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Faria vs Goodreads
Updated October 18, 2026
Goodreads and Faria do different jobs. Goodreads is a free catalogue for tracking books, rating them, reading reviews and setting a yearly challenge. Faria helps you do the reading itself: a daily goal, a reading alarm, streaks and spoken answers to questions while you read paper books. Many readers use Goodreads to choose books and Faria to read them.
What Goodreads is good at
- A huge catalogue of books, ratings and reader reviews.
- Shelves for read, reading and want to read.
- A yearly reading challenge and a social feed of what friends are reading.
- Free, on the web, iPhone and Android. Owned by Amazon.
What Faria is good at
- A daily reading goal in minutes and a reading alarm that opens on today’s book.
- Streaks, with streak saves that cover a missed day.
- Ask out loud what a word means or what’s happening in the story, answered without spoilers.
- Lines you read aloud are saved and come back on your lock screen.
- Optional app blocking until today’s reading is done.
- iPhone, for paper books. a 7-day free trial, then $79.99 a year or $12.99 a month in the US.
Which should you use?
If you want to log books, read reviews and see what friends read, use Goodreads. If you already know what you want to read and the problem is actually reading it, use Faria. They don’t overlap much, so using both is common.
Questions
Is Faria a Goodreads alternative?
Not exactly. Goodreads tracks and reviews books; Faria helps you read every day, with a goal, a reading alarm, streaks and spoken answers while you read paper books. They work well together.
Does Goodreads help you read more?
Its yearly reading challenge can motivate, but Goodreads doesn’t help during the reading itself. For a daily habit, a reading-time app like Faria or Bookly does more.