Crawly
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Crawly, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Crawly's own pricing page, checked 22 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Unlimited URLs per crawl · £0/ forever; everything included; no tiers or upsells |
| Free forever | Free | Unlimited URLs · all features included · no trial period · forever |
The facts
Each one read from Crawly's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- API access
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Backlink analysis
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Crawl comparison
- It can compare two crawls and show added, removed and changed URLs, including changes to titles, H1s, status codes and indexability.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Crawl controls
- The crawler supports configurable depth and page limits, robots.txt settings, user agent selection, list mode and up to 10 concurrent pages by default.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Custom extraction
- Users can extract page text or attributes with CSS selectors and search raw HTML with regular expressions.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Crawly includes an MCP server for Claude Code and the maker says it connects with Claude Code, Cursor and Codex via MCP.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The maker describes Crawly as a free alternative for Mac teams and says it is built for professionals who need control over how their sites are crawled.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Issue detection
- It automatically detects 19 SEO issue types, including broken pages, redirect chains, missing titles, duplicate H1s and mixed content.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Local data
- Crawl data is stored locally in a SQLite database on the user's Mac; the about page says data never leaves the Mac.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Product
- Crawly is a native macOS SEO crawler for crawling and auditing websites.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Security auditing
- Crawly audits pages for HSTS, Content-Security-Policy, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy and X-Content-Type-Options headers.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Site audit
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Support
- The maker directs users to its support page or GitHub issues for questions and feedback.checked 12 Oct 2026
The company
- Company and location
- Crawly is built by Limely Ltd, a UK web agency, and the site says it was built in Chester, England.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Headquarters
- Chester, Englandchecked 28 Sep 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Platform requirements
- Crawly is a native Mac app for Apple Silicon and Intel and requires macOS 12 Monterey or later.checked 12 Oct 2026
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