Coming Soon

webChronicle saves snapshots of any website and lets you browse them later, offline, exactly the way they looked on the day you saved them.

cargo install webchronicleorcrates.io

Two things. One mission.

The core engine is open source and free. The desktop app is a paid product that wraps it. They ship independently. They always will.

Open source · AGPL-3.0

Core library

The scraping and archiving engine. Rust binary, no runtime, no dependencies. Runs as a CLI. You clone it, you build it, you own it.

AGPL-3.0-or-later — free forever
Full scraping engine (sitemap-first, 10 threads)
Multi-domain, recursive crawling
Local web server for browsing snapshots
Unlimited everything, no paywall

GitHub Core changelog

Desktop app · Coming soon

Desktop application

A native app that wraps the core library with a friendly UI, auto-updates, and cross-platform builds for macOS, Windows, and Linux. One-time purchase, no subscriptions. Closed source.

Everything in the core, plus a native UI
macOS, Windows, Linux builds
Drag-and-drop scraping
Built-in snapshot browser
One-time payment, all future versions

Pricing App changelog

Your archive. Your machine. Your rules.

Runs locally

Nothing leaves your computer. No cloud, no uploads, no telemetry.

Exact snapshots

Saves pages the way they looked — CSS, images, the works.

Browse offline

Open any snapshot later, no internet connection needed.

Sitemap-first

Auto-discovers sitemaps or takes a direct .xml URL.

Multiple domains

Archive several sites in a single run.

Clean overlays

Archive date and back link injected on-the-fly. Snapshots stay clean on disk.

Watch this space.

The desktop app is coming. The core library is already on GitHub.