obsidian.md
Obsidian
Who runs Obsidian, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest note-taking software alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Logseq
Measured from Obsidian’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Obsidian01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Obsidian
Obsidian obsidian.md
The free and flexible app for your private thoughts.
Wikidata: knowledge base and note-taking software
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Obsidian tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 18 alternatives below has fewer; 11 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Obsidian’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Obsidian
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Obsidian, thumbs down if it isn’t.
People compare Obsidian with
From Google searches like “notion vs obsidian”, with searches a month.
Notion 14.8K/mo
20 of the 60 sites closest to Obsidian match.
- 01
Logseq: A privacy-first, open-source knowledge base
A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management and collaboration.
Very close - 02
Joplin
Joplin, the open source note-taking application
Very close - 03
Bear: Markdown Notes App for Mac, iPhone & iPad
Bear is a beautiful, powerfully simple Markdown note taking app to capture, write, and organize your life.
Very close - 04
Roam Research – A note taking tool for networked thought.
As easy to use as a word document or bulleted list, and as powerful for finding, collecting, and connecting related ideas as a graph database. Collaborate with others in real time, or store all your data locally.
Close - 05
The AI workspace that works for you. | Notion
Build Custom Agents, search across all your apps, and automate busywork. The AI workspace where teams get more done, faster.
Very close - 06
Goodnotes | Notes Reimagined | Note-Taking App
Bring your thinking to life, collaborate in real time, and turn brainstorming into action with shared notes, whiteboards and text documents.
Very close - 07
Raindrop.io — All-in-one bookmark manager
For your inspiration, read later, media and stuff
Very close - 08
Capture knowledge, share files, and manage projects within a secure, reliable environment | PBworks - Online Team Collaboration Software
PBworks lets your team capture knowledge, share files, and manage projects. It tracks every change, and automatically notifies you and your team to keep everyone in the loop. PBworks is secure, reliable, and accessible from any computer or mobile device, so your team can use it anywhere they go. You can even use it with clients or partners. And because it's hosted, you don't need to download any software or manage any servers.
Close - 09
Wakelet | Save, Organise and Share Content in Collections
Wakelet is the all-in-one platform for curating, organising and sharing content. Build collections for your classroom, team or personal projects. Free to start.
Very close - 10
Proton: Privacy by default
Over 100 million people use Proton to stay private and secure online. Get a free Proton account and take back your privacy.
Very close - 11
about.me | your personal homepage
Create a free, one-page website in minutes with about.me. Showcase your work, links, and story on a personal homepage that's all about you.
Very close - 12
Stream, shop, play - no matter where in the world you are!
Very close - 13
Todoist | A To-Do List to Organize Your Work & Life
Trusted by 30 million people and teams. Todoist is the world's favorite task manager and to-do list app. Finally become focused, organized and calm.
Close - 14
Datawrapper: Create charts, maps, and tables
Create interactive, responsive & beautiful data visualizations with the online tool Datawrapper — no code required.
Close - 15
Buffer: Social media management for everyone
Use Buffer to manage your social media so that you can create and share your content everywhere, consistently. Try our forever free plan or upgrade for more.
Close - 16
Zotero | Your personal research assistant
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.
Close - 17
Capture, organize, and tackle your to-dos from anywhere
Make the impossible, possible with Trello. The ultimate tool to boost your productivity. Escape the clutter and chaos—stay efficient with Inbox, Boards, and Planner from anywhere, even on mobile.
Close - 18
Archbee — The First Knowledge Portal Platform
Build beautiful knowledge portals that are easy to navigate, search, share and contribute to: user guides, API docs, knowledge bases and SOPs in one platform.
Close - 19
Readwise: Get the most out of what you read
Easily revisit and learn from your highlights and annotations.
Close - 20
Typst: The new foundation for documents
Typst is the new foundation for documents. Sign up now and experience limitless power to write, create, and automate anything that you can fit on a page.
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Obsidian’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Obsidian uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Obsidian adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 5 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,214
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 50 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Obsidian’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5631fbbdc1a131b-HAM
- Fastly header x-fastly-request-id: 0c0d838271eb3e2a6d8e7494ce03902c16ec4110
- Email delivery
- Mailgun TXT v=spf1 include:mailgun.org -all
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS lloyd.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=jn725qQXnosMN1rvL3WIhBD21Q9dnlbIvSunvry0YUI
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 16/20
- Google Workspace · not on obsidian.md 12/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on obsidian.md 7/20
- Google Analytics · not on obsidian.md 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS 6/20
- Cloudflare 6/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on obsidian.md 5/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on obsidian.md 5/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on obsidian.md 5/20
- Google Fonts · not on obsidian.md 4/20
- Next.js · not on obsidian.md 4/20
- React · not on obsidian.md 4/20
- Zendesk · not on obsidian.md 4/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on obsidian.md 4/20
- jQuery · not on obsidian.md 3/20
- Atlassian · not on obsidian.md 3/20