Comparison

Actions For Obsidian vs TagSpaces

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

TagSpaces

Organize your files, notes, and documents with tags and plain text. Keep your data private and offline, with no tracking or cloud lock-in. Access and manage all your content directly on your device or in your iCloud Drive.

Highlights
  • Organize with tags
  • Search by name or tags
  • Create notes in plain text, Markdown, or HTML
  • View media files
  • 100% offline functionality
  • Open source core
Features
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TagSpaces is a private, offline file organizer and note-taking app. Browse, tag, and find your documents, photos, notes, and PDFs — all kept on your device or in your own iCloud Drive. No account, no sign-up, no cloud lock-in, and no tracking. Most apps push your files into someone else's cloud. TagSpaces does the opposite: your data stays yours, in plain files and folders you fully control, readable with or without the app. Organize with tags • Add tags directly into filenames or store them in sidecar files • Group and color your tags for fast visual sorting • Works across all your folders — no proprietary database Find anything, fast • Search by name or tags with fuzzy matching • Filter and narrow down large folders in seconds Notes & to-dos • Create notes in plain text, Markdown, or HTML • Keep simple task lists with the built-in editor View your media • Open images, PDFs, audio, and video right in the app • Preview and manage documents without extra tools Private and offline by design • 100% offline — no internet connection required • No ads, no analytics, no accounts • Your files live on your device and in your iCloud Drive, and integrate with the iOS Files app Open source you can trust The TagSpaces core is open source (AGPL), so anyone can verify how it handles your data. TagSpaces Pro Unlock advanced features with an in-app purchase, including downloading and clipping web pages and files from a URL, and more power tools for your workflow. Part of a cross-platform suite TagSpaces is also available for Mac, Windows, Linux, and the web — organize the same folders everywhere, your way. Take back control of your files. Download TagSpaces and turn your phone into a private, offline home for everything that matters.

Screenshots

Actions For Obsidian2 screens
TagSpaces4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Actions For Obsidian at 4.8 against TagSpaces's 1.0. Actions For Obsidian also leads on ratings volume (40 vs 1). TagSpaces's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.4). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Actions For Obsidian sells 11 one-off in-app purchases and TagSpaces sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Actions For Obsidian holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Actions For Obsidian has 40 ratings behind it against 1, 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 October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Actions For Obsidian versus TagSpaces: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterActions For ObsidianTagSpaces
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (40 ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews87.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings40 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS18.415.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB219 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCarlo ZottmannTagSpaces GmbH

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
1 purchases

TagSpaces

One-time1
  • TagSpaces Pro$29.99

Questions

Is Actions For Obsidian free?
Actions For Obsidian is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TagSpaces free?
TagSpaces is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Actions For Obsidian or TagSpaces?
Actions For Obsidian is rated higher. Actions For Obsidian averages 4.8 out of 5 from 40 ratings, while TagSpaces averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Actions For Obsidian or TagSpaces have ads?
Neither Actions For Obsidian nor TagSpaces shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Actions For Obsidian or TagSpaces?
Actions For Obsidian ships an update every 3 weeks, and TagSpaces every 3 weeks. Most recently, Actions For Obsidian was updated on October 24, 2026 and TagSpaces on October 25, 2026.

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