What is Lib.reviews?
lib.reviews is an open source web application designed for discovering, rating, and discussing various media including books, movies, music, and games. It serves as a crowdsourced platform where users can read and write reviews to share their opinions on different titles.
Some key features of lib.reviews include:
- User profiles and social features for following friends and critics
- Advanced filtering and search for easily finding reviews
- Book, movie, TV show, album, and game databases with titles, summaries, tags, ratings, and more
- Custom list creation for tracking what media you want to consume
- Multiple review formats including star ratings, sliders, text, images, video embeds, etc.
- Moderation tools and reputation system to manage community reviews
- Cross-platform support for web, Android, and iOS
- Import/export data capabilities and API access for developers
- Localized into over a dozen languages to serve an international audience
Overall, lib.reviews aims to provide an easy way for fans to discover new media to enjoy, share their honest criticism, and connect with other knowledgeable reviewers. The open source nature allows anyone to self-host their own lib.reviews site as well.
IMDb, Letterboxd, Goodreads, Rotten Tomatoes, Rate Your Music, Yelp, TripAdvisor, LibraryThing, Foursquare, Trusted Reviews, Metacritic, ratehouse, Fable: Your Book Community, Top Ten Reviews, iReviews, FanReviews.co are some alternatives to Lib.reviews.