Creative Cards vs Obsidian Web Clipper
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Creative Cards
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Developed by the smem, the Swiss Museum and center for electronic music instruments, Creative Cards is a virtual card game inspired by the Oblique Strategies conceived by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt and first published in 1975. Both games consist of short ideas presented in the form of aphorisms. These ideas, browsed or picked at random can be used, alone or in combination, to inspire creative solutions, particularly in the musical domain. How to use it: - Tap or swipe to walk the deck - Shake the device or tap shuffle for a random card - Tap the info button on artist cards to read about the artist and visit their work - Star cards to save them - Add the Lock Screen or Home Screen widget for a fresh prompt every hour Have a prompt to add? Submit it from inside the app! Creative Cards is an SMEM initiative supported by the Canton of Fribourg. SMEM — the Swiss Museum and center for Electronic Music instruments — is based at blueFactory in Fribourg, Switzerland, and is home to one of the world's largest synthesizer collections.
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 update cadence: Obsidian Web Clipper at every 9 days against Creative Cards's every 16 months. Obsidian Web Clipper also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Creative Cards ships an update every 16 months, Obsidian Web Clipper every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on June 23, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Creative Cards | Obsidian Web Clipper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.4 (98 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 68.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 98 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 16 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Schweizer Museum und Zentrum fur elektronische Musikinstrumente | Dynalist Inc. |
Bugs and requests
Creative Cards
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
Creative Cards
No in-app purchases
Obsidian Web Clipper
No in-app purchases
Questions
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