Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Ravelry
The 20 closest Knitting and crochet community alternatives to Ravelry, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 4 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Ravelry? The closest matches are Fiverr, Bazaarvoice and Instructables. 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.
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01 · Entity
About Ravelry
Ravelry ravelry.com
Ravelry
Ravelry is a community site, an organizational tool, and a yarn & pattern database for knitters and crocheters.
Wikidata: yarnworking social network
Summary by Claude
Free website for knitters, crocheters and other fiber artists that combines a searchable database of yarns and patterns, personal project and stash tracking, forums, and a marketplace where designers sell digital patterns.
- Who it’s for
- Knitters, crocheters, spinners and weavers
- Business model
- Advertising and pattern sales fees
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Ravelry’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 Ravelry
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Ravelry, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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It needs a human touch
Complete the task and we'll get you right back into Fiverr.
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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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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!
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etsy.com
American e-commerce company
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American crowdfunding website
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Free, Easy Online Stores for Artists & Small Businesses
Start your free online store & scale as you grow. Easily manage your e-commerce business. Join a community of artists & small businesses.
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Hire Freelancers & Find Freelance Jobs Online | Freelancer
Access the world's largest cloud workforce. 25.9+ million jobs completed across 3400+ skills. Post your job free, compare quotes, and hire top talent today.
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SignUpGenius: Free Sign Up Sheets, Fundraisers & Online Payments
Create free sign up sheets, collect dues, run fundraisers, sell tickets, and more. Every way your group organizes and collects, in one place. Free to start.
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American freelancing platform
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Wayfair.com - Online Home Store for Furniture, Decor, Outdoors & More
Shop Wayfair for A Zillion Things Home across all styles and budgets. 5,000 brands of furniture, lighting, cookware, and more. Free Shipping on most items.
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promotion & networking platform for digital designers and creatives
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Figma: The collaborative canvas for design, code, and AI
Figma is the canvas where design, code, and AI come together. From first idea to shipped product — go from concept to production with your whole team, in one place.
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Canva
online graphic design platform
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Simple Page
food focused online social networking service
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ibisPaint - Draw and Paint App
Drawn with + ibisPaint
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DeviantArt - The Largest Online Art Gallery and Community
DeviantArt is where art and community thrive. Explore over 650 million pieces of art while connecting to fellow artists and art enthusiasts.
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company owned by System1
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AllTrails: Trail Guides & Maps for Hiking, Camping, and Running | AllTrails
Explore the outdoors with AllTrails, the best app for hiking, biking, and running. Discover curated guides, trail maps, photos, and reviews for over 500,000 trails worldwide.
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TradingView — Track All Markets
Where the world charts, chats, and trades markets. We're a supercharged super-charting platform and social network for traders and investors. Free to sign up.
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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to ravelry.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Ravelry uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Ravelry is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Security
- reCAPTCHA page source: google.com/recaptcha/api.js
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 mx a:tweed.ravelry.com include:sendgrid.net include:_spf.googl…
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Ravelry adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on ravelry.com 19/20
- Google Workspace 16/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on ravelry.com 14/20
- Atlassian · not on ravelry.com 12/20
- Apple Business · not on ravelry.com 11/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on ravelry.com 10/20
- DocuSign · not on ravelry.com 10/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on ravelry.com 10/20
- OpenAI · not on ravelry.com 9/20
- Cloudflare · not on ravelry.com 8/20
- Stripe · not on ravelry.com 8/20
- GlobalSign · not on ravelry.com 7/20
- Miro · not on ravelry.com 7/20
- Adobe · not on ravelry.com 7/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on ravelry.com 7/20
- SendGrid 6/20