head to head
Capacities vs Obsidian
Neck and neck on boosts. Profiles, pricing and deals below.
Capacities
Notes organized as objects, not folders
community boosts
⚡ 0
pricing
Freemium
what it is
Capacities structures your knowledge as typed objects - people, books, meetings, ideas - that interlink automatically. A studio for thought that sits between Notion's databases and Obsidian's graph.
Obsidian
Local-first linked notes you own forever
community boosts
⚡ 0
pricing
Freemium · Free for personal use, paid sync optional
what it is
Obsidian stores notes as plain Markdown files on your machine and links them into a personal knowledge graph, extended by thousands of community plugins. The power-user choice where privacy and longevity beat cloud convenience.