HTTrack Website Copier

Xavier Roche

About this app

HTTrack is a free software (GPL) offline browser utility, allowing you to download (copy) a website from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting html, images, and other files from the server to your device.

HTTrack arranges the original site's relative link-structure. Simply open a page of the "mirrored" website in your browser, and you can browse the site from link to link, as if you were viewing it online.
HTTrack can also update an existing mirrored site, and resume interrupted downloads.

(This is the Android version of the popular Website Copier.)

Version 3.50 is the first Android release in nine years, rebuilt on the current HTTrack engine.

Sites that use HTTPS work again, because the 2017 build's TLS had fallen too far behind the web. The app also captures more of a modern page, including responsive and lazy-loaded images. It is 64-bit and runs on current versions of Android.

You can save a mirror to a shared HTTrack folder that other apps can open, and read a finished one in your own browser.

The options screen carries the engine's own settings. You control which URLs are included, how deep and how large a copy gets, and how fast it downloads.

There are no ads, no trackers, and no account to create. The app is open source under the GNU General Public License, and its code is on GitHub at github.com/xroche/httrack-android.

Ratings and reviews

Exceptional utility for capturing multiple downloads from a site, based on criteria you specify. A plethora of powerful options to control WHAT TYPE, FROM WHERE, as well as HOW you download a websites files. Many years ago now, HTTrack was a huge help to me on PC and (as of today) has become an asset on Android as well. In 5 minutes I set it up to batch download nearly a hundred PDF files from a site that had each one listed as separate links, so they could be merged and referenced offline.

Disappointing. The core functionality is great, it's extremely flexible and powerful. The problem is it's quite hard to use unless you have experience and have read the documentation very carefully. The app needs better deep links to the docs in the relevant places. And it fails to save my settings for subsequent runs. At least on Linux I can easily re-run a command by pressing the "up" arrow key, but in this version all previous runs configuration seems completely lost.

Contrary to some of the reviews here this application works and it works fine! You won't be able to open downloaded sites with most modern browsers, but that's on them, not the application. You'll need to get yourself some other HTML viewer (the one included with MiXplorer does the job), and it won't download heavily scripted sites as well, but that's because of the hostile web design. It's free as well and I suspect a lot of effort went into creating it. Many well deserved thanks to developer!

What's new

HTTrack 3.50.2: copying keeps going in the background.

• On Android 14 and later, a copy keeps running when you leave the app or lock the screen, and picks up again if the system stops it
• A new option keeps the screen on while copying, which Android 13 and earlier still need
• A copy that lost links now says so, and offers to finish it
• With the cache off, continuing a copy no longer re-downloads the whole site