Archiveglass: Web Library

Update guide

Version 3.0 (build 4)

This guide covers version 3.0. The current website catalog lists version 3.0. Check the App Store for availability on your device; the features below require version 3.0 or later.

Version 3.0 (build 4) is now available on the App Store. The following describes this update.

Archiveglass is a local web archive with provenance: capture the page, keep the proof.

CAPTURE - Enter an HTTPS address; Archiveglass makes one request for that page, following the site's own redirects - No scripts are executed, no cookies are kept, no images or other resources are fetched, no crawling ever - The raw HTML is stored on this device, byte for byte

PROVENANCE - Every capture records its source URL, capture time, byte count, and SHA-256 - Verify integrity at any moment: the stored file is re-hashed and compared with the recorded hash. The result is stated plainly: intact, altered, or missing - NEW: verify every capture in the archive in one pass from the Archive tab - Export a provenance record beside the HTML for citation

NEW: SEE WHAT CHANGED - Recapture a page whenever you like; the earlier capture is never touched - Compare two captures of the same address: identical bytes, markup-only changes, or the exact lines of readable text that were added and removed

NEW: CITE IT - Citations in APA 7, MLA 9, Chicago and BibTeX, built from the page's own title, author, site and publication-date tags plus your capture date - Details the page does not state are left out, never guessed. BibTeX entries include the archived copy's SHA-256

READ AND SEARCH - Readable text extracted from each capture for reading and full-text search - Outgoing links listed with absolute URLs; capture any of them in one tap - Notes and tags on every record; search covers titles, text, tags, notes, and domains

NEW: BACK UP AND RESTORE - Save the whole archive (pages, provenance, notes and tags) as one file, to Files or wherever you choose - Restoring re-checks every page against its recorded SHA-256 and adds only what verifies; nothing already in your archive is changed

YOURS - Everything lives in the app's own storage on this device - No account, no sync, no analytics; the only network activity is the capture you explicitly request - Delete a capture and its file is gone - Everything is included in one purchase, with no subscription

For researchers, students, and anyone who has watched a cited page change or vanish: keep your own copy, with the receipt.

Guide updated 2026-11-12.