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Obsidian for Mac

January, 21st 2026 - 205 MB - Freeware

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Latest Version

Obsidian 1.11.5 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-1.11.5.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:

Improved:
- Secret Storage is now encrypted at rest
- Daily notes: Folder path is now normalized
- Daily notes: If you were previously using the "Open daily note on startup" option, you will be automatically migrated to use the new "Files & Links › Default file to open" setting

Fixed:
- Fixed Default file to open not working when the configured file path omits the file extension
- Fixed daily notes not opening if the path began with a leading / or used as a path delimiter
- Restored default display text when inserting a link with folders in the linktext (e.g. [[a/b/file]] will automatically be inserted as [[a/b/file|file]])