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

> Native Mac and iOS SEO crawler that keeps crawl data on your device

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

SEO Tracer is a website crawler for Mac, iPhone and iPad that runs technical SEO audits on the device itself. It collects titles, meta descriptions, headings and links, reports status codes, redirect chains and broken links, and exports the results. Crawls of up to 500 pages per session are free; larger ones need a subscription or a one-time purchase in the App Store.

- **Category:** Technical SEO & Site Audits
- **Made by:** Perpetual Media Ltd. (since 2025)
- **Website:** https://www.seotracer.app
- **Runs on:** macOS, iOS
- **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you use Windows or Linux, as it's Apple devices only.
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026

## Pricing

As of Oct 23, 2026, SEO Tracer has a free plan, and paid plans start at $4.99 per month.

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** Free download that crawls up to 500 pages per session, with no account or credit card needed.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | Up to 500 pages per crawl session on Mac, iPhone or iPad. |
| Monthly Premium | $4.99 per month | Unlimited crawling and the Pro features, billed monthly through the App Store. |
| Yearly Premium | $44.99 per year | The same unlimited crawling and Pro features, billed once a year through the App Store. |
| Lifetime Access | $129.99 one-time | Unlimited crawling and the Pro features for a single payment, with no renewal. |

Read from https://apps.apple.com/us/app/seo-tracer-site-crawler/id6749603602 on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with SEO Tracer before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **About 25% less with the yearly plan** (Annual discount): On the US App Store, Yearly Premium costs $44.99 a year, against $59.88 for twelve months of Monthly Premium at $4.99. Source: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/seo-tracer-site-crawler/id6749603602
- **Lifetime Access for a one-time $129.99** (Lifetime license): The App Store listing sells Lifetime Access as a single in-app purchase of $129.99, and the terms describe it as a one-time lifetime purchase. Source: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/seo-tracer-site-crawler/id6749603602

## Key features

- **On-page data from every crawled page:** Collects titles, meta descriptions, H1 and H2 headings, canonicals, images, CSS and JavaScript, and flags missing titles and duplicate headings.
- **Broken links and status codes:** Finds broken internal and external links, 4xx and 5xx errors and redirect chains, records server response times and filters pages by status code.
- **JavaScript rendering:** Renders pages built with JavaScript before auditing them, and detects robots.txt files and sitemaps along the way.
- **Custom extraction and list mode:** Pulls page data with CSS selectors, XPath or regular expressions, audits a pasted list of URLs, and reaches protected pages with HTTP Basic Auth or cookies.
- **Large crawls kept on the device:** A database storage mode handles projects of 100,000+ pages. Crawl data stays local, and sessions move between Mac and iPhone or iPad as files.
- **Exports and issue help:** Exports to CSV, HTML or PDF on the Mac, searches the downloaded HTML with text or regex, and explains each flagged issue with fix examples.

## Good for

- Mac users who want a native desktop crawler with no Java runtime
- Quick technical checks from an iPhone or iPad
- Small sites that fit within the free 500-page limit
- People who want crawl data kept on their own device

## Worth knowing

- The free tier stops at 500 pages per crawl session; larger crawls need a Premium plan or Lifetime Access.
- Apple devices only: it needs macOS 15.6 or later, or iOS and iPadOS 18.6 or later, with no Windows, Linux or web version.
- Purchases go through the App Store, and the terms say they are non-refundable except where the law or Apple's policies require.
- Its crawler obeys robots.txt by default, so blocked sections are skipped unless you switch on the robots override.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.8 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. SEO Tracer is a crawler for Mac, iPhone and iPad that finds broken links, redirect chains and missing tags, renders JavaScript and keeps the data on your device, free up to 500 pages a crawl. It's Apple only, needs recent system versions, and App Store purchases are non-refundable except where the law or Apple's policies say otherwise.

- **Value for money: A.** Monthly Premium is $4.99 on the US App Store, under 60% of this category's cheaper quarter of $13, and Yearly is $44.99. Lifetime Access at $129.99 once is under a year of the category's middle subscription.
- **Free plan and trial: B.** Free to download with no account or card, and every crawl session covers up to 500 pages. A small site can live on that; a bigger one needs Premium.
- **Features: C.** Titles, descriptions, headings, canonicals, broken links, status codes and redirect chains, with JavaScript rendering, custom extraction, list mode and 100,000+ page projects. The gaps: no Search Console data or scheduled crawls on record.
- **Ease of use: B.** No rating on record. It's an app you install and point at a site, with no account or Java runtime to set up.
- **Platforms and integrations: C.** Mac, iPhone and iPad, with crawl sessions moved between them as files. One family of devices: no Windows, Linux or web version, and no integrations on record.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from SEO Tracer's own pages on 23 October 2026. Its App Store page would not load when we went back to check it; its own site did. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among technical SEO tools

- SEO Tracer's GPA of 2.8 is higher than 64 of the 83 other technical SEO tools we grade, and level with 8.
- It stands best on value for money (A, above 54 of 83) and worst on platforms and integrations (C, above 3).
- Its paid plans start at $4.99 a month, against a middle price of $22.41 for the category: 3 of the 52 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 3 tools score higher and cost less.

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

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** The plain part of SEO Tracer you could make: reports. What surrounds it you could not. The 2 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.8 is higher than 64 of the 83 other technical SEO tools we grade. It costs $59.88 a year.

- You could make: Reports: an app builder makes this well.
- You could not: A crawler that checks every page of a site.
- You could not: Apps for macOS and iOS that stay in step with each other.

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, Local-first, One-time purchase, Reports

## Alternatives

- [Screaming Frog SEO Spider](https://toolgpa.com/tools/screaming-frog): Desktop website crawler for technical SEO audits. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/screaming-frog-vs-seo-tracer)
- [Integrity](https://toolgpa.com/tools/integrity): Mac link checker, free for personal use, with paid SEO editions. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/integrity-vs-seo-tracer)
- [Sitebulb](https://toolgpa.com/tools/sitebulb): Website auditing crawler for Windows and Mac, with a cloud edition. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/seo-tracer-vs-sitebulb)
- [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/seo-tracer-vs-visual-seo-studio)
- [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-seo-tracer)

## Sources

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

- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/seo-tracer-site-crawler/id6749603602
- https://www.seotracer.app/
- https://www.seotracer.app/faq
- https://www.seotracer.app/support
- https://www.seotracer.app/terms

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/seo-tracer
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