
- Amazon SES · not on goodreads.com 4/20
- Google Fonts · not on goodreads.com 4/20