Obsidian - Connected Notes
What Obsidian is
Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.
The sentence of its App Store description that best says what it is, picked by Jev. The developer's own words.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
What people say
Crashes at launch are the clearest thing to fix: reviewers describe freezes within a session, a grey screen after the logo and an interface that stops responding.
Written by an LLM from the lead report's counts.Read the reportBefore you install Obsidian
Written reviews run 0.6 stars lower than the store score.
Store ratings count every star tap; written reviews come from people with something to say, so they usually run lower. Read the shares below as what reviewers raise, not the chance it happens to you.
Of the people who wrote a review
Watch out for
- Crashes and bugs17%Most often broken individual features
“App is unusable, too many crashes. The app freezes multiple times in a single session. There has not been a single session of my use when this app has not crashed.”
- Sync and data loss5%
- Performance and battery4%
Share of written reviews that raise each one.
Who it suits
- Personal life52 reviewers; most raised: missing featureComplain25%Praise96%
- School or study20 reviewers; most raised: performance and batteryComplain20%Praise90%
- Work17 reviewers; most raised: missing featureComplain42%Praise83%
What Obsidian reviewers say
One public report on Obsidian - Connected Notes reads 1,259 App Store and Google Play reviews from the last year. The report “Notion vs Obsidian vs Evernote: which notes app do reviewers fault?” was last updated Oct 26, 2026. Of its 1,259 judged reviewers, 57% complain, 67% praise something, 14% make a request and 3% say they're quitting. The top complaint is crashes and bugs at 26% of complaints, then missing feature (20%) and bad update or redesign (13%). Top praise: works reliably, at 11% of praise. Top requests: new feature or option (68%) and bring something back (17%). Two audience differences stand out. New user: say they're quitting 6.1x as often as everyone (17% vs 3%). Developer replied: say they're quitting 1.7x as often as everyone (5% vs 3%).
One public report on Obsidian - Connected Notes. Each title is written by the person who shared it; the line under it says how the reviews were picked.
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