Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Paperplane

Web page to PDF conversion API using Chrome

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Paperplane launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1PF
   PDFs from HTML▲742

   2021 · pdf.math.dev · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Ready-to-use API to convert any web page to PDF using headless Chrome▲129

   Loads a web page in headless Chrome using Puppeteer and prints it to PDF. The input is a JSON object and output is a PDF file.

   2017 · apify.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Pdf-Bot, an API/CLI for Generating PDFs Using Headless Chrome▲235

   🤖 A Node queue API for generating PDFs using headless Chrome. Comes with a CLI, S3 storage and webhooks for notifying subscribers about generated PDFs - esbenp/pdf-bot

   2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   PDFShift▲386

   Convert any HTML to PDF with a single POST request.

   2018 · pdfshift.io · its alternatives →

5. 5PT
   Paper to HTML Converter▲153

   2021 · papertohtml.org · its alternatives →

6. 6SP
   Simple Print – Convert web articles into printable PDFs▲122

   2018 · pdf.fivefilters.org · its alternatives →

7. 7MF
   My first web app – PDF memo creator▲297

   2016 · createamemo.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Paperjet▲202

   Turn your PDFs into fillable forms in 2 seconds

   2015 · its alternatives →

9. 9PA
   PDF API – Generate, convert, and modify PDF documents▲204

   Hi HN, Arek here. We’re super excited to officially launch PSPDFKit API [1]. PSPDFKit API is a collection of HTTP APIs that enable you to convert, generate, and edit documents without running any service on your infrastructure. What differentiates our API from others is that you can chain together multiple “actions” as part of a single API request. For example, you can convert, OCR, watermark, edit, and flatten a document — all in one call. Available actions [2]: - PDF Generator - PDF Converter - Image Converter - OCR - Watermark - Merge - Split - Duplicate - Delete - Flatten Our…

   2022 · its alternatives →

10. 10TA
    ThePDFApi, a Chrome Based PDF Generation API Hosted on AWS▲41

    Hello HN! It kept surprising me how much of a hassle it is to generate a PDF with decent HTML5 rendering from my SaaS apps. I tried several free libs and APIs but ended up with botched rendering a lot of times. So I set out to simplify this chore by creating an AWS hosted HTML to PDF conversion API that's based on Chrome. This API will allow a dev to just send the HTML to our API and get a PDF in response without having to worry about running and managing Chrome somewhere in their infra. I just finished the first version of my landing page and hosted pdf generation API…

    2018 · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Bitwar Online PDF Converter▲68

    Convert PDF to Word, Excel and many other formats

    2021 · bitwarsoft.com · its alternatives →

12. 12
    PDFmyURL▲82

    Turn web pages into PDFs with a single click!

    2017 · pdfmyurl.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    PDFBlade▲87

    The developer-friendly HTML to PDF API

    2020 · pdfblade.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Webpage to PDF Microservice▲93

    Automate PDF Report Generation

    2018 · imti.co · its alternatives →

15. 15PT
    PNG to PDF Conversion in the Browser▲77

    Hi everyone, I build some "online" converters as a side project in the last weeks. The difference to existing conversion websites is, that my converters don't upload your files. Everything happens in your browser on your device (with the help of a lot of great Open Source Javascript libraries). I think privacy is an essential feature for a service like this, so my converters also don't use google analytics or any other form of tracking (in fact they use no external resources at all). I started this because I ended up with some .heic files from my iPhone and had to use ImageMagick every time…

    2022 · png.to-pdf.net · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Convert PDF to Excel▲19

    Turn any PDF into an editable Excel sheet — one click

    Jul 2026 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

17. 17
    PDF 2 Landing page converter▲31

    Convert PDF to landing pages online

    2018 · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Convert Webpage to PDF API▲4

    Convert Web page to PDF by using API

    2018 · its alternatives →

19. 19
    PDFBolt▲16

    Hi HN, I'm Michał. I posted PDFBolt here about a year ago as a basic HTML to PDF API. Since then I've been rebuilding it around the thing that kept bugging me: every time a designer tweaked a layout, it meant a code change, a deploy, and a prayer that nothing broke in production. I wanted templates that live on the server and version themselves, so my API calls stay the same when the layout changes. Try the editor, no sign-up. Open a sample report, change the data, and download a real PDF: https://pdfbolt.com/try Templates use Handlebars. Your API call sends a templateId +…

    2025 · pdfbolt.com · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Save Page as PDF▲3

    Save Page as PDF Chrome extension — HTML to PDF in one click

    Apr 2026 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Page2Doc▲14

    Turn any webpage into a clean PDF or DOCX

    Feb 2026 · page2doc.com · its alternatives →

22. 22
    PageSnap▲14

    Turn websites into PDFs with ease

    2024 · its alternatives →

23. 23
    draw.paperplane.builders▲7

    Free, No-Account Drawing App with URL Storage

    2025 · draw.paperplane.builders · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Web to PDF▲5

    Save any web page to a clean PDF in one click

    Nov 2025 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →