Comparison

Obsidian Web Clipper vs AI Overview Hider for Google

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

AI Overview Hider for Google

This tool allows users to hide the AI Overview section from Google search results on both desktop and mobile devices. It provides a cleaner search experience by removing experimental AI-generated summaries that Google does not offer an option to disable.

Highlights
  • Hides Google AI Overviews
  • Supports desktop and mobile
  • Works in most display languages
  • Removes experimental AI summaries
Features
Currently charting
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Hides the AI Overview section in Google search results, as Google won't give you this option themselves, despite hiding a "Generative AI is experimental" disclaimer below the fold for this feature. Supports both desktop and mobile versions of Google, and should work in most display languages.

Screenshots

Obsidian Web Clipper1 screens
AI Overview Hider for Google2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Obsidian Web Clipper at Free against AI Overview Hider for Google's $0.99. Obsidian Web Clipper also leads on rating (4.3 vs 3.8) and update cadence (every 9 days vs monthly). AI Overview Hider for Google's advantage is chart position (#73 vs unranked). On review sentiment, 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; AI Overview Hider for Google costs $0.99 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, 4.3 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 105 and 24 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 69% of Obsidian Web Clipper's written reviews are positive against 65% of AI Overview Hider for Google's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Obsidian Web Clipper ships an update every 9 days, AI Overview Hider for Google monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Obsidian Web Clipper versus AI Overview Hider for Google: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterObsidian Web ClipperAI Overview Hider for Google
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.3 (105 ratings) — better3.8 (24 ratings)
Positive reviews68.8% of reviews — better65.1% of reviews
Number of ratings105 — better24
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank—#73 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac
Requires iOS15.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDynalist Inc.J BUCHANAN & L.J BUCHANAN

Customer experience

Obsidian Web Clipper

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

AI Overview Hider for Google

All ratings22 ratings
Positive68.2%
Neutral9.1%
Negative22.7%
Written reviews43 reviews
Positive65.1%
Neutral9.3%
Negative25.6%

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

AI Overview Hider for Google

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Obsidian Web Clipper

No in-app purchases

None

AI Overview Hider for Google

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Obsidian Web Clipper free?
Obsidian Web Clipper is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is AI Overview Hider for Google free?
AI Overview Hider for Google costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Obsidian Web Clipper or AI Overview Hider for Google?
Obsidian Web Clipper is rated higher. Obsidian Web Clipper averages 4.3 out of 5 from 105 ratings, while AI Overview Hider for Google averages 3.8 from 24 ratings.
Do Obsidian Web Clipper or AI Overview Hider for Google have ads?
Neither Obsidian Web Clipper nor AI Overview Hider for Google shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Obsidian Web Clipper or AI Overview Hider for Google?
Obsidian Web Clipper ships an update every 9 days, and AI Overview Hider for Google monthly. Most recently, Obsidian Web Clipper was updated on November 4, 2026 and AI Overview Hider for Google on November 8, 2026.

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