For Journalists
Preserve evidence before it disappears.
Reporting built on sources that last.
Social media posts vanish. Government pages are edited. Company sites scrub inconvenient facts. Backdrop timestamps and archives the web before your evidence walks out the door — so your reporting stands on solid ground.
Timestamped screenshots
Full-page screenshots with precise capture timestamps that document exactly what a page showed at a specific moment.
Social and dynamic page capture
Archive tweet threads, LinkedIn posts, and dynamic pages that don't print cleanly to PDF.
Organized story collections
Group all sources for a story into a named collection. Handoff to editors with a shareable link.
Original URL provenance
Every archive preserves the source URL and capture date for transparent attribution.
Readable text extraction
Strip ads and navigation for clean, readable text you can quote directly without transcription errors.
Private by default
All archives are private. Share only what you choose, when you choose.
How it works
Find a source worth preserving
Any web page — social posts, press releases, government documents, company filings.
Archive with one click
The extension captures a screenshot, HTML, PDF, and clean text simultaneously.
Build your story collection
Tag, annotate, and group sources by story. Notes appear alongside the archived page.
Share with your editor
Generate a shareable private link for source review or make collections public for transparency.
“I had a government agency quietly remove a press release mid-story. Because I had archived it on Backdrop, I had the screenshot and HTML to prove it. That archive became part of the story.”
Archive your next story's sources
Free to use for individual journalists. Your sources, timestamped and safe.
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