Actions For Obsidian vs Swisper
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.
Swisper
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Swisper is an AI assistant built in Switzerland. It doesn't just chat, it acts for you. Your data stays encrypted, your information stays yours. Powerful AI, Swiss values. Terms of use: https://app.swisper.ai/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Swisper at weekly against Actions For Obsidian's every 3 weeks. Swisper also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.4). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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 10 one-off in-app purchases and Swisper sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $17.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Actions For Obsidian ships an update every 3 weeks, Swisper weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Actions For Obsidian | Swisper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (40 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 87.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 40 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 180 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Carlo Zottmann | Fintama AG |
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
Swisper
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
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
- iOS-only License (L)$14.99
- macOS + iOS License (S)$14.99
- macOS + iOS License (M)$19.99
- macOS + iOS License (L)$22.99
Swisper
- Swisper Basic$17.991 Month
- Swisper Pro$29.991 Month
Questions
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