Alternatives to Integrity
A free native Mac app that crawls a website and reports broken links. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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Integrity
A free native Mac app that crawls a website and reports broken links.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Integrity.
Screaming Frog SEO Spider
A desktop website crawler for Windows, macOS and Linux that audits sites for technical SEO issues.
Screaming Frog SEO Spider runs on Windows, macOS and Linux and adds over 300 SEO checks, but its free version stops at 500 URLs.
LinkChecker
Open-source command-line tool that checks links in web pages or crawls whole websites for broken ones.
LinkChecker is a free open-source command-line crawler for Windows, macOS and Linux with many export formats, but no graphical interface.
W3C Link Checker
An online W3C tool that finds broken links and anchors on a web page or whole site.
W3C Link Checker runs in the browser with recursive crawling and anchor checks, with a plain text-heavy report instead of a native Mac app.
Dr. Link Check
Online crawler that checks a website for broken links, bad SSL certificates and malicious links.
Dr. Link Check is a web crawler that also flags malware links and invalid SSL certificates, with larger sites needing a paid plan.
Broken Link Check
Free online dead link checker for whole websites or single pages, with no sign-up.
Broken Link Check works in any browser with no sign-up and shows where broken links sit in the HTML, with a 3,000 page free limit.
Checkbot
Chrome extension that crawls a website and tests its pages for SEO, speed and security problems.
Checkbot is a Chrome extension that crawls sites for broken links plus SEO, speed and security issues, with some features paid.
Dead Link Checker
Online broken link checker that crawls a website or single page and reports dead links.
Dead Link Checker is a web service with free manual checks and paid scheduled scans with emailed reports across multiple sites.
linkinator
A command-line broken link checker that crawls websites and local files to validate every link.
linkinator is an MIT-licensed command-line crawler for Windows, macOS and Linux suited to CI, requiring Node.js or Docker.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Siteliner
An online scanner that finds duplicate content, broken links and internal linking issues across a website.
Sitebulb
A website crawler for technical SEO audits, available as desktop software and a cloud service.
muffet
A fast command-line link checker, written in Go, that crawls a website to find broken links.
Ahrefs Broken Link Checker
Free online tool that finds broken inbound and outbound links for any website or page.
Netpeak Spider
A desktop SEO crawler that audits websites for technical issues.
