Siftivo Books is where readers discover, track and share books, with picks matched to your taste, a record of what you read, quit and loved, and shelves and lists to share with readers like you.
Our mission is to help people discover the stories and ideas worth their time, and the people who share them.
The world has never had more stories and ideas available to it. Attention has not grown to match, and much of what reaches us is decided by popularity, advertising, algorithms and chance.
Somewhere there is a book that could change how someone thinks, a story that could make them feel understood, or an idea that could shift the direction of their life. Most people never come across it.
Siftivo exists to change that.
We believe what people choose to read matters, including the books they read for escape, comfort or fun. We believe discovery should widen what people read rather than hold them to what they already know. And we believe technology can put a great book in front of the reader who will value it most.
We are starting with books, because a book is still one of the deepest ways a person meets a new idea. We are building for more than books.
Six things, and every one of them serves the same decision. Which book next.
Every morning Siftivo puts a short list in front of you, drawn from a taste profile you set in onboarding and can correct any time. You tell it how far from the familiar to push, and it holds that line. The decision is made before you sit down with a book.
Type the thing you actually want rather than a title you half remember. "Quiet literary novel set in a cold place, nothing violent" is a valid query, and so is an author name. Results respect what you have already ruled out, so a genre you passed on stops coming back.
Siftivo holds 48,406 works across 63,439 editions, and every one of them was reviewed before it entered. Textbooks and course readers are turned down outright, and self-published uploads are not accepted. You will find less here than on a Goodreads search, and none of it is filler.
Shelves for what you are reading, what you finished and what is waiting. Half-star ratings, because a 3.5 book and a 4 book are not the same book. Private notes and progress live beside each title and are never shown to anyone else.
A weekly Fiction and Nonfiction chart of the books in heaviest circulation. It draws on a single source, eight weekly bestseller lists, and combines them into one ranking. It is the one page here that answers "what is everyone reading" without asking you to care what everyone is reading.
Siftivo publishes an MCP server with twelve tools, an OpenAPI 3.1 spec and an llms.txt. An assistant you already use can search the catalog, look up an author or a series, and with your account linked, shelve a book and rate it. Eight of the twelve tools need no account.
Six differences, each one checkable. Competitor pricing verified September 2026; structural claims are observable on the competitor's own site.
Siftivo lists 48,406 works and each was reviewed by a person before it went in. Goodreads runs an open librarian program and accepts author self-uploads, so its index carries duplicate editions, spam listings and course books. We would rather you trust every result than have more of them.
The constraint is a unique index on reader and work, so a second review replaces the first rather than stacking on it. Goodreads lets one account post repeatedly against the same title, which is the mechanism behind review bombing. There is also no downvote here, on anything: readers can mark a review helpful and that is the only vote that exists.
Siftivo charges readers nothing and every feature is open to every account. StoryGraph Plus is $4.99 a month or $49.99 a year, Fable Plus is $5.99 or $49.99, and Margins is $5.99 or $59.99.
One page per book, with every edition collapsed behind it, so the ratings and reviews for a novel sit in one place. On Goodreads the twenty editions of a classic each carry their own ratings, and the reader has to guess which page holds the real consensus. Series are modeled as series, so reading order is a fact rather than a guess.
Goodreads has been owned by Amazon since 2013, which means the service recommending the book also sells it. Siftivo is founder-owned and takes no venture funding. We do not sell personal information, we run no third-party advertising, and we do not share reading activity with advertisers. Bookseller links are affiliate links and the Privacy page says so.
Siftivo publishes an MCP server at api.siftivo.com/mcp, an OpenAPI 3.1 spec and an llms.txt, and it is listed in the MCP registry as com.siftivo/siftivo. Goodreads, StoryGraph, Fable and Margins publish none of those three. If you would rather ask an assistant than open an app, that is a supported way to use this.
Written narrowly on purpose. Siftivo is not for everyone who reads.
One person, which is the honest answer and also the reason the catalog is curated by hand.
Siftivo started as a list of complaints. Goodreads has not meaningfully changed since Amazon bought it in 2013, and the complaints readers repeat are specific rather than vague: no half stars, reviews split across editions, review bombing that nobody moderates, search that cannot find a book you are describing. The first commit landed on August 23, 2025.
The web app opened to the public on April 4, 2026. The iOS app was released on September 12, 2026, and it is not a cut-down first version. The only thing it leaves to the web is uploading a Goodreads export. Everything in between was built by one person, who curated the catalog one work at a time.
Founder. Ben is the sole founder and writes the code, curates the catalog, answers the support mail and runs the company accounts. He built Siftivo because he kept abandoning books he had chosen badly, and could not find a service that treated choosing as the hard part.
Six steps: fiction or nonfiction, a few books you already love, and how adventurous you want the picks to be. Your first list arrives immediately, not after a warm-up period. Four out of five people who start onboarding finish it.
Export the CSV from goodreads.com/review/import and upload it at siftivo.com/import. Shelves, ratings and dates come with it in one pass. Titles we cannot match are listed back to you rather than dropped silently.
Write to support@siftivo.com and Ben answers, usually within one business day. There is no ticket queue, no tier one, and no chatbot in front of the inbox. If something is broken, the person reading the mail is the person who can fix it.
Request a missing title and it goes into the catalog queue. Most requests are reviewed within a few days and added if they clear the quality bar. Requests are the main way the catalog decides what to work on next.
The web app at siftivo.com works on any phone or desktop browser, and the iOS app is on the App Store. The two are at parity, so your shelves, picks and notes are the same in both. Android is not published yet.
Delete the account from Settings and your library, reviews, notes and email address go with it. What survives is aggregate counts with everything identifying you stripped out. The Privacy page states exactly what that covers.
Counts pulled from production on September 25, 2026. Readers and reviews exclude founder and test accounts.
Siftivo is where readers discover, track and share books. It hands you picks matched to your taste each morning, keeps your library, ratings and reading notes, and gives you shelves and lists to share with readers like you.
Nothing. Every feature is open to every account, and there is no paid tier or subscription.
It was built around the specific complaints readers make about Goodreads: half-star ratings, one review per reader per book, reviews gathered on one page per work instead of split across editions, and search that takes a description. Your Goodreads CSV imports in one step at siftivo.com/import. The catalog is much smaller because every work in it was reviewed first.
Because a person reads every work before it is listed. Siftivo holds 48,406 works and accepts no self-published uploads and no textbooks. The trade is fewer results you can trust against many results you have to filter.
Ben Garrison, working alone. He writes the code, curates the catalog and answers support@siftivo.com himself. Siftivo is founder-owned and takes no venture funding.
The iOS app has been on the App Store since September 12, 2026 and does everything the web app does except upload a Goodreads export, which you do at siftivo.com. Android is not published yet, and siftivo.com works in any mobile browser in the meantime.
Yes. Siftivo publishes an MCP server at api.siftivo.com/mcp with twelve tools, plus an OpenAPI 3.1 spec and an llms.txt. Eight tools need no account, and linking yours lets an assistant shelve and rate books for you.
We do not sell personal information, we show no third-party advertising, and we do not share reading activity with advertisers. Your notes, progress and email address are never public. Bookseller links are affiliate links, which the Privacy page states plainly.
A weekly Fiction and Nonfiction chart of the books in heaviest circulation. It draws on a single source, eight weekly bestseller lists, and combines them into one ranking. It is public and needs no account.
Request it. Most requests are reviewed within a few days and added if they clear the quality bar. Reader requests are the main thing deciding what the catalog works on next.