Obsidian vs My Own Project
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Obsidian
Organize your thoughts and ideas with a powerful knowledge base that utilizes local Markdown files. This app acts as your personal second brain, accessible on your mobile device for seamless note-taking and idea connection.
- Local Markdown file storage
- Customizable toolbar
- Graph view for connections
- Community plugins
- Themes
- iCloud sync
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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
My Own Project
Manage personal and professional projects with detailed task breakdowns, progress tracking, and deadline alarms. Organize your life by converting daily activities into manageable projects and sub-tasks. Share your progress and logs with others.
- Organize tasks by to-dos
- Automatic task progress calculation
- Break down to-do lists
- Set deadlines and alarms
- Project logs and sharing
- Gantt-like task graph
- PDF report export
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The app was initially developed to manage personal lifestyle projects managed as a simple to-do list with just a few inputs. There was also a strong focus on effectively managing the personal aspects of large-scale projects. Since its initial development, it has been improved by adding convenience and professional functions, such as the function list at the bottom, to enable easy and detailed project management. It will help you keep track of and manage your overall progress rather than simply managing it as a to-do list. With the concept of a project, we can define many things in our daily life as a project. As a simple example, you could create a project called 'Drive my car'. To drive your own car, you can create a task called 'get a driver's license' and a task called 'buy a car'. To the task called 'get a driver's license', you can add to-do lists such as 'Study for driver's license test', 'Driver's license test', and 'Attend driving school'. For a to-do called 'Driver's license test', you can break the to-do down into small lists that include the driver's license test steps. You can also put a to-do list for the task called ‘Buy a Car’, such as ‘Get Car Prices Online’, ‘Visit a Car Dealer’, ‘Buy a Car’, etc. If you have a deadline, such as a license exam, you can also set a deadline and, if necessary, set an alarm to notify you 30 minutes in advance. For tasks that have a fixed number of times, such as going to a driving school, you can manage the progress conveniently by setting the maximum progress to the number of times. For tasks, it automatically calculates and displays progress based on the progress of the to-dos. As you proceed with the project, you may leave a project log saying, “I need to get used to using the accelerator pedal because driving is too slow at the driving school test site.” We do not do just one project in our daily life, such as ‘driving a car’. This app allows you to create and manage as many projects as you want. You can convert your project to text and share it, edit it with other programs, or back it up. This example is for a lifestyle project. This can also be applied to private parts of your organization's projects. This is an offline app that stores all your data on your device. Many features have been updated based on user reviews. If you feel any inconvenience or lack of functionality, please leave a review. Features and Convenience List - Organize tasks by to-dos - Automatically calculates task progress and importance - Support for task completion - Break down your to-do list into smaller lists - Support for assigning order between tasks - Task graph that allows you to see the order between tasks at a glance, like a Gantt chart - Setting the project period and managing progress - Record and share project logs - Alarms, widgets, search and sharing support for deadline - Share project-related content - PDF report support - Dark mode support - Color theme support - Supports iCloud backup and restore on a per-project basis - Widget support for deadlines and project progress status - Supports csv export to process data in Apple Numbers or MS Excel - Change task order, to-do order, and project order by dragging and dropping - Supports continuous input of tasks or to-dos - Supports multiple moves, deletes or completions - Task card border color selection - To-do filtering by priority - Supports automatic recording of to-do completion times and viewing of completed to-do lists - Dedicated views for Completed, In Progress, Planned, and Stopped to-do lists
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Obsidian at 62% against My Own Project's 0%. Obsidian also leads on rating (4.5 vs 3.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On price, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. My Own Project sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Obsidian asks for nothing beyond the download.
Obsidian holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Obsidian has 2.8K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 62% of Obsidian's written reviews are positive against 0% of My Own Project's.
Obsidian ships an update every 3 weeks, My Own Project every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Obsidian | My Own Project |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2.8K ratings) — better | 3.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 61.9% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2.8K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #125 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dynalist Inc. | Soohan Jeon |
Customer experience
Obsidian
My Own Project
Bugs and requests
Obsidian
Reported bugs
3 issues- Sync issues leading to data loss
- Freezing and crashing on mobile devices
- Editing bugs and text input issues
Requested features
5 requests- 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
My Own Project
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Obsidian
No in-app purchases
My Own Project
- Remove Ads$4.99
Questions
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