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

> Desktop SEO crawler for Windows and Mac with XML sitemap tools

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

Visual SEO Studio is a desktop SEO audit tool for Windows and macOS that crawls a site the way a search spider does and reports on titles, meta data, HTTP problems, broken links, robots directives and hreflang. It has tools for editing, validating and auditing XML sitemaps and robots.txt files. A free Community Edition crawls up to 500 pages, and the paid Professional Edition up to 150,000.

- **Category:** Technical SEO & Site Audits
- **Made by:** aStonish Studio Srl
- **Website:** https://visual-seo.com
- **Runs on:** Windows, macOS
- **Who should skip it:** Watch out: the newest version on its download page is from February 2023.
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026

## Pricing

As of Oct 23, 2026, Visual SEO Studio has a free plan, and paid plans start at €149 per year, per PC, plus VAT for EU consumers.

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** Community Edition: free, crawls up to 500 pages with 2 connections, with most inspection reports. No URL-list crawls, sitemap audits, API data or support.
- **Free trial:** 15-day trial of the Professional Edition; no registration needed to download.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Community | €0 | For small sites and bloggers: up to 500 pages per crawl, 2 connections, broken links, meta data, hreflang and XML sitemap generation. |
| Professional | €149 per year, per PC, plus VAT for EU consumers | Up to 150,000 pages and 32 connections, URL-list crawls, sitemap audits, Search Console, Bing and Moz data, HTTP login and support. |

Read from https://visual-seo.com/SEO-Software-Features/Editions-Comparison on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Visual SEO Studio before buying.

## Key features

- **Site crawler:** Follows internal links like a search spider, and in the Professional Edition can also crawl a list of URLs or the pages in an XML sitemap.
- **Reports and custom filters:** Ready-made reports cover common SEO issues, and a query engine lets you filter crawl data your own way.
- **XML sitemap tools:** A visual editor to pick which pages go in a sitemap, plus sitemap validation and, in Professional, sitemap audits.
- **hreflang and international checks:** Checks hreflang annotations in bulk, supports Unicode URLs and IDN domains, and runs readability analysis in 4 languages.
- **robots.txt editor:** A robots.txt viewer and editor with syntax highlighting and a syntax checker for several search engines.
- **Search engine data:** The Professional Edition pulls in Google Search Console and Bing search traffic data and Moz link metrics.

## Good for

- Bloggers and small-site owners who need a free crawler under 500 pages
- SEOs managing XML sitemaps and hreflang on international sites
- Windows and Mac users who prefer a desktop crawler to a web app

## Worth knowing

- The Community Edition stops at 500 pages per crawl and includes no technical support.
- Professional is priced in euros only and is licensed per year for one PC.
- The latest version on the download page, 2.5.3, is dated February 2023.
- There is no Linux or web version.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. Visual SEO Studio is a desktop crawler for Windows and Mac with tools for XML sitemaps, robots.txt and hreflang, free up to 500 pages a crawl. Professional is €149 a year per PC. The newest version on its download page is dated February 2023, and there's no Linux or web version.

- **Value for money: C.** Professional is €149 a year per PC, about €12.42 or $14.40 a month, for crawls of up to 150,000 pages. That's just above this category's cheapest quarter of $13 and under its $29 middle. EU consumers pay VAT on top.
- **Free plan and trial: B.** The Community Edition is free and crawls up to 500 pages with most of the inspection reports, so a blogger could live on it. It has no URL-list crawls, sitemap audits, outside data or support.
- **Features: C.** A spider-style crawler with ready-made reports, custom filters, a sitemap editor and validator, bulk hreflang checks and a robots.txt editor. It sits at C because the newest version on the download page, 2.5.3, is dated February 2023.
- **Ease of use: B.** No rating on record. You download it without registering, give it a site and crawl.
- **Platforms and integrations: C.** Windows and Mac, with Search Console, Bing and Moz data in Professional. A program for computers only: no web, phone or Linux version.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Visual SEO Studio'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

- Visual SEO Studio's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 41 of the 83 other technical SEO tools we grade, and level with 14.
- It stands best on ease of use (B, above 62 of 83) and worst on platforms and integrations (C, above 3).
- Its paid plans start at about $13.91 a month, against a middle price of $22.41 for the category: 14 of the 52 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 5 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 Visual SEO Studio you could make: reports. What surrounds it you could not. The 2 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. It costs $166.97 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: A real app for macOS and Windows. 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.

## Works with

Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools, Moz

**Tags:** Site audit, Reports

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## Sources

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

- https://visual-seo.com/SEO-Software-Features/Editions-Comparison
- https://visual-seo.com/
- https://visual-seo.com/SEO-Software-Features
- https://visual-seo.com/About

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