Crawl Cove crawls your whole site from your own machine, then pairs deterministic crawl data with plain-English fixes, real ranking data and Core Web Vitals. All local, all yours, no paywalls.
No card required · Then from £14.99/mo · Cancel any time
Raw data dumps with no guidance
You get a spreadsheet of URLs and status codes. The tool never tells you what matters or how to fix it.
One crawl at a time, no history
Managing ten clients means ten separate sessions, no comparison across crawls, and no way to prove your fixes worked.
Yearly paywalls gate the features you need
JS rendering, scheduling, and integrations sit behind a subscription. The 500-URL cap makes free use nearly pointless.
Ranking data lives in another tab
You crawl in one tool, check GSC in another, and manually correlate issues to traffic. Every context switch costs time.
Opinionated: every finding explains the work
Plain-English explanations tell you what's wrong, why it hurts rankings, and exactly how to fix it, attached to every issue.
Multi-client from the ground up
Separate projects, histories, and reports for every client. Versioned audits let you compare crawls over time and prove improvements.
Ranking data and CWV on every plan, free
GSC, Bing Webmaster Tools, CrUX and Lighthouse on every plan, Search Console connected in one click, Bing and CrUX with a free key of your own, and Lighthouse with no key at all. No paid API keys, no add-on tiers.
Deterministic numbers, local and private
Crawl data stays on your machine. No URL caps. No feature gates. The findings are always deterministic, never hallucinated.
Features
All 10 differentiators, included on every subscription plan. See the full breakdown →
Every finding pairs with a plain-English explanation of what's wrong, why it hurts rankings, and how to fix it. Connect a model and that wording is written for your site; the findings themselves stay 100% deterministic either way.
Manage every client site in one local app with separate projects, histories, and reports. Built around a multi-client workflow, not one crawl at a time.
Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools sit alongside the crawl, Search Console connected in one click and Bing with a free key of your own, so real impressions, clicks and queries land against the pages you just audited. Connect them and findings rank by the traffic they affect, not by severity alone.
Open any crawled page in the inspector for its real 28-day field data from the Chrome User Experience Report, and run Lighthouse locally on the same page for lab diagnostics. The CrUX API is free; you set a key of your own once in Settings.
No 500-URL cap, no locked scheduling, no gated JS rendering or integrations. Runs on free, open data sources with no feature gates.
Switch on the rendered pass and a sampled share of your pages is loaded in a real browser, so content, links and issues that only appear after JavaScript runs get audited too. Off by default, and it uses the Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge you already have.
Every audit is versioned and stored locally, so you can compare crawls over time and prove improvements to clients with real data.
Detects WordPress automatically and adds a dedicated pack of WordPress-only checks on top of the standard crawl. No manual rule configuration required.
Every issue carries a default severity, giving a ranked to-do list with the highest-impact fixes first, not buried across tabs.
Crawl data and client info are never uploaded to us: stored locally, secrets encrypted. Our servers only ever see a licence check and an update check. Integrations you switch on talk to your own Google, Bing or AI provider account, never through us.
The dashboard
Crawl data, ranking signals, Core Web Vitals, and plain-English fixes, all surfaced together so you know exactly what to do next.
Comparison
A direct feature comparison with Screaming Frog SEO Spider.
| Capability |
Crawl Cove
|
Screaming Frog |
|---|---|---|
| Plain-English fixes per issue |
Crawl Cove
Built-in
|
Screaming Frog Raw data only |
| Multi-client projects & history |
Crawl Cove
Native
|
Screaming Frog One crawl at a time |
| Google Search Console + Bing |
Crawl Cove
One click; free Bing key
|
Screaming Frog Limited / setup |
| Core Web Vitals (CrUX + Lighthouse) |
Crawl Cove
Free, on demand
|
Screaming Frog PageSpeed API key |
| URL cap on free use |
Crawl Cove
None
|
Screaming Frog 500 URLs |
| JS-rendered crawl |
Crawl Cove
Included, opt-in
|
Screaming Frog Behind licence |
| Historical trend / versioned audits |
Crawl Cove
Built-in
|
Screaming Frog None |
| Structured data / schema validation |
Crawl Cove
Every page
|
Screaming Frog Extraction only |
| AI search visibility (GEO) |
Crawl Cove
llms.txt + answerability
|
Screaming Frog Not available |
| Hreflang / international SEO |
Crawl Cove
Reconciled site-wide
|
Screaming Frog Reporting only |
| Severity-ranked to-do list |
Crawl Cove
Default
|
Screaming Frog Manual across tabs |
| Local & private by design |
Crawl Cove
Crawl data stays on your machine
|
Screaming Frog Local desktop too |
See the full Screaming Frog comparison →
Also compared: Sitebulb, Semrush, Ahrefs, SE Ranking, Lumar
Example audit
Google Search Console metrics surface inside every audit, and real 28-day field data from the Chrome User Experience Report for any page you inspect. Both APIs are free. The panel below is an example.
Example figures, not this site’s own. In the app, LCP, INP and CLS come from real 28-day Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) field data and the ranking figures from Google Search Console, for whichever site you audit.
Our promise
No lock-in, no surprises, nothing uploaded to us. Here's exactly what you get from day one.
Not the right fit? Email us within 14 days of your first payment for a full refund. No hoops, no interrogation. Add the 14-day free trial in front and that is 28 days risk-free in total.
No annual lock-in, no per-feature paywalls, no URL caps. Upgrade, downgrade, or cancel from your account dashboard whenever you like.
Every crawl runs on your own machine, and nothing is uploaded to us. The only data that ever leaves is what an integration you switch on sends to your own provider account.
Your license key lands in your inbox the moment payment clears, so you can download and start auditing in minutes.
The desktop installer is included on every plan. Download it from your dashboard and install in a couple of clicks.
One license key covers 1 device on Solo, 10 on Studio, 50 on Agency. Each device has its own client list, the same clients or different ones. Manage and block devices any time from your account dashboard.
Pricing
Every feature on every plan. Pay monthly or yearly. No lock-in, cancel any time.
For the freelancer running a single client.
from £14.99 /mo
For consultants juggling up to ten clients.
from £69.99 /mo
For the whole agency: one key across 50 devices.
from £169.99 /mo
FAQ
Go deeper
Everything you need to research, audit and improve a site, whether or not you run Crawl Cove yet.
Quick, no-sign-up utilities that run in your browser.
Practical, accurate technical-SEO guides.
How Crawl Cove stacks up against the tools you know.
Crawl Cove runs on your machine, connects to your real ranking data, and tells you exactly what to fix first. No per-feature paywalls, no spreadsheets, no guesswork.
28 days risk-free · No card required