Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Wikibooks
The 20 closest open textbooks alternatives to Wikibooks, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 1 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Wikibooks? The closest matches are Wikisource, Wikipedia and Wikiquote. 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
- 6 ms
01 · Entity
About Wikibooks
Wikibooks wikibooks.org
Wikibooks
Wikidata: free multilingual online collection of textbooks
Summary by Claude
A multilingual wiki where volunteers collaboratively write and edit free, openly licensed textbooks and annotated texts that anyone can read and edit.
- Who it’s for
- Students, teachers and self-learners
- Business model
- Donations (nonprofit)
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Wikibooks’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 Wikibooks
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Wikibooks, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Wikisource
online multilingual library that collects open-content source material
Very close cos 0.946 - 02
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.
Very close cos 0.943 - 03
Wikiquote
free multilingual online collection of quotes
Very close cos 0.930 - 04
Wiktionary
free online multilingual dictionary
Very close cos 0.931 - 05
Wikidata
free multilingual online knowledge graph
Very close cos 0.927 - 06
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 0.923 - 07
Wikimedia Error
global social movement for free educational knowledge
Very close cos 0.921 - 08
Glosbe Dictionary - All Languages of the World in One Place
Glosbe dictionary - one place, all languages! Translations, example sentences, pronunciation recordings and grammar references. Check it out!
- Google Search Console
- Cloudflare
- Cloudflare DNS
- Cloudflare Web Analytics
- Google Ad Manager
- Google Analytics
Very close cos 0.917 - 09
Free eBooks | Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is a library of over 75,000 free eBooks. Choose from ebook formats or read online. No fees, no registration, no ads.
Very close cos 0.913 - 10
Client Challenge
non-profit educational organization
Very close cos 0.906 - 11
MediaWiki
free and open-source wiki software, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation
Very close cos 0.905 - 12
Wikidot - Free and Pro Wiki Hosting
Polish wiki hosting corporation
Very close cos 0.903 - 13
Moodle challenge
e-learning platform
Very close cos 0.903 - 14
OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.
Very close cos 0.901 - 15
Our World in Data
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.
- Google Search Console
- Cloudflare
- Cloudflare DNS
- Cloudflare Web Analytics
- Google Tag Manager
- Google Workspace
Very close cos 0.901 - 16
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
U.S. non-profit organization and digital archive
Very close cos 0.900 - 17
Paraguay-based Korean wiki website
Very close cos 0.900 - 18
Overleaf, Online LaTeX Editor
An online LaTeX editor that’s easy to use. No installation, real-time collaboration, version control, hundreds of LaTeX templates, and more.
Very close cos 0.898 - 19
Client Challenge
distributor of eBooks and other digital media
Very close cos 0.901 - 20
Starfall Education: Kids Games, Movies, Books & Music for K-5 and above
At Starfall, children have fun while they learn - specializing in reading, phonics & math - educational games, movies, books, songs, and more for children K-5 and above.
Very close cos 0.896
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to wikibooks.org’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Wikibooks uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Wikibooks is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=djm1t6aP_Yt6WNSj834eVqD83qomWtLP0_1NveYTBfU
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Wikibooks adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace · not on wikibooks.org 10/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on wikibooks.org 5/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on wikibooks.org 4/20
- Cloudflare · not on wikibooks.org 4/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on wikibooks.org 4/20
- SendGrid · not on wikibooks.org 4/20
- nginx · not on wikibooks.org 3/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on wikibooks.org 3/20
- GlobalSign · not on wikibooks.org 3/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on wikibooks.org 3/20
- Matomo · not on wikibooks.org 2/20
- Miro · not on wikibooks.org 2/20
- Cloudflare Web Analytics · not on wikibooks.org 2/20
- Google Analytics · not on wikibooks.org 2/20
- OpenAI · not on wikibooks.org 2/20