4.4
12.5K reviews
1M+
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Content rating
Everyone
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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
Updated on
Apr 21, 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
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No data collected
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Ratings and reviews

4.5
11.5K reviews
Jeff Cours
May 21, 2025
I've used Obsidian for a couple years. It's a very good note-taking app. Vault (a paid add-on) makes syncing across devices effortless, but other cloud solutions also work. Composing in markdown's fast: your hands never leave the keyboard. It stores notes in markdown, so there's no lock-in: you can open them in a text editor. Once a note is synced to your device, you can reliably get to it even when you're offline. Quirks are in tables (a bit clunky) and the outline (hard to find on phones).
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kaktrot
April 25, 2025
If you know, you know. Obsidian is possibly the best thing for keeping info that you'll ever try. It is for me. Incredibly generous program, and the mobile app is just as good. Used to be slow for me. I learned not to stack 1000's of mixed files (zips, exe's, full program folders) in your vault, and it's fine. much quicker now, on top of that.
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Dynalist Inc.
April 25, 2025
Load time should be much improved now! Let us know if it's better. You can also go to General Settings and click the stopwatch icon to see a report of what parts are slow to load. Some community plugins can make load time longer.
SitOnA Rick (SitOnA-Rick)
January 1, 2025
LOVE THIS APP! My go-to app for anything writing related. Highly customizable, super easy to use, 1000s of community created plug-ins that allow additional functionality, tons of awesome looking (& customizable) themes... I could go on all day. I also have this on my PC and I can seamlessly sync between the two with 1 tap/click & be able to continue EXACTLY where I left off on the other device by installing a plugin. End-All-Be-All of markdown/notebook apps!
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What’s new

- Includes all new functionality and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop v1.8.10.
- It is now possible to use the app without giving the "All files" permission, however when doing so you can only store vaults inside the app storage.
- Improved the onboarding flow to make it more clear that Sync is optional and make it easier to jump directly into vault creation.
- Fixed bug where `obsidian://` URIs would not fire their action if the app was previously closed.