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 iOS!
Features include:
- Customizable toolbar
- Pull down quick actions
- Graph view
- Community plugins
- Themes
- Sidebar pinning for tablet
- iCloud vaults
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4.53 out of 5
1,436 ratings
in United States
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Doesn’t work well with iCloud
I’d like to start by saying that I think Obsidian is great. I love owning my own files (as opposed to using something like Notion) and the simplicity of markdown. It’s also great as a standalone desktop app.
But syncing between devices is one of the most important features for me and it just doesn’t work well if you’re using iCloud to sync between devices. It can take multiple minutes to load vaults (and can heat up your device quite a bit while doing so) and doesn’t support basic hierarchical organization of vaults.
I’d filed a feature request a couple months ago and apparently Obsidian’s paid proprietary syncing service *does* support this, but they don’t support it for iCloud.
If you just need a markdown editor with a few extra bells and whistles, Obsidian is fine. If you need anything more complex like syncing between devices and organizing a project, you’re better off using Notion or even a text editor like Runestone.
Life changing but slow on iCloud
This tool can help you be a better human. Their paid sync option is supposedly decent but I use iCloud to sync as I want my notes to be more fully in my control and encrypted. iCloud sync shows a little message every time the app opens incorrectly stating that iCloud automatically deletes files and no way to prevent waiting to re-download. I know this is a lie because I've already force-sync that folder, it's not being deleted. Please fix this, I'd happily pay for your app another way if I had to, but I will not use your sync service.
Fantastic
It works great, and the folder organization is something I wanted, which is rarer and rarer on mobile - The one thing I wish to be fixed is the janky the side scroll bar, it's nearly unusable
Powerful & Elegant
Beautifully done, Devs. Wow!!
Paid Subscription.... For Notes...
In todays day and age, EVERYTHING requires a subscription. $5 a month to sync your notes across all of your devices? I'm good. Do yourself a favor and JUST USE GOOGLE DOCS! GOOGLE DOCS >>> THIS PAID SUBSCRIPTION GARBAGE
Bad App
I love the desktop version of Obsidian but this app just doesn’t do its job half the time. More often than not, it’ll endlessly wait on startup loading screens which is ridiculous for an app I ostensibly use as a text editor/viewer. I have a recent iPhone (13 pro) so that’s not the issue, it seems like this mobile implementation is poorly constructed.
Split View
I don't even understand how such an advanced app doesn't have a Split View feature for the iPhone. Without it, all the features become useless. I need to jump through tabs losing sight of the context.
Unopenable
I have an obsidian setup on desktop sync’s to iCloud. I pointed obsidian mobile to this, resulting it in it being impossible to so much as open the app. In the rare cases when the app successfully opened, there was another giant app breaking delay if you so much as switch to another app and switch back. This app is so bad I’m seriously doubting the entire Obsidian ecosystem.
[Update] Solved! Setup a separate .obsidian config for mobile (that took too much digging) and critically disabled the git synchronization plugin, which was eating iCloud’s bandwidth.
This is too good to have so few reviews
This app is a powerhouse for those who take the time to learn it. The only thing right now that I really wish they would do is make it so their canvases were infinite. Endless zoom, endless space. That would make this app the perfect tool for organization.
Would be great if it worked properly!
I use Obsidian daily on my Mac, and tried Obisidan on my iPad to give it a shot.
I probably should have known something was awry because it couldn’t connect initially to my existing iCloud vault, but I created a new one and went about my writing.
Everything I worked on is now gone.
The worst part is that there were no errors. Nothing to alert me that something isn’t right. Deeply saddened by this!
