Dead Link Researcher

Description

Crawl any website for broken links — fast, private, and brutally thorough. Dead Link Researcher hunts down every 404, redirect loop, DNS failure, and dead asset on your site, then monitors it on autopilot.

Stop combing through Search Console for orphaned URLs. Stop waiting in line for slow cloud crawlers. Run a full link audit on any domain from your phone — and get pinged the moment a new link breaks.

WHAT IT DOES
- Crawl any site — feed it a domain, get a complete broken-link report
- Detect every kind of dead link — 404s, 5xx errors, timeouts, DNS failures, redirect loops, blocked URLs
- Sitemap.xml and robots.txt aware — crawl the way search engines do
- Group broken URLs by error type — fix the biggest categories first
- Check both internal pages and external outbound links
- Runs 100% on-device — your domains, scans, and auth tokens never leave your phone

PRO FEATURES
- Scheduled scans — re-crawl daily or weekly, fully automatic
- Push notifications — get alerted the second a new broken link appears
- Deep crawl — up to 5,000 pages and 20,000 links per scan
- Multi-site watchlist — track up to 50 client sites or domains
- Diff view — see exactly what changed since your last scan
- PDF and CSV exports — hand polished reports to clients or stakeholders
- Custom ignore rules — skip tracking pixels, share URLs, and UTM noise
- Auth profiles — add cookies or headers to scan staging sites, intranets, or pages behind logins

WHO IT'S FOR
- Web developers shipping a redesign, migration, or CMS swap
- SEO professionals auditing site health and internal link equity
- Agencies maintaining a portfolio of client sites
- Bloggers and content creators with years of articles to keep alive
- QA engineers catching link rot before customers do
- Anyone who has discovered their old contact form is broken on a Tuesday

WHY DEAD LINK RESEARCHER
- No accounts, no signups — open the app and scan
- No cloud crawler queue — runs on your device, results in your pocket
- Free tier lets you scan up to 50 pages and 200 links without paying
- Yearly Pro saves about 76% vs the weekly plan
- Built by Pleme — a small indie team, not a SaaS giant

Tap Scan, watch live progress (pages crawled, links checked, broken so far), then drill into every broken URL and the pages that link to it. Export, fix, monitor. Done.

Download Dead Link Researcher and stop losing traffic to dead links.

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SUBSCRIPTION TERMS:
- Dead Link Researcher Pro (Weekly): $4.99/week after 3-day free trial
- Dead Link Researcher Pro (Yearly): $59.99/year (~$1.15/week)
- Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase
- Subscription automatically renews unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period
- Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period
- You can manage and cancel subscriptions in your Apple ID account settings
- Privacy Policy: https://pleme.app/dead-link-researcher-privacy
- Terms of Use: https://pleme.app/dead-link-researcher-terms

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