Obsidian Web Clipper vs CP.Desoutter Assistant
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
CP.Desoutter Assistant
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Your personal assistant is designed to provide easy and quick access on the go to key applications and product information. Access to your tool documentation, exploded views, data sheets, stock & lead time, discontinued product replacements, spare parts lists and product selectors, you name it…
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Verdict
Obsidian Web Clipper and CP.Desoutter Assistant are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Obsidian Web Clipper ships an update every 9 days, CP.Desoutter Assistant every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Obsidian Web Clipper | CP.Desoutter Assistant |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (105 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 68.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 105 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Dynalist Inc. | Chicago Pneumatic |
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
CP.Desoutter Assistant
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Obsidian Web Clipper
No in-app purchases
CP.Desoutter Assistant
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Obsidian Web Clipper free?
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Do Obsidian Web Clipper or CP.Desoutter Assistant have ads?
Which is updated more often, Obsidian Web Clipper or CP.Desoutter Assistant?
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