Comparison

Actions For Obsidian vs Digital Reflective Journal

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

Digital Reflective Journal

Features
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Digital Reflective Journal is a reflective journaling app for teachers and people alike. It helps you prepare for classes, reflect on what happened, and improve your teaching over time.

Screenshots

Actions For Obsidian2 screens
Digital Reflective Journal3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Digital Reflective Journal at none against Actions For Obsidian's 10. Digital Reflective Journal also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.4). Actions For Obsidian's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Actions For Obsidian sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Digital Reflective Journal asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Actions For Obsidian ships an update every 3 weeks, Digital Reflective Journal every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Actions For Obsidian versus Digital Reflective Journal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterActions For ObsidianDigital Reflective Journal
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (40 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews87.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings40 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS18.415.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB38 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCarlo ZottmannKateina ebova

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

Digital Reflective Journal

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

Digital Reflective Journal

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Actions For Obsidian free?
Actions For Obsidian is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Digital Reflective Journal free?
Digital Reflective Journal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Actions For Obsidian or Digital Reflective Journal have ads?
Neither Actions For Obsidian nor Digital Reflective Journal shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Actions For Obsidian or Digital Reflective Journal?
Actions For Obsidian ships an update every 3 weeks, and Digital Reflective Journal every 2 months. Most recently, Actions For Obsidian was updated on November 3, 2026 and Digital Reflective Journal on November 5, 2026.

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