A comparison

SilentStork vs. Screaming Frog. A love letter and a farewell.

We grew up on Screaming Frog. It taught us what good technical SEO looks like. And then we got tired of staring at spreadsheets.

What you do

Screaming Frog

SilentStork

Find issues on a 3,000-page site

Runs on your machine. You wait for the crawl, then read 3,000 rows across fifteen tabs.

Runs in the cloud, on demand. You get 3–5 actions for this week.

Understand what matters

Issues are labelled High to Low from best practice. Their own docs say the labels “lack context”.

Chat has already read it. One paragraph at the top.

Share with a non-technical teammate

Export to Excel. Explain what each column means.

Share a URL. Teammate reads a paragraph.

Fix an issue

Go to CMS. Apply. Re-run the whole crawl. Look again.

Click 'Mark as fixed'. We re-check when you run your next reading.

Ask "why did this drop?"

You triangulate across tabs.

You ask the chat.

Dig into the raw data

Native habitat. A tab and a filter for every element.

Pages: a sortable table of every page, filters, and one-click CSV export.

Price

€245 / yr per user

€0 to €279 / mo per plan, every user included

Best for

Consultants running dozens of one-off audits.

Owners and small agencies tending sites they keep.

In short

Screaming Frog is a precision instrument, and always will be. If you're an SEO consultant running dozens of one-off audits, keep it in your toolkit. SilentStork is for the rest of us — the founder, the writer, the marketer, the small agency — who tend sites they keep and want them cared for as well as scanned. And on the days you do want the raw table, Pages and CSV export are one click away.

Read my site, free