Clean Print Chrome Extension: Review & How to Use

Clean Print Chrome extension

Clean Print lets you click to remove ads, sidebars, and other clutter from a webpage before you print it or save it as a PDF. It's best for anyone who regularly prints articles, recipes, or documents from the web. The catch: cleanup is manual, you click each element you want gone rather than it happening automatically.

PriceFree

CategoryProductivity

Works inChrome, Edge, Brave (desktop)

✓Privacy-friendly

✓No account needed

Last checked September 26, 2026 against the Chrome Web Store listing · Independent, not affiliated with Google

Key features

click-to-delete tool for ads, sidebars, and other clutter
print directly from the cleaned-up view
save the cleaned page as a PDF
100% local processing with no data uploaded

What Clean Print does

Clean Print lets you click on ads, sidebars, and other unwanted elements on a webpage to remove them before printing. Once the page looks the way you want, you can print it directly or save it as a PDF. All the processing happens locally in your browser, so the page content isn't uploaded anywhere.

Clean Print free vs paid

Clean Print is listed as a free tool on the Chrome Web Store with no separate paid tier mentioned in its listing. It offers one focused feature: removing clutter before printing or saving a page as a PDF.

Is Clean Print safe?

Clean Print needs to read and modify the content of the page you're viewing to let you remove elements before printing, which is standard for this type of tool. Its listing states processing happens locally and nothing is uploaded, but as with any extension, only install it from a source you trust.

Clean Print: FAQs

Is Clean Print free?

Yes, it's listed as a free extension on the Chrome Web Store with no separate paid version mentioned.

Is Clean Print safe to use?

It needs to read and modify the page content to remove clutter before printing. Its listing states processing is 100% local, with nothing uploaded.

How do I use Clean Print?

Install it, open the page you want to print, click the icon to enter clean mode, click unwanted elements to remove them, then print or save as PDF.

What are Clean Print alternatives?

PrintSnag and Printer Friendly Gmail are similar tools focused on cleaner printing; browser reader modes are a built-in alternative for articles.

Can Clean Print save a page as a PDF?

Yes, after cleaning up the page you can save it as a PDF instead of sending it to a physical printer.

Does Clean Print upload my page content anywhere?

No, its listing states processing is done locally in your browser and nothing is uploaded.

Can I use Clean Print on any website?

It works on most standard webpages, though it's best suited to article and document-style pages rather than complex interactive web apps.

Is Clean Print built for complex web apps or just article pages?

Clean Print is aimed at article-style content like recipes and blog posts rather than complex web apps or dashboards. On simpler pages the click-to-remove approach works well, but denser interactive layouts may take more clicks or not clean up as neatly.

Does Clean Print remember which elements I removed the next time I visit a page?

Its listing doesn't describe any saved settings per site, so cleanup is a manual, per-visit action rather than a rule that sticks. Expect to click through the same ads or sidebars again if you print that page on a later visit.

Does Clean Print change the page permanently, or only what gets printed?

Removing elements updates the page in that browser tab, so the cleaned view is what gets printed or saved as a PDF. Reloading the page brings back the original layout, since nothing changes on the actual website itself.