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obsidian alternatives: 12 Claude Code plugins like kepano/obsidian-skills

obsidian has 50,092 stars, gained 464 in 7 days and was last pushed Sep 15, 2026; the top pick, twhsi-skills, has 259 stars and held steady in 7 days.

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How they compare

Flowy lists 157 other Productivity plugins like obsidian, ranked by shared technologies, then GitHub stars; nothing in this list is paid.

obsidian and its 12 closest alternatives
PluginStars7 daysUpdatedLicenseContains
obsidianThis page50,092+464Sep 15, 2026MIT6 skills
1twhsi-skills2590Jul 21, 2026not available18 skills
2public-agent-skills2560Jun 26, 2026Apache-2.025 skills, 3 agents
3lavish-axi4,332+87Oct 27, 2026MIT1 skill
4pro-workflow2,930+12Sep 29, 2026not available41 skills, 8 agents, 23 commands, 22 hooks
5cog-second-brain1,318+18Oct 23, 2026MIT43 skills, 10 agents
6davekilleen-dex507+3Oct 27, 2026MIT99 skills, 28 agents, 24 commands, 1 MCP server
7obsidian-cli455+1Mar 5, 2026not available1 skill
8agent-second-brain411+2Aug 5, 2026MIT4 skills, 2 agents
9glebis-claude-skills401+6Oct 27, 2026MIT14 skills
10pdf-tools158not availableOct 21, 2026MIT3 skills
11guide123not availableJun 17, 2026not available7 skills, 4 agents, 3 hooks
12bedrock108+2May 5, 2026MIT10 skills, 1 hook

The 12 closest alternatives

1. twhsi-skills

259 stars0 this week

Three Kings 2.2: compress with iMandalArt, address with BIRD, and publish with an A4 eight-page booklet.

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2. public-agent-skills

256 stars0 this week

个人常用的 Agent Skill(公开部分)。通过合适的上下文工程,可以将 Agent Skill 用在几乎任何地方。

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7. obsidian-cli

455 stars+1 this week

A skill for AI coding agents that enables full control of Obsidian vaults from the terminal using the official Obsidian CLI (v1.12+).

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9. glebis-claude-skills

401 stars+6 this week

~100 skills for Claude Code — meeting pipelines, research, image generation, TDD, publishing, personal analytics, and Claude Code ops.

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10. pdf-tools

158 stars

The local PDF workflow for Claude Desktop and MCP hosts: fill, sign, merge, split, extract, render, and analyze PDFs with local file…

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11. guide

123 stars

A Claude Code Guide — interactive onboarding and Q&A on setup, best practices, automation, and effective workflows, packaged as a plugin.

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12. bedrock

108 stars+2 this week

Second Brain automation for Obsidian vaults — entity management, ingestion, compression, and sync via Claude Code skills

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Questions about obsidian alternatives

What is the best alternative to obsidian?

twhsi-skills is the first of 12 alternatives to obsidian by shared technologies: it has 259 stars (behind obsidian), showed no change this week and ships 18 skills against 6 for obsidian.

Which obsidian alternative has the most skills?

davekilleen-dex has the most, with 99 skills of the 12 alternatives listed. obsidian has 6.

Is obsidian free?

Yes. obsidian is published under the MIT license, so it is free to use.