# Kage

20 Hacker News commenters recommended Kage and 9 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Packages a whole website into a single binary for offline viewing, and some commenters call it a modern alternative to HTTrack. Critics say archived pages often break on banners, images and links.

## Why people recommend it

- Enthusiastic praise from commenters (5 comments): "This is awesome, we wanted an offline copy of someone's prototype" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48534430)) "I have been looking for something like this for weeks" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49019542)) "I would use the shit out of this" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48535507))
- Offline copies of websites (4 comments): "I could see myself downloading the articles behind the first couple pages of hacker news with this" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48530765)) "This is quite useful tool, especially for the cases where internet access is limited" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48531047)) "This is awesome, we wanted an offline copy of someone's prototype" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48534430))

## What people warn about

- Archives break images and pages (3 comments): "disappointed that recreating the demo of archiving Paul Graham’s essays gave me a ZIM with broken images and broken Unicode symbols" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48543690)) "it's giving me `navigation failed: net::ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED`" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48534691)) "Currently, all of that is broken." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544522))
- Fails on modal banners and overlays (2 comments): "sounds like it'd fail for a lot of websites that do things like display some kind of modal banner" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48546166)) "the landing page footer is hard to reach due to infiniscroll, plus the Help overlay obscures two of the links" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49661663))
- README reads as AI-generated (2 comments): "The README is LLM slop. This makes me assume the code is the same." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48533061)) "The readme is AI slop, and incredibly grating to read." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48531868))

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Kage", https://hackerapproved.com/p/kage/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).