Offline Reader Pro vs Obsidian Web Clipper
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Offline Reader Pro
Save web pages as PDFs for offline reading. This browser extension captures articles, blog posts, and more, allowing you to access content without an internet connection. It also supports various proxy types for enhanced browsing.
- Save web pages as PDFs
- Offline reading capability
- Supports HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS v4/v5 proxies
- Captures text and images
- Ideal for long articles and blog posts
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Offline Reader Pro is basically a web browser with one powerful feature, it allows you to take a snapshot of the page that you are browsing in PDF format (with all texts, images, etc) and save it for later review or continue reading when you are not online. Great for long and bandwidth consuming articles, books or blog posts. Offline Reader also supports custom proxies including HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS v4 and SOCKS v5. Enjoy.
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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Obsidian Web Clipper at 4.4 against Offline Reader Pro's 3.0. Obsidian Web Clipper also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 51 months) and ratings volume (98 vs 5). Offline Reader Pro's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.6). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Obsidian Web Clipper holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Obsidian Web Clipper has 98 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 57% of Offline Reader Pro's written reviews are positive against 69% of Obsidian Web Clipper's.
Offline Reader Pro ships an update every 51 months, Obsidian Web Clipper every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Offline Reader Pro | Obsidian Web Clipper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (5 ratings) | 4.4 (98 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews | 68.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 98 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 51 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dayana Networks Ltd | Dynalist Inc. |
Customer experience
Offline Reader Pro
Obsidian Web Clipper
Bugs and requests
Offline Reader Pro
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or 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
In-app purchases
Offline Reader Pro
No in-app purchases
Obsidian Web Clipper
No in-app purchases
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