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WayWayBack

Browse the Wayback Machine, natively.

A client-side browser for the Wayback Machine — walk a site's history on a heat-map calendar.

WayWayBack

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201Downloads
147Latest release · v1.0.1

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Platform
Linux
Size
19.6 MB
SHA-256
c1dcb9f7a616615a6105ca05bad669c8a2969c6020a0942456ebd30b5ef941d5
Platform
macOS
Size
20.2 MB
SHA-256
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Platform
Android
Size
59.4 MB
SHA-256
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Platform
Windows
Size
13.8 MB
SHA-256
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Platform
Linux
Size
19.6 MB
SHA-256
5d825cff1385bc3a061027900882424155b5f8cd8b6f5773aea897a5ad1ed7ea
Platform
macOS
Size
20.2 MB
SHA-256
7322badc640e3b741484032a0e17885a314a157af705dca1e622a02140553ebc
Platform
Android
Size
59.4 MB
SHA-256
6f157ce62f4e32c8aa4245ef38f6d79e34fd0d423d0a29acb024bf10ba8c21c4
Platform
Windows
Size
13.8 MB
SHA-256
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See how it works

WayWayBack — Start from an empty archive
01

Start from an empty archive

The desktop app opens on Websites, Snapshots and History tabs and one Search button.

WayWayBack — A site's history on a calendar
02

A site's history on a calendar

Enter a URL and see every capture laid out on a heat-map calendar, year by year.

WayWayBack — Your archive, organised
03

Your archive, organised

Starred sites, starred snapshots and a history of everything you opened — all stored on your device.

WayWayBack — Find any site, fast
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Find any site, fast

Instant URL guesses merged with FOSS search engines: Wikidata, Wikipedia, Marginalia, plus Hacker News and npm.

WayWayBack — A calendar of the whole web
05

A calendar of the whole web

Pick a year, a month, a day. Capture counts sit on a heat scale; empty periods are marked and never re-fetched.

WayWayBack — Every snapshot of a day
06

Every snapshot of a day

Open any capture in your browser; smart hour / minute / second filters show only the times that exist.

WayWayBack — Pick up where you left off
07

Pick up where you left off

A local history of every link and snapshot you visited.

WayWayBack — Free & unofficial
08

Free & unofficial

GPL-3.0 software, not affiliated with the Internet Archive. No backend, no tracking, no ads.

WayWayBack — Make it yours
09

Make it yours

Light, dark or system theme, drag-to-reorder home tabs, and a switch for each search engine.

Why you'll like it

01

Heat-map calendar

See at a glance which dates have archived snapshots.

02

Native app

No browser tab juggling required.

What it's built with, and why

What it's built with, and why

Dart / FlutterOne codebase renders natively across Android, and reuses the author's own combi.dart parsing library.
Internet Archive's public CDX APIThe only official way to query which snapshots exist for a URL, client-side, with no backend to run.
Heat-map calendar UITurns thousands of snapshot timestamps into one glanceable view instead of an endless list.
Recent activity

Recent activity

  • 713be5eBuild release APK with JDK 21
  • 5df43dbUpdate 1.0.0 changelog and store description to match shipped features
  • 5a0e30fFormat search and settings screens with dart format

Downloads per release

541.0.01471.0.1
Versionv1.0.119.6 MB
Platforms
AndroidLinuxWindowsmacOS
LicenseGPL-3.0

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