Obsidian

Dynalist Inc.

About this app

Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base that works on top of
a local folder of plain text Markdown files.

It is a second brain, for you, forever. Now available on the go for Android!

Features include:
- Customizable toolbar
- Pull down quick actions
- Graph view
- Share to and from Obsidian
- Community plugins
- Themes
- Sidebar pinning for tablet

Ratings and reviews

Great app on both desktop and mobile, and fwiw, I don't have the syncing issues others are reporting. Sometimes there is a tiny bit of lag, but it's minor. (That said, some detailed aspects of syncing could be a little more accessible in general.) Very powerful tool for writers. Not quite a Scrivener replacement, especially if you're not tech savvy enough to customize features, but you can replicate a lot of functionality with the Dataview plugin and smart searches. Highly recommend!

Full-featued, but slow. The desktop app is some of the best software ever written, and surprisingly light weight. Having the mobile version is huge. You can send basically any type of file to your daily note. This version is also great, but for a couple things. There's some weirdness with how it plays with the keyboard. It's terribly slow to start on my Pixel 3a. Takes much longer than opening a big Excel file, for example. It also just won't stay open in the background, no matter what I do.

Sync is not functional. Please fix it. I love the UI but it makes me sad to pay $10/mo. for zombie/empty files and folders, duplicated and triplicated folders, and missing files. I only have one phone and two computers and I'm not doing anything weird. I would understand if this was beta or early access but this is unacceptable for a paid service, especially one this steep in cost.

What's new

- Includes all new functionality and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop v1.4.16. This includes properties!
- The suggest component is now inline on mobile instead of attached to the keyboard.
- Improved layout of share menu and added a "create" button to share to a new file.
- Login screen no longer mentions requiring 2FA if it is not enabled on your account.
- Fixed issue where you could sometimes not add text after an image in Live Preview.