🗺️ Maptrail
Crawl any site on your own machine and ship a clean sitemap.
Maptrail at a glance
| Price | $19, once — no renewal |
| Replaces | Screaming Frog at £199/yr (~$250/yr) — roughly $250 a year, every year |
| Type | Desktop app — runs offline |
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
| Category | Developer Tools |
Maptrail features
🕷️ Local breadth-first crawler
Enter a URL and crawl the whole site from your machine with a live progress table — status, depth, title, meta length, H1, word count.
🎛️ Depth, limit & pattern controls
Set max depth and page limit, plus include/exclude URL patterns (substrings or /regex/) to skip tag and sort pages.
📄 Standards-compliant sitemap.xml
lastmod pulled from real Last-Modified headers, priority scaled by crawl depth.
🗂️ Automatic 50k index chunking
Sites over 50,000 URLs split into numbered sitemaps plus a sitemap-index.xml, exactly per the sitemaps.org spec.
📊 Full CSV SEO report
Every crawled page with status, title, meta, H1, word count, canonical and noindex — including the 404s the sitemap correctly leaves out, so you can fix them.
💾 Local crawl history
Every crawl saved locally so you can reload, re-export or delete it — nothing leaves your disk.
$19 once — that's the whole pricing page
Screaming Frog charges £199/yr (~$250/yr) — roughly $250 a year, every year. Maptrail is a single payment, and it keeps working whether or not we ever sell another copy.
Or get Maptrail inside the full suite — every app in the catalog, currently $97 for the bundle. See the bundle →
Maptrail guides & pages
Honest answers
Is it really free on GitHub?
Yes — Maptrail is MIT-licensed at github.com/bensblueprints/sitemap-generator-mvp. The $19 buys the signed Windows installer, 1-click setup and updates; building from source is free.
Does it do everything Screaming Frog does?
No, and we'd rather say so. Screaming Frog also does log-file analysis, JS rendering and integrations. If you need all that, buy it. If you need clean sitemaps and a crawl report, Maptrail does that for $19 once.
Does my crawl data get uploaded?
Never. Maptrail makes network requests only to the site you tell it to crawl — no telemetry, no update pings, no account. History lives in a local SQLite file.