Compare Save to Notion and Weava: Which Extension is the Best?

Save to Notion is a browser extension that allows you to effortlessly save web content directly to your Notion workspace, enhancing productivity and organization.
Weava Highlighter was once a popular choice, but now it’s filled with ads and has a poor user experience. Better options like Web Highlights do the job better without the hassle.
Key Features
  • One-Click Saving: Quickly save web pages, articles, and images to your Notion workspace with a single click, ensuring that important information is never lost.
  • Customizable Tags and Properties: Organize your saved content with tags and custom properties for easy retrieval and categorization.
  • Template Support: Use and create custom templates to standardize the way information is saved, enhancing consistency and efficiency.
  • Cross-Device Sync: Access your saved content across all your devices, ensuring that your information is always at your fingertips.
  • Integration with Notion: Seamlessly integrates with your Notion account, allowing for a streamlined workflow and easy access to your saved content.
  • Batch Saving: Save multiple items at once, reducing the time spent on organizing and categorizing content.
  • Customizable Saving Options: Choose how and where your content is saved within Notion, providing flexibility to suit your organizational needs.
  • Web & PDF Highlighting: Easily highlight text on web pages and PDFs using various colors.
  • Annotations: Add detailed notes to your highlights for better reference and organization.
  • Cloud Syncing: Seamlessly access your highlights and notes across multiple devices.
  • Organize with Folders: Structure your highlights with folders and sub-folders for easy retrieval.
  • Citation Creation: Automatically generate citations for your highlighted text, simplifying your research process.
Our Rating
8.5
7.0
Total users
405,503
200,000
Total ratings
1,376
2,728
Average rating
4.3 ⭐
4.1 ⭐
Entry Level PriceFreeFree
Chrome
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4.4
3.85
1.3K+ ratings
400.0K+Users
Chrome Web Store logo
4.1
3.01
2.7K+ ratings
200.0K+Users
Edge
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Firefox
Mozilla Firefox Add-ons Store logo
4.2
4.21
67 ratings
5.5K+Users
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Safari
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Features
9.0

Save to Notion offers a comprehensive set of features that make it easy to save and organize web content.
The one-click save feature is particularly useful for quickly capturing information without interrupting your workflow.

The ability to highlight, tag, and organize content directly ensures that you can easily find the content you need later.

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Another very useful feature is the screenshot function. Either the entire page or just a desired part is screenshotted and then a description is immediately added, which is saved directly in the desired page on Notion.

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The support for templates and batch saving may not be intuitive to set up at first, but it saves the user a lot of time when saving similar information.

8.5

Weava offers basic but functional features like web and PDF highlighting, annotations, and folder organization.

The basic functionalities work great but the lack of innovative or advanced functionalities, especially compared to competitors, limits its appeal.

Top 3 Features of Weava Highlighter

1. Highlight Websites and PDFs

Highlighting text with Weava

Similar to our favorite highlighter Web Highlights, you can highlight text on any website or PDF. Choose different colors to customize your highlights and make important information stand out.

2. Organize Research into Folders

Organize in folders

Weava lets you save your highlights and organize them into folders, making it simple to keep your research organized and find what you need fast.

3. Collaborate with Your Team

Share folders with your co-workers

Weava allows you to share folders with your team, making collaboration on research projects easy. Everyone can add and view highlights and notes all in one place.

Performance
8.5

The extension works perfectly. In our tests, the information is saved quickly and synchronized across devices. However, some users write in their reviews about occasional performance problems, especially when logging in and synchronizing.

7.0

Weava performs adequately when it comes to basic highlighting and syncing. However, the overall performance is marred by the intrusive ads and occasional bugs that make the experience less smooth than it should be.

Design
8.0

The Save to Notion design is clearly laid out. In our opinion, it could only be a little more intuitive when setting up templates for the first time.

6.0

The design is where Weava really struggles. The interface is cluttered with ads, making it not only visually unappealing but also frustrating to use.

Here's a screenshot showing one of their ads taking up nearly half the height of their sidebar:

Ads are covering half of the sidebar

The overall design feels outdated and lacks the intuitive flow found in other tools. This poor design significantly hampers the user experience.

Value for Money
9.5

The free version of Save to Notion offers excellent value for money, and the premium plan, at $36 a year, offers additional features at a reasonable price for those needing advanced functionality. Especially compared to Notion's official extension “Notion Web Clipper” we tested, you get a lot of features here.
However, it must be borne in mind that you will quickly reach the limits of the free Notion version by saving website content and will need a paid plan.

6.8

The free version of Weava offers basic features, and their premium plan at $3.99/month is priced similarly to competitors.

However, given the ads in the free version and the overall user experience, you can find better value in alternatives that provide more features and a cleaner interface for the same or even lower cost.

Ease of Use
7.8

The extension is easy to set up and use. Only the creation of templates can be a little confusing for some users at first. If you are already a Notion user, this should not be a problem. Some users also report login problems, but this was not the case in our test.

6.5

Weava’s basic highlighting functionality is straightforward, but the poor design and mandatory account creation add unnecessary friction. The ads make navigation cumbersome, and while it’s not difficult to learn, using the tool effectively can be a challenge due to these barriers.

Security & Privacy
8.5

Save to Notion uses industry standard security measures to protect user data. As with any online service, you should be aware that all saved data is stored with another third-party provider in addition to Notion via the extension.

7.0

Weava does take steps to protect user data, and their privacy policy is clear about not selling personal information. However, the requirement to create an account and the potential for data collection through ads could be a concern for privacy-conscious users.

Conclusion

Save to Notion is a great tool for anyone wanting to save and organize information and increase productivity. For anyone who works with Notion, we think it's a must-have. This is simply due to the ease of saving highlights and screenshots in one click. Although users report occasional problems with logging in, these did not occur during our tests. In our opinion, the overall performance with the price-performance ratio is currently the best for Notion users.


Anyone not currently using Notion should first test Notion and check whether it is right for them, or check the paid packages, as the free limits are quickly reached here.

Weava Highlighter may still be a popular choice, but its current state leaves much to be desired. The overwhelming presence of ads and a clunky design significantly detract from the user experience, making it hard to justify its use when other tools offer a more polished and ad-free environment.

If you’re serious about your productivity, it’s worth exploring alternatives like Web Highlights, which delivers all the benefits of Weava without the downsides.

Our Recommendation

In our comparison between Save to Notion and Weava, Save to Notion came out on top, scoring 8.5.

Save to Notion is the most widely used, with over 406k users and 1k+ reviews—and it also delivered the strongest performance in our tests. User reviews for Save to Notion reflect our findings, while we rate Weava lower than users do.

Notably, Save to Notion has the highest user rating in the Chrome Web Store at 4.29, which supports its strong performance in our review.

There are some noticeable differences between these extensions, so it's worth considering your priorities and the details below.


  • Looking for the richest feature set? Save to Notion stands out with a rating of 9. On the other hand, Weava lags behind in this area with a rating of 8.5.
  • Need top performance? Save to Notion stands out with a rating of 8.5. On the other hand, Weava lags behind in this area with a rating of 7.
  • Design lovers, take note: Save to Notion stands out with a rating of 8. On the other hand, Weava lags behind in this area with a rating of 6.
  • Want to get the most for your money? Save to Notion stands out with a rating of 9.5. On the other hand, Weava lags behind in this area with a rating of 6.8.
  • If you hate complicated tools, Save to Notion stands out with a rating of 7.8. On the other hand, Weava lags behind in this area with a rating of 6.5.
  • With privacy and security becoming ever more important, Save to Notion stands out with a rating of 8.5. On the other hand, Weava lags behind in this area with a rating of 7.

If you want a quick recommendation, Save to Notion is our top pick. But as always, the best choice depends on what matters most to you.