Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Paywall Removers
Remove paywalls on any article 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 4 we have checked on their own sites, 4 of them free or with a free tier. Paywall Removers launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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RemovePaywallfree▲170Read articles without annoying paywalls
2022 · removepaywall.com · its alternatives →
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Never pay for articles again
2023 · removepaywall.com · its alternatives →
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Remove paywalls & read articles freely
2024 · freepaywall.xyz · 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.
11d ago · wallhop.io · 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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This userscript adds archive URLs to the metadata section of HN submissions without breaking the immersion. Here are 2 screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/PdUu6oG GreasyFork: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/452024-hacker-news-anti-pa... Source code: https://github.com/MostlyEmre/hn-anti-paywall Now let me overexplain. -Why?- I never liked paywalled articles. I understand where they come from, but I don't like where we cross our paths. This is why I don't use major news aggregators anymore. Instead, I spend my…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Removes paywalled stories from Google results
2021 · freeinternetplugin.com · 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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HN is great for the links people share, but a big part of the value I get comes from reading the discussion around them. I realized I was always opening the article in one tab and the comments in another, constantly switching back and forth. I figured there was probably a simpler way, so I threw together this userscript to merge the two. 1. Clicking a link from Hacker News opens the article with a side panel containing the discussion. It doesn't require your credentials, is resizable, and is easy to tweak if you want to customize it. 2. If you land on an article that has previously been…
Jul 2026 · github.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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Chrome extension to bypass paywalls
2022 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Most Comprehensive Paywall Bypasser On The Internet
2018 · addons.mozilla.org · its alternatives →
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2016 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →
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Clear This Page▲119Bypass the clutter from any web article
2019 · clearthis.page · its alternatives →
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2020 · hn.luap.info · 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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Userscript to hide any HackerNews story with "GPT" in its title. - hn-gpt-free.js
2023 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · incoggo.com · its alternatives →
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