Save the web to disk, not to a service.
Web Clipper is a native Mac menu-bar app. Reading something in Safari worth keeping? One click saves it as clean Markdown - just the article, no nav or ads - with the title, link and date up top, and its images downloaded right alongside.
No cloud. No account. Every clip is a plain .md file in a folder you choose - yours to read, edit, and keep offline.
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7-day free trial, no card. €10 once - the current major version, on up to 7 Macs · Safari · macOS 14+
How it works
Click the menu-bar icon on any Safari page. Web Clipper pulls out the actual article - nav, ads and sidebars stripped away. Comparing tools? See every way to save a web page as Markdown.
Saved as a .md file with title, url, date and author at the top - ready for any notes app or static site.
Every image is downloaded into a folder next to the clip and re-linked, so it still reads perfectly with no connection.
Choose where clips land - Documents, a vault, anywhere. If Markdown Viewer is your default, each clip opens right there.
The promise
A read-it-later service can shut down, paywall your queue, or quietly re-render the page. Web Clipper takes the opposite bet: the moment something's worth keeping, it becomes plain Markdown on your disk - no login, no sync, no server that has to still exist next year.
Why
Clipping the web usually means an account and a company holding your reading. Web Clipper does the extraction locally - the same reader-mode cleanup your browser does, turned into a Markdown file you own. It runs entirely on your Mac and asks for one thing: permission to read the page in Safari.
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