Wappalyzer is for one tab. Mama is for your whole pipeline.

Yes, and no conflicts. Wappalyzer's plugin reads pages locally in your browser — it never writes to your CRM unless you've wired up their paid API for that. Mama syncs to your CRM through its own integration. They live on different surfaces (browser vs CRM/web app), pull from independent detection methods, and don't talk to each other. About ~40% of our customers also have the Wappalyzer plugin installed — it's the most common multi-tool setup we see.

Honest answer: different priorities. Wappalyzer is 17 years into community-contributed signatures with a massive open-source contributor base — that's a moat you can't speed-run. Mama is 2 years in, prioritizing signal density on tools that matter for outbound (the top 25,000 most-detected tools by usage) over raw catalogue breadth. We add ~200–400 new tools per month, driven mostly by customer requests. Closing the 22K gap to Wappalyzer's count isn't on the top-priority roadmap — outbound-relevant coverage is.

Some pieces yes, the core no. We're planning to open-source the ICP rubric format spec (so teams can move scoring rubrics between tools), our tech-detection signature format (so the community can contribute new tool signatures the way Wappalyzer does), and a couple of standalone utilities. The core scoring engine, synthesis layer, and signal infrastructure stay closed — that's the part the subscription pays for. Open-source plan ships first half of 2026.

Directly yes, and you'll likely save money on the swap. Wappalyzer's API starts at $250/mo specifically for programmatic tech-detection-into-CRM-fields use cases. Mama's Team plan ($199/mo, 5 seats) ships native Salesforce/HubSpot sync that populates the equivalent fields, plus 5 additional signal categories, plus the synthesis layer, plus team features. If your only API use is "pipe tech data into Salesforce for sales," Mama Team is a net cheaper and more capable replacement. If your API use is non-Salesforce (warehouse, analytics, internal app), Wappalyzer's clean lean API may still fit better.

Cherry-picking would be ignoring Wappalyzer's free plugin tier, which is genuinely free forever and serves the individual-user case completely. So the honest framing: at $0, Wappalyzer wins (free plugin for tactical lookups). At $49/mo, Mama starts giving you workflow features Wappalyzer doesn't ship (briefs, scoring, CRM sync, signals). At $250/mo, Wappalyzer's API beats Mama's $599 Pro tier on pure cost-per-API-call. Different tiers serve different jobs — there's no single "cheaper" answer that holds across all use cases.

Absolutely — we encourage it. Keep your Wappalyzer plugin installed exactly as it is, sign up for Mama's 14-day free trial, run the same domains through both, see which output fits which job. The plugin and Mama don't share any browser context or storage; there's nothing to disable. After the trial, you'll usually settle into one of two patterns: keep both (plugin for tactical, Mama for workflow) or stay on the free plugin only. Both outcomes are honest fits depending on your use case.