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Obsidian for Mac

August, 19th 2025 - 203 MB - Freeware

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Latest Version

Obsidian 1.9.10 LATEST
Review by

Juan Garcia
Operating System

macOS 10.13 High Sierra or later
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Author / Product

Obsidian Team / External Link
Filename

Obsidian-1.9.10.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.

How to Use

Open the app and create a new vault for your notes
Use markdown to write and organize your notes
Create internal links using double brackets [[Note Name]]
Use the graph view to visualize connections between notes
Install community plugins to extend functionality
Sync notes across devices with Obsidian Sync (optional)
Customize themes and hotkeys under settings
Use tags and folders for better organization
Regularly backup your vault for data safety

System Requirements

macOS 10.13 High Sierra or later

64-bit processor

At least 4 GB of RAM

150 MB of free disk space

Internet connection required for sync and plugins

PROS

Works offline without cloud dependency
Highly customizable with plugins and themes
Powerful linking and graph view system
Markdown-based for easy portability
Fast and lightweight application

CONS

No built-in collaboration tools
Mobile sync requires paid plan
Initial setup may feel complex
No rich text editing support

Also Available: Download Obsidian for Windows

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What's new in this version:

Shiny new things:
- New Footnotes view core plugin adds a new sidebar tab that helps you manage footnotes for the current file without losing your place in the note

Breaking changes:
- We have officially removed support for the properties tag, alias, cssclass in favor of tags, aliases and cssclasses. In addition, the values of these properties must be a list. If the current value is a text property, it will no longer be recognized by Obsidian. In the "Format converter" core plugin, there is a new option to fix any incorrectly formatted aliases, tags, and cssclasses in your vault. It will also migrate your old alias, tag, and cssclass properties to the new format.

Improved:
- Property editor is now available inside page preview and Canvas
- Sync: Added new "Conflict resolution" setting. Choose how Obsidian handles file conflicts when syncing: Merge (default) or create conflict file.
- Added button to open current page preview in a tab
- In the "Export to PDF" flow, the export button now receives initial keyboard focus
- Settings that show file or folder suggestions now use fuzzy search for better matching
- Whitespace is now correctly shown in Sync history and file recovery diffs
- Text selection contrast has been increased in dark mode
- Sync history view now includes a button to open affected files in File Recovery
- The Sync history view now shows the file name before and after it was renamed
- File Recovery now displays file extensions in titles and suggestions for non-Markdown files
- If the current tab is pinned, the "Close current tab" command will unpin the tab instead of closing it. Repeat the command to close the tab.
- The "Move file to..." option remains available even when the Files plugin is disabled
- The "Save file" command now only appears in the Command Palette when a file is active
- Improvements to the display of an "unknown" tab. Added option to close all unknown tabs.
- The Unique Note Prefix plugin now includes an "Add unique internal link" command for linking selected text.
- When there is not enough room to display the whole path in the titlebar, the folders will be truncated before the file name.
- Improved how the Markdown parser handles large tables and large callouts. These notes will take slightly longer to load, but then the tables and callouts will be rendered instantly.
- Global search stops scanning your vault after it finds 100,000 results.
- File Explorer: When the view is active, holding Command/Ctrl while navigating through files using the arrow keys will now open the file under the cursor.
- File Explorer: Right-clicking in the empty space within file explorer will now include options to create a new base or a new canvas.
- Added "Copy path" and "Copy relative path" to the link context menu.
- Added "Toggle readable line length" command.
- macOS: Apple Writing Tools now appear in the editor context menu. This requires installing the latest installer and enabling "Native menus" in settings.

Fixed:
- Page preview no longer hides or switches to edit mode when the fold icon is clicked
- Fixed display of titles in page preview for RTL languages
- Improved how results in the command palette are sorted. By default, results are now sorted alphabetically. And more recently used commands will rank higher in the search results
- Editing a file no longer resets folded sections in the Outline view
- Pressing Shift-Enter inside a text property no longer creates an empty input
- Cursor placement is now accurate when navigating table cells after searching
- When using the "Obsidian frame" window frame style, the Window title will now properly update to show the currently open file in pop-out windows
- List numbering remains consistent when editing inside callouts
- PDF view no longer steals focus when opened in the background
- The "Export to PDF..." command no longer causes the screen to flash white while in dark mode. It also works on Linux when the app is set to adapt to system theme
- Strict line breaks now render properly in the first paragraph of a callout
- Outline view now highlights the correct line when the note includes footnotes
- Graph view: If you have saved filters, you'll no longer see an initial flash of nodes when you open the graph view. The filters will be applied immediately
- Markdown tables containing partially complete HTML now render correctly
- Tab history buttons, Web viewer history entries, bookmarked URLs, and ribbon items that open notes now respect modifier keys and honor the "Focus new tab" preference
- The Tags view now updates correctly when clearing the search filter
- Autocompleting a codeblock now properly accounts for indentation and if the cursor is inside a list item
- Improved the rendering of codeblocks inside quoteblocks
- Clicking a property search result now focuses the whole row and not the property name
- Canvas cards now support callouts without generating internal errors
- Canvas: Fixed bug where Canvas nodes would hide when trying to move 2 groups that are the same size and at the same exact position in the viewport
- Canvas now consistently copies selected notes when pressing Ctrl-C
- Canvas: Fixed "New group" not selecting the label text by default