About RemovePaywall

RemovePaywall is a free, no-login tool that helps you read paywalled articles: from the page itself when the text is there, from a public archive copy when it isn't.

How it works

Paste an article link and we try, in order:

1. Reader extraction — we fetch the page and pull out the clean article text and title.
2. Public archives — if the live page is gated, we check archive.today and the Wayback Machine for a captured copy.
3. Full-page view — as a last resort we show a script-stripped copy of the page in a sandboxed frame.

It works best on outlets where the article text is present in the page (The Atlantic, WIRED, Business Insider, The New Yorker and many more). Outlets that never send the article to non-subscribers (WSJ, The Times, The Washington Post) only come through when a public archive exists.

What it isn't

RemovePaywall surfaces publicly available and archived content, and the text a page already sends to your browser. It doesn't crack DRM, share credentials, or defeat hard subscription systems. If you read a publication regularly, please subscribe — good journalism costs money to make.

Privacy

No accounts, no logins, no ads, and no cross-site tracking; analytics are first-party and aggregate. See the Privacy Policy for details.

Contact

Questions, feedback, or a takedown/removal request? Email hello@removepaywall.co and we'll get back to you.