Why Perplexity threads are worth saving
By share of traffic referred to websites, Perplexity is the third AI chatbot in India. In September 2026, StatCounter put the shares of the traffic AI chatbots referred to websites at 77.25% for ChatGPT, 16.04% for Gemini, 3.62% for Perplexity, 1.71% for Copilot and 1.37% for Claude.
On 17 July 2025, Airtel announced a 12-month Perplexity Pro subscription at no cost for its mobile, Wi-Fi and DTH customers. The announcement describes a historical offer. Check your account and the current provider terms for access today.
This isn't about losing anything: we're not saying your threads disappear when a Pro year ends. It's about having your research in a file you control, to read offline, hand in, or bring into another AI.
Perplexity's own export
Perplexity has an Export button of its own. Its help centre (which now calls threads "sessions") says it exports the answer as PDF, Markdown or DOCX. Try it first: for one answer, it may be all you need.
Look at the result before you rely on it: check that it holds every question and answer you want, and the sources.
Print to PDF from the browser
Open the thread, press Ctrl+P (or Cmd+P on a Mac) and choose Save as PDF. It's built in and free. On a long thread, the PDF often carries the page around it: side panel, buttons, cut-off blocks. You may need to scroll to the top first so the whole thread is loaded.
A share link isn't a copy.
A shared thread is a page on Perplexity's site. It's quick to send, but anyone with the link can read it, and it's not a file you keep.
The faster way: Export, in Uncook
With the Uncook extension, open the thread in Perplexity, click the Uncook icon and choose Export. Pick PDF, Markdown or plain text, and you get the thread itself, clean: your questions and the answers, without the page around them.
It's free, PDF included, and it doesn't count as a task. It runs in your browser. It works the same on chats from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and the other AIs Uncook reads, so all your research can be saved the same way.
Need the gist, not the whole thread? A summary or a Memo of it can be exported too, including to Word.
PDF, Markdown or text?
- PDF to read, print, attach or hand in.
- Markdown to keep headings, lists and links, and paste them into a notes app or a document.
- Plain text for the simplest copy, anywhere.
Want to carry the research on in another AI instead? See how to move a chat between ChatGPT and Perplexity.
Questions people ask
Is it free? Yes. Export is free, PDF included, and doesn't count as a task.
Can I do it on my phone? The Uncook extension runs in Chrome on a computer. On a phone, use Perplexity's own export or your browser's share or print menu.
Can I save every thread in my library at once? No. Export saves one thread at a time, from its page.
Start fresh,
without starting over.
Add to Chrome
Export runs in your browser, through the extension. The chat isn't sent to our servers, and nothing is kept on our side.
We don't keep the conversations you bring. When you click Send to Uncook in the extension window, the extension sends the chat from your tab to our servers, encrypted, for up to 30 minutes, and we delete it as soon as your Uncook page opens it. What Uncook makes from it is kept as a task, for as long as our Privacy page says. Neither your chats nor your tasks are used to train AI models.