Capacities vs Obsidian Web Clipper
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
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 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
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.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Capacities | Obsidian Web Clipper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (114 ratings) | 4.4 (98 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 58.3% of reviews | 68.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 114 — better | 98 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 766 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Capacities Labs GmbH | Dynalist Inc. |
Customer experience
Capacities
Obsidian Web Clipper
User reviews
Capacities
From 114 App Store ratingsWhat 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 ratingsWhat 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
Capacities
- Capacities Pro$17.991 Month
- Capacities Pro$199.001 Year
Obsidian Web Clipper
No in-app purchases
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