OmniFocus - Release Notes

OmniFocus Web November 10th, 2025

Ainsley Bourque Olson — 2025-11-10T20:14:00+00:00

Tags — New “Tag group” sidebar icon.
Tags — Enabled Mutually Exclusive tag group behavior is now reflected in the Inspector and by the sidebar tag icon style.
Dates — Standardized terminology relating to dates.
Flagged — “Group actions by: Planned Date” View Option is now available.
Forecast — “In Forecast, include: Items on planned date” View Option is now available.
Settings — Renamed “Preferences” as “Settings” for consistency with native OmniFocus apps.
Forecast — Addressed unexpected behavior and option display in View Options.
Forecast — Popover menu no longer dismisses unexpectedly when selecting “In Forecast, include: Items tagged:” View Option.
Keyboard — Restored support for Add Inside/Add Outside keyboard shortcuts.
Notes — Improved reliability of ' keyboard shortcut.
Outline — New items are no longer created in unexpected locations after navigating via arrow keys.
Outline — Creating a new item no longer breaks arrow key navigation.
Outline — Restored support for creating an action group via drag and drop.
Outline — Fixed a bug that could cause drop targets to shift unexpectedly.
Outline — Restored ability to create action groups via drag and drop.
Quick Open — Quick Open results can now be opened via cursor.
View Options — Fixed a bug that could cause interacting with View Options to trigger a crash.
View Options — Increased size of Availability setting click targets.

OmniFocus Web October 9th, 2025

Ainsley Bourque Olson — 2025-10-09T22:30:00+00:00

Repeats — Improved repeat scheduling logic; repeating items with “Catch up automatically” enabled now maintain regular schedule when skipping past occurrences.

OmniFocus Web September 23rd, 2025

Ainsley Bourque Olson — 2025-09-23T22:50:00+00:00

Links — Links to specific projects once again work, regardless of current sidebar selection.
Notes — Selecting a task with displayed Notes content no longer unexpectedly puts editing focus in the Notes field.
Notes — ’ keyboard shortcut once again places editing focus in the Notes field.
Outline — Fixed a bug that could cause newly created items to steal editing focus after re-ordering via drag and drop.

OmniFocus Web September 9th, 2025

Ainsley Bourque Olson — 2025-09-09T21:00:00+00:00

Navigation — “Go to project” arrow in Inspector once again reliably navigates to correct project.
Notes — Links in selected item Notes field are now clickable.
Outline — Restored attachment display in outline.
Outline — Improved reliability of drag & drop.
Stability — Fixed crash that could be triggered by toggling note display.

OmniFocus Web August 25th, 2025

Ainsley Bourque Olson — 2025-08-25T18:00:00+00:00

OmniFocus 4.7 Compatibility — OmniFocus for the Web has been updated for compatibility with the database migration and new features introduced in OmniFocus 4.7. OmniFocus for the Web will honor Planned Dates and mutually exclusive tag behavior configured in OmniFocus 4.7, additional web UI compatibility updates are planned.
Planned Dates — Planned Dates can now be entered and edited in the Inspector. (Planned Dates require database migration in OmniFocus 4.7 for Mac, iPhone, iPad, or Apple Vision Pro.)
Documentation — OmniFocus for the Web documentation has been updated and is now included in the consolidated OmniFocus 4 Manual.
Performance — Improved performance.
Metadata — Metadata placeholder text has been updated for cross-platform consistency.
Connection Test Page — Connection Test Page now lays out properly in Safari.
Metadata — Untitled Items now display default title text.
Outline — Improved expansion state reliability.

OmniFocus Web Dec 10th, 2024

DerekM — 2024-12-10T17:39:00+00:00

Genmoji — Improved compatibility with Genmoji added on other platforms. They will currently appear as missing images on the web but are preserved in your database.

OmniFocus Web May 16th, 2024

Ainsley Bourque Olson — 2024-05-16T18:00:00+00:00

Forecast — Fixed an issue where the header in Forecast could display items on the wrong day based on which time zone is active.
Stability — Improved stability of the API servers, reducing unexpected dropped connections.

OmniFocus Web April 8th, 2024

Ainsley Bourque Olson — 2024-04-08T16:00:00+00:00

This build brings OmniFocus for the Web up-to-date with OmniFocus 4, now available for Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro.

Appearance — OmniFocus for the Web UI now more closely matches appearance of OmniFocus 4 on other platforms.
Icons — Updated OmniFocus 4 iconography is now displayed throughout web UI.
View Options — View Options now support customizing new functionality introduced in OmniFocus 4.
Forecast — Date header is now displayed above outline in Forecast.
Folders — Folders can now be re-named in sidebar and outline.
Sidebar — Sidebar selection can now be cleared.
Sync — Fixed a bug that could cause sign in to fail after Omni Account password change.
Trial Bar — Fixed a bug that could cause trial bar to be displayed when a subscription is active.

OmniFocus Web Nov 29th 2023

Ainsley Bourque Olson — 2023-11-30T00:00:00+00:00

This build of OmniFocus for the Web includes initial support for OmniFocus 4 Forecast and Custom Perspective features. Existing OmniFocus 4 testers can enable these features in a synced TestFlight build of OmniFocus 4 for Mac, iPhone or iPad. It is not yet possible to enable or disable these features from within OmniFocus for the Web.

Forecast:
- • Display additional types of items, like flagged items and items with Scheduled Notifications.
- • Flexible outline structure with support for displaying a “unified” list of Forecast items, and options for manual sorting and hierarchical project and action group display.
- • Optionally hide items in On Hold projects.
Custom Perspectives:
- • Support for manual sorting in custom perspectives with flexible outline structure.
- • Preserve project and action group hierarchy in perspective outline.
Repeats — Updated repeat logic for items which complete every period on a custom schedule after completion.

OmniFocus Web Dec 14th, 2022

DerekM — 2022-12-14T18:28:00+00:00

Perspectives — Groups can be collapsed in all perspectives regardless of how many items are displaying.