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24 alternatives to Bookup App - location-based print book swapping

The Bookup App is for readers of print books who want to swap their books for other books in their area, free of charge, and potentially make a new friend with a shared interest in reading.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Bookup App - location-based print book swapping launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Bookey▲74

    Meet new people and swap your old books!

    2019 · bookey.org.uk · its alternatives →

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    bookclub▲383

    A beautiful, simple alternative to Goodreads 📚

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    Hardcover▲307

    Discover, track and read life-changing books

    2023 · hardcover.app · its alternatives →

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    Swap books with like minded readers

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Bookup▲76

    Hookups for books!

    2017 · bookupapp.com · its alternatives →

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    Oku▲468

    Track your book lists and get recs from your friends

    2021 · oku.club · its alternatives →

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    Exchange books with people nearby.

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    Bookself▲361

    The social reading app 📚💬

    2019 · bookself.app · its alternatives →

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    BookSwipe reinvents how you discover and exchange books

    2025 · book-swipe.com · its alternatives →

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    ReadHero▲149

    ReadHero 2.0: New Look, Smarter AI, Widgets & Book Search!

    2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    BookSlice▲330

    Gamified book reader for busy people

    2024 · bookslice.app · its alternatives →

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    Bookov▲126

    A platform for book lovers who value their collections

    2025 · bookov.app · its alternatives →

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    Your reading list, shipped to you in a beautiful print issue

    2022 · getprinternet.com · its alternatives →

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    An iOS app to track your reading

    2021 · readinglist.app · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, cofounder of Readwise here. We've been working on this cross-platform reader app for about 2 years, excited to finally share it in public beta. Probably the most notable thing that makes Reader unique is that it supports almost any content type you could want to save/read/highlight: * web pages * emails/newsletters * PDFs * ePubs * twitter threads * youtube videos (with transcripts) * RSS feeds With all of your knowledge content in one place, we built powerful reading and highlighting, as well as a bunch of novel triage/organization features, so you can actually…

    2022 · readwise.io · its alternatives →

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    Exchange used books locally

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    Get free and discounted Ebooks of your print or paper books

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Hi folks, I've launched "Booky" - app for organizing notes from books you read. App Store: https://apps.apple.com/pl/app/booky-organize-books-notes/id1492092565 With the app you can: 1. Snap picture of the book while you're reading it 2. Quickly highlight your favorite quotes 3. Sync your book shelf with Goodreads 4. Search in the notes you scanned Promo video: https://www.dropbox.com/s/lfnwb8cvi5oyfd9/preview.mov?dl=0 Those features are similar to what you might find in ebooks apps but the app enables you to do that with physical books.…

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! I've been working on BookWith, an open-source e-book reader that integrates AI as your reading companion. The problem: Traditional e-readers are passive. When you encounter something unclear, you have to context-switch to search for it. Your highlights and notes remain isolated, and you can't easily connect ideas across different books. My solution: BookWith embeds an AI that maintains full context of what you're reading. It features: - Context-aware AI chat: Ask questions about the current page/chapter and get instant answers - AI podcast generation: Automatically converts book…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Biblo▲64

    Trade your books with anyone in the USA

    2020 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    LangRead▲127

    Read books, learn languages one word at a time

    2025 · langread.online · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! I built Bookhead because I used to work as a bookseller and I wasn't happy with the software options when I decided to sell my own collection online (with the hopes of one day growing so I can open my own brick & mortar). So I decided to make my own bookselling app...a classic hacker distraction. Bookhead has two main parts: 1. an inventory management app that allows a bookseller to list their books anywhere they want to sell books (like Squarespace, Biblio, eBay, Shopify (coming soon!), etc) 2. an e-commerce platform with a CMS for selling books and letting a store control their…

    2025 · bookhead.net · its alternatives →

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    Makers, Doers, Founders, find your next books to read

    2020 · bookstrap.glideapp.io · its alternatives →

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