Hardcover
Ranked 3 of 6 book trackers by recommenders
People recommend it as a more open Goodreads alternative with a clean interface, good covers and genre data, and a responsive team behind it.
People recommend it as a more open Goodreads alternative with a clean interface, good covers and genre data, and a responsive team behind it.
8 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 8
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 7 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 8 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 7 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Open Goodreads alternative
“There's even a plugin to sync my progress to hardcover, which is a more open alternative to Goodreads.”
Comment from 29 Jul 2026 in “More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle” “when I decided to "de-oligarch" as much as possible”
Comment from 18 Feb 2026 in “The Perils of ISBN” “seems like a pretty good alternative”
Comment from 6 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model” Integrates well with other tools
“There's even a plugin to sync my progress to hardcover, which is a more open alternative to Goodreads.”
Comment from 29 Jul 2026 in “More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle” “particularly nicely with hardcover”
Comment from 20 Sep 2026 in “Show HN: Book recommendations with live library availability”
Other book trackers people recommend
The four most recommended other book trackers, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 17 | 33 | 34% | 8 | — | — |
| Shelvy Books | 9 | 1 | 90% | 2 | — | — |
| HardcoverThis page | 8 | 0 | 100% | 7 | — | — |
| LibraryThing | 6 | 1 | 86% | 5 | — | — |
| StoryGraph | 5 | 3 | 63% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
9 of the 11 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“particularly nicely with hardcover”
“There's even a plugin to sync my progress to hardcover, which is a more open alternative to Goodreads.”
“Hardcover definitely supports multiple reads. I've got two in mine right now.”
“the team behind it is really responsive to the community”
“I switched early last year and have been very happy with it”
“when I decided to "de-oligarch" as much as possible”
“I switched to Hardcover, which is a much better interface.”
“Hardcover being excellent for getting good covers and genres”
“seems like a pretty good alternative”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.