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Obsidian for Mac

July, 31st 2026 - 217 MB - Freeware

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Latest Version

Obsidian 1.13.4 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-1.13.4.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:

Improvements:
Security:
- Obsidian URIs now present a confirmation dialog before firing the action. Choose "Don't ask again" to add that action to an allow list. Manage the allow list from settings.
- Added a warning before attempting to load HTML resources if the source points to a network drive
- Added a warning dialog when choosing to sync plugins via Obsidian Sync

Editor:
- Reading mode now supports external images with an image size and no alt text (e.g. ![200]
- Note Composer: When extracting a section from a file, links in that section will now be rewritten to be relative to the new location

File explorer:
- Pressing Escape to cancel the file rename keeps the File Explorer focused
- Pressing Escape clears the current selection
- "Auto reveal" will no longer activate when renaming a file or folder
- Added support for dragging links from a Base into the File Explorer to move the file to a new location
- Minor improvements to drag and drop behavior

Properties:
- Improved keyboard navigation in the Global Properties view; Backspace now deletes the selected properties
- Improved the property type menu to make it clearer whether a property's type is set automatically or chosen manually

Obsidian Sync:
- Removed spinning from the status bar icon because it impacted battery life when the app idles
- Files in the Sync sidebar view now show all file-related items in the context menu
- Files in the Sync sidebar view can now be dragged into other views or into the editor
- Added search menu item to the Sync sidebar view
- The Sync sidebar view now supports multi-selection with the keyboard (Shift-arrow keys) or the mouse (Alt-click)
- The Sync sidebar view now supports deleting files with the Delete or Backspace key

macOS:
- Updated button and input styles to better match macOS 26 defaults

Canvas:
- Minor rendering performance improvements

Other:
- Added search to the Bookmarks view
- Added a new one-time banner confirming that you want to render Mermaid code blocks in your vault
- On desktop, dragging a folder into the app now imports the entire folder and preserves the directory structure
- Ctrl-N and Ctrl-P to navigate to the next/previous item in suggestions now work on all platforms
- Updated the dialog that appears when opening an unrecognized vault with plugins installed. Wording has been improved to emphasize the risk of using untrusted plugins
- Closing the quick switcher or command palette with the Escape key now correctly restores the previous selection
- Pressing the Escape key now hides the search input in sidebar views
- File Recovery: Added keyboard navigation to the file history records. Use arrow keys to navigate through the list
- The Unique Note Creator plugin now links to its own settings when it fails to find a template

Fixed:
- Fixed a rare race condition where a file could get stuck and fail to save until the app was restarted
- Fixed the app failing to load if a view throws errors while the workspace is loading
- Fixed the app silently crashing on any installer older than Obsidian 1.6. We've also added an error message if this ever happens again
- Fixed clicking external links in pop-out windows causing the pop-out window to close
- Fixed ribbon buttons not responding to touch events on desktop
- Disabling a CSS snippet now properly removes the styles from all pop-out windows
- Fixed the placeholder text shown in the command palette prompt
- Fixed choppy horizontal scrolling when sidebar tabs overflow
- Fixed the "Copy" button not appearing on very large code blocks
- Fixed image resizing when an image is inside a Markdown table
- Fixed unique URI action not opening the new note in the correct tab when the paneType option is provided
- Fixed navigation inside embedded web content (webview)
- Reading mode no longer interprets %%%% as a non-terminated comment. Comments are always fenced with exactly two % characters
- Live Preview: Fixed Ctrl/Cmd-A not working inside embedded inputs (e.g. a cell in an embedded Bases table)
- Live Preview: Fixed embeds inside Markdown lists not showing the correct indentation
- Live Preview: Code blocks now re-render correctly when a plugin's post processor changes
- Live Preview: Fixed inline formatting not expanding properly when math or images are inside. For example, **some $math$ text** would not expand properly when the cursor moved within the bold formatting
- Live Preview: Fixed image disappearing when editing a Markdown embed and scrolling
- File Explorer: Fixed rare bug where files temporarily rendered with the wrong indentation level after moving the file to a new folder
- Properties: Fixed Global properties view not always saving sort order
- Properties: Fixed "Delete properties" menu item not working reliably when property name contains capital letters
- Properties: Fixed "Open link under cursor" hotkeys not working on list property items
- Properties: Fixed an error when rendering []() inside a list property
- Bookmarks: Fixed focus not moving to the next item after deleting a bookmark via the keyboard
- Bookmarks: Fixed keyboard navigation in the Bookmarks view sometimes getting stuck due to missing bookmarked files
- Bookmarks: Fixed middle-click inside the Bookmarks view activating AutoScroll on Windows
- Bases: Fixed error messages appearing when disabling and re-enabling the Bases core plugin
- Bases: Fixed automatic column sizing for number properties
- Bases: Fixed the formula editor not working for Bases in pop-out windows
- Bases: Fixed sort filters showing an incorrect background color
- Bases: "File links" no longer show the image size as the image display name
- Sync: Fixed a bug where clicking the status bar icon would not always open the menu
- Vim: A white "ghost" character no longer appears when the Vim cursor overlaps with a widget in the editor

macOS:
- Fixed some elements showing scrollbars when they should not, such as the tab headers in the sidebars