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