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, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro with a single license purchase.
Accomplish more every day–anywhere you go–with OmniFocus 4.
This incredibly flexible task and project manager is easy to pick up but powerful enough for productivity pros and complex projects. You can work with items by project, date, flags, tags, or even location; the app’s Perspectives feature lets you create custom views based on any combination of criteria; and every view is customizable to match the way you work.
Not sure yet
ColdWar1991
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 spaceUpdate 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
WrigglingOstrichEgg
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.
A real backward slide from Omni Focus 3
jared platt
I have always upgraded to the latest Omni Focus and they never disappointed in the past but OMNI FOCUS 4 is a glitchy, slow, UI nightmare. I am VERY DISAPPOINTED. The most basic operations like adding a task task the iOS. Push a button and wait for it to respond. Sometimes you have to click on it multiple times. Everything is a bit glitchy. Dragging a task to a new day used to be a smooth drag. Now it hesitates. The UI has been updated to be slower to get where you want to go. Now to take a task and assign it to tomorrow requires you to go into sub menus. More clicks to do everything. Bad UI choices. Not to mention the huge individual task panel that opens every time you make a task. You can no longer just make a list of tasks by hitting enter and getting a new task line without the big task panel. Now you have to close the task panel. Oh and there is no more SAVE PLUS NEW TASK button. I don’t know what they were thinking on this new version but I am thinking that I need to go back to version 3 or just give up on Omni Focus all together. It’s a shame because it is a very expensive app. Any app that costs over $70 should work and should get better each time you upgrade. Version 4 is a travesty.There are a few good things in the UI update. But the vast majority of the UI updates make it slower to get things in and move them around. I do like the updates to the Perspectives. That was a good update. But it’s hard to be excited about one good feature update when you are plagued by glitches and slow operation and bad UI.
OmniFocus 4.9.2 is a minor update focused on bug fixes.
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Version 4.9.2
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