For people who want their notes to outlive any single app — and who love to tinker.
+ Strengths
- Local-first, your files forever
- Graph view is magical
- Massive plugin community
− Watch-outs
- Steep learning curve
- Collaboration is painful
- Mobile plugins lag
— Our review
Obsidian is a love letter to plain text. Every note is a local markdown file, which means the format will outlive the company, the app, and probably the OS you're running it on.
The graph view turns your notes into a living map of how your thinking connects. It's not just eye candy — reviewing orphan notes and strong clusters has genuinely changed how we write.
The plugin ecosystem is the hidden gem. Dataview alone turns Obsidian into a queryable personal database.
— Pricing
Personal
Free
- All core features
- Local-first markdown
- Community plugins
Sync
$5/mo
- E2E encrypted sync
- Version history
- Cross-device
Publish
$10/mo
- Public digital garden
- Custom domain
- Password-protected
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