OmniFocus 4.8.7 is a minor update focused on bug fixes.

All Platforms

• Performance — Addressed memory leaks related to text attributes.

iPhone & iPad

• Sync — App states which transitorily block sync are no longer incorrectly reported as continuing to block sync.
• Sync — Fixed a bug that could cause sync to silently fail after creating items via the Share sheet.
• VoiceOver — Improved VoiceOver rotor reliability on iOS and iPadOS 26.
• VoiceOver — VoiceOver no longer reads navigation bar button labels more than once.
• VoiceOver — Corrected Quick Entry VoiceOver label.
• Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur when navigating to a perspective via Quick Open.
• Stability — Fixed a crash on launch that could occur if Search was previously active.
• Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur in the outline.

OmniFocus 4.8.5 is a minor update focused on bug fixes.

All Platforms

• Repeats — Repeat rules can now be cleared in rare instances in which the previously configured repeat schedule is corrupted.

iPhone & iPad

• Focus — Focus bar now lays out correctly after Focus is applied.
• Search — Improved reliability of selecting “Show in Projects” or “Show in Tags” for an item returned in Search results.

iPhone

• Navigation Bar — Fixed a bug that could sometimes block re-expanding the Navigation Bar when tapping the current perspective icon.

iPad

• Perspectives Bar — Perspectives Bar is now always scrollable (this change avoids a bug in which tap targets could become misaligned in the Perspectives Bar).
• Keyboard — Corrected position of hardware keyboard selection highlight on iPadOS 26.
• Toolbar — Fixed a bug that could cause toolbar buttons to temporarily draw incorrectly when resizing window.

All Platforms

• Repeats — Improved repeat scheduling logic; repeating items with “Catch up automatically” enabled now maintain regular schedule when skipping past occurrences.
• Perspectives Bar — The contextual menu for the perspectives bar now uses a shorter phrase “Perspectives” to open the editable perspectives list.
• Forecast — Improved Forecast sort order logic to avoid unexpected re-ordering of items following selection change in the outline.
• Repeats — Avoided hang that could occur when calculating “catch up automatically” date over a very long interval of time.
• Stability — Fixed a crash that could potentially cause widgets to stop updating.
• Support Tools — Made the anonymizer more robust when data attachments are truncated.

iPhone, iPad, and Apple Vision Pro

• Symbols — On OS 26, menus now use the same symbol for the Inspector as the toolbar uses.
• Outline — Fixed a bug that could trigger temporary misalignment of tap targets in the outline.
• Quick Open — “Edit” option in perspective shortcut contextual menu is now functional.
• Search — Duplicating a search result no longer creates more than one item duplicate.

iPhone

• Keyboard — Improved compatibility with third party keyboards on OS 26.
• Navigation Bar — Addressed delay that could sometimes occur displaying Smart Add and Quick Entry buttons in Navigation Bar.

iPad

• Perspectives Bar — Addressed unexpected Perspectives Bar animation when revealing or hiding a sidebar.
• Toolbar — Toolbar buttons are now labeled when displayed in an overflow menu on iPadOS 26.

All Platforms

• Widgets — Widgets and Complications now always reload when app is foregrounded.
• Documentation — Updated in-app Help.

iPhone & iPad

• Quick Open — Quick Open now includes a Perspective Settings button, for quick access to perspectives management.
• Delete — Attempting to delete a project or group when Select mode is enabled no longer triggers “No nodes were deletable” error message.
• Free Viewer — Text is once again legible in Free Viewer mode expectations bar on OS versions prior to OS 26.
• Nearby — “Location” button is now easier to tap.

iPhone

• Navigation Bar — Improved Navigation Bar auto-collapse behavior when viewing a short outline.
• Outline — Perspective title now remains visible when items are selected in the outline.

iPad

• Menus — All perspectives are now listed in Perspectives menu.
• Quick Open — Improved appearance of selection highlight in Quick Open.
• Inspector — Inspector popover now displays correctly in Dark Mode when opened from contextual menu.

iPhone

• Navigation Bar — When the Perspectives Bar is hidden, switching perspectives will now always collapse the Navigation Bar.
• Navigation Bar — Fixed a bug that would cause the Navigation Bar to scroll unnecessarily when switching perspectives.

iPad

• Review Interval — Work around a crash in iPadOS 26 encountered when dismissing the review interval popover. Also improved the popover’s layout.

OmniFocus 4.8 introduces a visually refreshed interface, adopting beautiful Liquid Glass design elements and a modernized look and feel when run on on macOS Tahoe 26, iOS 26, or iPadOS 26. This release also includes support for a range of new OS features - support for consulting Apple’s new on-device Foundation Models via Omni Automation plug-ins, OmniFocus Shortcuts actions in Spotlight on macOS 26, iOS 26 CarPlay widgets, watchOS 26 Control Center Controls, and more!

All Platforms

• OS Compatibility — OmniFocus has been updated for compatibility with macOS Tahoe 26, iOS 26, iPadOS 26, watchOS 26, and visionOS 26.
• New Design — OmniFocus has been visually refreshed, adopting beautiful Liquid Glass design elements and a modernized look and feel when run on macOS Tahoe 26, iOS 26, or iPadOS 26.
• Omni Automation [PRO] — On devices running macOS Tahoe 26, iOS 26, iPadOS 26, or visionOS 26 with hardware support for Apple Intelligence, OmniFocus plug-ins can now consult Apple’s new on-device Foundation Models.
• App Icon — App Icon has been updated.
• Documentation — Updated in-app Help.
• Quick Open — New Quick Open icon.

iPhone & iPad

• Perspectives — Perspectives are now managed in Settings.
• Quick Entry — Quick Entry is now accessed via a dedicated button on iOS 26 and iPadOS 26.
• Nearby — Perspective header is no longer displayed in Map mode on iOS 26 and iPadOS 26.

iPhone

• Navigation — New Navigation Bar collapses on scroll, providing more space to view your tasks on iOS 26. When expanded, the Navigation Bar contains the redesigned Perspectives Bar and buttons for Quick Open, Search, Smart Add, and Quick Entry. Collapsed, the Navigation Bar displays a minimal set of buttons (including a button showing the current perspective icon, which you can tap to expand the Navigation Bar).
• Navigation — Tapping the Navigation Bar button for the current perspective displays the Perspectives Bar, regardless of “Show Perspectives Bar” setting state.
• CarPlay — Forecast and Perspective Items widgets are now available in CarPlay on iOS 26.

iPad

• Windows — OmniFocus windows fully support flexible windowing on iPadOS 26.
• Menus — OmniFocus menu items are available on iPadOS 26.
• Search — Search has moved to the toolbar on iPadOS 26.

Apple Watch

• Control Center — Quick Entry and Open Perspective Controls are available on watchOS 26.

All Platforms

• Forecast — Summary task dots are now displayed in sidebar “Past” tile.
• Planned Dates — OmniFocus URL schemes now support planned parameter.
• Planned Dates — Omni Automation now supports effectivePlannedDate property.
• Widgets & Complications — Forecast Items & Forecast Perspective Items summary counts now respect “Forecast: Only count due items” setting.
• Localizations — Improved localized date formatting and parsing in some repetition date fields.

iPhone, iPad, and Apple Vision Pro

• Dates — Date pickers no longer support entering dates set to the year 4001 or later.
• Sync — Fixed a bug that could cause a sync prompt to block successful integration of synced data.

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.

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 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.