Wayback Machine vs Top Rankings
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Wayback Machine
Preserve web pages and tweets for the future. Share content directly to the app to archive it, ensuring links remain accessible for decades. Easily share archived URLs across various platforms.
- Archive web pages
- Archive tweets
- Share content to archive
- Generate shareable URLs
- Long-term preservation
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Archive Web pages and Tweets to the Wayback Machine! To archive Web pages or Tweets simply "Share" them to this app. From Safari - select the "Share" icon at the bottom of the screen then select this "Wayback Machine" app. From the Twitter app - select the "v" icon at top-right of Tweets, select "Share Tweets via..." then select this "Wayback Machine" app. But first you must add this app to your iOS device's "Share" feature by selecting the Share icon (the up-pointing arrow at the bottom of Safari) then selecting the "..." (More) button and finally adding this app. After you have archived your web pages or Tweets you can confidently share their Wayback Machine URLs via Twitter, Facebook, Email, etc. knowing they will be there for decades to come. Please send bug reports, questions and suggestions to info@archive.org
Top Rankings
Create, customize, and visualize your own rankings with dynamic animations and images. Explore pre-made lists or generate real-time rankings from online data. This app offers an interactive way to view and manage lists on various topics.
- Create custom rankings
- Visualize rankings with animation
- Explore static and dynamic rankings
- View online real-time rankings
- Edit and manage your own lists
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Top Rankings turns the world's data into rankings you can explore, compare and share. HISTORY RACES — Watch countries rise and fall year by year in 19 animated rankings: GDP, population, life expectancy, military expenditure, electric car sales, EV chargers, solar, wind, nuclear and hydropower, CO₂ emissions, internet users and more, built from World Bank, IEA, Ember and other official sources. DISCOVER — 22 illustrated top-10 lists: tallest mountains, largest planets, highest bridges, biggest cities and other fun facts, with photos and credits. LIVE — What's trending now from free public sources: top apps, music, podcasts and books, Wikipedia's most-read articles, Hacker News, GitHub, Stack Overflow, classic books and US stock movers. MY RANKINGS — Create, edit and share your own rankings with photos. On supported devices, on-device AI can draft a starting point.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Top Rankings at 4.5 against Wayback Machine's 2.2. Top Rankings also leads on review sentiment (40% vs 16%) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). Wayback Machine's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On price and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Top Rankings sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Wayback Machine asks for nothing beyond the download.
Top Rankings holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Wayback Machine has 290 ratings behind it against 20, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 16% of Wayback Machine's written reviews are positive against 40% of Top Rankings's.
Wayback Machine ships an update every 2 months, Top Rankings every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Wayback Machine | Top Rankings |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.2 (290 ratings) | 4.5 (20 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 15.8% of reviews | 40.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 290 — better | 20 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #134 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Internet Archive | APPS BAY LIMITED |
Customer experience
Wayback Machine
Top Rankings
Bugs and requests
Wayback Machine
Reported bugs
4 issues- Login and account creation problems
- Archiving failures and errors
- Crashes and freezes when loading content
- Unresponsive UI elements
Requested features
4 requests- Add search functionality
- Improve back/close navigation
- Implement offline content access
- Integrate with other apps and browsers
Top Rankings
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Wayback Machine
No in-app purchases
Top Rankings
- Remove Ads forever$0.99
Questions
Is Wayback Machine free?
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