Comparison

Capacities vs Obsidian Web Clipper

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Capacities

This app allows you to collect, connect, and reflect on your notes and ideas. Access your existing content, quickly capture new information, and discover connections between your thoughts. An integrated AI assistant is available for enhanced productivity.

Highlights
  • Daily notes for planning and reflection
  • Powerful search functionality
  • Quick capture of photos and content
  • Share sheet integration
  • AI assistant for note-taking
  • Browse and read notes
  • Explore connections between notes
Features
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The Capacities Mobile App for iPhone and iPad is your note-taking companion when you're on the go. Access all your notes, quickly save important info, and create new content. If you're stuck, ask our integrated AI assistant (Capacities Pro). As the mobile version of Capacities, it is adapted to mobile workflows and works great together with the desktop app. KEY FEATURES DAILY NOTES Plan your day, write down ideas, and reflect. POWERFUL SEARCH Find what you are looking for in seconds. QUICK CAPTURE Quickly add photos, use the camera, or create new content. SHARE SHEET Save content from other apps to Capacities. AI ASSISTANT A powerful assistant right and your pocket and linked to your notes. BROWSE AND READ Browse through all your notes and let them inspire you. EXPLORE CONNECTIONS Find hidden connections and supercharge your creative thinking. LEARN MORE HERE Website: capacities.io Contact: team@capacities.io Discord: https://discord.gg/3eBP9YxHgQ Twitter: @CapacitiesHQ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLqpKLWf9hmmh07z9U1cNIg Reddit: reddit.com/r/capacitiesapp/ Terms and conditions: https://capacities.io/terms-and-conditions Privacy policy: https://capacities.io/privacy-policy

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Capacities4 screens
Obsidian Web Clipper1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Obsidian Web Clipper at none against Capacities's 2. Obsidian Web Clipper also leads on review sentiment (69% vs 58%) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Capacities sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $17.99 per month. Obsidian Web Clipper asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Capacities against 4.4 for Obsidian Web Clipper. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 114 and 98 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 58% of Capacities's written reviews are positive against 69% of Obsidian Web Clipper's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Capacities ships an update every 10 days, Obsidian Web Clipper every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Capacities versus Obsidian Web Clipper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCapacitiesObsidian Web Clipper
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (114 ratings)4.4 (98 ratings) — better
Positive reviews58.3% of reviews68.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings114 — better98
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS16.015.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size766 MB28 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCapacities Labs GmbHDynalist Inc.

Customer experience

Capacities

All ratings114 ratings
Positive78.1%
Neutral10.5%
Negative11.4%
Written reviews72 reviews
Positive58.3%
Neutral22.2%
Negative19.4%

Obsidian Web Clipper

All ratings98 ratings
Positive82.7%
Neutral4.1%
Negative13.3%
Written reviews125 reviews
Positive68.8%
Neutral9.6%
Negative21.6%

User reviews

Capacities

From 114 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 💡 Innovative date-based note-taking system
  • 🎯 Powerful custom object types and organization
  • 🔗 Excellent backlink and connection features
  • 📱 Seamless cross-device syncing
  • 🎨 Clean, intuitive, visually appealing interface

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Mobile app freezes and crashes frequently
  • 📱 Inconsistent functionality across devices
  • ⚠️ iPad split-screen not supported
  • 🔤 Text editing experience buggy on iOS
  • ⏱️ Slow performance with large documents

Obsidian Web Clipper

From 98 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Fantastic web clipper
  • 👍 Seamless and light on the system
  • 👍 Intuitive and easy to use
  • 👍 Powerful and customizable
  • 🚀 Works flawlessly

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Does not work on Mac
  • 🐛 Takes over Obsidian startup on iOS
  • 🐛 Extension not showing on macOS
  • 🐛 Complicated to use, not working on important websites

Bugs and requests

Capacities

Reported bugs

15 issues
  • App freezes on splash screen (iPhone 7, iOS 15)
  • Login and password reset failures
  • Tagging on iPad causes app lockup
  • Toggle not clickable with Magic Keyboard on iPad
  • Task checkbox not working with Magic Keyboard
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  • Text pasting causes freezing
  • Audio upload crashes app
  • Audio doesn't play on iOS
  • Cover image properties not displaying
  • Linking text to objects broken on desktop
  • Emoji skin tones cannot be changed
  • App requires frequent restarts
  • Sync issues between devices
  • Display glitches and UI inconsistencies
  • Erratic editing and syncing behavior

Requested features

18 requests
  • iPad app support
  • Create custom object types on mobile
  • Turn Into function on mobile devices
  • System-level notifications for tasks and due dates
  • Footnotes support
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  • Image storage without gallery saving
  • Font hierarchy preservation with indentation
  • Multi-block selection on mobile
  • Audio note support
  • Template auto-generation with dates
  • Import/export tools
  • Student discount pricing
  • Tiered pricing options
  • Right-to-left language support
  • Font size customization for accessibility
  • Web extension iOS compatibility
  • Better text selection on mobile
  • Split screen functionality on iPad

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

2 purchases

Capacities

Subscriptions2
  • Capacities Pro$17.991 Month
  • Capacities Pro$199.001 Year
None

Obsidian Web Clipper

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Capacities free?
Capacities is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Obsidian Web Clipper free?
Obsidian Web Clipper is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Capacities or Obsidian Web Clipper?
Obsidian Web Clipper is rated higher. Capacities averages 4.3 out of 5 from 114 ratings, while Obsidian Web Clipper averages 4.4 from 98 ratings.
Do Capacities or Obsidian Web Clipper have ads?
Neither Capacities nor Obsidian Web Clipper shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Capacities or Obsidian Web Clipper?
Capacities ships an update every 10 days, and Obsidian Web Clipper every 9 days. Most recently, Capacities was updated on October 18, 2026 and Obsidian Web Clipper on October 17, 2026.

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