# Serposcope review (2026): is it any good? > Free self-hosted rank tracker, now marked unsupported by its developer Checked Oct 23, 2026 ยท graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA. Serposcope is a free rank tracker that you install on your own Windows, Mac or Linux machine and open in a browser. It checks where your sites rank for chosen keywords, keeps the result pages it scraped, and watches a list of backlinks. Its developer, a single person in France, now says on the download section that it is no longer supported and may not work. - **Category:** Rank Trackers - **Made by:** Serposcope (since 2013) - **Website:** https://www.serposcope.com - **Runs on:** Windows, macOS, Linux - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want software that's kept up: it's marked unsupported, may not work, and 3.5 from January 2025 is the last release. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## Pricing As of Oct 23, 2026, Serposcope is free to use. - **Pricing model:** Free - **Free plan:** Version 3.5 is a free download for Windows, Mac and Debian or Ubuntu Linux, with no account needed and no paid edition. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Self-hosted | $0 | Free download that you install and run yourself; rank tracking and backlink watch, with data kept in a local SQLite file. | Read from https://www.serposcope.com/en/ on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Serposcope before buying. ## Key features - **Rank tracker:** Add keywords and websites, then follow each site's positions over time, with a view of the full result page for every check. - **Backlink watch:** A second module for adding backlinks and following their status, with an overview and a details page per link. - **Choice of scraping method:** Fetch result pages from your own IP, through your proxies, or through the paid Scraping Ant or Space Serp APIs. - **Captcha solver support:** When scraping through proxies, plug in capmonster.cloud, anticaptcha, 2captcha or imagetyperz; several can be set at once. - **Raw SERP storage:** Since version 3.3 it can keep the HTML or API response of each check for 1 to 7 days, purged after each run. - **Local database:** Data sits in a SQLite file in the data folder, which you can query directly; an API exists but is not documented. ## Good for - People who want to keep ranking data on their own machine at no cost - Technical users comfortable with proxies, captcha solvers or SERP APIs - Testing rank tracking before choosing a paid service ## Worth knowing - The download section says Serposcope is no longer supported and may not work; the last release, 3.5, is dated January 2025. - Reliable scraping needs paid add-ons: Scraping Ant's free plan does not work with Google, and captcha solvers are paid services. - Login protection must be set by hand in a config file, and Serposcope 2 data cannot be moved into version 3. - The Windows and Mac installers are not signed with paid certificates, so both systems warn before installing. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. Serposcope is a free rank tracker you download and run on your own Windows, Mac or Linux machine, with a backlink watch on the side, and the data stays on that machine. But its developer now says it's no longer supported and may not work, the last release is from January 2025, and reliable Google results mean paying for proxies, captcha solvers or a SERP API. - **Value for money: B.** The program is free, with no paid edition. Reliable checks need paid help, though: Scraping Ant's free plan doesn't work with Google, and the captcha solvers it supports are paid services, so running it well isn't really free. - **Free plan and trial: A.** Version 3.5 is a free download for Windows, Mac and Linux, with no account and no paid edition. Everything it does comes without paying Serposcope anything. - **Features: D.** Rank tracking with saved result pages, a backlink watch and a local database you can query. But it needs proxies, captcha solvers or a SERP API to fetch Google reliably, and the developer says it may not work at all now. - **Ease of use: D.** No rating on record. You install it yourself, set login protection by hand in a config file and wire up proxies or captcha solvers, and both Windows and Mac warn before installing it. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** A program for Windows, Mac and Linux that opens in your browser, linked only to scraping and captcha services. No phone app, and the API isn't documented. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Serposcope's own pages on 23 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among rank trackers - Serposcope's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 9 of the 39 other rank trackers we grade, and level with 13. - It stands best on free plan and trial (A, above 38 of 39) and worst on features (D, above 0). - Serposcope has no paid plan. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 1.3 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/rank-trackers ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** Serposcope is free, so making your own would save you nothing. And it is not the kind of software a weekend replaces. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 17 of the 39 other rank trackers grade higher. - You could not: Daily checks of where your pages rank in search results. - You could not: Apps for macOS, Windows and Linux that stay in step with each other. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Scraping Ant, Space Serp and 2captcha among them. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Scraping Ant, Space Serp, 2captcha, anticaptcha, capmonster.cloud, imagetyperz **Tags:** Rank tracking, Self-hostable ## Alternatives - [GRC](https://toolgpa.com/tools/grc): Japanese Windows rank checker, now limited to Yahoo results. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/grc-vs-serposcope) - [SEO Panel](https://toolgpa.com/tools/seo-panel): Free open-source SEO control panel you host on your own server. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/seo-panel-vs-serposcope) - [SEO PowerSuite](https://toolgpa.com/tools/seo-powersuite): Four desktop SEO apps for rankings, audits, backlinks and outreach. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/seo-powersuite-vs-serposcope) - [SERPRobot](https://toolgpa.com/tools/serprobot): Pay-per-bot rank tracker for Google, Bing, Yahoo and YouTube. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/serposcope-vs-serprobot) - [AccuRanker](https://toolgpa.com/tools/accuranker): Daily rank tracker for agencies and enterprises, priced by keywords. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/accuranker-vs-serposcope) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026: - https://www.serposcope.com/en/ - https://www.serposcope.com/downloads/ - https://www.serposcope.com/en/about-us.html - https://www.serposcope.com/en/docs/faq.html - https://www.serposcope.com/en/docs/third-party-integrations.html - https://www.serposcope.com/en/docs/install-instructions.html Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/serposcope Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).