Bring your Obsidian vault
Vaultite is a free, open source alternative to Obsidian, built for you and your AI agents. Point it at your Obsidian vault and it opens as it is: same files, same links, most of the same plugins. It never writes to .obsidian/, so both apps can share the folder while you try it.
What carries over
- Your Markdown: wikilinks and Markdown links, heading and block links, embeds,
#tagsand nested tags, highlights, comments, callouts, footnotes, math, Mermaid, and images and PDFs found by name anywhere in the vault. - Bases:
.basefiles open as their views, on their own or embedded in a note. - Your settings: where new notes and pasted images go, excluded files, daily notes and templates, and property types, read from
.obsidian/. Set one in Vaultite and it wins. - Your look: light or dark, your theme, the CSS snippets you have on and your fonts.
- Outline, tags, backlinks, the graph, tabs and splits.
Your plugins
When the vault opens, Vaultite offers its plugins once. Each one either runs as it is, the original code, or is replaced by the Vaultite plugin that stands in for it: Dataview, Tasks, Kanban, Templater, Excalidraw, Periodic notes, QuickAdd and more. Never both: turning one on turns the other off. Most Obsidian plugins work, and when one doesn't, you or your agent can write one in the vault.
What's different
| Vaultite | Obsidian | |
|---|---|---|
| Source | Open source, Apache 2.0 | Closed source |
| Your files | Plain Markdown on your computer | Plain Markdown on your computer |
| AI agents | Built in: one set of operations for Claude Code, Codex and any MCP client (the vau CLI, MCP and HTTP), connectors for ChatGPT, Claude and Grok on your phone, terminals for your agents, and labels for who wrote each note | Through community plugins |
| Plugins | Everything is a plugin, even the file tree, and most Obsidian plugins run | Core and community plugins |
| Where it runs | Mac, Linux and the browser, or on your own server opened from anywhere. Windows and iPhone are coming | Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android |
AI only when you ask
Opening a vault just opens your Markdown files. No model runs and nothing is rewritten until you or an agent you connected does it, on your own subscriptions. What an agent writes is labelled as such, so you always know which notes are yours.
What doesn't carry over
Only your workspace layout, hotkeys and accent colour: set those in Vaultite's Settings.
Try it on your vault
Download Vaultite for Mac or Linux, choose Open folder and pick your Obsidian vault. Or try the web demo on a made-up vault first. Questions: Discord or GitHub.
Vaultite is an independent project, not made or endorsed by the makers of Obsidian. Obsidian is a trademark of Dynalist Inc.