Most ARC tools help you find readers and hand out copies. ArcRoster is about what happens after - who actually reviews, who to trust next launch, and who leaked your book. Here's the honest comparison against each.
Booksprout gives away copies to a shared reader pool with light tracking. See how ArcRoster adds reliability scoring, a roster you own, and leak attribution.
Read the comparison →StoryOrigin is a marketing suite with review copies as one feature. See how ArcRoster handles the ARC part alone - your own roster, review tracking, and a reliability score per reader.
Read the comparison →BookFunnel delivers the file and stops there. See how ArcRoster also tracks who reviewed, sends reminders, and scores each reader across launches.
Read the comparison →NetGalley reaches librarians and booksellers at publisher prices. See how ArcRoster serves indie authors who mainly need reader reviews, from a free plan.
Read the comparison →BookSirens finds new readers for each launch. See how ArcRoster keeps the readers you find, scores their reliability, and carries them to your next book.
Read the comparison →Hidden Gems matches a new reader team to each booked date. See how ArcRoster runs your own team, sent whenever the book is ready, with no per-reader fees.
Read the comparison →A monthly subscription against pay-per-reader pricing: what each costs for the same 50 readers, the review rate each one states, and which fits how often you publish.
Read the comparison →Trade readers for a fixed $575 against reader reviews at $2 each: who reads your book on each, what a launch costs, and the review rates measured on the same book.
Read the comparison →Delivery versus marketing: how the two most common indie tools compare for sending ARCs, what their ARC features cost, and where ArcRoster fits.
Read the comparison →The honest three-way breakdown: reader discovery versus accountability, and where each tool actually fits in your launch.
Read the comparison →Most ARC platforms are built around distribution - finding readers and getting a file into their hands. Booksprout leans on a shared reviewer pool, StoryOrigin bundles ARC delivery into a broader marketing suite, and BookFunnel is a polished delivery tool that stops once the download completes. They're good at handing out copies. Where they leave off is everything that decides whether a launch actually works: who reviewed, who to trust next time, and who leaked your book.
ArcRoster is built for that second half. Reliability scores follow each reviewer across launches, your roster is a permanent CRM you own rather than a pool you rent, and every EPUB is fingerprinted to its recipient so a leak can be traced to a name. The comparisons above are honest about where each tool fits - read the one that matches whatever you're weighing ArcRoster against.
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