Obsidian for Android review - 2025
A refreshed review of the amazing Obsidian note-taking app for Android and updates on me for the past year.
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NotesHub
Super fast, local first, supports Markdown, audio recordings, inline images, linking of notes, Kanban, Excalidraw, and GitHub sync.
Superlist
A good looking to-do app with support for notes, inline images, and collaboration features with a generous free plan or $10/mo for Pro plan.
MemoriNotes
A very basic offline note taking app which is fast, supports reminders, search, and labels but not much else.
Journalistic
A fast micro journal app that is easy to use, intuitive, and very well thought out but no markdown support or image attachments.
One Jotter
Fast, good looking and a lot of functionality including linking of notes, Markdown support, calendar view, inline audio recording, images, sketching, and themes
SilverBullet
An open-source, fast, WYSIWYG, and free Progressive Web App (PWA) that supports Markdown, templates, queries, and cross-device synchronization. Incredible!
Loopscribe
Fairly basic note-taking app and service that supports text formatting, 3 heading levels, and different text colors, fonts, and sizes but it does not support Markdown input on Android nor is it local-first or fast.
Ruslin
Fairly basic open-source app that is local first, fast, and supports Markdown including tables, folders, and 4 themes. A key feature is synchronization with Joplin Cloud.
RetroNote
Free, and fast, supports Markdown, multi-level tags, Google fonts, linking of notes, and a graph view, and it's completely Web-based so there's no app to install
Milanote
A companion app to their Web service and at that it's good, has a clean user interface and it's fast. The free plan is too limited, the app doesn't stand on its own and it's too expensive.
PureWriter
Very fast, supports Markdown for input and output, also exports to text, PDF or image, and supports backups to WebDAV, OneDrive, Google Cloud, or Alibaba Cloud Disk.
Paper
If you subscribe to Dropbox and need a quick and clean note-taking app with Markdown support, then Paper could be for you.
Evernote
Nice design, Markdown for input, inline tasks, templates, attachments, PDF viewer, audio recording, sketches, offline access to notes, and an endless amount of features. Not cheap and has a lot of baggage.
myReach
Definitely worth checking out, a ton of functionality, great support, apps for different platforms, and a useful AI tool to summarize your notes or help you write, but no Markdown input.