Actions For Obsidian vs Widgets for Obsidian
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Widgets for Obsidian
Quickly capture notes and access your Obsidian vault directly from your home screen. Automate note creation with custom destinations and launch any Obsidian command with a single touch.
- Home screen quick capture widget
- Customizable note destinations
- Zettel timestamp support
- Append to existing notes
- Customizable actions widget
- Launch any Obsidian command
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Widgets for Obsidian is the definite companion for your favourite note-taking app. Access your personal Vault right from your home screen. The Quick Note Widget solves one of the biggest pain points of writing notes on mobile: Quick capture. Bypass waiting for files to sync, and immediately start writing. Custom destinations empower you to create your own workflows: Automatically create and add to daily notes, ensure unique notes with Zettel timestamps, append to an existing note… – the options are endless! You can configure custom Actions to launch any Obsidian command with a single touch. The Actions Widget is based on Obsidian’s URI scheme, empowering you to run automations as simple or complex as you like. Widgets for Obsidian is built by a solo developer, and allows unlimited captures for free. Once you’re ready to access power user features, like multiple destinations, you can subscribe to support app development. This application is not created by, affiliated with, or supported by Obsidian. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Actions For Obsidian at 4.8 against Widgets for Obsidian's 4.5. Actions For Obsidian also leads on review sentiment (88% vs 67%). Widgets for Obsidian's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 3 weeks). 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
Both are free to download. Actions For Obsidian sells 11 one-off in-app purchases and Widgets for Obsidian sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Actions For Obsidian holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 40 and 31 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 88% of Actions For Obsidian's written reviews are positive against 67% of Widgets for Obsidian's.
Actions For Obsidian ships an update every 3 weeks, Widgets for Obsidian every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on August 1, 2026 and July 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Actions For Obsidian | Widgets for Obsidian |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (40 ratings) — better | 4.5 (31 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 87.5% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 40 — better | 31 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.4 | 17.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Carlo Zottmann | JOSCHUA GLAU |
Customer experience
Actions For Obsidian
Widgets for Obsidian
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
Widgets for Obsidian
- Monthly$1.991 Month
- Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
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