Recent Changes

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 (image attachment resizing requires macOS 15).
• 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.

Mac

• Omni Automation — Plug-in toolbar button appearance now matches appearance of native toolbar buttons.
• Apple Intelligence — Writing Tools cursor is no longer displayed for project, tag, and date fields in Inspector

OmniFocus 4.5.3 for All Platforms

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

Mac

• Notes — Fixed a rare issue where an incoming sync, received while editing a note, could cause the most recent note edits to be lost.
• Rebuild Database — Using the Rebuild Database… command no longer merges tabs into a single window when “Prefer tabs when opening documents” is set to “Always” in System Settings.

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.

Mac

• Sync — Changes received from other devices are integrated more quickly. (The app still waits for a pause in editing, to avoid interrupting edits in progress.)
• Defer Dates — Defer Date field in the Outline now immediately updates.
• Forecast — Piano key date tiles at the top of the Outline highlight correctly when dragging an item across, rather than remaining purple.
• Settings — Sync Settings load consistently, resolving an issue which could block editing of sync account settings.
• Sync — Windows and tabs consistently restore when incorporating sync changes, resolving an issue which could unexpectedly close open windows or tabs.
• Tips — Synced changes to the “Hide feature tips” setting immediately updates the checkbox on Mac, in addition to updating the setting.