Indie dev's Qiaomu Obsidian plugin suite tops 20,000 downloads, Agent plugin surging
vista8 · x · 2026-10-18
Indie developer vista8 shared download stats for the Qiaomu Obsidian plugin suite: as of Oct 18, 9 plugins have hit 20,209 cumulative downloads, with 892 new installs in one comparable day (+4.64%) and +4,536 over the week (+29.40%).
- Reader leads (6,849) — surprisingly, users mostly want a local e-book library
- AI RSS (6,456) also sees heavy usage
- Agent plugin (1,745) grew fastest with 258 new installs in a day; the author admits it's immature but feedback is positive
- He's now polishing a Publish plugin, calling content distribution a real need, and building one-click publishing to WeChat/X
Install via "qiaomu" in Obsidian's official plugin directory.
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