TextMate vs Obsidian Web Clipper
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TextMate
This app assists with brainstorming and writing by providing AI-powered word suggestions tailored to your preferences. Its minimalist interface promotes focus, helping you refine thoughts and ensure clarity. Unlock advanced features like word count adjustment and undo/redo with a subscription.
- AI-enhanced word suggestions
- Personalized suggestions
- Distraction-free interface
- Enhanced focus for writing
- Word Count Adjustment
- Undo & Redo functionality
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TextMate is a powerful tool designed to enhance your brainstorming and writing process. By offering AI-based suggestions from the words you input, it helps refine your thoughts and preferences. With a focus on clarity and efficiency, TextMate ensures that your ideas stay aligned with your intent, creating a more personalized and productive experience. Key Features: - AI-enhanced word suggestions based on your input - Refined suggestions tailored to your preferences - Minimalist and distraction-free interface - Enhanced focus for brainstorming and writing - Unlock premium features like Word Count Adjustment, Undo & Redo, and Copy Text with a TextMate Plus subscription. For more information, please refer to our Terms of Use (EULA) https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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: TextMate at 5.0 against Obsidian Web Clipper's 4.4. TextMate also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 69%). Obsidian Web Clipper's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (98 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. TextMate sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. Obsidian Web Clipper asks for nothing beyond the download.
TextMate holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Obsidian Web Clipper has 98 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of TextMate 's written reviews are positive against 69% of Obsidian Web Clipper's.
| Parameter | TextMate | Obsidian Web Clipper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.4 (98 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 68.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 98 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Saeed Rahmatolahi | Dynalist Inc. |
Customer experience
TextMate
Obsidian Web Clipper
Bugs and requests
TextMate
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
TextMate
- TextMate Plus$1.991 Month
Obsidian Web Clipper
No in-app purchases
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