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14 Obsidian alternatives

Obsidian: Let an AI client read and search your Obsidian vault — or any folder of Markdown notes. 14 MCP servers do similar work, most sharing Knowledge Base and Notes, ranked by how much they have in common with Obsidian.

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  1. by Notion

    Notion's official MCP server — search, read, create, and update pages and databases in your workspace.

    Also: Knowledge Base, Notes

  2. by Taskade

    Open-source MCP server connecting agents to Taskade workspaces — projects, tasks, AI agents, and automations.

    Also: Notes

  3. by Gentleman Programming

    Persistent memory for coding agents as a single Go binary — SQLite and FTS5 behind MCP, an HTTP API, a CLI and a TUI, with no Node, Python or Docker required.

    Also: Knowledge Base

  4. by okf-memory

    Git-native persistent memory for coding agents — sub-300µs BM25 search over version-controlled plain text, with no embeddings, no database and no API costs.

    Also: Knowledge Base

  5. by Coveo

    Coveo's managed MCP server exposing enterprise search, fetch, passage retrieval and grounded generative answering over your indexed content.

    Also: Knowledge Base

  6. by cyanheads

    Search and read Wikipedia from an AI client — summaries, full articles, specific sections, and nearby pages.

    Also: Knowledge Base

  7. by Model Context Protocol

    A knowledge-graph-based persistent memory system that lets an agent remember entities and relations across sessions.

    Also: Knowledge Base

  8. by AudioPod AI

    Hosted audio-AI tools for agents: speaker-labelled transcription, stem splitting, noise removal, MIDI conversion, speech and music. No install or GPU needed.

    Also in Files & Storage

  9. by Getty Images

    Getty Images' official MCP server — search and retrieve licensed creative, editorial and archival photography and video from inside an agent workflow, under an existing Getty agreement.

    Also in Files & Storage

  10. by Dropbox

    Dropbox's official remote MCP server — 24 tools to browse, search, read, create, move and share files in a Dropbox account over OAuth.

    Also in Files & Storage

  11. by Box

    Box's official remote MCP server — roughly 60 tools over enterprise files, metadata, search, Hubs, Doc Gen and Box AI, inside your existing Box permissions.

    Also in Files & Storage

  12. by Cloudinary

    Cloudinary's official MCP server — upload, search, transform, and organise media assets from an AI client.

    Also in Files & Storage

  13. by Model Context Protocol

    Search and read Google Drive files — Docs, Sheets, and Slides converted to text an assistant can use.

    Also in Files & Storage

  14. by Model Context Protocol

    Secure local file operations for agents — read, write, search, and edit files within configurable allowed directories.

    Also in Files & Storage