--- url: https://al-mo.de/apps/waywayback/ title: WayWayBack — Browse the Wayback Machine, natively. description: A client-side browser for the Wayback Machine — walk a site's history on a heat-map calendar. --- Android · Linux · Windows · macOS # WayWayBack Browse the Wayback Machine, natively. A client-side browser for the Wayback Machine — walk a site's history on a heat-map calendar. Download[View source](https://github.com/mkalmousli/wwb) ![WayWayBack](https://al-mo.de/assets/mirror/wwb-desktop-1-home.png) ## Stats **1** Stars **201** Downloads **147** Latest release · v1.0.1 ## Available on [GitHub Releases](https://github.com/mkalmousli/wwb/releases) ## Downloads ### Versions ### Files ### Details Platform Linux Size 19.6 MB SHA-256 c1dcb9f7a616615a6105ca05bad669c8a2969c6020a0942456ebd30b5ef941d5 [Download](https://github.com/mkalmousli/wwb/releases/download/v1.0.1/wwb-1.0.1-linux-x64.tar.gz)[Release notes](https://github.com/mkalmousli/wwb/releases/tag/v1.0.1) Platform macOS Size 20.2 MB SHA-256 5faafacf7d325531bb6bb678a7cad2674dd1449eb6f1491d49fb0994c867098f [Download](https://github.com/mkalmousli/wwb/releases/download/v1.0.1/wwb-1.0.1-macos.zip)[Release notes](https://github.com/mkalmousli/wwb/releases/tag/v1.0.1) Platform Android Size 59.4 MB SHA-256 bcf04f9144da2c518380407282138551c0e36d9a7b221b2a4f1a2c2d12253d58 [Download](https://github.com/mkalmousli/wwb/releases/download/v1.0.1/wwb-1.0.1-universal.apk)[Release notes](https://github.com/mkalmousli/wwb/releases/tag/v1.0.1) Platform Windows Size 13.8 MB SHA-256 3d81a38e31f3e8de4541bb5ee86004495c07f4ece485deba52ffb95f8ef18b22 [Download](https://github.com/mkalmousli/wwb/releases/download/v1.0.1/wwb-1.0.1-windows-x64.zip)[Release notes](https://github.com/mkalmousli/wwb/releases/tag/v1.0.1) Platform Linux Size 19.6 MB SHA-256 5d825cff1385bc3a061027900882424155b5f8cd8b6f5773aea897a5ad1ed7ea [Download](https://github.com/mkalmousli/wwb/releases/download/v1.0.0/wwb-1.0.0-linux-x64.tar.gz)[Release notes](https://github.com/mkalmousli/wwb/releases/tag/v1.0.0) Platform macOS Size 20.2 MB SHA-256 7322badc640e3b741484032a0e17885a314a157af705dca1e622a02140553ebc [Download](https://github.com/mkalmousli/wwb/releases/download/v1.0.0/wwb-1.0.0-macos.zip)[Release notes](https://github.com/mkalmousli/wwb/releases/tag/v1.0.0) Platform Android Size 59.4 MB SHA-256 6f157ce62f4e32c8aa4245ef38f6d79e34fd0d423d0a29acb024bf10ba8c21c4 [Download](https://github.com/mkalmousli/wwb/releases/download/v1.0.0/wwb-1.0.0-universal.apk)[Release notes](https://github.com/mkalmousli/wwb/releases/tag/v1.0.0) Platform Windows Size 13.8 MB SHA-256 f802cb74f63887a57c67cbf0650e70513cbf0eb75d1fc362b1ae50d0615f9062 [Download](https://github.com/mkalmousli/wwb/releases/download/v1.0.0/wwb-1.0.0-windows-x64.zip)[Release notes](https://github.com/mkalmousli/wwb/releases/tag/v1.0.0) ## See how it works ![WayWayBack — Start from an empty archive](https://al-mo.de/assets/mirror/wwb-desktop-1-home.png) 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](https://al-mo.de/assets/mirror/wwb-desktop-2-link.png) 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](https://al-mo.de/assets/mirror/wwb-phoneScreenshots-1.png) 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](https://al-mo.de/assets/mirror/wwb-phoneScreenshots-2.png) 04 ### 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](https://al-mo.de/assets/mirror/wwb-phoneScreenshots-3.png) 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](https://al-mo.de/assets/mirror/wwb-phoneScreenshots-4.png) 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](https://al-mo.de/assets/mirror/wwb-phoneScreenshots-5.png) 07 ### Pick up where you left off A local history of every link and snapshot you visited. ![WayWayBack — Free & unofficial](https://al-mo.de/assets/mirror/wwb-phoneScreenshots-6.png) 08 ### Free & unofficial GPL-3.0 software, not affiliated with the Internet Archive. No backend, no tracking, no ads. ![WayWayBack — Make it yours](https://al-mo.de/assets/mirror/wwb-phoneScreenshots-7.png) 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 / Flutter One codebase renders natively across Android, and reuses the author's own combi.dart parsing library. Internet Archive's public CDX API The only official way to query which snapshots exist for a URL, client-side, with no backend to run. Heat-map calendar UI Turns thousands of snapshot timestamps into one glanceable view instead of an endless list. Recent activity ## Recent activity - [713be5e](https://github.com/mkalmousli/wwb/commit/713be5e689189562428b92df193d4fe8988a9c4b) Build release APK with JDK 21 - [5df43db](https://github.com/mkalmousli/wwb/commit/5df43db459ef31ac16fb60bb5bd4af2c8d123ead) Update 1.0.0 changelog and store description to match shipped features - [5a0e30f](https://github.com/mkalmousli/wwb/commit/5a0e30fa9468199a1eca1bc7b0d5029192d61071) Format search and settings screens with dart format ## Downloads per release Version **v1.0.1***19.6 MB* Platforms Android Linux Windows macOS License **[GPL-3.0](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html)** ## Related articles - [WayWayBack: browse a site's whole history on a heat-map calendar](https://al-mo.de/blog/waywayback/): An unofficial, fully client-side browser for the Wayback Machine: pick a year, a month and a day, and open any snapshot. Enjoying this project? 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