# Obsidian - Connected Notes — user reviews > 1,286 indexed App Store user reviews of Obsidian by Dynalist Inc., rated 4.50/5 from 2,674 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/obsidian-connected-notes/id1557175442/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/obsidian-connected-notes/id1557175442.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 2,160 · 4★ 128 · 3★ 106 · 2★ 82 · 1★ 198 ## What do users think of Obsidian? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Powerful features - 👍 Customizable and flexible - 🔒 Secure and private - 💡 Innovative note-taking approach - 🚀 Smooth mobile experience - 👍 Excellent desktop and mobile integration - 👍 Vibrant community and plugin ecosystem **Cons** - 🐛 Sync issues and unreliable iCloud integration - 🔋 Slow startup and performance issues on mobile - 👎 Steep learning curve for new users - 👎 Limited sorting and organization options - 👎 Lack of WYSIWYG editing on mobile **Commonly reported bugs** - Sync issues leading to data loss - Freezing and crashing on mobile devices - Editing bugs and text input issues **Most requested features** - Improved sorting and organization options - WYSIWYG editing on mobile - Better integration with other cloud storage services - More intuitive onboarding process for new users - Native mobile widgets and share sheet integration ## Newest reviews (12 of 1,286) ### 4/5 — Getting better *2026-08-10, version 1.13.6* It's getting better and better and I don't need so many plugins to make it useful. I wise I could use the default theme but the cursor on iPhone and iPad can fly randomly when moving to the beginning of the line. It occurs when I move to the list markdown - [ ] and starts flying even though the beginning of the line is not a list. The only workaround is to install Minimal theme. ### 4/5 — Great but some recent issues *2026-08-08, version 1.13.4* Long time user of an amazing amazing app. Just noticed some regressions in the last month or so in the iPhone app. Settings dialog won’t open and if it does, I can’t exit it. Clicking on recent files does nothing. Kindly look into it. Update: Seems like it doesn’t work only if I select recent files from the left sidebar. If I select bookmarks for example, settings works. ### 3/5 — Crash! *2026-08-07, version 1.13.4* I like it.but,In recent days,whenever Iopen Obsidian,it crashes after loading iCloud for a while.Please help me fix this!! ### 3/5 — Buggy *2026-08-07, version 1.13.4* Works ok. Key functionality, like swiping the menu from the right, barely works. This makes the mobile app difficult to use ### 4/5 — Great but some recent issues *2026-08-04, version 1.13.4* Long time user of an amazing amazing app. Just noticed some regressions in the last month or so in the iPhone app. Settings dialog won’t open and if it does, I can’t exit it. Clicking on recent files does nothing. Kindly look into it. ### 5/5 — 移动端超级好用！！ *2026-07-31* 现在官方出了插件商店，5000多款插件，好多都能支持手机了，基本上需要的功能直接去找就有插件解决，越用越安逸 ### 5/5 — Powerful and convenient *2026-07-30, version 1.13.4* Obsidian is simple, super portable, easy to mod, and can be really powerful. The team also continues to add nice quality-of-life features to the base app. My go-to for research, development, and journaling! ### 2/5 — Bien mais gestion des images problématique *2026-07-30* Je suis un très gros utilisateur de Microsoft OneNote sur iPhone. Je voulais passer à 100% sur Obsidian malheureusement la gestion des importations des photos est vraiment mauvaise : - on ne peut pas redimensionner les photos à l'importation - on ne peut pas compresser les photos. Ça pourrait être un must have , c'est hyper frustrant ### 5/5 — Best note taking app ever *2026-07-30, version 1.13.4* A good portion of me keeping track of information involves now Obsidian. Once you learn to handle Markdown, the options are seemingly limitless… You can customize it to keep it as simple or complex as you want it. Do you know how to code? You have a superpower using this app. Amazing tutorials and ideas on line, great flexibility, plenty of community plugins… make it your own and it’s a personal mini-internet… I pay for syncing. I’ve never been happier to pay a developer for an app. Warning*: The phone app is not nearly as powerful as the computer app. If you want a standalone phone note-taking app there may be better options. ### 5/5 — Cannot live without it *2026-07-30, version 1.12.7* Obsidian has to be the most important app I have ever used in my life. I use it for everything. I’ve learned and changed styles and topics over the years. I’ve used it for work and creative purposes alike. It’s truly the best and I cannot imagine not using obsidian virtually every day. ### 2/5 — Horrible sync with the MacOS version *2026-07-28, version 1.12.7* Impossible to sync between devices. The logic is very old school, reminding me of old apps like Evernote. ### 5/5 — Amo *2026-07-28* Obsidian virou meu hub de notas. Migrei tudo do Apple notes porque uso windows, Android, macOS e iOS. No início é complicado entender as formatações e relações entre notas, mas conforme vai aprendendo entende que o Obsidian é um aliado para organizar as informações. Em um dia você está fazendo simples relações entre notas, e na outra semana uma base automática via queries com Dataview a partir das propriedades das suas notas. 10/10. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Cannot create account *2026-08-09, version 1.13.4* The keyboard blocks the sign up button when creating an account on iOS. No way to fix. Doesn’t strike confidence that the app is well designed. I tried to report the bug, but their form only accepts reports for fraud or paid account issues. ### 1/5 — Stupid developer not able to sign up *2026-08-09* I am not able to sign up coz the keypad comes up while i am filling in the form and the signup button in below and back of the keypad Now the keypad is not going away when i click anywhere else on the screen and i am stuck literally not able to sign up How silly is that ### 1/5 — Muito confuso *2026-08-08* Muito confuso. ### 1/5 — Misleading *2026-08-08, version 1.13.4* Upon signing up, prompted me for a 48 dollar payment. Nothing on the App Store page mentions this and the app being free to download is too misleading for me to give it a shot. ### 1/5 — Lost Many Stories *2026-08-05, version 1.13.4* I heard many good things about this app for story planning and writing, so I decided to give it a try so I can properly organize my markdown files and write stories. Only had it for a day and never have I been more horrified. The last thing I expected was for Obsidian to completely make my markdown files disappear from my external drive for all my fanfiction works. Thankfully my original fiction remained untouched. That would have been worse if it did. All the worldbuilding, notes, research, and chapters I wrote for those fanfics are gone. Like they never existed. Did the usual troubleshooting, but nothing brought it back. I was lucky I was able to file recover in one of my cloud drives to get the files I have lost. I’m terrified of losing my works and don’t want a repeat of this experience, so I’m moving over to a different app. It’s a huge deal breaker if my works are lost this easily with Obsidian. Not only that, I’m not able to access my external drive on the app, which is another huge deal breaker as cross platform is a must have and I don’t want to be paying a subscription just to be able to cloud sync + cross platform for all my creative writing works when I can simply just one time purchase external storage then plug in then write. I have no plans of using Obsidian again. Don’t recommend for serious writing. Only if you’re working on one device and are using cloud sync, that is. If you want to write seriously and/or rather use an external storage for creative writing, I suggest finding a different app. Overall, hugely disappointed since I heard so much good things about this app for notetaking, planning, and creative writing. So, I had expectations. Unfortunate that Obsidian didn’t meet them. Edit: I decided to give it a chance again, but this time through Obsidian Sync. It was a bit unintuitive to figure out how to set it up, but figured it out eventually. However, as much as Obsidian is great on computer, the app had so much delay when it comes to writing on mobile. Which is unfortunate because cross platform is a must for me and compared to other apps and softwares I have used in the past like iA Writer, Scrivener, LibreOffice, Ulysses, Bear, etc., the delay when you press onto a new line then try to type since it’s trying to sync is noticeable. The plugins also act funky on mobile. Ended up refunding it the same day I got Obsidian Sync and just sticking with the current app I use to write. Because of the delay issues, plugins acting funky, and the fact that Obsidian does mess with my files, I’m still keeping it at my current rating. Obsidian is only good on computer and if you choose work locally only without cross platforming and syncing. As much as I did enjoy what Obsidian offers, it just isn’t optimized well enough and I don’t really trust that it’ll prevent my drafts, research, notes, and ideas + concepts from disappearing like it never existed or corrupting, randomly duplicating files or folders, and reliably syncing to the cloud. Otherwise, I still highly recommend looking at a different app if you need that cross platform, no typing delay, and apps that have some built-in features that plugins from Obsidian offers. Like I said, if you only work locally, not cross-platform, and not cloud sync, Obsidian is great on computer. ### 1/5 — 지금 쓰고 있는 노트의 내용이 다른 노트로 덮어쓰기됨. *2026-08-05, version 1.13.4* 내용이 날아가는 노트앱 ### 1/5 — Not user friendly *2026-08-02, version 1.13.4* Unnecessary complicated, bad UI ### 1/5 — Lost Many Stories *2026-07-30, version 1.13.4* I heard many good things about this app for story planning and writing, so I decided to give it a try so I can properly organize my markdown files and write stories. Only had it for a day and never have I been more horrified. The last thing I expected was for Obsidian to completely make my markdown files disappear from my external drive for all my fanfiction works. Thankfully my original fiction remained untouched. That would have been worse if it did. All the worldbuilding, notes, research, and chapters I wrote for those fanfics are gone. Like they never existed. Did the usual troubleshooting, but nothing brought it back. I was lucky I was able to file recover in one of my cloud drives to get the files I have lost. I’m terrified of losing my works and don’t want a repeat of this experience, so I’m moving over to a different app. It’s a huge deal breaker if my works are lost this easily with Obsidian. Not only that, I’m not able to access my external drive on the app, which is another huge deal breaker as cross platform is a must have and I don’t want to be paying a subscription just to be able to cloud sync + cross platform for all my creative writing works when I can simply just one time purchase external storage then plug in then write. I have no plans of using Obsidian again. Don’t recommend for serious writing. Only if you’re working on one device and are using cloud sync, that is. If you want to write seriously and/or rather use an external storage for creative writing, I suggest finding a different app. Overall, hugely disappointed since I heard so much good things about this app for notetaking, planning, and creative writing. So, I had expectations. Unfortunate that Obsidian didn’t meet them. ### 1/5 — 모바일 렌더링 성능 최악 *2026-07-25* 모르지 않을텐데 왜 그럴까요..? 키보드 이벤트조차 엄청 느림. 백그라운드 갓다가 돌아오면, 5-10초 멈춰있음. 앱 처음 켜면 인덱싱 10초 걸려서, draft note 기능으로는 쓸 수 없을 정도. 노트앱 최악의 경험 중 하나입니다. 빠르게 개선 안되면 유저 다 떠납니다. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t find my iCloud Obsidian vault *2026-07-12, version 1.12.7* I can’t even use the app to try it out. It won’t find the Obsidian iCloud folder I have with my Obsidian notes from my Mac. It says the vault is not found in iCloud but actually is there, at the top level, works on my Mark, all the files are there, they’re all downloaded. So the app is a bit rubbish if I’m honest ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — I find this app useful for my note-taking *2026-08-19, version 1.13.7* Need more functions: underline, create a table/collumn for comparision, more font colour, more highlight colour, and maybe (not so necessary... sticky notes/sticker/emo). ### 5/5 — Yes *2026-08-12, version 1.13.6* Do it! ### 5/5 — Obsidian notes *2026-08-12* There is nothing I can add to what has already been said about obsidian. From note taking it has evolved to being a second brain for many users. The introduction of bases takes it to new levels. ### 5/5 — Best app ever *2026-08-10, version 1.13.4* I love this app and this team. Keep it up folks. ### 5/5 — Täglich genutzte App! *2026-08-09* Ich bin vor 2 Jahren von OneNote (nach einer kurzen Probezeit bei Notion) zu Obsidian gewechselt. OneNote wurde über Jahre nicht wirklich weiter entwickelt. Der Umstieg hat echt gedauert (Bedienkonzept, Methode, …) aber nun habe ich Obsidian privat/beruflich so integriert, dass ich es keinen Tag mehr missen möchte. Top App zum Lernen, Arbeiten, Verwalten von Ideen, Aktivitäten … alles. Extrem gut erweiterbar durch die vielen PlugIns. ObsidianSync funktioniert wunderbar (und ist mein Beitrag das Tool am Leben zu halten). ### 5/5 — bão dms da conta! *2026-08-08* Até agora, o MELHOR App de Notas já baixado e experimentado. De FATO, uma longa curva de aprendizagem :) RECOMENDO! ### 5/5 — UNPOPULAR OPINION *2026-08-08, version 1.13.4* Imo this might just go down as the most important personal app we have seen to date, with implications potentially changing the way we everything understanding ourselves by documenting it with our own privacy. It’s very evident. ### 5/5 — Melhor aplicativo de anotações que já vi *2026-08-05* Quando ingressei na faculdade, testei os mais diversos aplicativos de anotações e perdi dinheiro com assinaturas sem sentido para ter acesso a recursos pro, algo que me incomodava. Diferente de tudo que vi, o Obsidian é completamente gratuito, personalizável e seguro. Ele ofertou uma liberdade e possibilidades que abriram caminho para a criação do meu jardim digital. Não tenho nada além de elogios para oferecer. Utilizo o Obsidian Sync para apoiar os criadores, e o valor é infinitamente abaixo do que eu pagava em planos plus. ### 5/5 — Own your own data *2026-08-04, version 1.13.4* super flexible with add ons or write your own mods; stores your data locally in markdown with optional sync across devices ### 5/5 — it is *the* app *2026-07-31, version 1.13.4* no words are sufficient --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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