Comparison

Actions For Obsidian vs Shopwiser

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

Shopwiser

This app helps you make informed purchasing decisions across various categories like groceries, electronics, and clothing. It offers real-time collaboration on shopping lists and a user-friendly interface. Enjoy smart shopping without confusion or buyer's remorse.

Highlights
  • Informed purchasing decisions
  • Real-time collaboration on shopping lists
  • User-friendly interface
  • Free to use
  • Privacy-focused
Features
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Make a list. Shop a little wiser. Shopwiser is a shopping list app for your weekly groceries, household essentials, and everything in between. Organize items into sections, share lists with the people you shop for, and keep shopping offline. After the shop, scan your receipt to keep what you paid. Price history and spending insights give your next shopping list a little more context. HOW IT WORKS 1. Make a list for your next shop and organize it into sections. 2. Shop together, tick off items, and keep going without a connection. 3. Scan a receipt when you want to save the trip and remember your prices. WHAT YOU GET - Organized lists: group groceries into sections, tick them off, and find completed items in Got it. - Scan to add: scan a product barcode to add recognized products to your list. - Shared lists: plan with the people you shop for. - Lists for your routine: icons, colors, pinning, and hiding. - Offline lists: keep shopping without a connection and sync when you reconnect. - Receipt scanning: save items, prices, and totals without entering each line. - Price history: see what you paid for an item, where, and when. - Spending insights: explore your spending by date, store, and aisle. - Nutrition labels: compare available facts for foods in your purchase history. - Receipt history: revisit past trips organized by month. FREE TO USE Receipt scanning, spending insights, and sync require an account and a connection. Receipt scans have a free allowance, shown in the app. Sharing your receipt prices with other Shopwiser shoppers is on by default and gives you a higher allowance. You can turn sharing off in Privacy & Permissions; this stops future contributions. Prices already shared remain in the shared data. YOUR CHOICES Usage analytics are optional and exclude list content, item names, prices, barcodes, and location. Price sharing is a separate setting. Publishing prices and receipt photos to the public Open Prices database is another separate choice, off unless you enable it, and does not affect your scan allowance. Auto-Pick Store compares your location with your saved stores on your phone. Your GPS coordinates stay on the device.

Screenshots

Actions For Obsidian2 screens
Shopwiser4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Shopwiser at none against Actions For Obsidian's 10. Shopwiser also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.4). Actions For Obsidian's advantage is ratings volume (40 vs 3). 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 10 one-off in-app purchases. Shopwiser asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Shopwiser 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 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Actions For Obsidian versus Shopwiser: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterActions For ObsidianShopwiser
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (40 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews87.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings40 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.415.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB38 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCarlo ZottmannCarlos Harry

Customer experience

Actions For Obsidian

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

Shopwiser

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

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

Shopwiser

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Actions For Obsidian

One-time10
  • 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
None

Shopwiser

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Actions For Obsidian free?
Actions For Obsidian is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Shopwiser free?
Shopwiser is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Actions For Obsidian or Shopwiser?
Shopwiser is rated higher. Actions For Obsidian averages 4.8 out of 5 from 40 ratings, while Shopwiser averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Actions For Obsidian or Shopwiser have ads?
Neither Actions For Obsidian nor Shopwiser shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Actions For Obsidian or Shopwiser?
Actions For Obsidian ships an update every 3 weeks, and Shopwiser every 3 weeks. Most recently, Actions For Obsidian was updated on November 3, 2026 and Shopwiser on October 30, 2026.

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