What HTTrack does

HTTrack is a free, open-source offline browser utility distributed under the GNU General Public License, founded in 1998 by Xavier Roche and maintained primarily as an individual project rather than a corporate entity. The software downloads World Wide Web sites recursively from the Internet to a local directory, preserving the original relative link-structure so that users can browse the mirrored content from a browser exactly as they would online, and can update or resume interrupted mirror sessions. The core engine is implemented in C and C++ across approximately 50,000 lines of source code, with features including advanced filters, form-based authentication, HTTPS/IPv6 support, and incremental updates.

The product is delivered as platform-specific releases: WinHTTrack (Windows GUI, Windows 2000 through Windows 10+), WebHTTrack (Linux/Unix/BSD HTML shell), an Android app on Google Play, and a third-party Qt-based fork (HTtraQt). Distribution is entirely self-serve, relying on direct downloads from httrack.com, inclusion in major Linux and macOS package managers, the Play Store, and the project's GitHub repository, with no sales motion, marketing budget, or formal partnership network.

HTTrack has no commercial revenue model. The software is free for download, use, copying, and modification, and the project covers hosting and domain costs through voluntary donations (EUR 12–30). There is no institutional investment, no parent company, no disclosed headcount beyond a small set of named contributors, and no enterprise customer base. The primary user segments are individuals who want offline web access or local backups, and a secondary professional segment that uses the tool for documentation archiving and web research.

Name

HTTrack

Legal name

HTTrack Website Copier

Website

https://httrack.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1998

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

HTTrack is a free, GPL-licensed offline browser utility, founded in 1998, that recursively mirrors websites to local storage for offline viewing and is maintained by a small open-source community led by Xavier Roche.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Boston

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Personnel

Revenue model

1. Free Open-Source Distribution: HTTrack is distributed free of charge under the GNU General Public License (GPL). There is no commercial revenue model. The project accepts donations to cover website hosting and domain costs.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

HTTrack Website Copier is a free, open-source (GNU GPL v3) offline browser utility that downloads World Wide Web sites from the Internet to a local directory, recursively building all directories, retrieving HTML, images, and other files while preserving the original site's relative link structure for seamless offline browsing. The product is delivered across multiple platform-specific releases—a native Windows GUI (WinHTTrack), an HTML-based shell for Linux/Unix/BSD (WebHTTrack), and an Android app—backed by a C/C++ engine with advanced filtering, HTTPS/IPv6 support, and the ability to update or resume interrupted mirrors.

Product overview

HTTrack Website Copier is a single, unified open-source offline browser utility released under GNU GPL. The product is distributed across multiple platform-specific releases: WinHTTrack for Windows (with native GUI), WebHTTrack for Linux/Unix/BSD (with HTML-based GUI), and HTTrack Android for mobile devices. The software core engine handles recursive website downloading with filter-based control, while the releases differ only in their interface delivery method. Third-party forks like HTtraQt provide alternative Qt-based interfaces.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• WinHTTrack: Windows GUI release of HTTrack (with native graphic shell), supporting Windows 2000 through Windows 10 and above
• WebHTTrack
• HTtraQt

Products and services

• HTTrack Website Copier Free, open-source (GNU GPL) offline browser utility that recursively downloads websites from the Internet to a local directory, retrieving HTML, images, and other files while preserving the original site's relative link structure for seamless local browsing.
• WinHTTrack Windows GUI release of HTTrack Website Copier, supporting Windows 2000 through Windows 10 and above, with a native graphical interface for configuring mirror sessions and controlling download options.
• WebHTTrack Linux/Unix/BSD release of HTTrack Website Copier with an HTML-based graphical shell interface for web-based mirroring configuration and execution.
• HTTrack Android Android mobile application version of HTTrack Website Copier, available on Google Play, allowing mobile users to download and mirror websites offline on Android devices.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Others

• Heritrix: Heritrix is the Internet Archive's open-source web crawler. It is an enabling/ecosystem tool that overlaps with HTTrack on technical web-crawling capability but is designed for high-scale institutional archiving rather than end-user offline browsing.
• cURL: cURL is a ubiquitous command-line tool and library for transferring data with URLs. It is not a direct website-mirroring peer, but it is the underlying transport layer that tools like HTTrack and Wget build on, and it serves many of the same technical users.
• Internet Archive (Wayback Machine): The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is the dominant public web-archiving service. It addresses the same fundamental use case (archiving web content) but at internet scale and as a centralized service, complementing rather than directly competing with HTTrack's local-mirroring model.

Emerging players

• WebScrapBook: WebScrapBook is an open-source browser extension for capturing, organizing, and annotating web pages—combining web archiving with note-taking. It targets the same individual/professional use case as HTTrack's local-mirror functionality.
• SingleFile: SingleFile is an open-source browser extension that saves a complete web page (including JavaScript-rendered content) into a single HTML file. It overlaps with HTTrack's offline-browsing value proposition but addresses the modern SPA/JS-rendered web that HTTrack struggles with.
• Scrapy: Scrapy is a popular open-source web crawling/scraping framework written in Python. While developer-oriented rather than end-user-oriented, it overlaps with HTTrack on website crawling and serves many of the same professional research/archiving use cases.
• Conifer (formerly Webrecorder): Conifer is a web archiving service that captures full-fidelity, JavaScript-rendered page archives. It overlaps with HTTrack's archiving use case for individual/professional users but addresses modern web limitations that constrain HTTrack's relevance.

Direct peers

• Website Downloader (website-downloader.io): Website-downloader.io is a free online tool that downloads an entire website's source code for offline use—the hosted, web-app equivalent of HTTrack. It targets the same end-user need (offline browsing) with a no-install UX.
• GNU Wget: GNU Wget is a free command-line utility for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP—the most direct functional analogue to HTTrack's core engine. Both are widely distributed via Linux package managers and serve developers/researchers who need to download and mirror web content, making them the closest peers in the offline-download tool category.
• Cyotek WebCopy: Cyotek WebCopy is a Windows-only free website copier that crawls sites to local disk for offline browsing—functionally identical to WinHTTrack. It targets the same user base (individuals/professionals archiving sites) and competes head-to-head on Windows.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• GitHubgithub.com/xroche/httrack
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/3273749

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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