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10 self-hosted aNobii alternatives

aNobii is a web-based social reading platform for cataloging books, tracking reading progress, rating and reviewing titles, organizing personal libraries with shelves and tags, and sharing recommendations and reading activity with a community of readers.

Alternatives to aNobii

BookWyrm is a federated social network to track reading, write reviews, share quotes, and discover books with communities via ActivityPub federation.

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2.8k stars327 forkslast commit Actively maintained

Openreads is a privacy-oriented Flutter app for Android and iOS to track books you’ve read, are reading, want to read, or didn’t finish, with tags, stats, and CSV import/export.

1.6k stars115 forksGPL-2.0last commit Slowing down

Self-hosted book-tracking web app to manage read/to-read lists, import/export libraries, tag books, write reviews and run a personal Goodreads-like library.

721 stars31 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

Self-hosted, multi-user ebook library with smart shelves, automatic metadata, OPDS, device sync (Kobo/KOReader), BookDrop imports, and an in-browser reader.

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666 stars56 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Self-hosted web app to catalog and track personal books with lists, reading progress, ratings, notes, OpenLibrary search, Mastodon sharing, and CSV/JSON export.

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597 stars32 forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained

Self-hosted alternative to Goodreads for logging books, tracking reading progress, and visualizing your personal library with multi-user support.

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576 stars38 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

Open-source server to organize, serve and sync EPUB/PDF ebooks with metadata editing, OPDS support, progress tracking and client auto-discovery.

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186 stars3 forksGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Mantium is a self-hosted manga tracker that collects manga metadata (not images) from multiple sources and provides a dashboard and iFrame for embedding.

144 stars7 forkslast commit Actively maintained

Simple companion web app for book clubs to suggest books, run voting rounds, track reading history, write reviews and integrate with Goodreads.

30 stars2 forkslast commit Actively maintained

What replacing aNobii actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 8 of 10 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: GPL-2.0, MIT, AGPL-3.0, Apache-2.0, GPL-3.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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