Comparison

Actions For Obsidian vs Hously

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

Head to head
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.

About

Hously

Manage real estate leads, contacts, and activities on the go. This app allows agents to call, text, email, update calendars, and manage pipelines. It also includes reputation management features to collect and respond to client reviews.

Highlights
  • Lead and contact management
  • Activity dashboard
  • Calendar management
  • Pipeline management
  • Reputation management
  • Call, text, and email leads
Features
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Hously - Real Estate CRM. Designed by agents for agents. Hously mobile app is a simplified version of our CRM for on the go management. To access the full features of Hously please visit our desktop portal at app.hously.com. Access and contact your leads from anywhere, within our mobile app you will be able to: Call, text, & email. View your activity dashboard. Update and review your calendar. Create and manage your contacts and update their campaigns and pipeline stages. Review and manage your pipelines. Add contact notes and create tasks. In app reputation management. Collect reviews by sending requests via text and email, get notified when your client summits review, and easily reply publicly to reviews on the go. Visit hously.com to start get started. There you will be able to review features and pricing, contact customer support, login though our desktop portal, and view our FAQs.

Screenshots

Actions For Obsidian2 screens
Hously4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Hously at none against Actions For Obsidian's 11. Hously also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.4). Actions For Obsidian's advantage is ratings volume (40 vs 2). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Actions For Obsidian sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. Hously asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Hously holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Actions For Obsidian ships an update every 3 weeks, Hously every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Actions For Obsidian versus Hously: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterActions For ObsidianHously
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (40 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews87.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings40 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS18.413.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB195 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCarlo ZottmannHously LLC

Customer experience

Actions For Obsidian

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

Hously

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

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
None

Hously

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Actions For Obsidian free?
Actions For Obsidian is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Hously free?
Hously is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Actions For Obsidian or Hously?
Hously is rated higher. Actions For Obsidian averages 4.8 out of 5 from 40 ratings, while Hously averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Actions For Obsidian or Hously have ads?
Neither Actions For Obsidian nor Hously shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Actions For Obsidian or Hously?
Actions For Obsidian ships an update every 3 weeks, and Hously every 6 weeks. Most recently, Actions For Obsidian was updated on October 22, 2026 and Hously on October 14, 2026.

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