Terms of Service

1. What Mothball is

Mothball takes a web page, removes the advertising and clutter, and saves a readable copy into your own Google Drive as a Google Doc, a Markdown file, or an HTML file. When you save a PDF, it can also keep the original file alongside the readable copy.

Mothball is a tool for saving pages into storage you already control. It does not host your files, and it is not a backup service. The files live in your Google Drive, under Google's terms with you.

2. Your Google account

Mothball requires a Google account and your permission to save files to your Google Drive. Your use of Google Drive is governed by your own agreement with Google, not by these terms. Google's storage limits, availability, and policies apply to the files Mothball saves there, exactly as they do to any other file in your Drive.

3. What you're responsible for

You choose what to save. You are responsible for having the right to save it, for complying with copyright law, and for respecting the terms of the websites you save from.

Mothball is intended for keeping personal copies of material you can already access. It is not a way around paywalls, access controls, or subscriptions — it saves what your browser can already see — and it is not intended for republishing or redistributing other people's work.

4. Mothball Pro

The free plan is 50 saves per rolling 30 days, counted across the web app, the Chrome extension, and Android share together. Mothball Pro is $16 a year. It is a yearly subscription: there is no monthly plan and no free trial. You pay through Stripe. Subscribing unlocks the Pro features on the account you check out with for the year you have paid. Those features are currently: unlimited saves, subject to fair use (personal use; automated or excessive use may be limited), saving to any folder in your Drive, saving all three formats at once, your own tags, and skipping the preview screen.

You can cancel anytime. Canceling stops the next year's charge, and Pro stays on that account until the end of the paid year.

Your first year's payment carries a 30-day refund. Email us within 30 days of your first payment for a full refund, no questions asked. A refund ends the subscription and removes Pro. Renewals aren't refunded, but you can cancel anytime before the next renewal.

Which features belong to Pro may change as Mothball develops.

5. Mothball is new, and changes

Mothball is early software, built and maintained by one person. Features may change, break, or be removed. There is no guaranteed uptime, and no commitment that the service will continue to exist.

This is the reason Mothball saves into your own Google Drive rather than its own servers: if Mothball stops working or stops existing, the files you have already saved are unaffected. They remain ordinary files in your Drive, in formats any program can open, and you need nothing from Mothball to keep using them.

6. No warranty

Mothball is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including any warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. There is no guarantee that it will be available, error-free, or that any particular page will extract correctly.

7. Limits of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Mothball is not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages, for lost data, or for interruptions to third-party services it depends on, including the Google Drive API. Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to the amount you paid for Mothball, if anything.

8. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Illinois, United States, without regard to its conflict of law rules.

9. Changes to these terms

These terms may be updated. The date at the top of this page will change when they are, and the current version is always the one posted here.

10. Contact

Questions, problems, or suggestions: [email protected].