About Pricing aka why does Obsidian Service X cost so much or any money at all

[AlanG]

@Geeq

I used Obsidian but I abandoned it. Right now I use The Brain. A $200+ piece of software. I personally agree with people saying the pricing is steep for entry level.

Comparing apples-to-apples, TheBrain’s sync service is $15/mo vs Obsidian’s $8/mo.

@Geeq

Since I already owned a cloud service, I tried using that but it resulted in a lot of duplicates which made it unusable. Therefor I abandoned Obsidian.

This might have been an easily solved issue. I have synced Obsidian through Dropbox and Google Drive between 2 Windows laptops and 1 phone without any duplicate issues. Now I use their sync purely to support the development team, as the free sync options work perfectly well.

I did use TheBrain some years ago (had a paid licence) but it never really clicked. Obsidian was like a breath of fresh air after years of using Evernote, OneNote, and a brief time with Notion. If your only complaint with Obsidian is that syncing for free caused you duplicate notes - I am extremely confident this is an easily resolved issue, and you could successfully use Obsidian with free cloud sync.