Comparison

Raycast 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

Raycast

This mobile app extends your desktop productivity workflow with AI chat, note-taking, quick links, and code snippets. Seamless cloud sync keeps your content updated across devices, making essential tools accessible anywhere.

Highlights
  • AI chat with multiple models
  • Note capture and organization
  • Quicklink access
  • Code snippet storage
  • Cloud sync across devices
Features
Currently charting
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Introducing Raycast for iOS: Your all-in-one productivity toolkit with AI, notes, and more – now on mobile as the perfect companion to the macOS app. The app brings your favorite productivity tools from the Mac into your pocket. With Raycast for iOS, you can: • Chat with dozens of AI models from leading providers to get the perfect answers for any task • Capture, organize, and access your thoughts to never lose an important idea again • Save and open Quicklinks for instant access to your most important resources • Store and reuse code snippets and templates to save time on repetitive workflows • Enjoy seamless cloud sync to keep all your content updated across devices Whether you're a long-time Mac user or just discovering Raycast on iOS, you'll have your essential productivity tools always at hand. Raycast for iOS seamlessly extends your desktop workflow to mobile, ensuring you stay productive and organized wherever life takes you. Please note: Raycast for iOS requires a free Raycast account. Premium features available with a Raycast Pro subscription. Terms of Service: https://www.raycast.com/terms-of-service

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

Raycast4 screens
Obsidian Web Clipper1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Obsidian Web Clipper at none against Raycast's 11. Obsidian Web Clipper also leads on review sentiment (69% vs 55%) and device support (4 vs 2). Raycast's advantage is chart position (#87 vs unranked). 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. Raycast sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Obsidian Web Clipper asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Raycast holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 252 and 105 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 55% of Raycast's written reviews are positive against 69% of Obsidian Web Clipper's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Raycast ships an update every 10 days, Obsidian Web Clipper every 9 days. Both last shipped on October 30, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Raycast versus Obsidian Web Clipper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRaycastObsidian Web Clipper
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (252 ratings) — better4.3 (105 ratings)
Positive reviews54.6% of reviews68.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings252 — better105
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#87 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.015.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size238 MB28 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRaycast TechnologiesDynalist Inc.

Customer experience

Raycast

All ratings252 ratings
Positive87.3%
Neutral2.4%
Negative10.3%
Written reviews130 reviews
Positive54.6%
Neutral12.3%
Negative33.1%

Obsidian Web Clipper

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

User reviews

Raycast

From 252 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Running circles around Spotlight and Siri
  • 👍 Great start
  • 👍 Amazing fast and effective!
  • 👍 Finally!! Absolutely amazing
  • 👍 Am I really this early?

Room to improve

  • 💰 Useless w/o a Subscription
  • 📁 iOS Limitations Stifle Raycast
  • 🤖 Too Much AI
  • 🤖 Not really Raycast as we know it
  • 🤖 This Isn't Raycast

Obsidian Web Clipper

From 105 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

Raycast

Reported bugs

1 issue
  • Sync feature should be free at least for Raycast notes

Requested features

4 requests
  • Attach documents via the UI when starting a conversation
  • Sync between desktop and iOS chat history
  • Create notes quickly from the Share Sheet
  • Extensions support

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

11 purchases

Raycast

Subscriptions6
  • Pro7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Advanced AI$19.991 Month
  • Max Plan$49.991 Month
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  • Pro14 Days trial$96.001 Year
  • Advanced AI$191.991 Year
  • Max Plan$479.991 Year
One-time5
  • 500 AI Credits$5.00
  • 2,500 AI Credits$23.90
  • 5,000 AI Credits$46.49
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  • 5,000 Team AI Credits$60.00
  • 10,000 Team AI Credits$116.99
None

Obsidian Web Clipper

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Raycast free?
Raycast 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, Raycast or Obsidian Web Clipper?
Raycast is rated higher. Raycast averages 4.5 out of 5 from 252 ratings, while Obsidian Web Clipper averages 4.3 from 105 ratings.
Do Raycast or Obsidian Web Clipper have ads?
Neither Raycast nor Obsidian Web Clipper shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Raycast or Obsidian Web Clipper?
Raycast ships an update every 10 days, and Obsidian Web Clipper every 9 days. Most recently, Raycast was updated on October 30, 2026 and Obsidian Web Clipper on October 30, 2026.

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