Web-based Wayback Machine Alternatives

There are many alternatives to Wayback Machine as a web app if you are looking for a replacement. The best Online alternative is Archive.today, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Wayback Machine and many of them are available as a web app so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Online alternatives to Wayback Machine are Internet Archive, Ghost Archive, Archive-It and PreserveTube.

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  1. Internet Archive icon
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    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.

    40 Internet Archive alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
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  2. Archive-It icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  3. PreserveTube icon
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    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...

    9 PreserveTube alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  4. Perma.cc icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  5. MirrorWeb icon
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    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

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  6. 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

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
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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
     
  9. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  10. 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

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
     
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