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Obsidian for Mac

February, 28th 2026 - 203 MB - Freeware

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Latest Version

Obsidian 1.12.4 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-1.12.4.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:

New:
Obsidian CLI:
- This release introduces the Obsidian CLI, a command line interface that lets you control Obsidian from your terminal for scripting, automation, and integration with external tools

Image resizing:
- Images in Live Preview can now be resized by dragging from the corner. Double-click the corner to reset the image size.

Automatic attachment cleanup:
- When deleting a file, a prompt will ask if you would also like to delete its attachments. A new setting in Files & Links allows you to configure this behavior (choose "Always", "Ask every time", or "Never").

Improved:
Bases:
- Added a search toolbar button to filter query results
- Added the ability to import files into Bases via drag and drop
- Right-clicking on a single row in table view now shows context menu items related to that file

File Explorer:
- Copy and paste operations are now supported using Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V (Cmd-C/Cmd-V on macOS)

Editor:
Added new menu items when you right-click in the empty space next to the editor:
- Toggle line numbers
- Toggle inline title
- Fixed missing space after blockquotes
- Fixed styling of bold links
- Image size is no longer treated as display text when dragging a link

Other:
- Added detection for backlinks in Canvas files. They now appear in the Backlinks view, and count as links in the Graph view.
- "Change vault..." has been renamed to "Manage vaults"
- Added a new "Change vault..." command to quickly switch between vaults via the keyboard
- Added a new "Open vault..." command to open an existing vault via the keyboard and keep the current vault open
- Alt-clicking a file in the File Explorer now adds the previous active item to the selection
- Quick switcher: Dragging results is now supported
- Added new "Copy image" menu item when right-clicking on an image
- Copying text from the editor now includes HTML formatting, making it easier to paste into apps like Google Docs
- Obsidian Sync now logs when files were skipped for being too large
- Improved fuzzy search results when the query contains spaces
- Opening files in an external application now shows a confirmation dialog for added safety
- Added a warning when attempting to open an executable file
- Added new app translations

No longer broken:
Other:
- Keychain: Added handling for when encryption is unavailable on some Linux machines
- Fixed issue where layout was not always saved when the app is closed
- Fixed issue where selecting text near a link or tag would incorrectly trigger the link or tag token
- Fixed issue where closing a pop-out window with active notices would cause them to move to the main window and never disappear
- Added a new unique URI action
- Fixed the outline view flickering while typing
- Fixed scroll position not updating after changing the row height in Bases table view
- Fixed "More options" menu not closing when clicking the "..." button in a pop-out window
- Fixed list properties not showing edit and remove options in the context menu when right-clicking a link inside a list item
- File Explorer: Fixed "Duplicate" menu item generating an incomplete folder name when duplicating a folder that includes "." in the name

Developers:
- The installer has been updated to use Electron v39.7.0 (requires downloading the latest installer).
- We've updated how our translation files are created and bundled with the app. For translators, see the updated instructions on our translations repository.
- Added theming support for corner shapes using corner-shape CSS property. Replaced -electron-corner-smoothing. Requires Chromium 139 and Obsidian 1.11+.
- macOS: New traffic-lights-offset-x and --traffic-lights-offset-y CSS variables to configure where the traffic lights appear in the window frame. These offsets are now applied immediately when the app loads.
- We've introduced a breaking API change to BaseOption#shouldHide. This function no longer receives the config as an argument. Options should be accessed from BasesViewRegistration.options instead.