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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
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Closest alternative
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01 · 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

No ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

People compare Obsidian with

From Google searches like “notion vs obsidian”, with searches a month.

  • Notion 14.8K/mo

None of the 60 sites closest to Obsidian match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

04 · 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.

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