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.

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01 · Entity

About Wikibooks

Wikibooks wikibooks.org

Wikibooks

Wikidata: free multilingual online collection of textbooks

Top 10K · #3,238 English 1 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit Wikibooks

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

WikidotProject GutenbergGlosbeWikimedia movementOpen LibraryWikidataWiktionaryWikiquoteWikipediaWikisource

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Wikibooks

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

Only in English
  1. 01
    Wikisource wikisource.org Top 10K English

    Wikisource

    online multilingual library that collects open-content source material

  2. 02
    Wikipedia wikipedia.org Top 100 English

    Wikipedia

    Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

  3. 03
    Wikiquote wikiquote.org Top 10K English

    Wikiquote

    free multilingual online collection of quotes

  4. 04
    Wiktionary wiktionary.org Top 10K English

    Wiktionary

    free online multilingual dictionary

  5. 05
    Wikidata wikidata.org Top 10K English

    Wikidata

    free multilingual online knowledge graph

  6. 06
    Open Library openlibrary.org Top 10K English

    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.

  7. 07
    Wikimedia movement wikimedia.org Top 1K English

    Wikimedia Error

    global social movement for free educational knowledge

  8. 08
    Glosbe glosbe.com Top 10K English

    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!

  9. 09
    Project Gutenberg gutenberg.org Top 10K English

    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.

  10. 10
    Khan Academy khanacademy.org Top 10K English

    Client Challenge

    non-profit educational organization

  11. 11
    MediaWiki mediawiki.org Top 10K English

    MediaWiki

    free and open-source wiki software, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation

  12. 12
    Wikidot wikidot.com Top 10K English

    Wikidot - Free and Pro Wiki Hosting

    Polish wiki hosting corporation

  13. 13
    Moodle moodle.org Top 10K

    Moodle challenge

    e-learning platform

  14. 14
    OpenStreetMap openstreetmap.org Top 1K English

    OpenStreetMap

    OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

  15. 15
    Our World in Data ourworldindata.org Top 10K English

    Our World in Data

    Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.

  16. 16
    Internet Archive archive.org Top 1K English

    Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

    U.S. non-profit organization and digital archive

  17. 17
    Namuwiki namu.wiki Top 10K English

    Paraguay-based Korean wiki website

  18. 18
    Overleaf overleaf.com Top 10K English

    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.

  19. 19
    JSTOR jstor.org Top 10K English

    Client Challenge

    distributor of eBooks and other digital media

  20. 20
    Starfall starfall.com Top 10K English

    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.

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.

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