Actions For Obsidian vs Folio
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.
Folio
Transform your Markdown notes into beautifully formatted pages with live previews. Export your work to PDF, Word, EPUB, and more, with extensive styling options. Ideal for Markdown writers and Obsidian users.
- Markdown and Obsidian compatibility
- Paginated live preview
- Export to PDF, Word, EPUB, RTF, TXT
- 16 built-in themes and 20 typefaces
- Custom theme builder (Pro)
- Shortcuts integration
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Write a note in Markdown and see it laid out as a real page — then export it when it is ready. Folio is for people who already write in Markdown, including Obsidian vaults. The preview is paginated, so you can check margins, page breaks, and the finished reading experience as you write. WRITE AND PREVIEW • See your note on a page with margins and page breaks, not only as a continuous web preview • Use Markdown and Obsidian-style callouts, wikilinks, highlights, tags, properties, math, and Mermaid diagrams • Link a notes folder to resolve embedded images and notes on your device • Start from a blank page or a built-in template STYLE AND EXPORT • Choose from 16 built-in themes and 20 typefaces • Export PDF, Word (.docx), EPUB, RTF, or plain text • Share a Markdown file into Folio or convert with Shortcuts • Save back to the original file or replace the last export in the same folder FREE AND FOLIO PRO Writing, live preview, built-in themes, and Markdown features are free. Your first three PDF exports are free. Folio Pro unlocks unlimited PDF exports, Word, EPUB, RTF, and the custom theme builder. Folio Pro is available monthly, annually, or as a one-time lifetime purchase. The annual plan includes a 7-day free trial. Subscription terms and the current price are shown before purchase. No account is required. Folio renders documents on your device; notes are not uploaded for preview or export. You choose when to export or share a file. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Actions For Obsidian at 88% against Folio's 0%. Actions For Obsidian also leads on rating (4.8 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (40 vs 1). 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
Both are free to download. Actions For Obsidian sells 11 one-off in-app purchases and Folio sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 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 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. Written reviews point the same way: 88% of Actions For Obsidian's written reviews are positive against 0% of Folio's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Actions For Obsidian | Folio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (40 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 87.5% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 40 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| 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 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Carlo Zottmann | RUEBEN ANSOLIWEN AKANKOBATENG |
Customer experience
Actions For Obsidian
Folio
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
Folio
- Premium Monthly$2.991 Month
- Premium Annual7 Days trial$6.991 Year
- Lifetime$49.99
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