Looking for a Goodreads alternative?
Media Tracker is a free book tracker that imports your whole Goodreads library — reviews, ratings and your want-to-read shelf — and then does the one thing Goodreads never did: it tells you the day a book you're waiting for actually comes out.
Why readers switch
Import your Goodreads library in two minutes
Export your library CSV from Goodreads and upload it. Read books carry over with their ratings, reviews and read dates — and your want-to-read shelf becomes your follow list, so nothing gets left behind.
Release alerts Goodreads never sends
Follow an author or an announced book and get an email or push notification the day before it comes out. Release dates are re-checked daily, so when the next book in a series finally gets a date, you hear about it.
One tracker for everything, not just books
Movies, TV shows, games and music live in the same follow list and the same release calendar. If you currently juggle Goodreads, Letterboxd and Trakt, this replaces the whole stack.
Free, no ads, independent
Media Tracker is free, has no advertising, and is built by an independent developer — not owned by a retailer with its own agenda for your reading data.
Moving from Goodreads takes two minutes
- 1
Go to goodreads.com/review/import and click "Export library", then download the CSV when it's ready.
- 2
Create a free Media Tracker account and choose "Import your library" from the profile menu.
- 3
Upload the CSV. Read books go into your log with their ratings and reviews; your want-to-read shelf joins your follow list.
What Goodreads still does better
An honest note: Goodreads has fifteen years of reader reviews, a yearly reading challenge, and book clubs and discussion groups — Media Tracker doesn't. If a big social community around books is the main thing you want, Goodreads (or StoryGraph) is still the better fit. Media Tracker is for readers who mainly want a clean place to track what they've read and want to read, and to never miss a release in a series they love — across books, movies, TV, games and music.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Can I import my Goodreads library, including my to-read shelf?
- Yes. Upload the CSV export from Goodreads and your read books are logged with their ratings, reviews and read dates, while your want-to-read and currently-reading shelves are added to your follow list. Books you had already logged keep their existing ratings.
- Is Media Tracker free?
- Yes — Media Tracker is free to use, with no ads. Signing up takes under a minute.
- Does Media Tracker notify me when a book comes out?
- Yes. Follow any upcoming book or author and Media Tracker emails or push-notifies you the day before release. Release dates are re-synced daily, so date changes and newly announced books in a series reach you automatically.
- What does Goodreads still do better?
- Goodreads has a much larger community, a huge archive of reader reviews, and features like the yearly reading challenge and discussion groups. Media Tracker focuses on tracking and release alerts across all your media rather than being a social network for books.
Bring your library over
Your Goodreads history imports in a couple of clicks, and the next book you're waiting for will never slip past you again.