Comparison

Actions For Obsidian vs Bookmax

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

Bookmax

Features
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Bookmax has been an online bookmark manager since 2003. Your bookmarks live in your account, not in one browser, and this app brings them to your phone. SAVE FROM ANYWHERE Tap Share in Safari, Chrome or any other app and choose "Add to Bookmax". Pick the folder, save, done. The page is in your collection on every device. YOUR COLLECTION - Nested folders and tags, as deep as you like - Search across titles, addresses, descriptions and tags - Last added, last used and most used at a glance - Favicons and thumbnails for every entry - Public folders you can share as a page MORE THAN BOOKMARKS The same account holds lists (text, number, date and check fields), contacts, memos, documents and an RSS/Atom feed reader. Teams can share folders with four levels of rights. YOUR DATA, YOUR RULES - Import and export as a standard HTML bookmark file at any time - Servers in the EU, no advertising, no tracking - Coming from Pocket, Delicious or Google Bookmarks? Import your old export YOUR ACCOUNT Free account with generous limits: 1000 bookmarks in 100 folders, without time limit. Existing Premium accounts work in the app as well. Bookmax is made in Austria and has been running since 2003, longer than any other hosted bookmark service still online.

Screenshots

Actions For Obsidian2 screens
Bookmax4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bookmax at none against Actions For Obsidian's 10. 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. Bookmax asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Actions For Obsidian ships an update every 3 weeks, Bookmax fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Actions For Obsidian versus Bookmax: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterActions For ObsidianBookmax
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (40 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews87.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings40 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.417.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB1 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperCarlo ZottmannDr. Peter Mayer

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

Bookmax

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

Bookmax

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Actions For Obsidian free?
Actions For Obsidian is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Bookmax free?
Bookmax is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Actions For Obsidian or Bookmax have ads?
Neither Actions For Obsidian nor Bookmax shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Actions For Obsidian or Bookmax?
Actions For Obsidian ships an update every 3 weeks, and Bookmax fortnightly. Most recently, Actions For Obsidian was updated on November 3, 2026 and Bookmax on November 6, 2026.

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