If you don't want to pay then just use syncthing. It's free and cross platform.
this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2023
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I currently use Syncthing and it works with the exception of syncing to my iPad (and I imagine iPhone but I have an Android)... need to figure out something else for that. I did see someone somewhere mention CouchDB combined with https://github.com/vrtmrz/obsidian-livesync so I might try that and see if it works.
If you only use iOS and a Mac then iCloud will work fine. It’s only a problem on Windows where the iCloud implementation is buggy.
I purchased sync. I agree it is a little on the expensive side.
The one thing you can do is just use git and turn on the push and pull. It seems to be very reliable this way. Though you won't be able to use it on the phone as far as I have been able to figure out.
The obsidian-git plugin works on Android
For varying definitions of "works". It's incredibly frustrating if you're using it across multiple devices. Any time I let the repo get more than a couple days behind, I wind up with nasty merge conflicts and it doesn't handle those. At all. It just sort of breaks.
So caveat emptor.
I am all Apple so I use iCloud. Works like a charm. No issues at all
Wanted to add to this, this method still works like a charm even with a windows pc. Haven’t had any issues with syncing across my iPhone, mac, and windows pc since I started doing this.
Do you do much editing on your Windows machine? I tried using iCloud sync but found that the documents would randomly undo a sentence or two as I typed. Also had problems with Windows sometimes not uploading whole files.
I had the file duplication bug a lot whenever I tried using iCloud on windows.
I had mine backing up to a GitHub repository. I ended up abandoning it and just taking notes in a text editor. Gonna try org mode in vim with a plugin and see if I like that better. Main complaint is that I have 200k commits from obsidian
I use git as it even has a native interface; you only need to init the vault as a repo yourself. Then you can host that repository wherever you want, be it your own VPS, your local server, your local computer, a Git hosting service (e.g. github, gitea).
So to speak, what you get by Obsidian sync for your money is not having to deal with the hassle on hosting it yourself.
So I tried setting up obsidian-git, but couldn't get it to work. I did it on mobile. I did a git init repository, and it said it did. Then I created a branch, and it said it did. I tried pushing it to github, it said no remotes defined. I then defined remotes using the command, and it said success. However, I still can't see it in the list of remotes, or see the branches, or set remote branch to push to. I gave up and used Remotely Save. Did I miss a step?
What's the output from git remote -v ?
I see there's a variety of options. To add one more option: I use the extension Self-hosted live sync : it's very nice and easy to handle (though you have to be technically interested to set it up)
Self hosted live sync is killer. Amazing extension better then most commercial note sync systems.
With rclone you can use any cloud (or just sync directly via WiFi when at home) to store your vaults