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24 alternatives to Obsidian Everywhere

Let AI navigate your Obsidian vault as a GRAPH, not files

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.

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    A few months ago I noticed that I was quickly approaching my 10GB sync limit for my daily driver vault. I considered deprecating some of the heavier files and images, but I was worried how it would affect the integrity of my vault. Instead, I took the opportunity to think to myself -- what would the perfect vault look like? I began to write down some of the key philosophies and strategies I use in my driver vault which led to indispensable plugins, which led to more indispensable philosophies and on and on it went. I've chronicled these results into a fully working vault template that…

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Obsidian Canvas gives you infinite space to research, brainstorm, diagram, and lay out your ideas.

    2022 · obsidian.md · its alternatives →

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    Calderafree▲195

    Your Obsidian vault as a living profile and linked garden

    10d ago · caldera.social · its alternatives →

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    https://github.com/acheong08/obsidian-sync Hello HN, I'm a recent high school graduate and can't afford $8 per month for the official sync service, so I tried my hand at replicating the server. It's still missing a few features, such as file recovery and history, but the basic sync is working. To the creators of Obsidian.md: I'm probably violating the TOS, and I'm sorry. I'll take down the repository if asked. It's not ready for production and is highly inefficient; Not competition, so I hope you'll be lenient.

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Obsidian Mobile brings the power of our desktop app to your mobile devices.

    2021 · obsidian.md · its alternatives →

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    Private AI chat & semantic search for Obsidian notes

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Import your Obsidian Vault to Apple Notes

    2025 · obsidiantonotes.com · its alternatives →

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    AI-friendly Markdown editor — MCP server, semantic search

    Jun 2026 · sugilite.app · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, Nick here. We’re launching OpenKnowledge (https://openknowledge.ai/), a “what you see is what you get” markdown editor that has direct integrations with Claude, Codex, and other agents. Available as MacOS app or Web UI+CLI. Fully free/local and OSS. We built this because we wanted a Notion-like experience for writing and sharing markdown files across our team. Obsidian is the best alternative we tried, but found it doesn’t have a true WYSWIG UI and it didn’t integrate well with Claude/Codex outside of community plugins. So we built OpenKnowledge. It takes…

    Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Quickly format your notes with ChatGPT in Obsidian - different-ai/obsidian-ava

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Here's something I realized: the most AI-native knowledge base isn't a SaaS product with an API. It's a folder of markdown files on your disk. Obsidian stores everything as plain .md files. That means Claude Code (or any AI tool) can grep, read, write, and traverse your entire knowledge base with zero setup. No API keys. No OAuth. No middleware. Just local file I/O. The only missing piece was sync. I wanted my vault on iPhone (iCloud), on Mac (local), and on GitHub (backup + version history) — without paying $4/mo for Obsidian Sync. cc-md is ~400 lines of bash. iCloud handles Apple…

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Give Claude your Obsidian vault — without the context tax

    Jul 2026 · seekstone.dev · its alternatives →

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    Deno's first native GraphQL caching client and server module

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Per-file permissions for your AI knowledge-base in Obsidian

    Aug 2026 · vaultguard.cloud · its alternatives →

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    Kept▲104

    Your AI chats, saved as Markdown locally with no cloud

    May 2026 · kept.work · its alternatives →

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    Publish forms and get responses in your Obsidian vault

    2025 · community.obsidian.md · its alternatives →

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    Interactive HTML knowledge map from a folder of Markdown notes (Obsidian/gbrain) — themed force graph + growth timeline. Ships a prebuilt demo. - vladignatyev/brain-map-skill

    Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Second brain as it should be

    Jul 2026 · zettelkasten-ai.com · its alternatives →

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    hibi▲78

    an open-source obsidian alternative

    2d ago · hibi.garden · its alternatives →

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    Obsidian plugin that connects to CLI agents you already have installed. No built-in LLM integration, no API keys to configure in the plugin. It spawns your tool as a child process, pipes vault context into each prompt, and streams responses into a chat panel. Supports Claude Code, Opencode, and any custom binary via a generic adapter. Adding a new agent is a single file. Free, proudly Open Source (MIT licensed). Would love feedback on this for anyone that that tries it out.

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A solid knowledge management system for Obsidian

    2024 · developassion.gumroad.com · its alternatives →

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    An Obsidian vault your AI agents actually run

    Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Use Obsidian as a CMS for your Astro website

    Feb 2026 · vaultcms.org · its alternatives →

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    Backup Midjourney prompts to Obsidian bases

    2025 · backup-midjourney-to-obsidian.chatgpt2notion.com · its alternatives →

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