HTTrack Alternatives for Copying a Website Offline

HTTrack still works, and in 2026 it came back to life. A forum post from 2021 noted the newest build was 3.49-2 from May 2017. Then a run of releases started in mid-2026, and the Debian changelog records 3.51.0 on October 28, 2026. Version 3.51 can mirror a site behind a login or a CAPTCHA by reusing the session from your own browser. Builds exist for Windows 7 SP1 and later, Apple Silicon Macs on macOS 15, Linux and Android 7.

What has not changed is the way it reads pages. HTTrack's own FAQ warns that intensive Javascript sites may come out bogus or incomplete. If your copies open with missing menus or blank sections, you need a tool that renders pages in a browser. If HTTrack's interface is the problem, a simpler copier for your system will do. The list below covers both cases.

This page is about downloading a whole site to browse offline. For other archive jobs, see our guides to finding a cached copy of one page, searching many archives at once, other large web archives, Wayback Machine alternatives and UK Web Archive alternatives.

We read every price below on the vendor's own site on November 6, 2026. Our method is on How we review tools.

Quick comparison

Cyotek WebCopy

WebCopy is the closest Windows match to WinHTTrack. You give it a start URL, it crawls the site, downloads pages, images and stylesheets, and remaps links to local paths. Rules let you narrow the job, for example to copy only the images on a site.

The current stable build is 1.9.1.872, released on August 18, 2023. A 1.10 nightly dated January 1, 2026 is on the same downloads page, but Cyotek labels nightlies as test builds. It needs .NET Framework 4.6 and about 20 MB of disk.

Best for: Windows users who want a free graphical copier with clearer project settings than WinHTTrack.

Pricing:

• Free to use. Donations are optional.

Watch out for:

• It has no virtual DOM and does not parse JavaScript, so links built by scripts are missed.
• No Mac or Linux version, and the last stable release is from 2023.

Official site: Cyotek WebCopy. Our listing: Cyotek WebCopy.

SiteOne Crawler

SiteOne Crawler is an SEO audit tool that also exports a static offline clone of a site, fonts, documents and third-party files included. The part HTTrack lacks is the --browser mode. It renders each page in Chromium, so React, Vue, Angular and Next.js sites are copied from the DOM after scripts run.

The engine is a Rust command-line tool, and v2.5.1 from June 27, 2026 ships browser mode in the standard binaries. Chromium is downloaded on first use. If you prefer windows to flags, a separate Electron desktop app runs on Windows x64, Intel and Apple Silicon Macs, and Linux. It can also turn a whole site into Markdown files.

Best for: Anyone whose HTTrack copies of modern JavaScript sites open broken, on Windows, Mac or Linux.

Pricing:

• Free and open source under the MIT licence.

Watch out for:

• In browser mode, cookies, HTTP auth and custom headers are not passed to Chromium, so logged-in areas are out of reach that way.
• Open bugs include images with query strings not saved for offline viewing (October 2026) and image data-src URLs not rewritten (August 2026).

Official site: SiteOne Crawler.

SiteSucker

SiteSucker, from Rick's Apps, is the long-running Mac answer to HTTrack. Paste a URL and it downloads the site's pages and files into a folder you can open offline. Version 6.2.2 is a universal app for Intel and Apple Silicon and needs macOS 14 Sonoma. HTTrack's own Mac build, by contrast, is Apple Silicon only and wants macOS 15.

There is also an iPhone and iPad version for iOS 26 and later. SiteSucker Pro adds downloads of embedded YouTube, Vimeo, WordPress and Wistia videos, with a 14-day trial capped at 100 files per download.

Best for: Mac users who want a native, low-setup copier and do not need command-line control.

Pricing:

• Mac: $5.99 one-time on the Mac App Store.
• iPhone and iPad: $4.99 on the App Store.
• SiteSucker Pro: sold through the in-app Registration dialog or FastSpring; the developer site does not list the price.

Watch out for:

• It ignores JavaScript entirely, and the developer says script-driven sites may misbehave or show broken links after download.
• Very large sites can exhaust memory or storage, and robots.txt exclusions are honoured by default.

Official site: SiteSucker.

GNU Wget and Wget2

For a mirror you can script and schedule, wget --mirror --convert-links --page-requisites --adjust-extension does most of what HTTrack does from one line. --mirror turns on recursion with infinite depth and timestamps, and --warc-file writes a standard WARC archive next to the HTML. The latest Wget is 1.25.0 from November 10, 2024.

Wget2 is the successor, at 2.3.0 since September 21, 2026. It is multithreaded, speaks HTTP/2 and uses parallel connections, which helps on big sites.

Best for: Developers and admins who want repeatable mirrors in cron jobs or CI, with no interface at all.

Pricing:

• Free software under the GNU GPL.

Watch out for:

• The manual describes finding links in HTML and CSS only, so content that scripts build in the browser is not fetched.
• Wget2 drops FTP and some older Wget options, so old mirror scripts may need edits.

Official site: GNU Wget and Wget2.

ArchiveWeb.page

Instead of crawling, ArchiveWeb.page records what your browser loads while you click through a site: HTML, images, video, scripts and data files. Because the capture happens inside a real Chromium browser, logged-in pages and script-built menus come along. You start a session from the extension icon, browse, then stop it.

Collections export as WARC or as WACZ, a zipped format with WARC files and metadata. The newest release, v0.16.2 from April 30, 2026, comes as a Chrome extension and as desktop builds for Windows, macOS and Linux.

Best for: Saving a small, interactive or login-only site exactly as it looked while you used it.

Pricing:

• Free and open source under AGPL-3.0.

Watch out for:

• You get WARC or WACZ files, not a folder of HTML. They open in ReplayWeb.page rather than straight in a browser.
• The extension needs Chrome or another Chromium browser; there is no Firefox or Safari version.

Official site: ArchiveWeb.page.

Browsertrix

Webrecorder's hosted crawler is what ArchiveWeb.page itself recommends for capturing whole sites automatically. Browsertrix drives real browsers through each page, so it handles dynamic sites that defeat HTTrack.

The paid cloud plans are priced by crawl time. Starter gives 180 execution minutes, 100 GB of storage and up to 2,000 pages per crawl. The code is AGPLv3, and the docs cover running your own copy on Kubernetes.

Best for: Archivists, researchers and teams who need high-fidelity copies of large or dynamic sites and would rather not run the crawler.

Pricing:

• Starter: $30/month, 180 execution minutes, 100 GB, 2,000 pages per crawl, 1 concurrent crawl, 7-day free trial.
• Standard: $60/month, 360 minutes, 220 GB, 5,000 pages per crawl.
• Plus: $120/month, 720 minutes, 500 GB, 10,000 pages per crawl.
• Pro and Enterprise: billed yearly, contact sales.
• Self-hosting is free under AGPLv3.

Watch out for:

• The page cap per crawl is low on the cheaper plans: 2,000 on Starter, 5,000 on Standard.
• Self-hosting means running Kubernetes, which is a lot of setup for a one-off copy.

Official site: Browsertrix.

WebScrapBook

An heir to the old ScrapBook X add-on, WebScrapBook saves pages from inside the browser as a folder, a single HTML file, or an HTZ or MAFF archive. The site-copy feature is called in-depth capture. Set the depth to a positive number, add URL filters, and matching linked pages are saved with the first one as a site item.

It runs on Chrome, Edge, Opera, Vivaldi, Brave, Firefox, Tor Browser and Firefox for Android. Version 2.27.3 was published on September 18, 2026. You can annotate and edit saved pages afterwards, which none of the crawlers above offer.

Best for: Researchers who want a section of a site, plus notes on it, saved from the browser they already use.

Pricing:

• Free and open source under MPL-2.0.

Watch out for:

• Re-capture, merge-capture, the sidebar and site indexes need the separate PyWebScrapBook backend server.
• The depth setting confuses people. A Chrome Web Store support post from March 2021 reports that depth 2 saved only the first page.

Official site: WebScrapBook.

SingleFile

Sometimes the job is one page, not a site. SingleFile packs a full page, images and fonts included, into one HTML file that opens in any browser. The extension runs on Chrome, Firefox desktop and mobile, Edge, Safari, Brave, Vivaldi and Opera. On Firefox it has about 93,000 users and a 4.8 rating at version 1.35.0.

For more than one page, SingleFile CLI adds --crawl-links, --crawl-max-depth and --crawl-inner-links-only, and can pack a crawl into one self-extracting ZIP. It drives an installed Chrome or Chromium, so the saved pages reflect what scripts drew.

Best for: Keeping single articles, receipts or docs pages as one portable file each.

Pricing:

• Free and open source under AGPL-3.0; the author offers commercial licences on request.

Watch out for:

• Images and fonts are stored as base64 and the file is not compressed, so pages with many images get large.
• Canvas and video elements sometimes cannot be saved, because of browser security limits.

Official site: SingleFile.

ArchiveBox

ArchiveBox suits a different goal from HTTrack: a lasting, searchable store of many URLs on your own server. Its wget extractor produces a site clone with a WARC file, and it also saves SingleFile HTML, PDF and screenshots of the same page. Adding --depth=1 pulls in the pages a URL links to.

Recurring schedules re-check the seed URLs on every run, so a mirror can refresh itself. The v0.9 line rebuilt the engine and plugins, and the latest release is v0.9.71.

Best for: Self-hosters who want regular snapshots of a set of sites in several formats, not a one-time copy.

Pricing:

• Free and open source under the MIT licence. You pay only for your server and storage.

Watch out for:

• Supported systems are Ubuntu, macOS and Docker. On Windows you go through Docker.
• The README's examples stop at --depth=1, so it is not built for deep, many-level mirrors the way HTTrack and Wget are.

Official site: ArchiveBox. Our listing: ArchiveBox.

How to choose

When to stay with HTTrack

Keep HTTrack if your target is a mostly static site. It is free under the GPL, runs on Windows, Mac, Linux and Android, and is getting regular fixes again in 2026. Version 3.51 also added login and CAPTCHA mirroring, something older versions could not do. Move on when the copies of script-heavy pages come out empty.

Frequently asked questions