Archives AlternativesWeb Archiving Services and other similar apps like Archives

Archives is described as 'Every day, countless of websites go offline for good. High server costs, government censorship, venture capitalism are some of the threats, many of your favorite websites are facing' and is a Web Archiving service in the news & books category. There are eight alternatives to Archives for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Linux, Windows, Web-based and iPhone apps. The best Archives alternative is Kiwix, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Archives are ArchiveBox, SiteSucker, Webrecorder and WebArchives.

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  1. Kiwix icon
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    Provides offline access to Wikipedia and HTML content via ZIM format, featuring a full-text search engine, multi-language interface, export capabilities, bookmarks, content manager, and support for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, USB drives, and local servers.

    27 Kiwix alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Flathub
    • F-Droid
    • Wine
    • Mozilla Firefox
     
  2. 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
     
  3. SiteSucker icon
     29 likes

    macOS application that automatically downloads websites from the Internet. It does this by asynchronously copying the site's webpages, images, PDFs, style sheets, and other files to your local hard drive, duplicating the site's directory structure.

    35 SiteSucker alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
     
  4. Webrecorder icon
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    Webrecorder provides a suite of open source tools and packages to capture interactive websites and replay them at a later time as accurately as possible.

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    • Online
     
  5. WebArchives icon
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    A web archives viewer offering the ability to browse offline millions of articles from large community projects such as Wikipedia or Wikisource.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GTK+
    • GNOME
     
  6. Web Archives icon
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    Web Archives is a browser extension that enables you to find archived and cached versions of web pages. Searches can be initiated from the context menu and the browser toolbar.

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    Platforms

    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Safari
    • Opera
    • Firefox
     
  7. Web Archiving Integration Layer (WAIL) is a graphical user interface (GUI) atop multiple web archiving tools intended to be used as an easy way for anyone to preserve and replay web pages.

    4 Web Archiving Integration Layer (WAIL) alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. Browsertrix icon
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    Archive entire websites with Browsertrix, a cloud-native web archiving platform from Webrecorder. With high-fidelity crawling and advanced quality assurance tools, Browsertrix empowers you to create, view, curate, and share archives with confidence.

    7 Browsertrix alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Kubernetes
     
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