Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Paywall Reader
Read without paywalls for free
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 6 we have checked on their own sites, 6 of them free or with a free tier. Paywall Reader launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Remove paywalls & read articles freely
2024 · freepaywall.xyz · its alternatives →
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Bypass Paywall Readerfree▲1It lets you bypass paywall and read articles for free!
2024 · bypasspaywallreader.com · its alternatives →
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RemovePaywallfree▲170Read articles without annoying paywalls
2022 · removepaywall.com · its alternatives →
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Paywall Removersfree▲132Remove paywalls on any article for free
2024 · archivebuttons.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →
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wallhop is a free paywall bypass. Paste any article link to read it without paywall popups, ads or clutter. No signup, no extension. A simple 12ft.io alternative.
5d ago · wallhop.io · its alternatives →
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Never pay for articles again
2023 · removepaywall.com · its alternatives →
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Hacker News, without AIfree▲207A better Hacker News reader for following stories, filtering noise, and keeping up with discussions.
Sep 2026 · hcker.news · its alternatives →
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based on the idea from ctrl_freak's comment :) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4159644
2012 · paywall-killer.blogspot.com · its alternatives →
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Strips any webpage down to just the article
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Recently i stumbled on too many clickgates on the Medium blog Towards Data science. Considering that most people publish to share knowledge on Medium and are driven into putting their content behind a paywall, without actually getting paid for it, including myself. I felt like Medium is running the academic publishing scheme. Get free content and get paid for it. So I decided to create a small script to bypass the paywall on Medium, it turns out it also works on other newssites. Heres the website: https://sugoidesune.github.io/readium/ For the curious I will explain the…
2019 · its alternatives →
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Read, highlight and annotate the web without distractions
2020 · readermode.io · its alternatives →
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Cozy Reader▲123A secure place for the articles that you want to read 🔒📑
2019 · cozyreader.xyz · its alternatives →
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Removes paywalled stories from Google results
2021 · freeinternetplugin.com · its alternatives →
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2018 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →
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Clearly▲177A simple, distraction free reader for Chrome
2018 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Hi fellow hackers, I'm Ved, I came across the pain point of having a reader that could provide threads as articles after scrolling them many times and missing the context of the original info shared. To solve my itch I decided to build a thread reader without Ads(all existing sol. were full of them), since X/Twitter API was very pricey, I did some reverse engineering to convert rendered X.com/twitter pages to an API and host it in a VM (which obv. was dead cheap). All of your data is saved in LocalStorage. Including your comments and saved threads(there is a known issue with Linux…
2024 · its alternatives →
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Most Comprehensive Paywall Bypasser On The Internet
2018 · addons.mozilla.org · its alternatives →
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