Comparison

Teak vs Obius

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Teak

Features
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Teak is a calm place to keep everything that inspires you. Save it in a tap, and find it again the moment you need it. SAVE ANYTHING • Notes, links, images, videos, voice memos, documents, color palettes and quotes • Share from any app straight into Teak, without opening it • Save the page you're reading with the Safari extension • Record a voice memo or snap a photo right from the Add tab • Ask Siri or Shortcuts to "Save to Teak", or start a note from Control Center or the Action button TEAK DOES THE TIDYING • Every card gets tags and a short summary, so you don't have to file anything • Links come with their preview image and title • Pull out a palette and copy any color in one tap FIND IT IN SECONDS • Search everything you've saved • Type "image", "favorites" or "last week" and Teak turns it into a filter • Filter by type, favorites or tag from the menu • Find any card from Spotlight, or search Teak from Shortcuts and file the results into a folder MADE FOR IPHONE, IPAD AND MAC • A masonry grid that shows your ideas the way you saved them • More columns and a details panel on iPad and Mac • On Mac, save from the menu bar, Quick Capture (⌃⌥⌘T) or the Services menu • Light and dark mode, plus haptics on iPhone YOURS, AND PRIVATE • Your library is private to your account • No ads, and your saves are never sold or shared • Deleted cards wait in Trash for 30 days • Delete your account any time from Settings Your library stays in sync with Teak on the web, so your ideas are with you wherever you work. Teak is for designers collecting references, creators keeping ideas in one place, and anyone who wants to remember what caught their eye.

About

Obius

This app offers a visual workspace for organizing notes and ideas. It allows for reusable content blocks, color-coded sections for intent, and AI-powered features for content generation and semantic search. It prioritizes privacy with local-first storage and end-to-end encryption.

Highlights
  • Visual workspace for notes and ideas
  • Reusable content blocks (Loops)
  • Color-coded sections by intent
  • AI-powered content generation and search
  • Version history and snapshots
  • Offline functionality and end-to-end encryption
Features
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Obius — Notes that evolve. Designed for the way you think. Your ideas don't arrive in straight lines. Obius is a visual workspace where notes carry color, ideas connect to each other, and what you wrote yesterday folds into what you're building today. Built for founders, PMs, designers, researchers — and anyone who outgrew Apple Notes but never quite fit into Notion. LOOPS — WRITE ONCE, REUSE EVERYWHERE Drop a Loop into any note — a named, reusable content block like @launch_checklist or @weekly_review. Edit it in one place, every copy updates instantly. Perfect for running lists, shared context, and anything you reference more than once. SECTIONS THAT CARRY MEANING Every section has an intent — a color that tells you at a glance what kind of thinking lives there. Open ideas, questions you're sitting with, work in motion, issues to fix, things that are done. Five colors. Five intents. Your thinking, visible. — Drag and drop to reorder — Collapse, expand, and nest sections — Rich content: text, checklists, code, quotes, images, audio — Tap once to change a section's intent ECHOES — REMINDERS THAT BRING THE NOTE BACK Attach a time-based reminder to any Loop. Unlike calendar pings, an Echo resurfaces the full note when the moment matters — with all its context intact, not a one-line nag. OBIUS INTELLIGENCE AI that lives inside the workspace, not in another tab. — Generate full pages from a single prompt — Edit, rewrite, and refine content in place — no copy-pasting between apps — Smart titles that actually describe the page — Semantic search that finds ideas, not just keywords — Research context: pull what you need, paste, and think from there INSIGHTS THAT SURFACE WHAT MATTERS Obius watches your pages for patterns so you don't have to. Cleanup suggestions, related notes you forgot about, lists hiding in your text, and safety flags for leaked credentials or secrets. VERSION HISTORY, BUILT IN Every note quietly snapshots itself. Browse the timeline, restore any earlier version, watch your thinking evolve over time. No save button. No lost work. SHARE LIVE OR FROZEN Generate a short public link to share a live note that updates as you edit — or freeze a snapshot in time. Readable URLs. View counts. Comments optional. CALENDAR See your work across time. Plan ahead, look back, stay oriented — without leaving Obius. LOCAL-FIRST. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT. — Pages stored on your device first — Works fully offline; syncs when you reconnect — End-to-end encrypted sync — No tracking. No selling data. Not now, not ever. — Optional local-only mode for maximum privacy YOUR MIND. YOUR ARCHITECTURE. Obius isn't another notes app. It's a workspace shaped like thinking — simple enough to start in seconds, deep enough to grow with how you actually work. Designed for the way you think. Terms of Use (EULA): https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRq_bt_Z_V7ci7lS3hHLzq4QjRrDFJsJu6Ab-oedeeSakGPGcx_dJlG3EDAzdetptd21GPyEtzTxKbg/pub Privacy Policy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRbJ9cYTWnyQSYeL8JrTOizC0eC-f8rhoicqh3GttTDIrbNlesR-_auwkFz2OLsTTzguDG3YLtzwnEY/pub

Screenshots

Teak4 screens
Obius4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Teak at none against Obius's 4. Obius's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). 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. Obius sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Teak asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Teak ships an update every 5 days, Obius weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Teak versus Obius: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTeakObius
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJuge PraveenDemetri Hodges

In-app purchases

None

Teak

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Obius

Subscriptions3
  • Obius Pro Founder$4.991 Month
  • Obius Pro Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Pro Annual$79.991 Year
One-time1
  • Power Pack$9.99

Questions

Is Teak free?
Teak is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Obius free?
Obius is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Teak or Obius have ads?
Neither Teak nor Obius shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Teak or Obius?
Teak ships an update every 5 days, and Obius weekly. Most recently, Teak was updated on October 30, 2026 and Obius on October 24, 2026.

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