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Browsertrix Crawler vs Offline Explorer: catalog facts
Browsertrix Crawler	Offline Explorer
Free Free to use; the source is published on GitHub by Webrecorder.	Paid Commercial software sold in several editions.
Command line	Windows
Captures pages through a real browser rather than raw HTML Writes standard WARC and WACZ archive files	Archives anything from a single page to a large website Filters downloads by file type
Aimed at technical users rather than casual downloading Output needs a web archive viewer to replay	Commercial, with no free edition Windows only
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Closed source
License not stated	License not stated
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 24, 2026

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