DarkPDF vs Obsidian Web Clipper
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DarkPDF
This app allows you to read PDF documents in dark mode, inverting text and background colors to reduce eye strain. It also offers the ability to compress margins and blank spaces for a larger text display.
- Dark mode PDF reading
- Invert text and background
- Larger text display
- Margin compression
- Cross-platform compatibility (macOS & iOS)
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macOS and iOS 13 bring us this marvellous Dark Mode. Dark Mode has many benefits. But there is a problem for PDF readers. Most PDF files are black text on a white background, resembling a printed form of documents. For eyes that get used to Dark Mode, such pages put a strain on them. DarkPDF can help. It is available on both macOS (Catalina) and iOS. Buy it once, and use it on both platforms. By altering the background from white to black, text from black to white, you can read PDFs in Dark Mode. Even better, DarkPDF can also compress margins around the page, as well as blank spaces in the page so that more space can be used to render meaningful text.
Obsidian Web Clipper
Save web content directly to your personal knowledge base for offline access. Organize research, recipes, articles, and more with customizable templates and smart triggers. Your data is private, secure, and stored locally in durable Markdown format.
- Clip any web content
- Select page content or extract main article
- Customizable templates for metadata
- Smart triggers for automatic template application
- Seamless integration with Obsidian vault
- Save as local Markdown files
- Offline access to clipped content
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Bring the web to your personal knowledge base. Save content to your Obsidian vault so you always have access to it, even offline. Obsidian is secure, private, and designed around durable open formats that allows you to preserve your data for the long term. Whether you're researching for a project, saving recipes, bookmarking travel destinations, or collecting inspiring articles, the Obsidian Web Clipper helps you organize your ideas. - Clip anything: From news articles and blog posts to recipes, product pages, and research papers — if it's on the web, you can save it. - Select page content: Clip entire pages, selected text, or let the clipper intelligently extract just the main content. - Customizable templates: Create tailored templates to automatically extract metadata from web pages. Perfect for academics, movie buffs, book lovers, or anyone who wants structured notes. - Smart triggers: Set up rules to automatically apply the right template based on the website you're clipping from. - Seamless integration: all your clips flow directly into Obsidian, in the vault and folder of your choice. As with everything Obsidian, Web Clipper is designed to protect your privacy, and give you control over your data. - No lock-in: All your clips are saved in clean, durable, portable Markdown files — no proprietary formats. - Offline access: your saved clips are saved locally, and always at your fingertips, with or without an internet connection. - 100% private: all your clipped content is stored locally in your Obsidian vault. Your thoughts are yours. Obsidian helps you create connections and links between your notes so you can organize your thoughts. You can create links between everything — ideas, articles, lists, locations, books — anything you can put in a note, you can link to other notes.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Obsidian Web Clipper at Free against DarkPDF's $0.99. Obsidian Web Clipper also leads on review sentiment (69% vs 47%) and ratings volume (98 vs 27). DarkPDF's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 9 days) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). On rating, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Obsidian Web Clipper is free to download; DarkPDF costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for DarkPDF against 4.4 for Obsidian Web Clipper. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 27 and 98 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 47% of DarkPDF's written reviews are positive against 69% of Obsidian Web Clipper's.
DarkPDF ships an update every 4 days, Obsidian Web Clipper every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DarkPDF | Obsidian Web Clipper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (27 ratings) | 4.4 (98 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 47.1% of reviews | 68.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 27 | 98 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Numathic | Dynalist Inc. |
Customer experience
DarkPDF
Obsidian Web Clipper
Bugs and requests
DarkPDF
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Obsidian Web Clipper
Reported bugs
2 issues- Defining a file path with a subfolder does not work
- Doesn't wait for page load, resulting in missing content
Requested features
2 requests- Immersive reading experience with ability to hide top and bottom bars
- Autofill possible vaults for clipping
In-app purchases
DarkPDF
No in-app purchases
Obsidian Web Clipper
No in-app purchases
Questions
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