Plainware Pro

Plainware PDF

• Compress to a size. Get a PDF under 100 KB, 200 KB, 500 KB, 1 MB, 2 MB or any size you type. It shows the real size, and tells you if the text stopped being selectable.
• Photo and signature resizer. Resize a photo or signature to exact pixels and a file-size range for application forms.
• Protect. Add a password to a PDF, encrypted with AES-256.
• Organise pages. Reorder, copy and insert pages across several PDFs.
• Page numbers and watermark. Number the pages and add your own watermark. Plainware never adds one of its own.
• Cover and retype. Cover old text with a box and type new text over it. The old text is hidden on the page but stays in the file.
• Batch. Run Compress, Compress to a size, Protect or PDF to images on many PDFs at once, and download a zip.

Plainware Focus

• Strict mode. Protected lists can only get stronger. To weaken one you ask to unlock and wait 5, 15, 30 or 60 minutes (your choice), then have ten minutes to make changes. The wait is never longer than 60 minutes. Turning strict mode on is the Pro step. Once it’s on, you can always see its status, ask to unlock and turn it off.
• Password lock. Use a password instead of a wait, for example one a friend keeps. If you forget it, you can ask for a reset: after a fixed 60-minute wait the lock becomes an ordinary 15-minute wait.
• Strict focus sessions. With strict mode on, a focus session can be set so it can’t be paused or stopped early. It follows the same rule as the lock: the unlock wait, or your password.
• Keyword lists. Block any address containing a word. These show Chrome’s own blocked page instead of Plainware’s.
• Category lists. Starter lists for Social, Video, News, Shopping and Games, each with at least 20 sites. You can edit them, and they don’t claim to be complete.
• Shared daily limits. Set “30 minutes a day across these sites” instead of per site.
• Profiles. Named sets of lists such as Work, Study and Weekend. Switch from the popup, or let them switch on weekly windows. Profiles you have already made keep working if Pro ever ends, and you can still switch between them. Making new ones or editing them needs Pro.
• Full history and export. Look back over every day it has kept (up to 400 days) instead of the last seven, and export it as CSV files. Time in Incognito windows isn’t saved.
• Encrypted backup. Protect the backup file with a passphrase. Encryption is AES-GCM with a key made by PBKDF2 at 600,000 iterations. We can’t recover a forgotten passphrase. Restoring any backup, encrypted or not, is free once you know the passphrase.

Plainware Recorder

• MP4. Record to MP4, or convert any library recording with Make MP4, with progress and a cancel button. If your Chrome can’t make MP4 files, it says so before you record.
• Trim. Drag two handles, preview, and save a trimmed copy. Your original is kept.
• Drawing tools and cursor highlight. A pen, a highlighter that fades after two seconds, a cursor halo and a click ripple. They’re drawn on the page where you started recording, so they appear in the video whenever that page is being shared.
• Quality presets. Small file (720p), Sharp (1440p) and Max (up to 2160p), plus 60 frames per second.

Plainware Tabs

• Scheduled backup files. Back up daily, every 6 hours or weekly, to a folder you choose or to Downloads › Plainware Tabs, keeping a rotating set of files. A backup is skipped rather than overwrite good files with an empty or damaged vault.
• Longer history. Keep automatic snapshots beyond 30 days, at most two a day after that. Snapshots you already have when you buy Pro are kept too.
• Encrypted backups. Protect backup files with a passphrase (AES-GCM, with a key made by PBKDF2 at 600,000 iterations). We can’t recover a forgotten passphrase. Decrypting and importing is free.
• Bookmark backup. Keep versions of your bookmarks, see what was added, removed, moved or renamed, and restore chosen items into a new folder. It never overwrites your bookmarks.
• Bookmark dedupe. Find bookmarks with the same address and choose which to keep. A bookmark version is saved first so you can undo.
• Search everything. One search across all snapshots, saved sessions, imports and bookmark versions, showing when each link was last seen.
• Dead-link check. Check the links in a session or your bookmarks. The default check only asks whether each site answers, and goes wherever opening the link yourself would, including through redirects. An optional deeper check can find pages that no longer exist (404 or 410) and server errors. It asks for access only at that moment, and refuses to follow a redirect to a private address.

New Plainware extensions

The same key unlocks Pro in Plainware extensions released later, at no extra cost.