Obsidian for Mac

February, 19th 2025 - 182 MB - Freeware

Latest Version

Obsidian 1.8.7 LATEST
Review by

Juan Garcia
Operating System

macOS 10.13 High Sierra or later
User Rating

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Author / Product

Obsidian Team / External Link
Filename

Obsidian-1.8.7.dmg

Obsidian App for Mac is a powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files. In Obsidian Mind Map, making and following [[connections]] is frictionless. Tend to your notes like a gardener; at the end of the day, sit back and marvel at your own knowledge graph. The app is 100% free for personal and educational use. You don't even need an account to use it.

Note-taking is incredibly personal. Tried every app, but there's always something not quite right? You deserve better. Obsidian is built to be extensible. With 22 core plugins and 197 community plugins, set up your own toolkit and get running in minutes.

With the Obsidian for macOS program, your data sits in a local folder. Never leave your life's work held hostage in the cloud again. Plain text Markdown also gives you the unparalleled interoperability to use any kind of sync, encryption, or data processing that works with plain text files.

Obsidian tool for Mac is great if you have large screens and atomic short notes. Panes in Obsidian can be split infinitely and resized, and they make cross-referencing multiple notes a breeze. Panes can be pinned to keep their content or linked together so they can show different views of the same note. Combine panes to set up your powerful workspaces.

Here are the current plugins

Graph view: view a graphical representation of all your notes and connections, as well as open a local graph for your individual note.
Page preview: mouse over internal links to preview the content.
Backlinks: show "what links here" and find undiscovered connections.
Daily notes: create today's note with custom date format and optional use a template.
Tag pane: view all your tags in one place.
Starred notes: bookmark important and frequently accessed notes.
File explorer: browse files in your vault and sort them.
Word count: language-aware word and character count for your current note.
Search: extremely performant vault-wide search, with advanced operators and regex support.
Markdown format converter: imports your Markdown export from Zettelkasten systems and Roam Research into the app.
Zettelkasten prefixer: generate a unique ID for your note.
Templates: lets you quickly insert snippets of text into your current note.
Random note: opens a random note, useful for reviewing and discovering.
Quick switcher: jump to or create notes with the keyboard only.
Outline: shows the list of headings for the current note, and allows you to navigate to another section by clicking on a heading.
Command palette: use Obsidian without leaving your keyboard.
Audio recorder: record a voice memo and embed it directly in your notes.
Slides: present your Markdown notes as a slideshow by separating slides with ---.
Open in default app: quickly open files with your OS default application, as well as show files in the OS file explorer.
Publish (paid): lets you publish notes from your vault onto your site, all within Obsidian.
Sync (paid): sync your vaults across devices with end-to-end encryption.
File recovery: takes snapshots of your changes and lets you revert to them.

Also Available: Download Obsidian for Windows

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What's new in this version:

Improved:
- Improved the "Insert horizontal rule" command to behave more intuitively when used on a non-empty line
- The title bar is now visible while the app is loading, allowing the window to be dragged and minimizing, maximizing, and closing on Windows and Linux
- Outgoing Links: Right-clicking on links now shows the file menu

Fixed:
- Fixed issue with adjacent numbered lists being considered part of the same list and having incorrect list numbers applied
- Fixed issue where Shift-Enter inside a list did not add the correct indentation
- Fixed missing CSS variable --font-mermaid for setting a custom font in Mermaid graphs
- Web viewer: Clicking on results in the Web history view will open in the background if "Always focus new tabs" is turned off in Editor settings
- Web viewer: Fixed issue with "Clear web viewer data" not fully removing the stored session data
- Web viewer: Fixed issue with built-in Ad blocker not properly capturing web requests
- Web viewer: Fixed bug where "Save to vault" failed without displaying an error
- Bookmarks: Clicking a bookmarked URL will now open it in your external browser by default, unless you have Web viewer configured to open external links
- Fixed regression in Mermaid causing some text to get chopped off when the window's zoom level was not 100%
- Fixed page preview appearing unexpectedly after using Graph view then pressing Command/Ctrl
- Fixed issue where dragging and dropping files into a property field caused old values to reappear
- Fixed right-clicking on history navigation buttons unintentionally triggering navigation
- Fixed bug where page preview would immediately hide when opening it from a pop-out window
- Settings: Fixed issue where the attachment folder field didn’t display the selected folder name
- Fixed issue where closing a vault with pop-out windows would not reopen when relaunching Obsidian
- Outline: Fixed scroll position issues when "Auto-reveal current section" was enabled and rapidly clicking different headings
- Fixed Option-Shift-M hotkey not working
- Fixed reading mode not properly folding headings when opening a file
- Fixed changes to the folding API that caused some plugins to malfunction
- Fixed issue where opening a file in a new split or new window didn’t focus the editor
- Selecting a tab from the tabs menu will now properly focus the tab
- All Properties: Fixed "Rename" menu item not being available if you select a property with Alt (Option on macOS)