PocketOverflow vs Actions For Obsidian
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PocketOverflow
Access Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange questions and answers on your mobile device. Find questions to answer, search for solutions, and manage your own contributions with offline access and customizable features.
- Browse Stack Overflow/Exchange questions
- Search for answers
- Filter by favorite tags
- Offline data caching
- Switch between Stack Exchange sites
- Access your questions and answers
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Stack Overflow and more generally Stack Exchange questions and answers in your pocket. - Find question you could answer. - Look for answer to user questions. - easy search by favorite tags - text search with sort and ordering - data caching for offline access and low network load - easy switch from one StackExchange to another - adjust list colors according to the Stack Exchange definition - use of StackExchange API 2.3 - easy access to yours questions, answers and comments
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 PocketOverflow's 33%. Actions For Obsidian also leads on rating (4.8 vs 2.5) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 4 months). PocketOverflow's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 11) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.4). On price, 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 11 one-off in-app purchases. PocketOverflow asks for nothing beyond the download.
Actions For Obsidian holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Actions For Obsidian has 40 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of PocketOverflow's written reviews are positive against 88% of Actions For Obsidian's.
PocketOverflow ships an update every 4 months, Actions For Obsidian every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and August 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PocketOverflow | Actions For Obsidian |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (2 ratings) | 4.8 (40 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 87.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 40 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | 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 | 15.0 — better | 18.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | P'tit Xav | Carlo Zottmann |
Customer experience
PocketOverflow
Actions For Obsidian
In-app purchases
PocketOverflow
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
- 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
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