Wayback Machine User Reviews

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Great

It democratizes media

Don’t get this

This app, in its current state, is the the software comparison of garbage. If you want to exit a page you have to close the entire app because the back arrow doesn’t work. It can’t search a thing without failing and when I managed to get it to pull something up none of the images or anything would load.
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Why

It doesn’t work at all just use website

Does not work

Download, login, use once.
Next login, nothing works.
Shame love using webpage and has hoped the app would be even better.
Hope you can sort it soon.

Worst app

Worst app

Great app

This has a few bugs and I do think it needs more work but overall it functions well and the extension feature is one of the best features.

this app sucks

this app sucks

The developers need to be replaced

I have made attempts to sign in and this is the worst thing I have encountered. The only way to access it is by pressing the login app and this is the worst UI you will just go to a sign in page and there is no click to Google and when you ask for a verification, it cannot send you the email. Whoever is the developer of the app should get sued and be replaced by new developers.
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Doesn’t work…

I can sign up, and that’s it. The app provides no prompts to explore the archives.

The app itself it’s functional yet

Idk why this was released but when this app becomes functional can I be reminded via email? The actual searching function doesn’t work, the back arrow is 50/50, and a ton of other stuff

Find archives ?

Does anybody else find it frustrating you can’t search documents by their names for example a book I want to find this is a frustrating app to use. I have to know that URL to find something. I really truly don’t get it. There should be a search button where I can input what I want to find. And make it easy uploading seems easy enough, but even that is not exactly straightforward. Expand the instructions. Explain how to use this app. What on earth is going on with this thing
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Tested : broken ! Why ?

Must be fixed asap.
I tried to archive cnipa.ai
Dark page ?

Thus app works worse then website

app doesn't work right. I try logging in with google and doesn't work.

"Login with Google" is not interactive

Could not push "Login with Google" button. Tapping or holding it ends up in focusing somewhere outside the screen.

iPhone 17, iOS 26.1

Огрызок

Очень скромная функциональность. Интерфейс очень бедный и почти неюзабельный на новых айфонах

Poorly Optimized

Exactly as the title says. The browser version works leagues better than this “app”.

I can’t get in

I can’t get in the app since it had my favourite animated series.
Could you do something about it

Clunky and only partly functional

Basic navigation doesn’t work in this app. Once an archived page is opened, it’s impossible to close the page and go back to where I started. The “X” symbol in the upper left corner simply doesn’t work; it’s dead. The only way to get out is to close the app and start over. This has been the same for me across two different iPhones and several iOS versions, including 26.
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Cumbersome

Easy to download a MAZING to navigate. I was attempting to get the INTERNET ARCHIVE.ORG app. The only app available to capture the icon was embedded in the “Wayback Machine”. Once downloaded, I have yet to isolate the Internetarchive.org functionality. Surprised that IA.org allows this confusion!

Doesn’t Archive Webpages; needs Updating!

This app will search the way back website for previously archived websites but won’t do its other main intended feature