Our desktop apps are sold through two separate channels: Apple’s Mac App Store. Mac App Store apps fall under Apple’s Terms & Conditions, and are licensed directly through the individual user’s Mac App Store account. A license key is not issued for Mac App Store purchases, as the apps are...

With OmniOutliner 5 we’ve introduced OmniOutliner Essentials: a much more svelte, focused, and extremely affordable outlining app designed to introduce the joys and benefits of outlining to a much larger audience. In the new Essentials edition, your entire focus is on your own content: there are no...

Reference manuals for each of our products are available on the Manuals page of our Support site. Each manual contains information for the most recent version of its corresponding product. If you’re running a previous version of one of our applications, older manuals are available by editing the URL...

When OmniFocus for the Web behaves unexpectedly, our Support Humans may ask you to turn on debug logging and send along the browser console log. The log can tell us what actions were being performed by the app which will help us track down the issue. Retrieving the information from the console log...

Sometimes when troubleshooting a problem with OmniFocus, our Support Humans might ask you for a copy of your OmniFocus database taken directly from your iOS device. There are several ways to access that file, all of which can also be used to copy a “backup” of the database to another device for...

The canvas is where you create, edit, and move objects around in your project. By default, every OmniGraffle document contains at least one canvas with one layer, and you can add as many canvases as you’d like. Canvases give you the flexibility to separate your work into distinct areas within the...

This article documents the changes made over time to the AppleScript support in OmniFocus that you should be aware of as you update your OmniFocus scripts. We try to maintain backward compatibility as much as we can, but sometimes it simply isn’t possible, like with changes made in OmniFocus 2 to...

Here is a list of changes to AppleScript in OmniOutliner 4. If you’re looking for help with scripting, our forums are a great place to connect with other users. The name of the app is now always OmniOutliner instead of OmniOutliner for Standard and OmniOutliner Professional. Alternatively, you can...

The Omni Group takes security very seriously and we architect our applications with the security of your data in mind. Our software is designed to work without requiring users to connect to any servers, including our own. Many users choose to connect to our software update server to regularly check...

For years now, our Mac applications have been available for purchase both direct from our Omni Store, as well as Apple’s Mac App Store. Whether you decide to purchase direct from us or through the Mac App Store, you get an identical product with all the same functionality. The applications will...

We offer OmniFocus for the Web to provide OmniFocus users an option for accessing their projects and tasks even when they’re not in front of a Mac or iOS device. OmniFocus for the Web is a companion app designed to work alongside any full edition of OmniFocus for Mac or iOS. At this time, we don’t...

OmniFocus for the Web is designed to connect directly to Omni Sync Server, and associates your subscription to a specific sync server account. If you try to subscribe to OmniFocus using an Omni Account other than the one you use to sync your data, you’ll receive a warning that you won’t be able to...

OmniFocus supports including any type of file as an attachment as part of the note on an action or project, and this artilce will provide detail on the most common methods available to you for adding attachments, depending on the device you are using: Mac or iPhone, iPad, and Apple Vision...

OmniFocus aims to retain backwards compatibility with earlier versions of the app as much as possible, but sometimes updates to the OmniFocus databse format are required in order to support new features. Updates to the database format are always opt-in — see more about migrating to a newer database...

All of our Omni apps for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Vision Pro (where applicable) are available as either a perpetual license or a subscription. Subscriptions are only available through the Omni Store. The Perpetual License option lets you pay a one-time, upfront fee that unlocks that version of the...

All of our Omni apps for Mac are available as either a perpetual license or a subscription. Subscriptions are only available through the Omni Store. The perpetual license option lets you pay a one-time, upfront fee that for that version of the Mac app* (this includes any same-version updates)....

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Yes! Now that all app licensing is handled through Omni Accounts, you can register purchases of your Omni apps no matter where you purchased them, and use those purchases to unlock your apps no matter how you’ve installed them. Customers who have registered their purchases are eligible for upgrade...

OmniFocus does not offer a standalone app for Windows, but if you are or will also be using OmniFocus on an Apple device, our OmniFocus for the Web companion services makes it possible to work with your OmniFocus data on a Windows (or Linux) PC! If you don’t want to or can’t use OmniFocus for the...

OmniGraffle 3.2 for iOS introduces support for the Files app, a major new feature of iOS 11. As part of adopting support for an external document browser, we’ve had to make some minor changes to the way Visio documents are handled. Beginning with OmniGraffle 3.2, when you import a Visio file from...