Comparison

Lucid Markdown Keyboard notes vs Actions For Obsidian

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

Head to head
About

Lucid Markdown Keyboard notes

This keyboard app enhances your markdown writing experience across various note-taking applications. It offers advanced formatting tools, quick shortcuts, and smart suggestions to streamline your note creation process.

Highlights
  • Emoji input
  • Tab key functionality
  • Quick paste markdown templates
  • Hidable markdown shortcut buttons
  • Auto-format and auto-indent for lists
  • Cursor position adjustment via space drag
  • In-keyboard spreadsheet table
Features
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Looking for a better way to write markdown? Lucid Markdown Keyboard is a keyboard optimized for writing markdown notes in any app. Our mission is to make an awesome markdown keyboard to replace your system keyboard. * Perfect for Notion, Joplin, Apple notes and Google Keep * ** Advanced Notion users can #, *, -, >, ` key in toolbar to speed up formatting. # Features - Emoji input **NEW** - Tab key - Quick paste markdown text templates - Hidable markdown shortcut buttons above the keyboard - heading, bold, italic, checklist, bullet list, blockquote, tables - Auto-format and auto-indent in bullet and number lists. - Page up, page down, go to top, go to end. - Autocorrect and autocomplete suggestions. - In-keyboard spreadsheet table. - Add a number row. - space drag to change the cursor position. - Copy link or image as markdown in browsers. - Support iPhone and iPad. - Dark mode. - Use in any app! NOTE: This is an **English** only keyboard!! Support of other languages coming. Term of Service: https://www.sagiodev.com/terms_of_service_keyboard.html Privacy Policy: https://www.sagiodev.com/privacy_notes_keyboard.html

About

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.

Highlights
  • Create and manipulate notes
  • Search and organize notes
  • Work with files and folders
  • Integrate with Dataview
  • Utilize note properties
  • Execute Obsidian commands
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Lucid Markdown Keyboard notes4 screens
Actions For Obsidian2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Actions For Obsidian at 4.8 against Lucid Markdown Keyboard notes's 4.4. Actions For Obsidian also leads on review sentiment (88% vs 75%). Lucid Markdown Keyboard notes's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.4). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Lucid Markdown Keyboard notes sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Actions For Obsidian sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Actions For Obsidian holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 46 and 40 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Lucid Markdown Keyboard notes's written reviews are positive against 88% of Actions For Obsidian's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lucid Markdown Keyboard notes ships an update every 8 days, Actions For Obsidian every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on July 18, 2026 and August 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Lucid Markdown Keyboard notes versus Actions For Obsidian: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLucid Markdown Keyboard notesActions For Obsidian
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (46 ratings)4.8 (40 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews87.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings46 — better40
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.4
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSagio Development LLCCarlo Zottmann

Customer experience

Lucid Markdown Keyboard notes

All ratings46 ratings
Positive89.1%
Neutral2.2%
Negative8.7%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral12.5%
Negative12.5%

Actions For Obsidian

All ratings40 ratings
Positive95.0%
Neutral2.5%
Negative2.5%
Written reviews32 reviews
Positive87.5%
Neutral3.1%
Negative9.4%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Lucid Markdown Keyboard notes

Subscriptions2
  • Premium3 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • Premium3 Days trial$5.991 Year
One-time1
  • Premium Life Time$14.99
11 purchases

Actions For Obsidian

One-time11
  • 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
  • macOS-only License (L)$14.99
  • iOS-only License (L)$14.99
  • macOS + iOS License (S)$14.99
  • macOS + iOS License (M)$19.99
  • macOS + iOS License (L)$22.99

Questions

Is Lucid Markdown Keyboard notes free?
Lucid Markdown Keyboard notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Actions For Obsidian free?
Actions For Obsidian is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Lucid Markdown Keyboard notes or Actions For Obsidian?
Actions For Obsidian is rated higher. Lucid Markdown Keyboard notes averages 4.4 out of 5 from 46 ratings, while Actions For Obsidian averages 4.8 from 40 ratings.
Do Lucid Markdown Keyboard notes or Actions For Obsidian have ads?
Neither Lucid Markdown Keyboard notes nor Actions For Obsidian shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lucid Markdown Keyboard notes or Actions For Obsidian?
Lucid Markdown Keyboard notes ships an update every 8 days, and Actions For Obsidian every 3 weeks. Most recently, Lucid Markdown Keyboard notes was updated on July 18, 2026 and Actions For Obsidian on August 1, 2026.

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