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 many of them 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, Ghost Archive and Archive-It.

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Wayback Machine alternatives are mainly Web Archiving Services, but if you're looking for Website Monitoring Tools or Bookmark Managers 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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  1. Archive.today icon
     104 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.

    20 Archive.today alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Tor
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  2. Internet Archive icon
     226 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.

    41 Internet Archive alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  3. ArchiveBox icon
     89 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.

    71 ArchiveBox alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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  4. Archive-It icon
     5 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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  5. PreserveTube icon
     9 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...

    9 PreserveTube alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  6. Perma.cc icon
     3 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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  7. MirrorWeb icon
     3 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

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  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

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
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  9. Save, archive, and manage websites. Locally and minimalistically.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  10. Archive Page icon
     6 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.

    14 Archive Page alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Firefox
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  11. History Hound icon
     3 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

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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