MailYourself vs Obsidian Web Clipper
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MailYourself
Quickly send emails to yourself using your device's native email client. Avoid accidentally sending notes to others and streamline the process of saving content with an auto-paste feature. This simple tool is designed to save you time daily.
- Send emails to yourself
- Uses native iOS email
- Eliminates recipient address errors
- Auto-paste feature
- Saves time daily
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MailYourself speeds the common task of sending yourself an e-mail. It uses native iOS email, so no third-party API or subscription costs. It eliminates the risk of autocompleting the e-mail address of someone else when you hastily compose a note to yourself. It includes an auto-paste feature which is helpful if you frequently copy/paste content into your messages. It is a simple app that will save you time every day.
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 MailYourself's $4.99. Obsidian Web Clipper also leads on rating (4.3 vs 3.5) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 33 months). MailYourself's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). On review sentiment, 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; MailYourself costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Obsidian Web Clipper holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Obsidian Web Clipper has 105 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of MailYourself's written reviews are positive against 69% of Obsidian Web Clipper's.
MailYourself ships an update every 33 months, Obsidian Web Clipper every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on June 5, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MailYourself | Obsidian Web Clipper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.5 (2 ratings) | 4.3 (105 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 68.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 105 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 33 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Arevit Solutions, Inc. | Dynalist Inc. |
Customer experience
MailYourself
Obsidian Web Clipper
Bugs and requests
MailYourself
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
MailYourself
No in-app purchases
Obsidian Web Clipper
No in-app purchases
Questions
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