Name: Scrutiny
Price: 115.00 $
Rating: 4.1667 (15 reviews)

Scrutiny is my go-to app for checking sites for broken links. As a website developer, it has all the options I need to fine-tune scans to avoid false positives. Seeing a "clean" report with just the truly broken links (without any "noise") is very valuable especially if you maintain a site over time.

Other features such as "Search pages", "Sitemap", "SEO" are icing on a very delicious cake!

When it comes to support, developer Sheila Dixon is top notch! She truly cares about her product and her users. She is thoughtful, professional and responsive - a real "shining star" in a sea of "dim bulbs".

Overall a great value for a truly useful, well-crafted piece of software.

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Version 9.0.11

$29,95 in 2011, did you make 576% more money the last 8 years? What a joke.

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Version 9.0.9

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Diarbyrag

05 August 2019

what the hell are you talking about ?

BTW MacUpdate... now you can only like comments and reviews ??
where's the unhappy face ?
I want to unlike this comment, Shiela is very responsive to comments and many versions have had free updates so I don't understand why you moan !

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PeacockMedia

06 August 2019

You're suggesting that as version 1 was priced at $30 in 2011, the price should never rise to reflect its true value as the app develops?

If you don't find its features and functionality and our support worth the asking price, then it's clearly not for you and that's OK.

If it were overpriced, people would not buy it. But many companies, universities, nonprofits and individuals around the world feel that it's worth the price, including some big names. Everyone who buys it has had the chance to evaluate it for 30 days, so they can be sure it's for them. The ratings you see on this page and the testimonials on Scrutiny's home page are all genuine.

The app that I consider Scrutiny's nearest competitor costs more than Scrutiny *per year*. Scrutiny's price is a genuine one-off price with no IAP. There have been upgrade fees a couple of times in its history but not with every major version.

You may consider Integrity Pro, which lacks some of the advanced features and is less than half the price. Or Integrity Plus at $15 if you're only interested in link checking and sitemap generation.

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Phenomenally convenient, powerful collection of tools. Frequently updated and enhanced by the developer.

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Version 9.0.5

Exactly what I wanted.

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Version 8.1.22

A really useful tool. I've just finished migrating my website to https and I was really pleased to find that, in addition to all the other stuff that Scrutiny does, it will also check for insecure content, so it helped me find all of the insecure links in odd places like the functions and footers files. Yes, the upfront cost may seem a lot, but compared with the cost of online services it's a bargain.

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Version 7.6.10

I've been using Scrutiny for a few years now and it saved me many hours of manually checking links and building sitemaps. Recently, it helped me locate the links scattered through a hacked site. Shiela has been very responsive to bug reports and they were fixed promptly. Version 7 seems focused primarily on streamlining the user interface, which had rough edges in previous versions, and adds new features such as the ability to have multiple windows to scan multiple sites at once. A must-have tool for any web designer.

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Version 7.1.1

I'm really happy with Scrutiny ; It has tons of features and it saves me hours of work when performing QA/QC for web site production . I'm also grateful for the free upgrade from v6 to v7. Thank you Sheila !

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Version 7.1.1

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Sheadixon

31 January 2017

Thanks so much for the feedback!
For anyone reading this, I'd like to be clear that there is a small upgrade fee but (for a number of reasons) we decided to waive this for anyone who bought or upgraded to v6 since Jan 2016

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SunWolf

02 December 2016

Where have you got version 6.8.17 from? Checking for updates in Scrutiny 6.8.16 states that I've got the most recent version, PeacockMedia offers 6.8.16 for download on their website.

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Version 6.8.17

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Sheadixon

06 December 2016

The most recent version is always available from Scrutiny's home page on the peacockmedia website. The update system within the app (which told you you were on the most recent version) relies on us broadcasting a message, which we currently don't do for each and every minor point (depending how important it is that existing users update). This is because not everyone enjoys being notified very frequently (there's a complaint about this a little further down this discussion). Your question has made me realise that there's a difference between the app notifying the user of an update, and the user pressing a button to check for updates. In the latter case the most up-to-date version should be returned. Thank you.

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Scrutiny is a good tool for fixing up issues with your web site. I do recommend it to anyone who has smaller web sites that they need to check for important SEO and other errors on their web site. It is easy to use, fast and has a good developer behind it. I appreciate the consistent updates as well and would recommend it as an essential tool for improving a web site.

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Version 6.8.15

tvalleau

18 April 2016

MacUpdate: please, Please, PLEASE stop -forcing- your ##$@!&&^ installer on us!!!!

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Version 6.6.5

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Sheadixon

28 April 2016

I'm not happy about the installer either, and have asked MU not to supply any of my software in their installer, which I believe they're willing to do.

For anyone reading this, note that it's always been possible to simply download the app (within my own dmg) using the download link rather than the install link.

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