Comparison

Actions For Obsidian vs Handrail (0ba3aa)

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

Handrail (0ba3aa)

This app helps manage dynamic schedules and important documents. It automatically plans your day around work shifts, reminds you of essential items, and digitizes paperwork for easy retrieval. It also offers a vault to search for information and a reset function for overwhelming days.

Highlights
  • Shift-based daily planning
  • Automated leave-by alarms
  • Paperwork digitization and reminders
  • Searchable information vault
  • Conflict detection for plans and shifts
  • Reset function for overwhelming days
Features
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Handrail is for the days when everything is somewhere, and nothing is where you need it. It brings your shifts, plans, and paperwork together. It knows when you have to leave. Add a shift, and Handrail builds the day around it — pack, leave warning, hard leave, arrive. The alarms fire at the right time and name the things you always forget: badge, lunch, keys. It reads your paperwork. Take a photo of a bill, a letter, a posted schedule, even a schedule you wrote on paper. Handrail tells you what it is, what it costs, and what's due, then asks one question — "Set a reminder for the 28th?" — and files it where it belongs. Nothing is added until you say yes. It answers when you can't remember. Everything you capture lands in a vault you can ask in plain words. "When does my registration expire?" "How much was the dentist?" You get the answer and the paper it came from. And when your day comes apart, Reset gives you one small step. Just one. Plan the rest of your day too. Add appointments, errands, and other plans, set their duration, and get a warning if they overlap with a plan or work shift. Saved places and Apple Maps travel estimates help you work out when to leave. WHAT'S FREE Shifts, plans, schedule conflict checks, leave-by alarms, the prep timeline, essentials, and Reset. Forever. WHAT'S PRO Reading your captures, "What am I forgetting?" and Ask Handrail. Try a few for free, then $4.99 a month or $59.99 a year. Built for people with ADHD and anyone who lives on a changing schedule. No feed, no streaks, no nudges. Handrail sends reminders for your plans, preparation, and leave-by times. Manage notification permissions in Settings. Privacy: your captures are stored privately and are only read when you ask. Voice notes are turned into text on your phone. You can delete your account and everything in it from Settings at any time. Terms of Use: https://myhandrail.me/terms Privacy Policy: https://myhandrail.me/privacy EULA: https://myhandrail.me/terms

Screenshots

Actions For Obsidian2 screens
Handrail (0ba3aa)4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Actions For Obsidian at 40 against Handrail (0ba3aa)'s 1. Actions For Obsidian also leads on device support (3 vs 1). Handrail (0ba3aa)'s advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 and Handrail (0ba3aa) sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Handrail (0ba3aa) holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. 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

Actions For Obsidian ships an update every 3 weeks, Handrail (0ba3aa) every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Actions For Obsidian versus Handrail (0ba3aa): the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterActions For ObsidianHandrail (0ba3aa)
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (40 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews87.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings40 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.416.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB56 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCarlo ZottmannMarcelle Brown

Customer experience

Actions For Obsidian

All ratings40 ratings
Positive95.0%
Neutral2.5%
Negative2.5%
Written reviews32 reviews
Positive87.5%
Neutral3.1%
Negative9.4%

Handrail (0ba3aa)

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Handrail (0ba3aa)

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
2 purchases

Handrail (0ba3aa)

Subscriptions2
  • Handrail Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Handrail Pro Yearly$59.991 Year

Questions

Is Actions For Obsidian free?
Actions For Obsidian is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Handrail (0ba3aa) free?
Handrail (0ba3aa) is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Actions For Obsidian or Handrail (0ba3aa)?
Handrail (0ba3aa) is rated higher. Actions For Obsidian averages 4.8 out of 5 from 40 ratings, while Handrail (0ba3aa) averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Actions For Obsidian or Handrail (0ba3aa) have ads?
Neither Actions For Obsidian nor Handrail (0ba3aa) shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Actions For Obsidian or Handrail (0ba3aa)?
Actions For Obsidian ships an update every 3 weeks, and Handrail (0ba3aa) every 10 days. Most recently, Actions For Obsidian was updated on November 3, 2026 and Handrail (0ba3aa) on October 31, 2026.

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