Comparison

Obsidian vs nCompHunt

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Local Markdown file storage
  • Customizable toolbar
  • Graph view for connections
  • Community plugins
  • Themes
  • iCloud sync
Features
Read full description

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

About

nCompHunt

Features
Read full description

nCompHunt is a native app that finds competitions and keeps them in front of you: competitive programming rounds, AI and machine-learning challenges, CTF security games, hackathons, and design contests, Vietnam-first and global. It is built with SwiftUI for iPhone and iPad. Category and region filters plus sort and group controls sit one tap away. Type a plain sentence into search and the on-device model turns it into a filter. Foreign-language listings translate on device with one tap, and the original stays a toggle away. A home-screen widget shows what is coming up without opening the app, and native notifications tell you the moment a new contest is found. Turn on calendar sync and a dedicated calendar keeps every deadline updated in place as contest details change, or add a single contest as an .ics import. Share any listing through the standard share sheet. Your data stays yours. There is no account to create, no telemetry, no analytics, and no back-end server between you and the sources. The app fetches listings directly, and the index it builds never leaves your device. Sources that work the moment you open the app, no setup required: - CTFtime - the worldwide CTF calendar - Devpost - global hackathons with prizes and deadlines - Codeforces - upcoming competitive-programming rounds - MLContests - open AI and ML competitions across several platforms - ybox.vn - Vietnamese design, scholarship, and general-interest contests - Contest Watchers - a creative and design competition directory Want broader coverage? Add your own free API keys in Settings to switch on clist.by, which brings hundreds more programming contests, and optional web-search discovery. Keys are stored in the Keychain, never in a plain file, and are sent only to the service they belong to. Every source has an on/off switch, and a source that fails or is unconfigured is simply skipped, never stopping the rest of a refresh. Touch and hold any contest to open its page, copy the link, share it, add it to your calendar, or mark it to track it through applied, joined, and done. nCompHunt is free and open source under the MIT license. It requires iOS 26 or later, keeps no account, and stays quietly obsessive about deadlines so you do not have to be.

Screenshots

Obsidian4 screens
nCompHunt4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is chart position: Obsidian at #123 against nCompHunt's unranked. Obsidian also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 9 level
Obsidian versus nCompHunt: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterObsidiannCompHunt
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (2.8K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews62.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2.8K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
Best chart rank#123 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDynalist Inc.nhan nguyen

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

nCompHunt

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Obsidian

No in-app purchases

None

nCompHunt

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Obsidian free?
Obsidian is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is nCompHunt free?
nCompHunt is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Obsidian or nCompHunt have ads?
Neither Obsidian nor nCompHunt shows ads.

Other comparisons