Comparison

Obsidian Web Clipper vs SessionsAI

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

SessionsAI

This app offers private AI chat sessions that run entirely on your device, ensuring your conversations and data remain secure. It allows for offline use, local model execution, and on-device image generation, giving you full control over your AI interactions.

Highlights
  • On-device AI processing
  • No cloud servers or accounts
  • Local language model execution
  • On-device image generation
  • Private knowledge base integration
  • Offline functionality
Features
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Sessions AI is a private AI workspace that runs entirely on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac. Not just a chat box: it uses real tools, works from your own documents, and creates images—all on device, with no account and no cloud. More than a chat box Most on-device AI apps just run a model. Sessions AI gives the assistant real tools and lets it do the work: calculate, convert units, look things up on Wikipedia, check your calendar, add reminders, search the web, fetch a page, generate an image. Ask for something involved and it writes a plan first—which you can read, edit, and approve before it spends a moment of compute. You see every step it takes. Ask by voice, or from a Shortcut Say "Start a chat in Sessions AI" to Siri and speak your question—it opens the app and lands the answer in a real conversation you can carry on. The Ask Sessions AI action appears in Spotlight and the Shortcuts app too, so you can build it into your own workflows. Ground answers in your own knowledge Give a persona its own private knowledge base—add documents from a file or a URL, including Word, RTF, and PDF. When you ask a question, Sessions AI searches that content on device and bases its answer on it, and shows you which passages it used. Nothing is uploaded; indexing and search happen locally. Personas that keep work separate Set up a persona for each kind of work, each with its own system prompt, knowledge base, and connected tools. Switch per chat. Research stays separate from writing, and work stays separate from home. Bring your own tools (MCP) Connect Model Context Protocol servers and their tools appear right in your chat, alongside the built-in ones. Add custom HTTP headers for authentication, stored securely in the Keychain. It's your workspace—extend it however you like. Create images on device Ask the assistant to draw, sketch, or visualize—and it generates images right on your device, no cloud APIs. Choose from fast models like Stable Diffusion XL Lightning and Z-Image Turbo through to higher-quality ones like FLUX.2 Klein, with larger models such as Qwen Image on high-memory Macs. Watch a live preview as it draws, start from one of your own photos with image-to-image, and reuse the seed shown with each result to reproduce or vary it. Browse everything you've made in a built-in Gallery. Your chats are yours Every conversation is saved on your device as a plain Markdown file you can open in the Files app—no proprietary format, no lock-in, no export button needed. Pin, rename, group, and search across every chat by name or content. Your model, your choice Sessions AI runs open language models in a range of sizes—Gemma, Qwen, Ministral, Mistral, and Ternary Bonsai families among them. Pick a small, fast model for quick answers or a larger one for harder work, and set a different model per conversation. Download only what you need; remove any model to free space. Made for every screen Designed for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with full Dark Mode support. On iPad and Mac, a roomy sidebar lets you group and pin chats and jump between your models and Gallery; on iPhone, a simple tab bar keeps everything a tap away. Built for privacy Chat transcripts, the knowledge base, and all model data stay on your device. Language models and image generation both run locally—nothing you type is sent to the cloud for AI processing. Calendar and reminder access are used only on device to answer your questions. Web search is optional; when enabled, only the search query is sent to the provider (e.g. DuckDuckGo), not your full conversation. No telemetry, no analytics, no account—just you and your device. Who it's for Sessions AI is for anyone who wants a capable AI workspace without handing their work to the cloud. Whether you care about privacy, work offline, or simply prefer to own your data, it gives you a full assistant that runs where you do: on your own device.

Screenshots

Obsidian Web Clipper1 screens
SessionsAI4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Obsidian Web Clipper at Free against SessionsAI's $14.99. Obsidian Web Clipper also leads on ratings volume (98 vs 2) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 5 weeks). SessionsAI's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.4). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Obsidian Web Clipper is free to download; SessionsAI costs $14.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

SessionsAI 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 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Obsidian Web Clipper ships an update every 9 days, SessionsAI every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Obsidian Web Clipper versus SessionsAI: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterObsidian Web ClipperSessionsAI
PriceFree — better$14.99
Rating4.4 (98 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews68.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings98 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB87 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDynalist Inc.Erich Champion

Customer experience

Obsidian Web Clipper

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

SessionsAI

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

SessionsAI

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Obsidian Web Clipper

No in-app purchases

None

SessionsAI

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Obsidian Web Clipper free?
Obsidian Web Clipper is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SessionsAI free?
SessionsAI costs $14.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Obsidian Web Clipper or SessionsAI?
SessionsAI is rated higher. Obsidian Web Clipper averages 4.4 out of 5 from 98 ratings, while SessionsAI averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Obsidian Web Clipper or SessionsAI have ads?
Neither Obsidian Web Clipper nor SessionsAI shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Obsidian Web Clipper or SessionsAI?
Obsidian Web Clipper ships an update every 9 days, and SessionsAI every 5 weeks. Most recently, Obsidian Web Clipper was updated on September 21, 2026 and SessionsAI on September 20, 2026.

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