
OmniFocus
OmniFocus is designed to quickly capture your thoughts and ideas to store, manage, and help you process them into actionable to-do items.
- Paid • Proprietary
- Task Management Tool
- Todo List Manager
- Project Management Tool
- Mac
- Online
- iPhone
- iPad
- Apple Watch
What is OmniFocus?
OmniFocus is a personal task manager by The Omni Group, based in GTD method.
OmniFocus is designed to quickly capture your thoughts and allow you to store, manage, and process them into actionable to-do items. Perfect for the Getting Things Done system, but flexible enough for any task management style, OmniFocus helps you work smarter by giving you powerful tools for staying on top of all the things you need to do. OmniFocus for the iPhone brings task management to your fingertips. Keep track of actions by project, place, person, or date. Bring up a shopping list, agenda items to discuss at work, tasks for home, and any other lists you need. Using your location, OmniFocus can create a custom list of actions to complete nearby. Buying groceries? OmniFocus can show you the closest grocery store and create an instant shopping list.
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Supported Languages
- English
- German
- Spanish
- French
- Italian
- Russian
- Portuguese
- Dutch
- Korean
- Chinese
- Japanese
Apple AppStore
- Updated
- 3.95 avg rating
Comments and Reviews
Tags
- Todo List Manager
- Task Management
- Productivity Tool
- Note-taking
- Task Manager
- tasks
- getting-things-done
- notepad
- things-to-do
- Task List
A dream to no Apple users ...
Deciding to be Mac-based only; while this may be the company's idea of an advantage, I strongly disagree.
While I must say that OmniFocus looks quite impressive - but with so many great tools out there in the competition with multiple OS and device integration, this makes it a very easy decision to NOT choose OmniFocus. Even if I decided to be exclusively Mac-based with my company, the number of clients out there using Windows or other platforms... not feasible.
After speaking with OmniFocus and finding out they have no plans for pursuing cross-platform solutions - I have no plans of pursuing to try to make OmniFocus part of my work environment wither; there are so many other great alternatives now.
[Edited by menace97, April 30]
According to AlternativeTo, OmniFocus supports Online –– meaning that you can access it on Windows via a web browser.
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I used OmniFocus in its early days and Kinkless kGTD for OmniOutliner before that. I also used other OmniFocus apps like OmniWeb. I like the long history of The Omni Group developing for NEXTSTEP and macOS. But I would prefer a task list app with less buttons to fiddle with.
https://www.omnigroup.com/omnifocus/
Wirecutter writes the following about OmniFocus in their guide "The Best To-Do List App:"
OmniFocus has a reputation for being one of the best to-do list apps you can get. Its robust system allows for the most thorough customization of any app we tested, with every feature you could imagine, from tags within tags to powerful filtering and forecast views; it even allows for JavaScript integration, so tinkerers can go wild fine-tuning their workflows. That said, OmniFocus costs more than any of the other apps we tested—even its subscription option costs $10 per month, which is notably higher than any other app with a subscription. The iOS version alone costs $50 for the Standard upgrade and $75 for the Pro upgrade. The extra bit of power OmniFocus offers isn’t worth the premium for most people. And the OmniFocus system has a higher learning curve than the competition—you could really just spend that time getting your work done.
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-to-do-list-app/
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I would have bought the full version years ago if only it were cross platform!
I completely agree johnclark! What a shame.
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I agree! Contrary to other comments I have not found an application with as much power and flexibility to use on a Windows 10 PC. So I agree - this is a real shame.
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More of a professional solution than Things. More versatile & better support for the way I want to work.
Good OS integration & scripting ability.
OmniGroup make excellent apps!