ClipwiseNotion Web Clipper alternatives: what each one is actually good at
The official clipper is free and works everywhere, but it can save half an article and never lets you fill in your database while clipping. These are the realistic alternatives, with what each one does better and where it falls short. Full disclosure: I make one of them, Clipwise, and I've tried to be fair to the others.
| Notion Web Clipper | Save to Notion | Readwise Reader | Clipwise | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | free | free plan with limits, paid plan | paid subscription | free |
| Own account needed | no, uses your Notion login | yes | yes | no |
| Fill in properties while clipping | no | yes, with forms | not really: it exports to Notion | yes, in the popup |
| Highlights | no | yes | yes, its core feature | yes |
| Safari and mobile | yes | check their site | yes | no, Chrome and Chromium only |
| Pages go through a third-party server | Notion's | yes | yes | no, straight to Notion's API |
Checked in September 2026. Prices and plans change, so look at each product's own page before you decide.
Notion Web Clipper (the official one)
Good at: zero setup, and it works in Safari and on your phone through the share menu. If it saves your pages well, you don't need anything else.
Falls short on: pages built from web components or heavy scripts often come through half empty, and tags or other properties can only be filled in afterwards, in Notion. It also relies on your Notion login in the browser, so blocked cookies break it. Here are the fixes for that.
Save to Notion
Good at: the most features of any clipper: custom forms per database, highlights, screenshots. Widely used, with hundreds of thousands of users.
Falls short on: you need to create an account with them, and the free plan has limits. Many of its recent store reviews are about logging in and syncing.
Readwise Reader
Good at: reading. It's a full read-later app with excellent highlighting, and it can export your highlights to Notion.
Falls short on: it's a paid subscription, and Notion is an export target rather than the place you save to. Worth it if you want a reading app; overkill if you just want pages in a Notion database.
Clipwise
Good at: saving the whole article into a Notion database, with status, tags, author and date filled in before you save. Highlights come along at the top of the page. No account and no server in between: it talks to Notion's API with a key you create yourself. Free.
Falls short on: Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc and Opera only, so no Safari or phone. It takes a two-minute setup with a Notion integration key. And it's made by one person (me), not a company.
Which one should you pick?
- You clip on your phone or in Safari: stay with the official clipper.
- You want a reading app and don't mind paying: Readwise Reader.
- You want the most options and don't mind an account: Save to Notion.
- You want full articles in a database, for free, without an account: Clipwise.
Quick answers
What is the best free alternative to the Notion Web Clipper?
If you want the whole article saved into a database with properties filled in, and you use Chrome or another Chromium browser, Clipwise is free and needs no account. If you clip on Safari or your phone, the official clipper is still the only free option that works there.
Is there a Notion web clipper without an account?
Clipwise has no account of its own. You create an integration key in Notion once and paste it into the extension. The official clipper also has no separate account, but it relies on your Notion login in the browser.
Which Notion clipper supports highlights?
Save to Notion, Readwise Reader and Clipwise all save highlights. Clipwise puts them at the top of the Notion page as quotes and keeps them yellow inside the article. The official Notion Web Clipper does not do highlights.
Can I fill in Notion properties while clipping?
Not with the official clipper; you fill them in afterwards. Save to Notion and Clipwise both let you set properties such as status and tags before saving.