Comparison

Obsidian Web Clipper vs Hop Off

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

Hop Off

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Hop off your phone! Hop Off limits the apps that eat up your day, so you get a quick break and then get back to it. TIMERS Pick the apps you want to stop using and set a timer. Use them for a few minutes, then they lock and you focus for a while. Run a different timer for each app BLOCK NOW Lock your apps for a set amount of time or until a time you pick. Need a minute? Turn on Let me hop back on and choose how often, how long you can stay on and how long you have to wait LEAVE YOUR APPS AT THE DOOR Pick a place like the library, the gym or your dorm, and Hop Off blocks your apps while you're there. Or flip it so they're only blocked when you're away. Set it for all day, certain hours, every day, or just weekdays. BLOCK WITH A TAG Tap an NFC tag to block your apps and leave it at home. Tap it again to get them back. ALWAYS IN VIEW See your break countdown on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. Get your time back.

Screenshots

Obsidian Web Clipper1 screens
Hop Off4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Hop Off at every 3 days against Obsidian Web Clipper's every 9 days. Obsidian Web Clipper's advantage is device support (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.5). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Obsidian Web Clipper ships an update every 9 days, Hop Off every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Obsidian Web Clipper versus Hop Off: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterObsidian Web ClipperHop Off
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (105 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews68.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings105 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDynalist Inc.Mehul Jasti

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

Hop Off

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Obsidian Web Clipper

No in-app purchases

None

Hop Off

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Obsidian Web Clipper free?
Obsidian Web Clipper is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Hop Off free?
Hop Off is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Obsidian Web Clipper or Hop Off have ads?
Neither Obsidian Web Clipper nor Hop Off shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Obsidian Web Clipper or Hop Off?
Obsidian Web Clipper ships an update every 9 days, and Hop Off every 3 days. Most recently, Obsidian Web Clipper was updated on November 4, 2026 and Hop Off on October 31, 2026.

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