OmniOutliner 5 4+

Think, write, do‪.‬

The Omni Group

    • 2.6 • 20 Ratings
    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

This is OmniOutliner 5: a flexible, svelte, and focused app for creating, collecting, and organizing information and ideas. OmniOutliner Essentials is simple—everything you need to get started. Pro adds powerful features like smart columns, password protection, keyboard shortcuts, and plenty more. Try out both for free!

Use an outline to put structure on new ideas, rearrange them and construct beautiful documents for sharing with built-in themes. But it’s way more than just an outlining tool—you’ve got multiple columns, smart checkboxes, pop-up lists, and a fantastically rich styles system.

Draft a simple to-do list, create an agenda for a meeting, take notes, plan events, write anything from diaries to screenplays, or any other task that calls for structured text.

FREE TRIAL

With the free two week trial, you can try all of the features of Essentials and Pro. After the trial, you can continue to use OmniOutliner to view documents for free.


ESSENTIALS EDITION FEATURES (AVAILABLE VIA IN-APP PURCHASE)

• Filters: Use the search field in the toolbar to do a quick keyword filter.
• Document Stats: Row, word, and character count are displayed in the bottom bar.
• Distraction-Free Mode: Automatically hide the toolbar when switching to full screen.
• Side Margins: drag the margin borders to set the width of your outline independent of your display width.
• Cell Highlight: The cell being edited is indicated by a highlight on the left edge to give you more context.
• Touch Bar: Use and customize the Touch Bar for quick access to features.
• Dark Mode: OmniOutliner’s UI adapts to match your document theme.
• Bottom Padding: You’ll no longer be stuck typing at the bottom of the window with the extra padding added below outlines.
• Typewriter Mode: Keep your eye line constant by keeping the active row in the middle of the screen.
• New File Format: OmniOutliner 5 uses a new .ooutline format: a flat (zipped) file that is more compatible with third-party cloud platforms.
• Pro Document Compatibility: Documents with Pro features are fully viewable in Essentials, along with an option to import a copy that removes all Pro content.


PRO FEATURES (AVAILABLE VIA IN-APP PURCHASE)

• Filters: Create and save complex filters based on status, column data, and boolean operations.
• Password Encryption: Add a password to secure your documents (AES-256 encryption).
• Slide-in Sidebars: In full screen, moving the cursor to either edge of the screen makes the sidebars appear temporarily.
• Style Preview: A preview of the style you are inspecting is shown at the top of the inspectors.
• Multiple-Row Focus: Focus on multiple selections by command-clicking them in the section list.
• Resize Column to Fit: Select a column and have OmniOutliner adjust the width with the Resize to fit button in the Column Type Inspector.
• Specify Column Widths: The Column Inspector now has an editable field for the width. Columns can also be set to resize with the window or be set to a specific width.
• Keyboard Shortcuts: Easily customize shortcuts to your own liking.
• Excel Export: Export to xlsx format.

For video tutorials and other information, please visit our website!

If you have any feedback or questions, we'd love to hear from you! The Omni Group offers free tech support: you can reach us by email at omnioutliner@omnigroup.com, by phone at 1-800-315-6664 or +1-206-523-4152, or on twitter at @omnioutliner.

Thank you!

Subscription Terms of Service: https://www.omnigroup.com/legal

What’s New

Version 5.12

OmniOutliner 5.12 improves compatibility with macOS Sonoma.

• Cloud Storage Providers: Improved compatibility with linked resource folders stored in OneDrive.
• Stability: Fixed crash when using the Help menu search with an empty clipboard on macOS Sonoma.

If you have any feedback or questions, we’d love to hear from you! The Omni Group offers free tech support; you can email omnioutliner@omnigroup.com, call 1–800–315–6664 or 1–206–523–4152, or tweet @OmniOutliner.

If OmniOutliner empowers you, we would appreciate an App Store review. Your review will help other people find OmniOutliner and make them more productive too.

Ratings and Reviews

2.6 out of 5
20 Ratings

20 Ratings

Poromies ,

I find it very useful, but.....

I use OmniOutliner a lot, and have found it very useful. When I first came across it I could not see its purpose amongst all the other writing and notes apps. However, once I had chance to test it I found it to be a really powerful aid for organising and reorganising information.
Having said that, I agree with other reviewers that it is not always easy to use. It sometimes has a mind of its own wrt formatting. Omni already changed the file format once and could do it again. Consequently, I always save my Outliner documents in several formats (pdf, txt, opml) so I will always have a working copy.
I have used Graffle, Plan, and Focus for years in addition to Outliner. The biggest factor that would stop me using OmniOutliner and sibling products is the cost. Omni has increased prices of all its apps out of all proportion to their evolution. As I use them for personal rather than commercial purposes I will not be able to justify upgrading to the next charged upgrade.

Big Tram ,

Poor quality

This is a rip-off, overpriced version of an old app that desperately needs re-writing from top to bottom (though that would give the money-grabbing Omni Group the chance to hike their prices even more, so maybe customers should be careful what they wish for). As it stands, this has its uses as a basic app (though there are others that are better and cheaper), but it is an old-fashioned, buggy piece of software (also see other reviews who have found the same) that barely gets revised - except for the prices, which just go up and up. Particularly now that Omni Grab have turned it from a one-off purchase to a “subscription model”. No major change in the app, no redesign, no (much needed) improvements - just a way to get extra money off the customer and keep charging on a “subscription".
The developers should be ashamed of the way they have more or less abandoned this app, yet keep robbing the customer. (For more dissatisfaction with the way this company treats its customers, have a look at the reviews of Omnigraffle in the Mac store.)
EDIT: Now, just to make things really unworkable, the Omni Grab proprietary sync service (Omnipresence) has stopped syncing properly, so some outlines won’t copy from iPad to Mac. They need to kill this flaky service and use iCloud.

TeaBoy63 ,

If you want an outliner and more

There are some incredibly bad reviews of Omnioutliner here and I don't see why. This app is much more than just an outliner and offers very good value in essentials form but quite pricey for the pro version but you do get much more for the extra cost, I suggest using it for some time in essentials then buy the upgrade if you like the app but want the extra features. Many of the complaints are over the fact that it does not get major updates and costs a lot for each upgrade, well omnioutliner 5 has been around a while but for incremental upgrades there is no additional costs so I don't see how the OmniGoup can be accused of constantly taking your money. If you don't like it after your free trial then don't buy it. The one major glitch for me has been how badly it has tried to integrate with iCloud drive, well this was finally fixed in 5.10 (at no cost), so now I can happily move all my old outlines out of OmniSync server and move all to iCloud. Thank you OmniGroup

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