This morning our team gathered together (both in our theater and in our company chat room) to follow along with Apple’s iOS 7 release announcement. This was a welcome break for our engineers, testers, designers, and documentarians, most of whom have been working virtually non-stop since Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference in June.
What have they been working so hard on? Brand new versions of three of our iOS apps: OmniFocus 2 for iPhone, OmniOutliner 2 for iPad, and OmniPlan 2 for iPad. We’ll be submitting final builds of those apps to Apple this week and you’ll be able to purchase them as soon as they are approved for sale in the App Store. We’ve redesigned all three apps to take full advantage of Apple’s latest technologies, and that means that they require iOS 7.
What does this mean for you, our customers?
The new apps will be released as new products in the App Store; you’ll purchase them just like you would any other app, and they will be completely separate from the old versions. We’re really excited to show you how cool the new user experience is and what features we’ve added, and will be sharing more as we get closer to release. Just like the rest of our product line, these apps will come with our 30-day money back guarantee and world class telephone and email support.
The old versions of OmniFocus for iPhone, OmniOutliner for iPad, and OmniPlan for iPad will be removed from the App Store. If you’re not planning on updating to iOS 7 or need a version of any of these apps that runs on iOS 6 for any reason, you’ll want to grab them before the new releases ship. However, please note that we don’t plan on doing any more work on these iOS 6 apps: our iPhone and iPad development efforts are now fully focused on iOS 7.
To sum up: we’re fully committed to iOS 7 for our next round of iPhone and iPad apps—starting with OmniFocus 2 for iPhone, OmniOutliner 2 for iPad, and OmniPlan 2 for iPad, which we’re submitting to Apple for review now. Anyone who still does need to run our apps on iOS 6 has a little bit of time to purchase before the existing versions are removed from sale. But we’ve found iOS 7 to be an incredible update, and we think you’re going to love the product of all of the hard work our team has put into redesigning our apps for iOS 7 over the last three months.
P.S. — We expect that you should all be able to continue to use our version 1 apps on iOS 7. (We’re testing this now, but we’ve barely gotten the GM release to test against ourselves!) We’re not trying to force anyone into upgrading—but we hope you’ll like our latest work enough to decide you want to!
