Docket vs Scrutiny

Scrutiny is a macOS desktop SEO tool sold for a one-time fee, which makes it the closest thing to Docket on the market: no account, no subscription, runs on your own Mac. If you are choosing between the two, the honest summary is that Scrutiny is cheaper and does several things Docket does not do at all.

What Scrutiny does that Docket does not

Its published feature list names link checking, HTML validation, XML sitemap generation, SEO, spell checking and site search. Three of those Docket has no answer to:

• Spell checking. Docket does not check spelling, in any language. If proofreading a site is the job in front of you, Docket is the wrong purchase.
• HTML validation. Docket checks specific structural things — headings, canonicals, structured data — and does not validate markup against the specification.
• Site search. Docket has no equivalent of searching your own crawled content.

It is also cheaper: $149 USD against Docket's $199.

What Docket does that Scrutiny's feature list does not name

The list above names SEO as a single item. What Docket adds is not "more SEO checks" but categories that list does not cover: whether your landing pages give a visitor a reason and a route to act, whether your brand is presented consistently, whether a local business has the markup local results need — and whether AI crawlers can reach you at all.

That last one is the axis Docket is actually built on, and it is worth being precise about what it means. Reading robots.txt tells you what a site permits. Docket asks the server, as each crawler, with that crawler's documented user-agent, and compares the answer. The two disagree more often than anyone expects: a CDN or WAF rule refuses a crawler your robots.txt explicitly allows, and nothing in the file will ever tell you.

Which one to pick

Choose Scrutiny if you want link checking and spell checking on a Mac for less money, or if validation and site search are what you actually need. It has been developed for years, it is macOS-native, and for those jobs Docket has nothing to offer you.

Choose Docket if you want a ranked fix plan rather than a dataset, a client-ready report, and the AI-visibility and conversion checks that Scrutiny's feature list does not name.

Both run on your own machine and neither wants a subscription, which is more than most of this market can say.

Checked 15 August 2026. The factual claims about this product were read from its own pages on that date: the vendor's own product schema gives operatingSystem "MacOS", with "There are no plans" for Windows (source); that schema's offer states a price of 149 USD, fifty dollars less than Docket (source); its published featureList is "Link checking, html validation, XML Sitemap generation, SEO, spell checking, site search" (source). Products change and pricing changes; if something here has gone out of date, tell us and it will be corrected. Everything else on this page is a comparison of approach, not a claim about their roadmap.