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Feature checklists make every tool look equivalent. This table leads with the three things that actually differ — what it costs you before it works, whether your files leave your device, and where the free version stops.
| archive.todayarchive.ph | Wayback Machineweb.archive.org | PrintFriendlyprintfriendly.com | Project Gutenberggutenberg.org | |
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| What it does | Freezes one page on demand into a snapshot that keeps working when it moves | Shows you what a web page looked like on a date in the past | Strips ads and navigation off a page so you can print or save it as a PDF | Seventy thousand out-of-copyright books as clean EPUB, Kindle and plain text |
| What it costs you | No sign-upWorks the moment the page loads. No account, no email, no trial. | No sign-upWorks the moment the page loads. No account, no email, no trial. | No sign-upWorks the moment the page loads. No account, no email, no trial. | No sign-upWorks the moment the page loads. No account, no email, no trial. |
| Your files | Runs on their server | Runs on their server | Runs on their server | Runs on their server |
| Where it stops | It archives one page at a time with no crawl, the operator is anonymous, and some DNS resolvers have historically had trouble reaching its domains. | Coverage is uneven and site owners can have captures removed, so the page you need may simply never have been crawled. | There is no automatic article-only mode — on a cluttered page you delete every unwanted block by hand. | Public domain only, so nothing modern, and the site has blocked German IP addresses since a 2018 court ruling. |
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| Category | Reading & Research | Reading & Research | Reading & Research | Reading & Research |
| Last checked | 2026-07-29 | 2026-07-29 | 2026-07-29 | 2026-07-29 |
| Open the site | Open | Open | Open | Open |
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