OmniFocus 4.7 for All Platforms

OmniFocus 4.7 introduces three powerful enhancements: a new “Planned” date type, the ability to create mutually exclusive tags, and improved repeat functionality (including new support for setting a repeat to end after a specific date or set number of repetitions). These features require migrating your database format, using our updated migration flow.

This release also includes a range of improvements which do not require a database migration: new Forecast functionality, Time Sensitive Notification support, improved Shortcuts actions, and more!

All Platforms

• Database Migration — Some features in this release require a new database format. The updated database migration assistant will prompt to migrate your database after all syncing copies of OmniFocus have updated to 4.7 (database migration can also be initiated manually via the Migrate Database option, available in the menu bar on macOS and in Settings on iOS, iPadOS, and visionOS).
• Planned Dates — Items can now be assigned a Planned Date, in addition to a Defer and a Due Date. A Planned Date is the date an action, action group, or project is scheduled for work. (Planned dates require database migration.)
• Mutually Exclusive Tags — Mutually exclusive behavior can now be enabled for tag groups. When enabled, only one tag from a tag group can be assigned to an item at a time; when an additional tag from this group is assigned, the previously assigned tag is removed. Mutually exclusive tags can be useful in a variety of workflows, including priority and energy level assignment. (Mutually exclusive tags require database migration.)
• Improved Repeats — A range of new repeat behaviors can now be configured in the updated Repeat Inspector. (New repeat behaviors require database migration.)
  • Repeat Limits — Repeats can now be set to end after a date or set number of repetitions.
  • Automatic Catch Up — Repeating items now skip forward to next future date when “Catch up automatically” is enabled.
  • Repeat Schedules — Improved scheduling flexibility for items that repeat on a regular schedule.
  • Inspector — New interface for editing repeats. When not editing, repeat behavior is now summarized in Inspector.
• Forecast — Forecast has been updated to better summarize relevant items and improve date assignment.
  • Summary Dots — New summary dots in Forecast date header and calendar sidebar communicate how many items are due, due soon, or have been assigned a due date on a given day. Summary dots can be hidden if desired in the Notifications Settings.
  • Counts — Summary counts in Forecast now count all displayed items (previously, counts only included due items). Count behavior can be customized in the Notifications Settings.
  • Date Assignment — New “In Forecast: Add or drag to assign” Organization setting determines whether a Defer, Planned, or Due Date is assigned when adding new actions and projects, or dragging existing actions and projects to a date tile.
• Time Sensitive Notifications — OmniFocus notifications now default to Time Sensitive alert behavior.
• Shortcuts — New “Find Perspective” shortcut action.
• Localizations — Additional content has been translated throughout the app.
• Terminology — Standardized wording and capitalization for consistency across platforms (most changes pertain to dates, notifications, and settings).
• Help — Help menu item now opens in app documentation (rather than re-directing to the online manual).
• Help — Help content has been substantially updated, including consolidation of OmniFocus for the Web documentation into the OmniFocus 4 Reference Manual.
• Copy as Link — Improved consistency of “Copy as Link” behavior across platforms.
• Forecast — Date tiles in the Forecast sidebar no longer use colored backgrounds and text to indicate due and overdue items (since this state is now communicated with the summary dots).
• Notifications — Notifications are no longer applied to future instances of repeating actions and projects.
• Shortcuts — Sorting options are now available for “Find” shortcut actions.
• Tags — New “Tag group” sidebar icon.
• Forecast Widget — The Forecast Widget’s Future tile correctly counts items with notifications when those are enabled in Forecast.
• Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur on Clean Up.

iPhone, iPad, and Apple Vision Pro

• Forecast — When dragging items onto a Forecast date, you can now hold Command, Option, or Shift on a paired physical keyboard to have the drag adjust the Due, Defer, or Planned dates on those items rather than the default date assignment specified by Settings > Organization.
• Schedule — The schedule menu commands to adjust deferred, planned, and due dates will no longer adjust other dates.
• Apple Watch — Synced changes are now displayed more reliably on Apple Watch.
• Apple Watch — Fixed a bug that could cause some custom perspective complications to fail to update.
• Menus — Corrected menu item titles for compatibility with forthcoming versions of iPadOS.
• Notifications — Time field no longer scrolls off screen when adding a notification on iPhone.
• Stability — Fixed a crash encountered when using “Reschedule” with multiple items when some of those items weren’t configured to repeat. (OmniFocus no longer offers to “Reschedule” unless all selected items repeat.)
• Stability — Fixed a crash encountered when a shortcut (or other App Intent) tried to use data before the app finishes opening.

OmniFocus 4.6.1 for All Platforms

All Platforms

• Database Compatibility — Improved recovery flow when an incompatible database format is encountered.
• OS Compatibility — Updated accuracy of alert presented when OmniFocus detects it is running on an OS it has not yet been updated to support.

iPhone & iPad

• Notes — Pasting or dragging Note text into other apps is now more reliable.

OmniFocus 4.6 improves note and attachment functionality on all supported platforms, with new support for image attachment resizing and paste behavior refinements. This release also introduces new attachment and link contextual shortcut menus on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Vision Pro, and brings support for custom font display to these platforms.

OmniFocus 4.6 for All Platforms

All Platforms

• Attachments — Image attachments can now be resized within a note.
• Paste — New “Pasting from other apps” setting offers options for paste behavior when pasting styled text.
• Paste — Improved app default ("Merge Style") paste behavior, which discards most formatting from externally copied text, keeping only essential styles such as bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, subscript or superscript, ligatures, and writing direction, as well as links with titles, and attachments.
• Paste — Styled text copied from within OmniFocus now always pastes “with Original Styles,” regardless of Paste setting.
• Paste — Menu items and keyboard shortcuts are now available for all Paste behavior variants. Existing keyboard shortcut for “Paste with Original Style” has been updated for platform consistency.
• Shortcuts — Removed beta status from “Find” Shortcuts.
• Sync — Improved cross-platform consistency of sync prompts.
• Attachments — Database compaction now triggers immediate removal of deleted attachments.
• Custom Perspectives — Reordering items in outline when there is a sidebar selection no longer results in unexpected sort order in “Tagged with any of” custom perspectives.
• Dates — Date parser now accepts “fev” for localized French abbreviation of February.
• Paste — When pasting with merged styles, additional text pasted into a text run now adopts existing style.
• Sync — Improved sync logic to reduce frequency of unexpected database rebuilding.
• Sync — Improved performance by reducing unnecessary Bonjour sync triggers.

iPhone & iPad

• Appearance — Added support for custom fonts, along with a list of Omni-selected system font options. (This feature was initially introduced for Mac in OmniFocus 4.5.)
• Notes — A contextual shortcut menu is now available for links and attachments, providing quick access to common actions.
• Notes — Links and images no longer open automatically on single tap, making it easier to place your cursor in the notes field to make edits.
• Sync — Blocked sync attempts are now included in sync logging. If you are experiencing unreliable sync behavior, please reach out to our Support team for assistance troubleshooting!
• Attachments — Restored ability to preview attached .txt, .rtf, .docx, and .xlxs files within OmniFocus.
• Attachments — Correct file extension is now retained when sharing an attached file from OmniFocus.
• Database Content previously written to local temporary directory is now cleaned up on cold app launch.
• Keyboard — Hardware keyboard focus no longer blocks adding additional items to current selection.
• Keyboard — Corrected keyboard focus following new item creation on recent releases of iPadOS 18.

OmniFocus 4.5.3 for All Platforms

OmniFocus 4.5.3 includes bug fixes related to syncing, rebuilding the database, and localization.

iPhone & iPad

• Localization — Chinese Pinyin input once again works in the Project and Tags picker.

OmniFocus 4.5.2 for All Platforms

OmniFocus 4.5.2 includes more powerful notifications on iPhone and iPad, a new Apple Watch complication, improvements to Smart Match, updates to our Shortcuts actions (including an all-new Sync action), better VoiceOver support for repeats, enhanced keyboard navigation on iPad, a new Omni Automation API, and a collection of bug fixes.

All Platforms

• Omni Automation — Omni Automation can be used to change the color of a custom perspective icon.
• Shortcuts — Sync OmniFocus action has been added.
• In-App Purchases — In-app purchases have been streamlined to offer perpetual OmniFocus 4 licenses for all new purchases.
• Shortcuts — Find Actions has a new “Item Type” filter, which supports filtering by action, group, or project.
• Shortcuts — Find Projects filter for “Folder” now supports both “is” and “is not”, which apply to projects directly inside the selected folder.
• Shortcuts — Quick Entry, Quick Open, and Sync OmniFocus actions are grouped under a new Application header.
• Smart Match — Smart Match has been updated to prioritize consecutive letters over consecutive words, as well as words over non-contiguous capital letters, improving results when assigning projects and tags.
• Tips — Updated “Hide feature tips” label in settings.
• Custom Perspectives — Tagged actions inside of groups now display consistently whether or not “Preserve Hierarchy” is enabled.
• Estimated Duration — Estimated Duration consistently uses minutes by default, instead of hours, even when “Latest Start” notifications are enabled.
• Forecast — Actions added to groups will no longer appear to be duplicates of the selected action.
• Genmoji — Genmoji in notes can be copied and pasted more reliably, and use consistent spacing.
• Genmoji — Genmoji in notes display in previews for unselected rows.

iPhone & iPad

• Notifications — Notifications for projects or groups which contain available actions, as well as those based on location, now support Dynamic Type and include a list of remaining items, each of which can be completed by tapping on its status circle.
• Accessibility — Custom monthly and weekly repetitions will now read their values when using VoiceOver.
• Genmoji — Genmoji in notes no longer cause the “note with attachment” icon to display.
• Keyboard — Project rows now expand to show metadata when selected, even after moving the project into a folder.
• Keyboard — Row selection once again expands when using Shift–Up Arrow and Shift–Down Arrow, and now works after using the Begin Select Mode command.
• Project/Tags Picker — Filter text is once again cleared when selecting or deselecting an item from the filtered list, and the “Go To” arrow successfully goes to the tapped item.
• Shortcuts — Add Action, Add TaskPaper, and Complete Action consistently create actions that are part of a repeat loop.
• Tips — “Add with Quick Entry” tip will no longer display on iPhone while the Inspector is open.

Apple Watch

• Complication — Added Quick Entry complication, which launches OmniFocus and opens the Quick Entry editor.