Hype Reflect vs Obsidian Web Clipper
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hype Reflect
Instantly preview and interact with animations created in Tumult Hype on your Mac directly on your iOS device. Utilize Mirror Mode for live updates as you edit, ensuring pixel-perfect results. Supports HTML/PHP documents from Tumult Whisk.
- Instant preview of HTML5 documents
- Live updates in Mirror Mode
- Responsive design viewport adjustment
- Full screen animation display
- JavaScript console for debugging
- Send animations to Mobile Safari
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With Hype Reflect, effortlessly preview and interact with animations created using Tumult Hype on the Mac! One click in Hype’s Preview menu instantly sends your content to Hype Reflect. Enter Mirror Mode to view changes live as you work to ensure colors and text are 100% pixel perfect. Hype Reflect previews HTML/PHP documents from Tumult Whisk, too. • Instant Preview - Beam your HTML5 documents and immediately see what they look like on iOS • Mirror Mode - Show changes made in Hype live while you’re editing • Responsive Design Mode - Adjust the viewport width to try a variety of differently size devices • Full Screen Preview - Fill the entire screen with your animations • JavaScript Console - View debugging messages • Mobile Safari - Send animations to Mobile Safari with one tap Gone are the tedious days of exporting to servers simply to test how your animations look on iOS devices. Using Hype Reflect, you can view your in-progress documents on iPhones and iPads with the click of a button! iOS devices running Hype Reflect must be on the same Wi-Fi network as Macs running Hype/Whisk. ==== What is Tumult Hype? Tumult Hype is the HTML5 creation app for macOS. Animated and interactive content made with Tumult Hype works on desktops, smartphones, and iPads. No coding required. Hype Reflect requires Hype 2.0 or later. For more information about Hype visit: https://tumult.com/hype/ ==== What is Tumult Whisk? Whisk is a lightweight HTML and PHP editor for macOS with a live preview that updates as you type. Hype Reflect requires Whisk 2.0 or later. For more information about Whisk visit: https://tumult.com/whisk/
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 rating: Obsidian Web Clipper at 4.4 against Hype Reflect's 3.8. Obsidian Web Clipper also leads on monetization model (free vs paid) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 15 months). Hype Reflect's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). 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.
Obsidian Web Clipper holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Obsidian Web Clipper has 98 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 59% of Hype Reflect's written reviews are positive against 69% of Obsidian Web Clipper's.
Hype Reflect ships an update every 15 months, Obsidian Web Clipper every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hype Reflect | Obsidian Web Clipper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (11 ratings) | 4.4 (98 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 59.3% of reviews | 68.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 11 | 98 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 15 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 | 4 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tumult Inc. | Dynalist Inc. |
Customer experience
Hype Reflect
Obsidian Web Clipper
Bugs and requests
Hype Reflect
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
Hype Reflect
No in-app purchases
Obsidian Web Clipper
No in-app purchases
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