Comparison

TextMate  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

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.

Highlights
  • AI-enhanced word suggestions
  • Personalized suggestions
  • Distraction-free interface
  • Enhanced focus for writing
  • Word Count Adjustment
  • Undo & Redo functionality
Features
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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/

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

TextMate 4 screens
Obsidian Web Clipper1 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
TextMate  versus Obsidian Web Clipper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTextMate Obsidian Web Clipper
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.4 (98 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better68.8% of reviews
Number of ratings198 — better
Update frequency—Every 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS16.015.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB28 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSaeed RahmatolahiDynalist Inc.

Customer experience

TextMate 

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Obsidian Web Clipper

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

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

1 purchases

TextMate 

Subscriptions1
  • TextMate Plus$1.991 Month
None

Obsidian Web Clipper

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TextMate  free?
TextMate  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, TextMate  or Obsidian Web Clipper?
TextMate  is rated higher. TextMate  averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Obsidian Web Clipper averages 4.4 from 98 ratings.
Do TextMate  or Obsidian Web Clipper have ads?
Neither TextMate  nor Obsidian Web Clipper shows ads.

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