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
Almost perfect, needs Markdown support
**OmniFocus Review - Short Version:**
OmniFocus excels with its intuitive interface and powerful task management features. It syncs seamlessly across devices, supports detailed project planning, and offers custom perspectives for focused productivity.
**Pros:**
- User-friendly design
- Robust feature set for organization
- Excellent cross-device synchronization
**Cons:**
- Lacks Markdown support in notes, which would make it perfect.
A nearly ideal tool for anyone serious about managing tasks efficiently, just missing that one feature for a full five stars.
Doing the big stuff well, the small less so
I’ve used OF for many years and it is fundamentally good and reliable. I appreciate the many improvements that have been made since OF3. The new layout with navigation bar is much improved, and the more independent Apple Watch app is very welcome in particular.
Unfortunately the experience so far has been marred by the frustrating drag and drop experience. Is it so much to ask that it works reliably and is clear and consistent in its action? I probably manage to get the desired outcome one in ten times at the moment. Ordering tasks is a really core part of this app. I use all the platforms other than Mac so perhaps there it works perfectly, but the same certainly cannot be said for iOS and web in my experience.
Grab an iPad, open Review on a decent size database, and start trying to add/edit/nest/order stuff in anger. I’m sure it won’t take long for you to want to rage quit!
Yes, it is worth that much
When I first came across Omnifocus, years ago, I read the description and it came across as a glorified to-do list manager. I couldn't see why one would need it. These days it is an important part of how I manage my working and private life. I have large numbers of small projects and one big one, and this is the best tool I have come across for keeping track of what I need to do, and when. However to get the best out of it, you will need to put some thought in to how you want to use it. It is a tool, not a method. You would do best to pick a method (e.g Getting Things Done, which is what I use) and see whether it supports the method that you want to use.
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Information
- Provider
- 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 £8.99
- Upgrade to v4 Pro from v1-v3 £69.99
- Unlock Standard £69.99
- Upgrade to v4 from v1-v3 £39.99
- OmniFocus Subscription £89.99
- Unlock Pro £149.99
- Upgrade v4 to Pro from v1-v3 £39.99
- Upgrade from Standard to Pro £69.99