Alternatives to Offline Explorer
A Windows website downloader and offline browser for archiving pages and whole sites. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Offline Explorer
A Windows website downloader and offline browser for archiving pages and whole sites.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Offline Explorer.
HTTrack
A free website copier that downloads whole sites to a local folder for offline browsing.
HTTrack is free and open source under GPL, runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, and keeps the relative link structure with WARC output available.
Cyotek WebCopy
A free Windows tool that copies all or part of a website to a local drive.
Cyotek WebCopy is a free Windows tool with include and exclude rules and site login, but it needs .NET and does not run JavaScript.
SiteSucker
A Mac app that downloads whole websites to disk for offline browsing.
SiteSucker moves to macOS and iOS instead of Windows, is paid, and rewrites links so copied sites work offline.
GNU Wget
A non-interactive command-line tool for retrieving files over HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS.
GNU Wget is free and open source under GPL-3.0 with recursive mirroring and link conversion, but it is used from the command line only.
GNU Wget2
Successor to Wget with HTTP/2, parallel connections and compression.
GNU Wget2 is free and open source, mirrors faster with parallel connections and HTTP/2, but it is command line only on macOS and Linux.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
WFDownloader App
A free bulk downloader for images, videos and files from galleries, forums and supported sites.
Bulk Image Downloader
A paid desktop tool that downloads full-size images and videos from web galleries in bulk.
Internet Download Manager
A Windows download manager that splits files into segments to speed up, resume and schedule downloads.
DownThemAll!
Mass downloader that grabs every link or image on a page.
