Android · Desktop · Free & open source
WayWayBack
Walk any site's history on a heat-map calendar — year, month, day — and open the snapshot.
An unofficial Wayback Machine client with no backend of its own.
Find the site
Search merges instant URL guesses with two optional keyless engines — Wikipedia (article → homepage) and npm (package → repository). Recent searches are saved and offered next time.
Read its history as a heat map
Pick a year, a month, a day. Every day cell shows how many times the site was captured, on a heat scale. Years and months the archive says are empty are marked and never requested.
Open the exact snapshot
A per-day list of captures with hour / minute / second filters that only offer the times that actually exist. Tap one to open it in your browser.
No account. No tracking. No ads.
Everything stays on your device.
Get it
All builds live on the latest GitHub release. Direct downloads:
On Linux, extract and run ./wwb (needs GTK 3). On macOS the .app is
unsigned — run xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine WayWayBack.app once, then open it.
An F-Droid inclusion request is planned; the reproducible build is already in place.
What I built
Sole developer. A Flutter app for Android and desktop (Linux, Windows, macOS) that talks directly
to the public web.archive.org endpoints — no server of my own. It uses the
Wayback Machine's own calendar APIs (sparkline + calendarcaptures),
fetches only the selected year, and caches results locally with a TTL so re-visits are instant.
Everything — starred sites and snapshots, open history, recent searches, home-tab order,
theme — is stored on device in a drift (SQLite) database. Layers stay
separated: data → state (Riverpod) → UI. Share a URL into the app or use
wwb://open?url=… deep links to jump straight to a site's calendar. Releases
are reproducible builds (pinned Flutter, fixed build path, Docker) ready for F-Droid.
Built with
Languages
Framework & platforms
Architecture & libraries
Data sources
Build & delivery
Everything else
Stars & history
Star sites and snapshots; keep a local log of every link and capture you opened.
Share to open
Share a URL from any app, or use wwb:// deep links, to jump to its calendar.
Themes & layout
Light / dark / system, and drag-to-reorder home tabs.
Smart time filters
Hour / minute / second pickers that only show the times a capture exists.
Independent & unofficial
WayWayBack is not the Wayback Machine and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the
Internet Archive. It has no backend — it talks directly to the public
web.archive.org endpoints and stores all data locally. Archived content and trademarks
belong to their respective owners.
Free & open source
Licensed under the GPL-3.0-or-later. No ads, no tracking, no account. Issues and contributions are welcome on GitHub.