Litloop vs Goodreads
A Different Kind of Reading App
Goodreads is a book catalogue. Litloop is where you talk about books with friends. They solve different problems, and most readers who love Litloop still use both.
Goodreads
What Goodreads is actually for.
Goodreads is a massive catalogue of books, reviews, and reading lists. Owned by Amazon since 2013. Its primary function is to surface books and reviews to potential buyers.
It does this well. If you want to look up any book and see thousands of reviews, or find out if something is worth reading before you buy it, Goodreads is a perfectly good tool.
Goodreads is great for
- ✓ Looking up any book before you buy
- ✓ Public reviews from thousands of readers
- ✓ Browsing "Best of" lists and shelves
- ✓ Tracking what you've read publicly
Litloop
What Litloop is actually for.
Litloop is built around a different question: what happens after you finish a book? You want to tell someone about it. You want to know if a friend has read it. You want to recommend it with a note that says "I think you'd love this."
That's what Litloop is for. A social reading tracker app for those moments where you need to talk about what just happened on those pages.
Litloop is great for
- ✓ Seeing what your friends are reading
- ✓ Sending personal recommendations with a note
- ✓ Private conversations about books you both love
- ✓ Book club chats that carry on after the meeting
"Goodreads is what the internet thinks of a book. Litloop is what your friends think of a book."
Goodreads was never designed to help you and a specific friend have a private, ongoing conversation about a book you're both reading. Litloop fills that gap.
Side by side
How they compare.
Use Goodreads to find out what the world thinks of a book before you read it.
Use Litloop to talk about that book during and after reading it.
Two different tools. Both worth having.
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