1. Change Tracking

    Use change tracking to keep tabs on and review the changes you've made in your project so far. If you're syncing, use change tracking to review, browse, and then accept or reject changes (task by task or en masse) from your collaborators.

  2. Publish & Subscribe

    Stop, collaborate, listen. Make changes to your project and see those from your collaborators with syncing; customize your availability and have your colleagues' calendars update instantly. Mix and match your publish and subscribe actions to meet your needs.

  3. Smart Scheduling

    Establish a schedule with OmniPlan's calendar view from which your actions can be scheduled. Customize calendars for the project as a whole or on a resource by resource basis. Create exceptions to account for holidays, office closures, that too-sunny-to resist day off—you name it.

  4. Friendly Interface

    We designed OmniPlan to help you spend your time on more worthy pursuits than trying to figure out how to use project management software. OmniPlan's intuitive approach helps you get things done and stays out of your way while doing so. OmniPlan has several customizable views starting from "simple creation" for basic planning options; when you're ready for more sophisticated functions, OmniPlan can be configured to meet your needs.

  5. Data-sharing options

    OmniPlan can import XML, MPX, and MPP project files from Microsoft Project, as well as OmniOutliner, OmniGraffle, and CSV files. OmniPlan exports information to iCal, CSV, Microsoft Project Exchange (MPX), Microsoft Project (XML), HTML, OmniOutliner, OmniGraffle, and a variety of image formats. You can create detailed HTML reports with OmniPlan, and use filtered criteria for customized printing and exporting options.

  6. Easy task management

    Tasks are the activities needed to complete your project (like "survey beta testers", for example, or "drywall the bedroom"). They are summaries of work broken into individual elements, to which you can then assign resources (like "Bill", or "vinyl flooring"). OmniPlan lets you enter tasks quickly in the outline view, in a familiar hierarchical format that simplifies complex projects with summaries and subheadings. You can track the costs associated with your tasks (resource cost, task cost, and total), view task constraints and dependencies, and create milestones that represent completion points in your project — all within the outline view. You'll have a clear understanding of your project's goals and deliverables in no time.

  7. Efficient resource allocation

    With OmniPlan's resource management, you can identify bottlenecks in your project, track budgets, and distribute workloads fairly and efficiently. Resources are defined as Staff, Material, Equipment, or Groups. OmniPlan makes it easy to assign a cost to each of your resources by use or by hour, so you can keep precise control over your project budget. Control your resource availability with a calendar, and make adjustments to reflect efficiencies (for example, assign a 75% efficiency to a staff member who can only devote ¾ of their time to your project). OmniPlan's resource leveling function automatically redistributes workloads among resources, so you avoid overallocation.

  8. Visual timelines

    The Timeline (or Gantt Chart) view of your project displays activities in a calendar. Durations for each task are shown graphically in a time-phased diagram by day, week, month, quarter, or year. The Gantt view shows task start and stop times, dependencies, resources, or resource usage by task, all on a timeline. You can visually edit tasks and create dependencies (where a certain task can't begin unless another has finished) by dragging and connecting them in the Gantt view. OmniPlan's graphical display of your project's information helps you quickly assess status and proactively manage deadlines.

  9. Violations and critical paths

    If your schedule has a logical impossibility – for example, the scheduled start date for a task occurs before the project start date – OmniPlan displays a violation window, with an explanation of the problem and suggestions of possible solutions (and links that automatically resolve the violation). In the Gantt view, OmniPlan displays your project's critical path, which is the series of tasks that are necessary in order for your project to finish on schedule. The critical path can change as you progress through your schedule; OmniPlan keeps you up to date so you can make informed decisions.

  10. Resource Load Sharing

    With the latest update to OmniPlan, we've added the ability to share resources across multiple projects. By specifying an email address for each (human) resource, you'll be able to manage and balance their workload automatically, making sure everyone shares just the right amount of load.

Download

OmniPlan 2 is a major release and a paid upgrade from previous versions. License codes from OmniPlan 1 will not work with OmniPlan 2. The app runs as a fully functional trial for 14 days without a license. After the trial is over, you can purchase OmniPlan 2 from the App Store or the Omni Group Store. Requires Mac OS X 10.7 or later to run.

What's New

Latest release: January 31 2013

Bug Fixes

  • Improved reliability of connecting to Google calendars for syncing.
  • Corrected double accounting of group assignment total cost.
  • Sorry, but 2.2.3 only fixed one small corner of the French duration parsing bug. This should fix the rest.

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