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24 alternatives to Side Portal

Browse Wikipedia spatially, with a contextual sidebar/graph

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Side Portal launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

  1. 1

    Browse Wikipedia in 3D by common connections

    2022 · its alternatives →

  2. 2IM
  3. 3

    Browse Twitter conversations spatially with a graph view

    2021 · its alternatives →

  4. 4

    A beautiful, clean, modern web UI for Wikipedia

    2021 · its alternatives →

  5. 5WD

    Connect two articles on Wikipedia, but do it the long way. I've always been a fan of the theory of six degree of separation, but it's an overused concept when exploring the Wiki-graph. Instead of showing the shortest path, which in my opinion is "boring" and ends up connecting super-important central articles, I came up with my own method: WikiBinge selects the smaller, less represented articles on Wikipedia. In a WikiBinge path, the underdogs are the kings! How does it work? It's pretty straightforward! Compute PageRank on the Wiki-graph and assign as weight of each edge the PageRank value…

    2023 · wikibinge.com · its alternatives →

  6. 6
    Sidebar▲452

    The five best design links of the day, freshly redesigned

    2016 · its alternatives →

  7. 7

    A Firefox extension to map your Wikipedia Journeys

    2020 · its alternatives →

  8. 8WB

    I was inspired by Andy Matuschak's Evergreen Notes viewer and created this small web app to browse Wikipedia in the same way. Clicking on a link opens the content in a new pane to the right. And you can resize panes. It's really nice for following rabbit holes or checking out lists from articles. Let me know what you think! Code here: https://github.com/steezeburger/wikipedia-browser

    2024 · steezeburger.com · its alternatives →

  9. 9AE

    Wiki Journey tracks your daily Wikipedia rabbit holes in a tree format. Available on Firefox and Chrome: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wiki-journey/ https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/wiki-journey/lehenb... It's open source, feel free to contribute! https://github.com/demegire/wiki-journey

    2024 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

  10. 10

    Open any website in chrome side panel

    Dec 2025 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

  11. 11ET
  12. 12

    Your AI-powered vertical tabs manager for browsing

    2024 · sidecopilot.com · its alternatives →

  13. 13
    Sidebar▲67

    Private bookmarking, public social, all in one

    2020 · its alternatives →

  14. 14

    Cite anything in one-click right from Chrome

    2019 · its alternatives →

  15. 15
    SidePage▲179

    A free tool for building simple sidebar layout websites

    2021 · its alternatives →

  16. 16
    Wiki2Map▲279

    Turn Wikipedia into a visual masterpiece

    2023 · its alternatives →

  17. 17

    Maps & Wikipedia combined, a new way to discover the world

    2022 · its alternatives →

  18. 18RH

    Built a way to spatially explore wikipedia topics! Enter a topic of your choice and dig into the rabbit hole. All content is from Wikipedia—related topics are generated with GPT based on the summary. Spacebar to expand a topic inline, arrow keys to move around, and "J" to open journey view!

    2024 · rabbitholes.wiki · its alternatives →

  19. 19
    Wikiscope▲155

    Wikipedia + AR

    2019 · its alternatives →

  20. 20TB
  21. 21

    Listen to Wikipedia articles nearby.

    2018 · its alternatives →

  22. 22

    Search smarter, auto-tag & organize, without the tab chaos

    2022 · its alternatives →

  23. 23
    Sidebar▲171

    The five best design links of the day, every weekday

    2020 · its alternatives →

  24. 24

    Smarter way to browse Wikipedia

    2021 · its alternatives →

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