# Integrity review (2026): is the free plan enough?

> Mac link checker, free for personal use, with paid SEO editions

Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA.

Integrity is a native Mac app that crawls a website and reports broken internal and external links, including images and soft 404s. The free edition only checks links; Integrity Plus adds search, filters, export, XML sitemaps and multiple sites, and Integrity Pro adds SEO checks, HTML validation, spell checking and JavaScript rendering. The paid editions are one-off purchases.

- **Category:** Technical SEO & Site Audits
- **Made by:** PeacockMedia (since 2007)
- **Website:** https://peacockmedia.software/mac/integrity/free.html
- **Runs on:** macOS
- **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you're on Windows or want it in a browser, as it's macOS only.
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026

## Pricing

As of Oct 23, 2026, Integrity has a free plan, and paid plans start at $20 one-time, per user (Integrity Plus).

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** Integrity is free for personal use with no restrictions, but only checks links: no export, search, sitemap or SEO checks. Business users are asked to buy a paid edition.
- **Free trial:** 7-day free trial of Integrity Plus and Integrity Pro.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Integrity | $0 | Donationware link checker for personal use: checks images and all internal and external links, with soft 404 detection. |
| Integrity Plus | $20 one-time, per user | Adds search, filters and export, XML sitemap generation, archiving and managing as many sites as you like. |
| Integrity Pro | $59 one-time, per user | Adds SEO warnings, HTML validation, spell checking, JavaScript rendering and checking links inside PDF and Word files. |

Read from https://peacockmedia.software/mac/integrity/ on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Integrity before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Extra 20% off for education and nonprofits** (Education): PeacockMedia gives schools, colleges, universities, students, nonprofits and charities a further 20% off its one-off licences, on request. Source: https://peacockmedia.software/discounts-corporate-educational.html
- **Bulk licence discounts from five users** (Other savings): Five to 20 licences are each 15% off the single-user price, and more than 20 are each 30% off. Source: https://peacockmedia.software/discounts-corporate-educational.html

## Key features

- **Link checking:** Crawls a site and checks every internal and external link and image, including soft 404s, with problems highlighted in color.
- **XML sitemap export:** Plus and Pro export an XML sitemap, optionally with images and PDF files, with rules for priority and change frequency.
- **SEO warnings:** Integrity Pro flags missing titles and descriptions, thin content, keyword-stuffed pages, images without alt text and mixed content.
- **HTML validation and spelling:** Pro checks the HTML of each page as it scans and runs a spell check using the Mac's own dictionary.
- **Search, filter and export:** The paid editions let you search and filter scan results and export them, and keep settings for many sites.

## Good for

- Mac users who want a quick, free broken-link check of a personal site
- Freelancers who prefer a one-off purchase to a monthly fee
- Generating an XML sitemap from a crawl

## Worth knowing

- It runs only on macOS 11.5 or later; older versions remain for older Macs.
- The free edition is for personal use and cannot export results; business users are asked to buy Plus or Pro.
- Scheduled scans, login-protected sites and client reports need Scrutiny, the maker's $149 app.
- Licences are per user; there is no web or Windows version, only a paid online scan service.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.6 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. Integrity is a Mac app that crawls a site and finds broken links and images, free for personal use, with paid editions from $20 once. The free one only checks links, with no export, though. It's Mac-only, and scheduled scans or login-protected sites need the maker's $149 Scrutiny app instead.

- **Value for money: A.** Integrity Plus is $20 once and Pro $59 once, per user, both far under a year of this category's middle subscription of $29 a month. The free edition costs nothing for personal use.
- **Free plan and trial: B.** Free for personal use with no restrictions on scans, so one person could live on it for a personal site. It only checks links, though, with no export, search, sitemaps or SEO checks, and business users are asked to buy.
- **Features: C.** Checks every link and image, including soft 404s, and Pro adds SEO warnings, HTML validation, spelling and JavaScript rendering. The gap: scheduled scans, login-protected sites and client reports need Scrutiny, the maker's $149 app.
- **Ease of use: B.** No rating on record. It's a Mac app you open, give a starting address and run, with nothing to set up first.
- **Platforms and integrations: D.** Mac only, on macOS 11.5 or later. There's no web or Windows version and no integrations on record.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from PeacockMedia's own pages on 23 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among technical SEO tools

- Integrity's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 56 of the 83 other technical SEO tools we grade, and level with 7.
- It stands best on value for money (A, above 54 of 83) and worst on platforms and integrations (D, above 0).

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/technical-seo

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** Nothing Integrity does is plain enough to make in a weekend. The 2 things listed below take a company. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.6 is higher than 56 of the 83 other technical SEO tools we grade. It costs $20, paid once.

- You could not: A crawler that checks every page of a site.
- You could not: A real app for macOS. Something home-made would be a web page.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

**Tags:** Site audit, One-time purchase

## Alternatives

- [Beam Us Up](https://toolgpa.com/tools/beam-us-up): Free desktop SEO crawler for Windows, Mac and Linux. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/beam-us-up-vs-integrity)
- [Xenu's Link Sleuth](https://toolgpa.com/tools/xenu-s-link-sleuth): Free Windows program that checks a website for broken links. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/integrity-vs-xenu-s-link-sleuth)
- [Dr. Link Check](https://toolgpa.com/tools/dr-link-check): Online broken link checker with blacklist and scheduled checks. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/dr-link-check-vs-integrity)
- [Screaming Frog SEO Spider](https://toolgpa.com/tools/screaming-frog): Desktop website crawler for technical SEO audits. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/integrity-vs-screaming-frog)
- [Visual SEO Studio](https://toolgpa.com/tools/visual-seo-studio): Desktop SEO crawler for Windows and Mac with XML sitemap tools. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/integrity-vs-visual-seo-studio)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026:

- https://peacockmedia.software/mac/integrity/
- https://peacockmedia.software/mac/integrity/free.html
- https://peacockmedia.software/mac/integrity-plus/
- https://peacockmedia.software/mac/integrity-pro/
- https://peacockmedia.software/discounts-corporate-educational.html
- https://peacockmedia.software/
- https://peacockmedia.software/about.html

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