Comparison

MailYourself 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

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.

Highlights
  • Send emails to yourself
  • Uses native iOS email
  • Eliminates recipient address errors
  • Auto-paste feature
  • Saves time daily
Features
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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.

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

MailYourself1 screens
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Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
MailYourself versus Obsidian Web Clipper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMailYourselfObsidian Web Clipper
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating3.5 (2 ratings)4.3 (105 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews68.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2105 — better
Update frequencyEvery 33 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB28 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperArevit Solutions, Inc.Dynalist Inc.

Customer experience

MailYourself

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

Obsidian Web Clipper

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

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

None

MailYourself

No in-app purchases

None

Obsidian Web Clipper

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MailYourself free?
MailYourself costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Obsidian Web Clipper free?
Obsidian Web Clipper is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, MailYourself or Obsidian Web Clipper?
Obsidian Web Clipper is rated higher. MailYourself averages 3.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Obsidian Web Clipper averages 4.3 from 105 ratings.
Do MailYourself or Obsidian Web Clipper have ads?
Neither MailYourself nor Obsidian Web Clipper shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MailYourself or Obsidian Web Clipper?
MailYourself ships an update every 33 months, and Obsidian Web Clipper every 9 days. Most recently, MailYourself was updated on June 5, 2026 and Obsidian Web Clipper on October 30, 2026.

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