Wayback Machine Alternatives

Wayback Machine is described as 'With the power of the Wayback Machine, you can go back in time to see how a website has changed and evolved through the history of the Web' and is a very popular Web Archiving service in the web browsers category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Wayback Machine for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Mac, Windows, Linux and Self-Hosted apps. The best Wayback Machine alternative is Archive.today, which is free. Other great apps like Wayback Machine are Internet Archive, ArchiveBox, PreserveTube and Ghost Archive.

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Wayback Machine alternatives are mainly Web Archiving Services, but if you're looking for Bookmark Managers or Ebook Libraries you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Web Archiving. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Wayback Machine.
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    Free online service for freezing web pages. Save, share and prove what is on the web at a specific point of time.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    🕸 A frontend for the Wayback Machine which works on old browsers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  3. TheOldNet icon
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    The Old Net is an attempt to restore vintage web browsing on vintage computers. It uses the Internet Archive: Wayback Machine API and a proxy that strips out any incompatible javascript and stitches together as many links as it can.

    17 TheOldNet alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  4. History Hound icon
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    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
     
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    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
     
  6. blit icon
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    automated, scheduled, screenshots to your inbox.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
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    Captures screenshots, downloads source code, and monitors DNS records helping you keep track of changes on your websites without needing to restore from a backup. Think of it like the Wayback Machine on steroids.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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    Browse the old web using emulated browsers from the same era.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  9. OoCities icon
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    OoCities is a navigable archive of many former GeoCities.com websites. OoCities tried to save many GeoCities.com pages during the last days they were online from 20 to 27 October 2009, though were only able save a share of around 2 Million pages.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  10. Phaidra icon
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    Phaidra stands for reliable long-term archiving and gives educational, research- and management staff, the possibility to publish, to store digital data and resources and to archive them indefinitely. Phaidra gives the possibility to:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  11. Page Vault icon
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    Legally-admissible screen captures, simplified.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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