OmniFocus 4.4 for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch

OmniFocus 4.4 introduces new Quick Entry, Quick Open, and Open Perspective functionality, brings new gesture and widget support to Apple Watch, and improves compatibility with newer OS versions.

OmniFocus 4.4 requires macOS 14 Sonoma, iOS 17, iPadOS 17, watchOS 10, or visionOS 1. Some features may not be available on all supported OSes.

All Platforms

• OS Compatibility — Improved compatibility with newer versions of macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and visionOS.
• Shortcuts — New Quick Entry, Quick Open, and Open Perspective shortcuts.
• Spotlight — Quick Entry, Quick Open, and Open Perspective shortcuts are now included in Spotlight search results on supported OSes.
• Localizations — Localization updates.
• Widgets — Widgets no longer allow for selection of custom perspectives when OmniFocus is running in Standard mode.

iPhone & iPad

• Control Center — Customize Control Center with resizable new Quick Entry, Quick Open and Open Perspective controls available in the Control gallery.
• Lock Screen — Replace the controls at the bottom of the Lock Screen for new Quick Entry, Quick Open and Open Perspective controls to quickly access your most frequently used OmniFocus features.
• Action Button — Customize the Action Button to launch Quick Entry, Quick Open, or a perspective (requires iPhone with Action Button).
• Home Screen — App Icon and widgets have been optimized for light, dark, and tinted display.
• Widgets — Tapping on a date in Forecast Widget now launches OmniFocus to selected date in Forecast.
• Outline — Date fields now display in time-only format in outlines grouped by date (matching Mac behavior).
• Outline — Row swipe now action now displays correct tag icon.
• Settings — Removed deprecated “Show Explanation in Today Widget” setting.
• Sync — Fixed a bug that could temporarily block displaying synced changes.

Apple Watch

• Gestures — Double tap now activates Quick Entry or completes the displayed item (double tap gesture requires supported Apple Watch).
• Widgets & Complications — New widget type displays Inbox, Forecast, and Flagged item counts in Smart Stack and on supported watch faces.
• Widgets & Complications — Item completion is now supported in new interactive widgets in Smart Stack and on supported watch faces.
• Widgets & Complications — Additional watchOS complication options now highlight key elements using the watch face’s accent color.
• Siri — Siri capture has been updated for parity with functionality available in iOS, iPadOS, and visionOS, allowing for assignment of project and tags on capture.
• Quick Entry — Quick Entry button is now displayed when viewing outline.

OmniFocus 3.15.8

• OS Compatibility — Clarified text of alert presented when OmniFocus is launched on an unsupported OS.
• Localizations — Updated localizations.