Comparison

Fabric vs Obsidian

Fabric and Obsidian both land on Depends.

Fabric

Depends

Confidence: Medium

Buy if you are a researcher, designer, or solo builder drowning in scattered files and want AI search across them.

Depends

Confidence: Medium

Buy it if you're an individual who wants a powerful, private, local-first knowledge base and will invest time learning it.

Fabric versus Obsidian
Compare	Fabric	Obsidian
Verdict	Depends	Depends
Best for	Researchers with scattered sources	Personal knowledge bases
Who it's not for	Enterprises needing SOC 2 or a security page	Teams needing shared, out-of-box collaboration
Privacy	256-bit AES encryption at rest and TLS in transit; no public security page or compliance certifications found.^²	Private, local-first design with third-party audits, but the plugin ecosystem has attracted real malware abuse.
Support quality	No support evidence in sources	No direct support-quality evidence found.
Public sentiment	Product Hunt reviewers see Fabric as an easy, well-designed home for retrieving scattered digital material.^⁴	Users love the flexibility and adaptability but frequently flag the steep learning curve, and some long-time fans are drifting away.^⁹
Biggest gotcha	Post-beta pricing unannounced; today's $0 will not last . budget for a bill^⁵	Malicious plugins have been abused to deploy malware; vet third-party plugins carefully.