Open Source Alternatives to Goodreads
A social networking platform that lets readers discover, review, and discuss books while receiving personalized recommendations based on reading history and friends' activity.
Whether you want to cut software costs or escape vendor lock-in, these open source alternatives to Goodreads give you an option you fully own. You can self-host them, so your data stays on infrastructure you control. This page lists 4 open source alternatives to Goodreads. The most popular are Ryot, BookWyrm and Jelu. Most use the Apache-2.0 or Custom license, and 4 offer an official Docker image.
Ryot
A self-hosted platform for tracking media consumption and fitness activities with integrated statistics and data imports.
BookWyrm
A federated social reading platform for tracking books, writing reviews, and discovering recommendations through decentralized communities.
Jelu
A self hosted book tracker for managing read, currently reading, and to read book lists.
BookLogr
Self-hosted library management service to track personal book collections, reading progress, and reading lists.
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