Xenu's Link Sleuth Alternatives for Mac

Xenu's Link Sleuth is not available for Mac but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on macOS with similar functionality. The best Mac alternative is SiteOne Crawler, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Xenu's Link Sleuth and 13 are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to Xenu's Link Sleuth are Screaming Frog SEO Spider, Integrity, Beam Us Up Crawler and Scrutiny.

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Xenus Link Sleuth checks Web sites for broken links. Link verification is done on "normal" links, images, frames, plug-ins, backgrounds, local image maps, style sheets, scripts and java applets.

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Xenu's Link Sleuth alternatives page was last updated Aug 17, 2024
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  1. SiteOne Crawler icon

    SiteOne Crawler

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    A free in-depth website analyzer providing audits of security, performance, SEO, accessibility and other technical aspects. Available as a desktop application for Windows/macOS/Linux and as a CLI tool for advanced users and CI/CD processes. It also includes an offline web page exporter.

    22 SiteOne Crawler alternatives

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    • Free • Open Source

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    A collage showing the graphical interface and crawler output

    Top SiteOne Crawler Features

    1.  Performance analysis
    2.  Graphical User Interface
    3.  Save web page for offline use
    4.  Daily Website Analysis
    5.  Ad-free
    6.  Command line interface
    7.  No Coding Required
    8.  Dark Mode
    9.  Multiplatform
    10.  Accessibility Testing
    11.  Security Testing
    12.  Electron based

    SiteOne Crawler VS Xenu's Link Sleuth

     

    • SiteOne Crawler is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Xenu's Link Sleuth.

    • SiteOne Crawler is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Xenu's Link Sleuth.

    • SiteOne Crawler is Free and Open SourceXenu's Link Sleuth is Free and Proprietary
  2. Screaming Frog SEO Spider icon

    Screaming Frog SEO Spider

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    The Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a small desktop program (PC or Mac) which crawls websites’ links, images, CSS, script and apps from an SEO perspective.

    87 Screaming Frog SEO Spider alternatives

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    Screaming Frog SEO Spider Features

    1.  Scheduled Data Crawling
    2.  Website testing

    Screaming Frog SEO Spider VS Xenu's Link Sleuth

     

    • Most users think Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a great Xenu's Link Sleuth alternative.

    • Screaming Frog SEO Spider is the most popular commercial alternative to Xenu's Link Sleuth.

    • Screaming Frog SEO Spider is Paid and ProprietaryXenu's Link Sleuth is Free and Proprietary
  4. Integrity icon

    Integrity

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    If you've maintained a website for any length of time, you'll know that links very quickly become broken. Unless you enjoy clicking every single link on your site followed by the back button, then you'll need to use a website crawler like Integrity!

    8 Integrity alternatives

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    • Freemium • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    Integrity Features

    1.  Dead Link checking

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    WebSite Auditor

    Transform your website with an SEO audit tool providing insights like search engine bots. It finds broken links, duplicate content, and more, with step-by-step fix guidance.

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  6. Beam Us Up Crawler icon

    Beam Us Up Crawler

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    Discover broken links, uncover missing page titles, duplicate content and identify other problems with our SEO crawler software.

    43 Beam Us Up Crawler alternatives

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    • Free • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    Beam Us Up Crawler Features

    1.  Website Monitoring
    2.  Ad-free
    3.  Export to CSV
    4.  Broken Links Check
    5.  Upload directly to Google Drive

    Beam Us Up Crawler VS Xenu's Link Sleuth

     
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    Scrutiny

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    If you need more features than only a website link checker - such as XML sitemap (conforming to the standard protocol), html validity, essential SEO checks such as page title, headings, meta description and keywords - then try Scrutiny.

    38 Scrutiny alternatives

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    • Mac
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    Scrutiny Features

    1.  Accessibility Testing
    2.  Dead Link checking

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  8. InterroBot icon

    InterroBot

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    InterroBot combines a desktop web crawler with full-text and field searching to help you get answers to just what the heck is going on with your website.

    21 InterroBot alternatives

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    InterroBot Features

    1.  Full-Text Search
    2.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    3.  No registration required
    4.  Dark Mode
    5.  Ad-free
    6.  No Tracking

    InterroBot VS Xenu's Link Sleuth

     

    • InterroBot is the most popular Android & Android Tablet alternative to Xenu's Link Sleuth.

    • InterroBot is Paid and ProprietaryXenu's Link Sleuth is Free and Proprietary
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    Greenflare

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    Open-Source Python Based SEO Web Crawler Free SEO Analysis Tool Made by SEOs for Digital Marketing Experts

    Analyse and improve your onsite SEO Audit and identify any server issues Extract any on-page information you need.

    73 Greenflare alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Mac
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    Greenflare Features

    1.  Crawler
    2.  SEO Audit

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  11. Sitebulb icon

    Sitebulb

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    Sitebulb is an extremely powerful website auditor with the world's most insightful reporting system, winner of "Best Search Software Tool" at the 2018 UK Search Awards and the US Search Awards.

    73 Sitebulb alternatives

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    Sitebulb Features

    1.  SEO Audit

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  12. DRKSpiderJava icon

    DRKSpiderJava

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    DRKSpider is an open source website crawler (sitemap generator) and link checker.

    9 DRKSpiderJava alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

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    Discontinued

    The last release is from March 2015.

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  13. A1 Website Analyzer icon

    A1 Website Analyzer

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    A1 Website Analyzer can crawl websites and collect data to be used for finding site and SEO problems. Filter results to see which URLs are blocked by robots.txt, which are noindex, nofollow, canonical to self, canonical to other, response codes etc.

    13 A1 Website Analyzer alternatives

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    A1 Website Analyzer Features

    1.  Crawler
    2.  Broken Links Check

    A1 Website Analyzer VS Xenu's Link Sleuth

     
  14. RiveSolutions SEO Spider icon

    RiveSolutions SEO Spider

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    The RiveSolutions SEO Spider is a desktop program which crawls your website and finds key SEO issues.

    31 RiveSolutions SEO Spider alternatives

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    • Freemium • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    RiveSolutions SEO Spider Features

    1.  SEO Audit

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  15. TechSEO360 icon

    TechSEO360

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    TechSEO360 essentially offers crawling of huge websites, collects and shows just about any technical SEO related information you want and can create all types of sitemaps including XML with hreflang information, image, video and HTML/CSS/Javascript.

    49 TechSEO360 alternatives

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    • Freemium • Proprietary

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    TechSEO360 VS Xenu's Link Sleuth

     
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