Wayback Machine AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Web Archiving Services

The best Web Archiving alternative to Wayback Machine is Archive.today, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Wayback Machine and 15 are Web Archiving Services so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Web Archiving Service alternatives to Wayback Machine are Internet Archive, ArchiveBox, PreserveTube and Archive-It.

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  1. Archive.today icon
     101 likes

    Archive.today allows you to "take a photo" of a webpage that will always be available even if the original page changes or is deleted.

    16 Archive.today alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Tor
     
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    • Most users think Archive.today is a great Wayback Machine alternative.

    • Archive.today is the most popular Web-based alternative to Wayback Machine.

    • Archive.today is the most popular free alternative to Wayback Machine.

    • Archive.today is Free and ProprietaryWayback Machine is also Free and Proprietary
  2. Internet Archive icon
     200 likes

    The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, it provides free access to researchers, historians, scholars, the print disabled, and the general public.

    39 Internet Archive alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    Comments about Internet Archive as an Alternative to Wayback Machine
    DifferentDance8Real
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    The Internet Archive are the people behind Wayback Machine, so suggesting the Internet Archive as a good alternative to WBM is like saying that Google is a good alternative for gmail

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    • Internet Archive is Free and ProprietaryWayback Machine is also Free and Proprietary
  3. ArchiveBox icon
     83 likes

    Self-hosted archiving platform storing web content as HTML, PDFs, screenshots, media, and WARC files; imports links from bookmarks, RSS, or files; supports browser history, complex sites, JSON indexing, Git repo archiving, regular scheduling, and offline browsing.

    63 ArchiveBox alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
    • ArchiveBox is the most popular Windows, Mac, Linux & Self-Hosted alternative to Wayback Machine.

    • ArchiveBox is the most popular Open Source alternative to Wayback Machine.

    • ArchiveBox is Free and Open SourceWayback Machine is Free and Proprietary
    • ArchiveBox is Privacy focusedWayback Machine is not according to our users
  4. PreserveTube icon
     8 likes

    Preservetube is an open-source YouTube archiving tool designed to help preserve and protect online videos from being lost due to censorship, copyright takedowns, or other reasons. Our mission is to make it easy for anyone to download and archive their favorite YouTube videos for...

    7 PreserveTube alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. Archive-It icon
     4 likes

    Archive-It is a service that allows institutions to preserve materials they have archived from the web. It includes an online account for users to create, describe, manage, and download their web archive collections and access options to search and browse these archives.

    12 Archive-It alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
    • Some users think Archive-It is a great Wayback Machine alternative, some don't.

    • Archive-It is the most popular commercial alternative to Wayback Machine.

    • Archive-It is Paid and ProprietaryWayback Machine is Free and Proprietary
  6. Perma.cc icon
     2 likes

    Perma.cc is a service that helps anyone who needs to cite to the web create links to their references that will never break. Perma.cc prevents link rot.

    18 Perma.cc alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  7. MirrorWeb icon
     2 likes

    Website archiving and monitoring solution helping financial services firms capture legally admissible records of their websites, drive compliance costs down and improve efficiency through compliance automation.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
    • MirrorWeb is the most popular SaaS alternative to Wayback Machine.

    • MirrorWeb is Paid and ProprietaryWayback Machine is Free and Proprietary
  8. A daily recurring capture service is available to help preserve the digital world. The service provides an easy solution for archiving any website on a daily basis, ensuring that even the most dynamic content is captured and preserved for future generations.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  9. Archive Page icon
     5 likes

    Adds a button to the Mozilla Firefox toolbar. When clicked, it sends the URL of the current tab to archive.today to preserve a snapshot of the page, and opens the result in a new tab.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Firefox
     
    • Archive Page is the most popular Android, iPhone, iPad & Android Tablet alternative to Wayback Machine.

    • Archive Page is Free and Open SourceWayback Machine is Free and Proprietary
  10. History Hound icon
     2 likes

    HistoryHound lets you do a fast keyword search on the entire content of all web pages and RSS feeds you've visited recently, plus all those that you've bookmarked. It's a "personal web search.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  11. Stillio is an automatic screenshot service. With Stillio you can make daily screenshots of webpages to create, manage and share a pixel perfect archive of websites and social media channels.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
     
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