Oblisten

Turn your Obsidian notes into a listening and spaced-review queue, with background playback, Lock Screen controls, and hands-free study.

Oblisten is a listening and spaced-review companion for Obsidian. Connect a local or iCloud Drive vault and the app scans your Markdown notes, removes formatting that should not be spoken, and builds a review queue.

Key features: • Read directly from an Obsidian vault you authorize • Clean Markdown for natural English and Chinese speech • Apple on-device text-to-speech with no account required • Optional cloud TTS; your API key is stored in the Keychain • Background playback, Lock Screen controls, and headset controls • Continuous playback with five speed levels • Spaced-review ratings and scheduling • Local indexing, incremental scanning, and file filters

Your note index, review history, and playback history stay on your device. Cloud TTS is optional: when enabled, the selected note text and your API key are sent to SiliconFlow to generate audio. If the service is unavailable, Oblisten falls back to Apple on-device speech.

Oblisten does not provide Obsidian sync and never modifies files in your vault.