Premium is a paid subscription

What the extension does today

Open a tab you can already read and open the side panel. WebInk extracts the article, converts it to Markdown, and shows the result. From that panel you can preview or edit the text, copy it, download one .md file, pick a template, use the table of contents, translate, run AI Fix, send the text to an assistant, or download a ZIP. None of those actions require Premium. A worked save, from the open tab through copy, a single file, or a ZIP, is in the save guide.

The single-file download cleans the title for use as a file name: spaces become underscores, and characters that are unsafe in a file name are removed. Download .zip uses the page title as the archive name and as the Markdown file inside it, and it leaves spaces as spaces. If the page has no title, both fall back to converted_content.

AI Fix is unavailable when the document is longer than 100,000 characters. The control’s tip then reads “Content too long for AI Fix.” Send to AI opens a new tab. The built-in assistants that open with your prompt in the address are ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Grok. You can add another assistant in extension settings. If the address would be longer than 8,000 characters, the opened address is shortened and the full prompt is copied, with the notice “Content too long, truncated. Full content copied to clipboard.” An assistant without an address template copies the prompt and opens the site so you can paste. Those limits apply with or without Premium.

The public URL to Markdown tool and the developer API convert a public http or https URL. They do not look up a subscription. They refuse addresses that are not http or https, and they refuse hosts that resolve to a private or local network. That includes localhost, link-local addresses, carrier-grade NAT, and IPv6 unique-local ranges. That path fetches a public page from WebInk’s servers. The extension reads the tab you already opened, which is why a logged-in article is an extension job. The webpage to Markdown guide walks through both.

What Premium is

Monthly Premium and Annual Premium each open Paddle checkout for one subscription. You need to be signed in. If you are not, the button opens sign-in and brings you back to this page. The button stays disabled until Paddle has finished loading. Checkout then shows Paddle’s amount, tax, and payment form. WebInk does not print that amount on this page.

After you pay, Paddle tells WebInk the subscription status and the billing period for the signed-in account. WebInk treats that subscription as active only while the status is active and the current period has not ended. A missing end date does not count as active. Monthly and annual checkout are two prices for that same kind of subscription. Choosing one does not turn on a different side-panel control.

Paying does not change the converter, the templates, the table of contents, translation, AI Fix, Send to AI, or either download. The header shows your account after sign-in. It does not add a Premium badge or a new extension button. Use the side panel the same way you did before checkout.

Notion is not currently available

There is no Notion button in the side panel. Premium does not add one. If you need the article in Notion today, copy the Markdown or download the .md file and paste it yourself. The changelog notes when that save was removed from the panel.

How to read the ZIP column

Download .zip sits in the download menu next to Download .md. The panel shows “Packing images…” while it runs. The archive is named from the page title. Inside it is a Markdown file with that same title. Remote images written as ![alt](url) are requested with a 30 second limit each. A successful image is stored under images/ and the link is rewritten. A failed image keeps the original URL, and a notice says how many failed. Images that are already embedded as data are not saved as files. A page with no remote images still produces a zip that contains only the Markdown file. None of that requires Premium. The ZIP export page covers file names, duplicate names, and image lines that stay remote.

Cancel, refunds, and support mail

There is no subscription screen on this site and no cancel control in the extension. Billing changes happen in Paddle. WebInk counts a subscription as active only while the status is active and the current period has not ended. The side panel does not use that status to show or hide actions. That describes the check used today. It is not a promise about how a future billing change will be labeled.

Refunds are described on the refund policy, linked from the Terms of Service. The policy was last updated on 30 July 2024. It offers a 14-day money-back guarantee, asks you to contact support with order details, and says the aim is to process an approved refund within 5 business days to the original payment method. It reserves refusal after 14 days, when abuse is suspected, or when use goes beyond a reasonable evaluation. Write to the address on the Contact page. Card numbers are not stored on WebInk’s servers. Paddle is the payment partner, which the privacy notice also states.

Sign-in on the website is for checkout, not for clipping the tab. Start checkout after you are signed in, which is what the buttons already require, so the subscription is attached to your account.

A pass through checkout, and a pass that skips it

Suppose you want the annual billing period. You open this page, choose Annual Premium, and sign in when asked. The button does nothing useful until Paddle has finished loading, which is why it starts disabled. Checkout then shows Paddle’s amount, tax, and payment form. This page will not add a dollar amount of its own. After payment, the subscription status Paddle reports is what WebInk keeps for that account. You then go back to an article and use the same side panel you used before the purchase.

Suppose instead you only needed the article as Markdown. You skip this page. The panel’s copy button writes the templated text to the clipboard. Download .md saves one file. Download .zip saves the archive described above. Templates are edited in the extension’s Content Templates settings, including the four that ship with the extension: Default, Basic Frontmatter, Content Summary, and Markdown Link. None of those steps open Paddle.

A practical order when the article is long: scroll the page so late-loading figures are present, convert, check the preview for the word undefined in any front matter, then copy or download. If AI Fix is disabled, the document is over the 100,000 character limit, so edit or send a section instead. If Send to AI warns that the content was truncated, paste the copied prompt. Those checks are the same before and after a purchase.

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