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“We didn’t just bring the iPhone edition of OmniFocus for iPad, we redesigned OmniFocus to provide the best mobile task management experience possible,” said Ken Case, founder and CEO of the Omni Group. “Everything from fast data capture to built-in reviewing has been developed with iPad in mind. As a standalone app it’s got everything you need for fine-grained task management, and now you can also maintain your OmniFocus database whether you’re on your phone, your iPad, or your desktop computer.”
OmniFocus for iPad features a Quick Entry function for fast, easy task capture. Tasks can be organized on the fly, or stored in the OmniFocus for iPad inbox for future processing. Task details can include start and due dates, repeating schedules, or attached audio notes or photos. Items can be sorted into projects and folders, with as much hierarchy as is needed.
New to OmniFocus for iPad is Forecast, which displays a weekly view of due items. Selectively focus on one day at a time, display only overdue tasks, or view an entire week’s worth of to-dos as one list.
OmniFocus for iPad can display tasks by work mode, or context: for example, tapping a “Phone” context will display only phone-related tasks. With a WiFi or 3G connection, OmniFocus for iPad’s simplified Map also makes it easy to generate and view tasks based on current or assigned locations.
OmniFocus for iPad now includes a built-in Review mode, which streamlines the process of reviewing existing projects. Each project can be evaluated and its status updated while reviewing, so items are accurately marked as active, on hold, or dropped.
Other features in OmniFocus for iPad include a built-in search, the ability to automatically sync Perspectives from OmniFocus for Mac, a Library view of all projects, and more.
OmniFocus for iPad is available for US$39.99 on Apple’s App Store here.
Source: Omni Group
I checked at the App Store, but this is an iPhone-only App currently. Is this a US-only thing?
I guess I should clarify and say that of course it is an iPad App as well, but it is designed for the iPhone. Maybe later.
Another $40 for an existing iPhone program I already own… When will developers stop biting the hand that feeds them?
Yeah, I am asking them if they have a bundle price….I’d like all 3 versions, but would appreciate a price break.
GoodReader is a fantastic app – I bought the iPhone version for just 79 cents. When the iPad version came out it was free for all who already had the iPhone version – now THAT’S what I call customer oriented!
yeah, this is pretty much nonsense….i have the desktop and iphone version which cost a pretty penny….and now they want me to buy an ipad version? all I want to do is synch between the devices…..hopefully the iphone version will keep working with the ipad or else one very pissed customer will result
Wow, this pricing is out of control. FileMaker Go is a FULL RELATIONAL DATABASE for the iPad, and it costs less than OmniFocus. All OmniFocus is is a to-do list program.
I immediately balked at the price, but then bought it when I saw the UI shots. After using it I can say its one of the slickest, best designed UIs I’ve ever seen, esp on iPad. Seems like designers are still figuring out how to design a good touch app, but Omnigroup seems to have a very good handle on it.
Mind you, its not perfect, but unlike the iphone version, its a great full blown variation of the desktop version. Now, if they could only invest the time and energy into making the OSX version as good as this new iPad version, I’d be pretty stoked!
Its got a bit of sting, but $39 (USA) is not that bad for a well designed app running on any platform. Would I like it to be $9.99, sure, but it will get a lot of use by me.
Finally!
It’s been a long wait and I hope it’s worth it. Running the iPhone version on my iPad is okay, but the UI is incredibly limited.
Omni Group DOES charge premium prices, but they really DO put a lot of effort into their products.
Maybe we’re all bit spoiled by 99 cent apps?
Despite the pricing issues, The Omni Group makes GREAT Mac software! They’re one of the premiere Mac-only development shops out there.
….I am also an Omni fan…and bought and owned web, graffle, outliner, focus, etc for many years….I just think they are going to the wrong path this this “unique version per device” model. I want interoperability and commonality across devices…not a unique feature set in each hardware environment that I work in…..or at least not at the prices they are charging to do this….
…I don’t view my ipad as a “stand alone”….it needs to work within my entire sphere of OS X/ios devices…and so does my data and apps
If you bought the iPhone version to run on your iPad, they’ll give you a $25 iTunes gift card toward the purchase of the iPad version. Check their site for details. Seems fair to me.
@ TB2:
…but not, according to the website, if you bought ipad after you bought omnifocus for iphone…so if you are an earlier adopter to omnifocus (mine is July 2008), you don’t get the $25 credit toward omnifocus for ipad. Only purchases of OF-ipad between April and July 2010 get the credit.
This is the best version yet. If this was just a worked over iPhone app I might be concerned. This app is worth every penny I spent.
I was using OmniFocus on my iPhone about a year and half ago and it was practically unusable because every time I launched it to take a brief note or to check something, I had to wait (sometimes for more than a minute) while it synced with the cloud and/or did other internal database management stuff. It couldn’t be used in the meantime. I gave it up and switched to Things.
From the current users who have commented, I’d like to know: is it any better now? For example, can you cancel the sync function immediately and use the program? Or does it permit you to use the program while the sync is going on?
@Keith
Not sure about the sync issue you mentioned, but syncs do go faster now. It does do that internal database management thing on start up, but the quick entry button has been available to add items while this happened, though this could lag. I’d say the big breakthrough came with the iPhone 4 version. The app now freezes in state so it does not need to be relaunched every time you tap on its icon and supposedly it can do some of that internal database management stuff in the background now (and even when it occurs in the foreground, thanks maybe to the iPhone 4’s better hardware, it is much quicker). The best things about Omnifocus vs Things are Perspectives, which are saved filtered views of your tasks based on criteria you set (this has to be created on the Mac client and synced over to the iPhone version), and adoption of basic requested features at a MUCH quicker rate than Things (it took forever or maybe you still can’t do something as basic as *repeated* tasks on the Things iPhone client).
The price is very fair, if you are a current user. Omni Group does an excellent job designing beautiful apps that work. I’d love an iPhone update of OmniFocus to add some of the iPad features.
What the iPad version will do, is keep me from having to buy a laptop or desktop, to obtain the functionality not found on the iPhone version. So doing the math, this $40 app just saved me about $1,000 to $1,500, by being able to buy an iPad instead.
I need at least 4 devices running OmniFocus, in addition to the 5, I’m currently using in my business. With the release of this app, I now know that those devices will be iPads. So the $40 app just saved me a great deal of money.
I have had the desktop and iphone versions since early ’08. I now have one desktop running it, and 4 iPhones.
People that actually use the apps for real stuff, and gain something from the apps, should be willing to pay for them. The free apps are nice, as well as the ones that are 99 cents, but I have found that the apps I use the most, cost more.
Great job and congrats to Ken and the entire team at Omni Group.