Understand
Software.
Modern apps are harder to understand than ever. Archify reveals the components, APIs, and behavior behind any web page — directly in your browser. 100% local.
Free · Open source · No account · Nothing leaves your browser
- INTERFACE a button on the page
- COMPONENT <LoginButton/>
- API POST /api/login
- STORAGE JWT · localStorage
- ROUTE /dashboard
One button. Five layers. Archify traces them — locally, in your browser.
Software is becoming easier to build.
And harder to understand.
AI made writing code cheap. The bottleneck moved. Today the hard part is understanding an application you didn't write — and the tools for that haven't kept up.
- 1 Open DevTools
- 2 Read the DOM
- 3 Dig through Network
- 4 Search Sources & maps
- 5 Cross-check React DevTools
- 6 Read the docs
- 7 Ask a senior engineer
of developer time goes to understanding code — not writing it.
Xia et al., IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering — field study, 78 developers, telemetry-based ↗of developers say AI’s code is “almost right, but not quite.”
Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2025 (n = 49,009) ↗Developers already spend more of that comprehension time in the browser than in the IDE (27% vs 20%, same study). Archify meets the work where it already happens — and never fabricates: every reading carries a confidence score.
Hover the checkout on the left — Archify reads each element and reveals the system behind it. Then click the Pay button to trace its flow: the API it fires, what it stores, and where it goes.
Hover any element
Move your cursor over anything on the page — a button, a card, a form field. No setup, no config.
Archify reads runtime signals
Framework internals, network calls, the DOM, and form-field listeners — collected locally, in your browser. Nothing is sent anywhere.
The system is revealed
Component, library, the APIs it fires, and what listens on your form fields — each with a confidence score. It never fabricates; unknown is shown as unknown.
Every other tool answers a fragment. None answer the real question: how does this application work?
Click the toolbar icon for a whole-page profile: the stack it's built on, where it's hosted, and how exposed it is — assembled from runtime signals, with evidence behind every detection.
Frontend engineers
"I can see where the bug shows up. I can’t see where it starts."
Trace a symptom to its component and the API behind it — in seconds.
QA engineers
"My bug reports need more technical context."
Attach the component, the request, and the status to every report.
Technical founders
"I can see the product. I can’t see the system."
Read a competitor’s stack, hosting, and architecture from the outside.
See what touches your data.
Archify surfaces every third-party script, every outbound call, and — most importantly — which scripts listen on your form and payment fields. The kind of client-side exposure that a network firewall never sees.
Need it monitored continuously, across every deploy? Glasswatch →Is it free? +
Yes — Archify is free and open source under Apache-2.0. No account, no paywall, no trial.
Does my data leave the browser? +
No. All analysis runs locally. There are no servers, no telemetry, and no analytics. Page contents are never stored or transmitted, and the per-tab analysis is destroyed when you navigate away.
Which frameworks does it detect? +
React, Next.js, Vue, Angular, Svelte and more. One honest caveat: exact component names are only available on development builds — on minified production code Archify shows the component type and a confidence score rather than fabricating a name.
Does it work on any site? +
Any web page you choose to inspect. It does not run on browser-internal pages (chrome://) or the extension store, by browser policy.
Is it a DevTools replacement? +
No. DevTools shows you the implementation. Archify shows you the architecture — the component, the API it calls, and what reads your data. They sit side by side.