OmniFocus 4 4+
Accomplish More Every Day
The Omni Group
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
OmniFocus is powerful task management software for busy professionals. With tools to help tame the chaos, you can focus on the right tasks at the right time.
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OmniFocus 4 introduces a modernized, unified interface across Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro. Centered around your task outline, OmniFocus 4 brings a consistent experience, optimized for each device type, to all of your Apple devices.
Easily create tasks anytime–from anywhere–and organize them with projects, tags, and dates. Quickly navigate OmniFocus on any device using the Perspectives Bar, Quick Open, and Back and Forward history. With Pro, use Focus to help focus your attention on specific projects or folders, and customize OmniFocus to only display the information most relevant to you.
New to OmniFocus? The simple, efficient OmniFocus 4 interface will help you discover and implement a trusted system that works and grows with you.
Upgrading from a previous version of OmniFocus? In OmniFocus 4, discover enhanced versions of all the powerful task management features you already rely on, along with new features that will level-up your workflow.
Omni offers a free and secure sync service, protected with end-to-end encryption, ensuring only devices you authorize can access your data. And now, for the first time ever, OmniFocus is available as a universal cross-platform purchase: get full access to OmniFocus 4 on your Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch with a single license purchase.
Already own a previous version of OmniFocus? Upgrade today and receive a special upgrade discount. Prefer to subscribe to OmniFocus on a monthly or yearly basis? An OmniFocus subscription unlocks OmniFocus Pro on all supported Apple devices, and includes access to OmniFocus for the Web from any web browser.
Accomplish more every day–anywhere you go–with OmniFocus 4.
What’s New
Version 4.5
OmniFocus 4.5 introduces new and re-written Shortcuts actions, enhanced Spotlight results (with parity on all platforms), in-app tips and guidance for getting the most out of OmniFocus, improvements to Omni Automation, additional appearance and accessibility options for Mac, and a collection of bug fixes.
Our new Shortcuts actions have been developed using the latest Apple technologies, with each action having a streamlined focus. This makes it easier to build new shortcuts, with a clearer sequence of actions, while enabling us to take advantage of future Apple releases. We have left legacy Shortcuts actions in place, to ensure that all your current shortcuts will continue working as expected, while exploring new possibilities in automation. This work continues, so please let us know what you think, if you run into any issues, or if you have any suggestions.
All Platforms
• Genmoji — Added support for Genmoji in the notes field, when supported by the operating system. Please note that syncing notes containing Genmoji to earlier versions of OmniFocus can result in errors; updating to v4.5 on all your devices will provide a more consistent experience.
• Omni Automation — Added support for new `omnifocus:///project/` URLs. Using Copy as Link will continue to provide `omnifocus:///task/` URLs for projects, to maintain compatibility with earlier versions of OmniFocus; this will change in a future release. See OmniFocus: Release Notes in API Reference for more information.
• Shortcuts — New and updated Shortcuts actions include Add Action (replaces Legacy: Add Item); Add TaskPaper; Complete Action (new!); Complete Project (new!); Find Actions (replaces Legacy: Find Items); Find Folders (new!); Find Projects; Find Tags; Get Action, Get Folder, Get Perspective, Get Project, and Get Tag (using Copy as Link, and replacing Legacy: Get Database Object Result from Input); Get Actions from Perspective (new!); Open Action, Open Folder, Open Perspective, Open Project, Open Tag (replaces Legacy: Show in OmniFocus); and Today’s Forecast (with added support for due, deferred, tagged, and flagged actions). Find Actions and Find Projects are in beta; please read their descriptions regarding limitations. Previous Shortcuts actions now include Legacy: in the title and summary, along with suggestions for replacement actions.
• Spotlight — Enhanced Spotlight results are now available on all platforms, and include actions, action groups, projects, folders, tags, default perspectives, and custom perspectives.
• Tips — Helpful tips and guidance will display, as you use OmniFocus.
• Shortcuts — App Shortcuts-related crashes have been fixed.
Mac
• Accessibility — Color palette options now include a black background, for increased contrast.
• Appearance — Added support for custom fonts, along with a list of Omni-selected system font options, and an updated slider which supports a wider range of sizes (from 9 to 42 point). When choosing a custom font, we recommend using a Regular style, which allows OmniFocus to provide the same style-based context (such as action groups being presented in bold) as when using the default fonts.
• Spotlight — Spotlight results on Mac now match those available on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Vision Pro.
• Appearance — Appearance settings pane has been re-written in SwiftUI, to support future cross-platform improvements.
• Writing Tools — Make Table is restricted for notes on Mac, as the note fields on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Vision Pro do not support tables.
• Localization — Corrected several Japanese localizations in the Inspector.
If you have any feedback or questions, we’d love to hear from you! The Omni Group offers free tech support; you can email omnifocus@omnigroup.com or call 1–206–523–4152.
If OmniFocus empowers you, we would appreciate an App Store review. Your review will help other people find OmniFocus and make them more productive too.
Ratings and Reviews
Not sure yet
So I had massive freezing and crashing problems with this initially. I think it requires more free space on your iPhone. Cleared that up and deleted completed projects and that helped. I still find the layout confusing and have spent too much time trying to figure it out…still haven’t quite…yet even with the tutorial and not sure how to get the plugins to work on iPhone…. All that said…feels like it has potential…
Update: Nope still freezing like crazy back to 1 star….it always starts out fully expanded and that crashes my app because I have so many projects. Please let me go back to Omni3. Update still crashing despite uninstalling and reinstalling and having 10GB free space
Update again: their update seems to have fixed the major freezing issues. Back up to 4 stars.
Developer Response ,
Sorry for the trouble! OmniFocus 4.2, released today, substantially improved performance on iPhone. If you’re still experiencing this issue after updating, could you reach out to our Support team for further assistance? They can be reached via email at omnifocus@omnigroup.com, and would also be happy to help you get up and running with plug-ins on your iPhone. Thanks!
Potentially Viable
It has the planning hierarchies and matrices you’ve come to expect from Omni, but the programming is clunky and lacks sufficient UX direction. For example, adding a task/action flows downward, which makes sense for cascading lists that toggle. The experience gets confused when adding sub-tasks. It flows downward to start, but if your cursor was previously on the dominant task, each new sub task will push any previously created sub-tasks down in the queue, which will force you to reorganize everything manually if you were expecting a standard hierarchical list. If your cursor was on the previously created sub-task, the next created sub-task will be placed above the previous sub-task. When you finish engaging with the sub-task and move on, your list of subtasks often get re-arranged seemingly randomly.
Another problem is the varying representation of folders. I embrace the enjoyment of customization, but not at the expense of function. Nesting folders holds an importance when dealing with tiered, multi-variable projects. Leaving folders out of views leaves the pathway inarticulate, which muddies a user pathway, especially when sufficient complexity is achieved.
This application has the information visualization components in place, but without effective user interaction to help impart the value of using it, there isn’t much function—despite the potential value of the depth it could provide.
Clunky and buggy
You’ve actually made it harder to use than OmniFocus 3. It’s overly complicated, takes too many steps to do things because of the way more features are packed in to, say, the pop-up menu (but buried in a submenu!), that it takes extra clicks to get to the feature that used to take only one. On top of that, it’s very buggy. When I open it and try to move through the Perspective views, there is a LONG delay. Plus, some important controls have been taken away. I used to be able to hide deferred items when in the Review perspective, but that’s no longer possible—so I have to review every task in a project, even if it’s one I only do once a year and have deferred purposely so I DON’T have to review it every week with the other tasks in that project. Multiply all this by scores of projects, and it’s actually reducing my productivity—and making me very frustrated. If things don’t improve soon, maybe Things deserves a second look.
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Information
- Seller
- The Omni Group
- Size
- 39.4 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
- Apple Watch
- Requires watchOS 10.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2007-2024 The Omni Group
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- OmniFocus Subscription $9.99
- Upgrade to v4 Pro from v1-v3 $74.99
- OmniFocus Subscription $99.99
- Unlock Standard $74.99
- Upgrade to v4 from v1-v3 $37.49
- Unlock Pro $149.99
- Upgrade from Standard to Pro $74.99
- Upgrade v4 to Pro from v1-v3 $37.49