Linkwake vs Swappsy Link Tracker

Linkwake tracks changes in referring domains across agency client portfolios. It compares Common Crawl releases to show domains gained, lost or retained, and identifies domains linking to competitors but not to a tracked site as possible outreach gaps. Users can organize domains into portfolios, follow movement on dashboards, and receive scheduled weekly or monthly CSVs or shareable client report links. Its source is Common Crawl’s web graph, which Linkwake says covers more than 100 million domains; data changes when releases arrive, roughly every 2–3 months. The focus is domain-level links, not keywords, page-level links or anchor text. The free plan costs nothing and includes five tracked domains, release-change comparisons, email digests and manual reports. Paid plans start at $24/mo. Starter lists 100 domains and three releases of history; higher plans offer more tracked domains, longer history, reports and API access. Common Crawl is not a complete web index, so missing relationships should be checked before outreach.

Swappsy Link Tracker records backlink placements, target URLs, partners, and whether each link is pending, live, or removed. Each record can include anchor text, link type, deal type, and notes, along with do-follow, no-follow, or sponsored attributes and whether a link is free, exchanged, or paid. Users review pages and manually update statuses; the app does not check links automatically. Status summaries, filtering, and search help organize records, and CSV import and export support moving data in and out. The interface includes light and dark modes. The app is self-hosted on the web and uses a single-file SQLite database; its README says no external services are needed to run it. Documented setup options are local installation with npm and Docker Compose. Node.js 22 or newer is required. Access uses a single-user account configured with an admin email and password, along with a JWT secret for login tokens. The README says the configured admin password is hashed on first boot. The plan is Free and open source at free, with manual link checks and self-hosting.