Obsidian Plugin Development

Obsidian plugin projects start at $3,000. A focused internal tool that automates one workflow sits near the lower end, while a plugin with custom editor rendering, a settings interface, and community marketplace submission costs more. Scope and price are agreed in writing before you commit, and the first 30-minute call is free so we can work out whether a plugin is even the right answer.

Yes. S-Calc is listed in the official Obsidian community marketplace, released under MIT, and in active public use. It renders live calculation results inline in your notes, handling arithmetic, variables, percentages, unit conversion, live currency rates, and plain-language dates. Marketplace acceptance means an independent reviewer checked the code and security model and approved it, which is the part most freelance developers cannot show you.

Yes, that is one of the most common requests. A plugin can call your CRM, database, issue tracker, or internal API and render the result directly in a note, so your team stops switching to a dashboard to read numbers. The work involves handling authentication safely, caching sensibly so the vault stays fast, and failing gracefully when the network is unavailable.

It can, and this is worth deciding early because it shapes the build. Obsidian mobile does not support Node APIs or filesystem access the way desktop does, so a plugin that shells out to local tools is desktop-only by nature. If mobile matters to your team, say so during scoping and the plugin gets architected for it from the start rather than retrofitted.

You own it completely, and it is your choice whether it is published or private. You receive the full TypeScript source, documentation, and the build pipeline, with nothing licensed back to you. Many teams keep their plugin internal because it encodes their own workflow, and installing a private plugin in a vault is straightforward. If you do want it public, I handle the community review submission.

Often yes, sometimes no. If your team repeats a manual step several times a day, a plugin usually pays for itself quickly because it removes the step instead of documenting it. But Obsidian has a large community plugin ecosystem, and if something already covers your need I will point you at it and charge you nothing. The free call exists to find out which of those two situations you are in.