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OmniPlan for iPad — it’s here!

by Derek R. on June 7, 2012

It’s with great excitement we’re able to introduce OmniPlan for iPad — a great new way to manage and create projects on the go. You can get it right now on the App Store for $49.99.

OmniPlan is the last of our core applications to hit the iPad, and we’re delighted with the app you’re now able to use. The first bits were checked in over a year ago—we even showed off a fairly functional app at Macworld this year—but the last few months have brought an absolute flurry of changes.

Learn more about specific features on OmniPlan’s product page. If you have questions, shoot us an email.

Major releases like this one require a lot of effort from everyone, and now we can share it with you. Enjoy, and happy planning.

Comments

Hi,

I am very interesting by OmniPlan on iPad, it’s look great.

But i have some questions :

Is it possible to have a view by Ressource people ?

What are the option to print a planning ? or to send a planning by email ?

Have a nice day,

Best Regards

Eursels

06.07.12 6:45 AM

Hi,
I’m a Chinese student, I love every product of the Omni Group, I have no Mac, what I have is an iPad, and the Omni things have helped me a lot! Thanks a lot! So, I hope you can Chinese in OmniPlan! My English is not very well.
Thanks a lot.
Yours,
ToyChen(陈远)

ToyChen

06.07.12 7:17 AM

Omni’s iPad apps look great, but they’re just way, way too expensive. I use OmniFocus on Mac and iPhone, and I’d love to get the iPad version, but I just can’t justify another $40 on top of $80 for the Mac version, and $20 for the iPhone version. You guys are pricing yourselves into obscurity. I might have paid $40 for a universal OmniFocus that runs on both iPhone and iPad, but fleecing people separately for each version — and charging an exorbitant amount for each one — is just plain greedy. Looks like Omni’s planning to run with this pricing, so I probably won’t be buying or recommending Omni apps anymore, but if you guys ever decide to come around and drop your iPad apps to the ~$20 they’re worth, I’ll be first in line. (look at comparably complex apps in the App Store — absolutely nobody is charging anywhere near as much as you).

Jason Sims

06.07.12 1:54 PM

I was so looking forward to this app !  But I’m massively disappointed by the lack of any export/print functions.  This is just like Omnioutliner for iPad…. your software makes beautiful documents… and you can’t share it with anyone who doesn’t also use omnioutliner.  I’ll wait to make the purchase until you add some base functionality for any project management software:
- print/pdf export of gannt chart & plan
- export/import of MSproject


But if you could add pdf support to omnioutliner sometime soon…that would be awesome.

Shawn

06.07.12 5:59 PM

I love it. I am very interesting to use it to manage my project.

Thanks,
Erwin Yahya

Erwin Yahya

06.08.12 7:52 AM

THANK YOUUUUUUUUUU !!!

I love it !!!!!

Congrats for the team.

Niclet

06.08.12 1:24 PM
Team Member

Thanks for the wonderful response, everyone: OmniPlan for iPad has been the #2 Top Grossing iPad Business App for the last 42 hours (since shortly after it launched)!

Eursels: You can filter by resource to show tasks assigned to that resource: tap on the View button (in the top right corner), then tap Filter and choose which resource you’d like to see. Version 1.0 doesn’t have any support for printing plans or exporting them to other formats. (For now, if you have OmniPlan for Mac, you can sync with it and print or export from there.)

ToyChen: We didn’t want to hold back v1.0 for additional languages, but we do plan to translate OmniPlan into Chinese and other languages over the next few months.

Jason: Not everyone is in the market for serious project management software, but for those who are OmniPlan for iPad is a bargain at $50. (And obviously many others agree.) We’re not looking for impulse buys; we’re selling to serious customers who are willing to invest in their own productivity (and we charge them less than an hour of professional consulting time would cost). Note that on the Mac, OmniPlan sells quite well at $200—which is far less than similar software costs on other platforms.

Shawn: We agree, and we’ll be improving our export and printing capabilities. For 1.0, we had to start somewhere and we thought it best (for both OmniOutliner and OmniPlan) to get the basic touch interactions and syncing working well before adding features like printing. 1.0 is the beginning of the road, not the end!

Erwin and Niclet: Glad to hear you’re loving the app!

Thanks again, all!

Ken Case

06.08.12 1:50 PM

Hi Omni,

I’ve downloaded your app, spent time learning the interface (which is spot on..gz guys) but I have serious egg on my face from business colleagues as, when I tried to share plans, I found it couldnt share in any useable way. A tremendous blow for the product and cant emphasise enough the importance of this function. Any business tool must have the ability to be shared in PDF or share-friendly function…without that, it seriously loses value.

Any chance for a temporary fix while you develop the next stage of the app? I’d be happy with a simple print/PDF module which could be downloaded from your site. Just please don’t leave it months to get this sorted guys!

Simon

06.21.12 2:57 PM

Project planning can’t happen in a vacuum.  Until I can share the plan with all the other people involved (PDF would be the most universal and versatile, but MSProject would be great as well) I can’t justify the expense and time to learn the product.

I will purchase, learn, and probably promote as much as I do the other Omni products when it can share/print.

Tom Rockhold

07.03.12 5:17 AM

Hi,
I’ve been reading reviews and mostly, the comments were GOOD. Kudos to OMNI.
I’ve kinda hold back on the purchase due to the export in-capability. Would highly appreciate if you guys could give a clue on the timeframe for the export capability to be available (espc pdf).

Thx.

Razif Wahab

07.03.12 11:21 PM
Team Member

OmniPlan for iPad v1.1 adds PDF export, as well as task and resource HTML reports. (We submitted it to the App Store last week, where it’s currently waiting for Apple’s review.)

If there are other reports you’d like to see, please let us know!

Ken Case

07.04.12 8:03 AM
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