Roam Mobile vs Actions For Obsidian
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Roam Mobile
Organize your research with a powerful graph database that functions like a document. This tool is designed for long-term research organization, offering a fast mobile experience and encrypted graphs.
- Long-term research organization
- Graph database functionality
- Encrypted graphs with Face ID
- Quick capture feature
- Fast mobile experience
- Native-like navigation
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As easy to use as a document. As powerful as a graph database. Roam helps you organize your research for the long haul.
Actions For Obsidian
This app bridges your personal knowledge management notes with Apple's automation tools. It offers over 40 actions to integrate your notes with other applications, enabling seamless data flow between your vaults and the wider Apple ecosystem.
- Create and manipulate notes
- Search and organize notes
- Work with files and folders
- Integrate with Dataview
- Utilize note properties
- Execute Obsidian commands
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Actions For Obsidian integrates the personal knowledge management tool Obsidian with Apple's automation ecosystem. With 40+ Shortcuts actions, it brings your notes and automations together, making Obsidian a first-class citizen in Apple's Shortcuts app. Use it to bring information from other apps into your notes, or to bring information from your vaults into other apps. Some of the possibilities it adds: - Creating, manipulating, searching, opening, organizing notes, including daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly ones - Working with files - Working with Dataview - Working with note properties - Working with your vault's files and folders - Working with Obsidian commands For a full list and detailed description, please click the "Website" link to the right or visit https://actions.work/actions-for-obsidian. ——— This application is not affiliated with or endorsed by Obsidian.md.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Actions For Obsidian at 88% against Roam Mobile's 26%. Actions For Obsidian also leads on rating (4.8 vs 2.6). Roam Mobile's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and ratings volume (170 vs 40). On price, update cadence, ads 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
Both are free to download. Actions For Obsidian sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Roam Mobile asks for nothing beyond the download.
Actions For Obsidian holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 170 and 40 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 26% of Roam Mobile's written reviews are positive against 88% of Actions For Obsidian's.
Roam Mobile ships an update every 5 weeks, Actions For Obsidian every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Roam Mobile | Actions For Obsidian |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.6 (170 ratings) | 4.8 (40 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.8% of reviews | 87.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 170 — better | 40 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 18.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 63 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Roam Research, Inc | Carlo Zottmann |
Customer experience
Roam Mobile
Actions For Obsidian
User reviews
Roam Mobile
From 170 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fast mobile experience
- 🔒 Encrypted graphs with Face ID
- 👍 Native-like navigation
- 💡 Useful quick capture feature
- 🚀 Impressive pace of improvements
Room to improve
- 🐛 Slow load times and app crashes
- 🐛 Lack of offline mode and sync issues
- 👎 Limited functionality compared to desktop
- 👎 Unintuitive and buggy UI/UX
- 🐛 Incompatibility with external keyboards
Actions For Obsidian
From 40 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Incredible productivity boost
- 👍 Fixes Obsidian's lack of native Shortcuts support
- 💡 Game-changer for Obsidian integration
- 👍 Extensive list of actions
- 👍 Excellent developer support
Room to improve
- 🐛 App returns to Actions app instead of staying in Obsidian
- 🐛 Black screen when opening Obsidian on completion
- 🐛 Continuous pop-up asking for money
- 🐛 Splash screen opens on iOS every time Shortcut runs
- 🐛 Lists removed vaults
Bugs and requests
Roam Mobile
Reported bugs
4 issues- Frequent crashes and loading issues
- Inability to edit or access notes
- Sync problems and lost data
- Incompatibility with certain devices
Requested features
5 requests- Offline mode and better syncing
- Improved keyboard support
- Dark mode and customization options
- Better integration with iOS features
- Ability to handle large graphs
Actions For Obsidian
Reported bugs
6 issues- App returns to Actions app instead of staying in Obsidian
- Black screen when opening Obsidian on completion
- Continuous pop-up asking for money
- Splash screen opens on iOS every time Shortcut runs
- Lists removed vaults
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- No shortcuts appear in Apple Shortcuts after installation
Requested features
4 requests- Better handling of app switching after action completion
- Option to clear removed vaults
- Native Apple Watch support for commands
- Open source the entire app
In-app purchases
Roam Mobile
No in-app purchases
Actions For Obsidian
- macOS+iOS License Upgrade (S)$6.99
- macOS-only License (S)$8.99
- iOS-only License (S)$8.99
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- macOS+iOS License Upgrade (M)$8.99
- macOS-only License (M)$11.99
- iOS-only License (M)$11.99
- iOS-only License (L)$14.99
- macOS + iOS License (S)$14.99
- macOS + iOS License (M)$19.99
- macOS + iOS License (L)$22.99
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