Comparison

Obsidian Web Clipper vs Tampermonkey

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
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.

About

Tampermonkey

Enhance and customize web pages with custom JavaScript programs. This tool allows users to easily create, manage, and run these scripts across all major browsers, adding new features or modifying existing ones on any website.

Highlights
  • Userscript management
  • Web page customization
  • JavaScript execution
  • Cross-browser compatibility
  • Script creation and editing
Features
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Tampermonkey is a widely popular browser extension compatible with all major browsers. It lets you customize and enhance web pages using userscripts—small JavaScript programs that add or modify features. Easily create, manage, and run these scripts on any website with Tampermonkey.

Screenshots

Obsidian Web Clipper1 screens
Tampermonkey4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Obsidian Web Clipper at Free against Tampermonkey's $2.99. Obsidian Web Clipper also leads on rating (4.4 vs 3.1) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 5 months). Tampermonkey's advantage is chart position (#17 vs unranked). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Obsidian Web Clipper is free to download; Tampermonkey costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Obsidian Web Clipper holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 98 and 61 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 69% of Obsidian Web Clipper's written reviews are positive against 58% of Tampermonkey's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Obsidian Web Clipper ships an update every 9 days, Tampermonkey every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Obsidian Web Clipper versus Tampermonkey: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterObsidian Web ClipperTampermonkey
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating4.4 (98 ratings) — better3.1 (61 ratings)
Positive reviews68.8% of reviews — better57.5% of reviews
Number of ratings98 — better61
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank—#17 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac
Requires iOS15.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDynalist Inc.Jan Biniok

Customer experience

Obsidian Web Clipper

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

Tampermonkey

All ratings61 ratings
Positive49.2%
Neutral4.9%
Negative45.9%
Written reviews106 reviews
Positive57.5%
Neutral6.6%
Negative35.8%

User reviews

Obsidian Web Clipper

From 98 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

Tampermonkey

From 61 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Well executed
  • 👍 Essential plugin/extension for all browsers
  • 💡 Sync userscripts across browsers
  • 👍 Needed this
  • 👍 Good

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Bug on iPad
  • 🐛 Glitching on iPad
  • 🐛 Unable to install scripts
  • 🐛 Unusable on iPadOS
  • 🐛 No response on iPad

Bugs and 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

Tampermonkey

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Plugins cannot be installed properly
  • Screen continuously flickers
  • Not usable in Chrome
  • Features not working as expected

Requested features

2 requests
  • Set cookie feature
  • Dark mode option

In-app purchases

None

Obsidian Web Clipper

No in-app purchases

None

Tampermonkey

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Obsidian Web Clipper free?
Obsidian Web Clipper is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tampermonkey free?
Tampermonkey costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Obsidian Web Clipper or Tampermonkey?
Obsidian Web Clipper is rated higher. Obsidian Web Clipper averages 4.4 out of 5 from 98 ratings, while Tampermonkey averages 3.1 from 61 ratings.
Do Obsidian Web Clipper or Tampermonkey have ads?
Neither Obsidian Web Clipper nor Tampermonkey shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Obsidian Web Clipper or Tampermonkey?
Obsidian Web Clipper ships an update every 9 days, and Tampermonkey every 5 months. Most recently, Obsidian Web Clipper was updated on October 13, 2026 and Tampermonkey on October 16, 2026.

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