OmniFocus 4

OmniFocus 4.8.9 for All Platforms

All Platforms

• Flagged — Fixed buggy view filtering in Flagged perspective; Flagged now reliably displays correct items in outline across all platforms.
• Omni Automation — Multiple mutually exclusive tags can no longer be assigned to an item via Omni Automation.
• Sidebar — Perspectives showing remaining items now only show tags in the sidebar for those visible items, rather than also including tags from dropped items.
• Stability — Fixed a crash in the OmniFocus widget.

Mac

• Outline — Content can now be dragged from outside OmniFocus into empty outlines and space below last displayed item in an outline.
• Outline — Safari links and Mail messages can now be dragged into outline.
• Outline — Display fields are no longer clipped in fluid outline after duplicating or pasting an item.
• Outline — Addressed column layout issue when opening perspectives set to “Always Open in New Window.”
• Perspectives Bar — Adjusted padding around topmost perspective selection highlight.
• Perspectives Bar — Improved highlight when clicking on a perspective.
• Sidebar — Sidebar bottom buttons are no longer clipped.
• Writing Tools — Invoking Writing Tools in the Notes field for an item no longer unexpectedly replaces text in the Title field.
• Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur on layout in Forecast.
• Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur when editing a note.

iPhone

• Search — Search can now be initiated when sidebar is displayed.
• Sidebar — Perspective title is now displayed in sidebar toolbar.
• Keyboard — Using the on-screen keyboard to edit an item now collapses the navigation bar so more of the item is visible.
• Navigation Bar — Adjusted spacing between Navigation Bar and on-screen keyboard.
• Navigation Bar — Fixed a bug that could cause Navigation Bar expansion state to get stuck.
• Navigation Bar — Improved Navigation Bar layout on smaller iPhones.
• Navigation Bar — Navigation Bar no longer animates unexpectedly when navigating to or from Review perspective.
• Navigation Bar — Fixed a slight jitter that could happen when the Navigation Bar expands while scrolling on iOS 26.
• Outline — Fixed a bug that could cause outline scroll position to jump unexpectedly when navigating between outline and Inspector.
• Perspective Title — Fixed some bugs with the appearance of the perspective title when switching between the outline and sidebar.
• Toolbar — Addressed unexpected toolbar button animation and tint.
• Quick Entry — Improved initial character input reliability.
• Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur when dismissing Quick Open.

iPad

• Menus — Updated Edit menu.
• Perspectives Bar — Adjusted selection highlight.

OmniFocus 4.8.8 for Mac

Mac

• Crash Reporting — Updated crash reporter for compatibility with macOS Tahoe 26.3.

OmniFocus 4.8.7 for All Platforms

All Platforms

• Performance — Addressed memory leaks related to text attributes.

Mac

• AppleScript — Setting values for new repetion rules is now fully supported by AppleScript.

iPhone & iPad

• Sync — App states which transitorily block sync are no longer incorrectly reported as continuing to block sync.
• Sync — Fixed a bug that could cause sync to silently fail after creating items via the Share sheet.
• VoiceOver — Improved VoiceOver rotor reliability on iOS and iPadOS 26.
• VoiceOver — VoiceOver no longer reads navigation bar button labels more than once.
• VoiceOver — Corrected Quick Entry VoiceOver label.
• Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur when navigating to a perspective via Quick Open.
• Stability — Fixed a crash on launch that could occur if Search was previously active.
• Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur in the outline.

OmniFocus 4.8.6 for Mac

Mac

• Perspectives Bar — Fixed a bug that could cause the Perspectives Bar to draw extra wide in some instances.

OmniFocus 4.8.5 for All Platforms

All Platforms

• Repeats — Repeat rules can now be cleared in rare instances in which the previously configured repeat schedule is corrupted.

Mac

• Notes — Link labels are no longer modified when editing at the start or end of a paragraph.
• Notes — Paste and Merge Style now correctly strips styles from copied HTML text.
• Notes — “Send to Inbox” clipping service no longer captures text with unreadable colors in Dark Mode.
• OS Compatibility — Two-factor authentication codes are no longer offered as autofill optons within OmniFocus.
• Outline — Columns layouts now respect “Show full item title: When Selected” appearance setting.
• Perspectives Bar — Adjusted selection highlight size.

iPhone & iPad

• Focus — Focus bar now lays out correctly after Focus is applied.
• Search — Improved reliability of selecting “Show in Projects” or “Show in Tags” for an item returned in Search results.

iPhone

• Navigation Bar — Fixed a bug that could sometimes block re-expanding the Navigation Bar when tapping the current perspective icon.

iPad

• Perspectives Bar — Perspectives Bar is now always scrollable (this change avoids a bug in which tap targets could become misaligned in the Perspectives Bar).
• Keyboard — Corrected position of hardware keyboard selection highlight on iPadOS 26.
• Toolbar — Fixed a bug that could cause toolbar buttons to temporarily draw incorrectly when resizing window.

OmniFocus 4.8.4 for All Platforms

All Platforms

• Repeats — Improved repeat scheduling logic; repeating items with “Catch up automatically” enabled now maintain regular schedule when skipping past occurrences.
• Perspectives Bar — The contextual menu for the perspectives bar now uses a shorter phrase “Perspectives” to open the editable perspectives list.
• Forecast — Improved Forecast sort order logic to avoid unexpected re-ordering of items following selection change in the outline.
• Repeats — Avoided hang that could occur when calculating “catch up automatically” date over a very long interval of time.
• Stability — Fixed a crash that could potentially cause widgets to stop updating.
• Support Tools — Made the anonymizer more robust when data attachments are truncated.

Mac

• Control Center — Quick Entry, Quick Open and Open Perspective controls are now available in the Control gallery on macOS 26.
• Inspector — Restored support for revealing the Inspector in full screen when hovering cursor over its edge.
• AppleScript — AppleScript’s “evaluate javascript” now resolves Promise results from asynchronous functions.
• Outline — Fixed transitory layout issues in Fluid outlines.
• Outline — Improved reliability of tab key navigation in Column outlines.
• Quick Entry — Updated Quick Entry’s chrome to follow the Black theme.
• Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur attempting to customize the toolbar on macOS 26.

iPhone, iPad, and Apple Vision Pro

• Symbols — On OS 26, menus now use the same symbol for the Inspector as the toolbar uses.
• Outline — Fixed a bug that could trigger temporary misalignment of tap targets in the outline.
• Quick Open — “Edit” option in perspective shortcut contextual menu is now functional.
• Search — Duplicating a search result no longer creates more than one item duplicate.

iPhone

• Keyboard — Improved compatibility with third party keyboards on OS 26.
• Navigation Bar — Addressed delay that could sometimes occur displaying Smart Add and Quick Entry buttons in Navigation Bar.

iPad

• Perspectives Bar — Addressed unexpected Perspectives Bar animation when revealing or hiding a sidebar.
• Toolbar — Toolbar buttons are now labeled when displayed in an overflow menu on iPadOS 26.

Apple Vision Pro

• Widgets — Large widgets now display content.

OmniFocus 4.8.3 for All Platforms

All Platforms

• Widgets — Widgets and Complications now always reload when app is foregrounded.
• Documentation — Updated in-app Help.

Mac

• Quick Entry — Quick Entry window is no longer clipped when Reduce Transparency Accessibility setting is enabled.
• Omni Automation — Improved Pasteboard plain text handling.

iPhone & iPad

• Quick Open — Quick Open now includes a Perspective Settings button, for quick access to perspectives management.
• Delete — Attempting to delete a project or group when Select mode is enabled no longer triggers “No nodes were deletable” error message.
• Free Viewer — Text is once again legible in Free Viewer mode expectations bar on OS versions prior to OS 26.
  • Nearby — “Location” button is now easier to tap.

iPhone

• Navigation Bar — Improved Navigation Bar auto-collapse behavior when viewing a short outline.
• Outline — Perspective title now remains visible when items are selected in the outline.

iPad

• Menus — All perspectives are now listed in Perspectives menu.
• Quick Open — Improved appearance of selection highlight in Quick Open.
• Inspector — Inspector popover now displays correctly in Dark Mode when opened from contextual menu.

Apple Vision Pro

• Focus — Restored Focus expectations bar.
• Smart Add — Newly created items once again accept keyboard input in the title field.

OmniFocus 4.8.2 for All Platforms

Mac

• Free Viewer after Update — Fixed an issue with the direct download where 4.8 would unexpectedly lose track of the licensing state stored by earlier versions, switching to Free Viewer mode after updating (until one signed back in to an Omni Account or reopened the app).

iPhone

• Navigation Bar — When the Perspectives Bar is hidden, switching perspectives will now always collapse the Navigation Bar.
• Navigation Bar — Fixed a bug that would cause the Navigation Bar to scroll unnecessarily when switching perspectives.

iPad

• Review Interval — Work around a crash in iPadOS 26 encountered when dismissing the review interval popover. Also improved the popover’s layout.

OmniFocus 4.8 for All Platforms

OmniFocus 4.8 introduces a visually refreshed interface, adopting beautiful Liquid Glass design elements and a modernized look and feel when run on on macOS Tahoe 26, iOS 26, or iPadOS 26. This release also includes support for a range of new OS features - support for consulting Apple’s new on-device Foundation Models via Omni Automation plug-ins, OmniFocus Shortcuts actions in Spotlight on macOS 26, iOS 26 CarPlay widgets, watchOS 26 Control Center Controls, and more!

All Platforms

• OS Compatibility — OmniFocus has been updated for compatibility with macOS Tahoe 26, iOS 26, iPadOS 26, watchOS 26, and visionOS 26.
• New Design — OmniFocus has been visually refreshed, adopting beautiful Liquid Glass design elements and a modernized look and feel when run on macOS Tahoe 26, iOS 26, or iPadOS 26.
• Omni Automation [PRO] — On devices running macOS Tahoe 26, iOS 26, iPadOS 26, or visionOS 26 with hardware support for Apple Intelligence, OmniFocus plug-ins can now consult Apple’s new on-device Foundation Models.
• App Icon — App Icon has been updated.
• Documentation — Updated in-app Help.
• Quick Open — New Quick Open icon.

Mac

• Spotlight — OmniFocus Shortcuts actions can be run directly from Spotlight on macOS Tahoe 26.
• Perspectives Bar — Perspectives Bar now displays in narrower state when perspective titles are disabled.
• Toolbar — Toolbar defaults to icon-only display on macOS Tahoe 26.

iPhone & iPad

• Perspectives — Perspectives are now managed in Settings.
• Quick Entry — Quick Entry is now accessed via a dedicated button on iOS 26 and iPadOS 26.
• Nearby — Perspective header is no longer displayed in Map mode on iOS 26 and iPadOS 26.

iPhone

• Navigation — New Navigation Bar collapses on scroll, providing more space to view your tasks on iOS 26. When expanded, the Navigation Bar contains the redesigned Perspectives Bar and buttons for Quick Open, Search, Smart Add, and Quick Entry. Collapsed, the Navigation Bar displays a minimal set of buttons (including a button showing the current perspective icon, which you can tap to expand the Navigation Bar).
• Navigation — Tapping the Navigation Bar button for the current perspective displays the Perspectives Bar, regardless of “Show Perspectives Bar” setting state.
• CarPlay — Forecast and Perspective Items widgets are now available in CarPlay on iOS 26.

iPad

• Windows — OmniFocus windows fully support flexible windowing on iPadOS 26.
• Menus — OmniFocus menu items are available on iPadOS 26.
• Search — Search has moved to the toolbar on iPadOS 26.

Apple Watch

• Control Center — Quick Entry and Open Perspective Controls are available on watchOS 26.

Apple Vision Pro

• Widgets — Forecast, Perspective Items, and Quick Entry widgets are available on visionOS 26.