Markdown Web Clipper

One-time purchase.
Lifetime license.

No subscription. The free edition is the whole product; Pro is a tip for the power-user minority — and a way to keep the lights on.

$9 launch · $19 standard · 14-day refund

Pro adds four power-user features on top of an already-complete free edition. It is one purchase, billed once, with no recurring charges and a 14-day refund window — no questions asked.

Markdown Web Clipper is freemium from v1. Core clipping is free for everyone, forever, with no time limit and no feature degradation. Pro adds a few power-user destinations and handling modes — buy it once and own it forever.

What's free

Everything the extension exists to do is free. You can install Markdown Web Clipper today, never pay anything, and clip the web losslessly:

  • One-keystroke clip of any page to clean, high-fidelity Markdown — preserving tables, fenced code blocks, math, footnotes, and image references.
  • Save to a local folder via the File System Access API (direct write to your Obsidian vault, Logseq graph, Foam workspace, or any folder of plain Markdown files).
  • Copy Markdown to clipboard.
  • Save as .md download.
  • Open directly in Obsidian via the obsidian:// URI scheme — no plugin required.
  • Built-in templates (Article, AI Chat, etc.) and built-in site rules for the most common sources (Wikipedia, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Reddit, Hacker News, GitHub, …).
  • Inline (base64-embedded) images, reference-mode images, or skip-images — your choice, per clip.
  • Custom keyboard shortcuts. Multi-tab batch clipping at a small free-tier tab cap.

What Pro unlocks

Pro adds:

  • GitHub Gist destination. Push the converted Markdown to a public or secret Gist using your own Personal Access Token (the token is stored locally; never transmitted to us). Re-saving an edited clip updates the same Gist via PATCH /gists/{id}, so GitHub records each save as a revision.
  • Co-located image folders. Choose the "co-located" image mode and Clipper writes each clip's images into a sibling folder under your vault, alongside the .md file. The Markdown body uses relative references that survive folder moves.
  • Unlimited multi-tab batch cap. Clip as many open tabs as you want in a single batch (the free tier caps at a modest number, large enough for casual research sessions but not for end-of-day archive sweeps).
  • Multi-vault FSA support (reserved). Pin more than one vault folder simultaneously and pick at clip time. Reserved for a near-future release; if you buy Pro today you have it the moment it ships.

Pricing

Two prices, both one-time, both lifetime. You'll see one or the other in the popup's "Buy Pro" modal depending on whether the launch promo window is still active:

  • $9 — Promo. Launch-window pricing for the first wave of buyers. Same features as Standard.
  • $19 — Standard. Lifetime, one-time. Same features as Promo.

Both buy you the same Pro license. The price you pay is the price you pay forever — no recurring charges, no "subscription that secretly renewed," no $0.99-trial trap. You'll never see a renewal notice from us because there's nothing to renew.

How activation works

Click "Buy Pro" in the popup. You're sent to a hosted checkout page at checkout.dodopayments.com (DodoPayments is the merchant of record — see "Payments and privacy" below). Pay with any card.

The moment the payment succeeds, your extension auto-activates — no email entry, no copy-paste of a license key, no "magic-link-in-your-inbox" first run. Behind the scenes the extension passes a one-shot install-correlation token to the checkout, the payment processor passes it back in the webhook, and the extension polls until it sees its own license appear (typically within seconds). Pro features unlock live without a reload.

If anything goes wrong with auto-activation (very rare, but possible if you close the checkout tab early or your network drops), the extension's 60-minute background check picks the license up automatically — or you can use Restore Purchase (next section) immediately.

How to restore on a new device or Chrome profile

Pro is bound to the email address you paid with, not to a specific device. To activate Pro on a fresh Chrome profile or a second computer:

  1. Install Markdown Web Clipper from the Chrome Web Store.
  2. Open the popup → "Settings" tab → "Pro" section.
  3. Under "Restore your purchase," enter the email you bought with and click "Send magic link."
  4. Check that email. Click the deeplink we sent. Your extension activates within a few seconds.

The magic link is one-time-use and expires after 10 minutes. You can request a new one any time at no cost. For privacy, the "Magic link sent" confirmation message is shown whether or not the email is registered — this stops anyone from probing which email addresses bought the extension.

You can restore on as many devices as you like; the license isn't seat-limited.

Refund policy

If Pro doesn't work for you for any reason within 14 days of purchase, email support@markdownwebclipper.com and we'll refund your purchase. No questions asked, no "tell us why" survey, no clawback of your local clips.

DodoPayments processes the refund within their normal window (typically 5-10 business days back to the original payment method). Your locally-saved Markdown files stay yours — the refund only reverses the payment.

Payments and privacy

Card data never touches our servers. DodoPayments is the merchant of record; the entire checkout (card form, 3-D Secure flow, billing address) runs on their hosted page at checkout.dodopayments.com. We see the result of your purchase (a license-key record and your billing email), nothing more.

After purchase, the only data we hold about you is a hashed version of your email → license-key mapping in our developer-controlled Cloudflare Worker KV store. Raw email addresses are never logged. License verification happens at most once per hour and only sends the license-key and a per-install UUID; no analytics, no telemetry, no usage data. The full breakdown is at /privacy.

Multi-device, multi-profile, multi-vault

The Pro license is bound to your email, not to a Chrome profile or a device. Buy once; restore on every device + every profile that you sign into. Switching to a new computer? Just re-run Restore Purchase. There is no "transfer" step — the old install simply stops being verified on its 60-minute alarm if you uninstall it; until then both installs are happily active.

Cancelling

There's nothing to cancel — Pro is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. Uninstalling the extension is the only "cancel" there is, and it has no effect on billing because there's no recurring charge to stop.

Contact and support

For refund requests, license issues, restoring purchases on a difficult email, accessibility concerns, security reports, or trademark questions: support@markdownwebclipper.com.

For feature requests, bug reports, or general feedback (Pro or not), the GitHub issue tracker on the public free-edition repo is the fastest path.