Omni Group CEO Ken Case shared a mid-year update on Omni’s 2025 plans.
Every January, Omni Group CEO Ken Case shares a roadmap for Omni’s apps. The January 2025 roadmap (which we summarized in a blog post) gave us a glimpse of what’s in store for 2025. Ken recently shared an update to this roadmap, which incorporates innovations introduced by Apple at the 2025 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC).
Progress in 2025
Before looking at what’s coming, I’d like to take a moment to acknowledge the progress that Omni has made so far this year.
Omni released OmniFocus 4.6 just before WWDC. This release makes it easier to paste in content from outside of OmniFocus and enhances inline attachments. Additionally, OmniFocus 4.6 introduced font customization to the iPhone, iPad, and Apple Vision Pro, similar to the font customization added to OmniFocus for Mac late last year.
This year’s releases included welcome bug fixes, performance enhancements, and behind-the-scenes work to prepare for what’s next. This work includes laying the groundwork to enhance sync performance for OmniFocus users worldwide and implementing improvements to purchasing options for new customers.
Plans for OmniFocus 4.7
Based on what Ken shared in the 2025 update, here are some of the features that OmniFocus users can look forward to with OmniFocus 4.7.
Most notably, there are three new features planned:
- Planned Date – A new “Planned” date field will allow you to schedule items. This makes it possible to earmark work for a specific date without arbitrarily deferring the task.
- Mutually Exclusive Tags – For example, you could have a group of communications tags that include message, phone and email. The phone tag on an action such as “Contact John about hiking on Saturday” could be switched to an email tag with minimal effort.
- Enhancements to Repeat – You’ll be able to specify when a repeat ends and set the number of repetitions. For example, let’s say you’re taking care of your neighbours’ place while they’re on holiday from November 1 to 8. You could create a “Check neighbours’ home” action that’s deferred (i.e., becomes available) until November 1 and repeats every day until November 8.
These features require an update to OmniFocus’ database structure. In preparation for this migration, Omni has been working diligently to refine the migration process.
Would you like to test OmniFocus 4.7 before its official release? Public test builds are coming soon!
Preparing OmniFocus for macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS and visionOS 26
Omni is preparing OmniFocus and its other apps for macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS and visionOS 26.
Omni has a reputation for leveraging new OS features and user interface elements. They’ve invested a significant amount of time in adopting SwiftUI. This Apple technology continues to evolve, and Omni’s adoption will make it easier to, for example, integrate Apple’s cross-platform Liquid Glass interface elements and add widget support to visionOS and CarPlay.
I also look forward to using OmniFocus for iPad in the windowed environment that’s being introduced in iPadOS 26.
Automation and Apple Intelligence
Omni Automation is also poised to take a step forward. OmniFocus will be able to leverage Apple Intelligence’s new foundation models on device in a way that provides control while protecting privacy. For example, you could use Apple Intelligence to create a first draft of a new project.
OmniFocus Kanban View
Ken also reiterated their plans to add a Kanban view to OmniFocus.
Kanban is a Japanese term. “Kan” (看) means sign or visual, and “Ban” (板) translates to board or card. Kanban views have become popular in task and project management apps. I look forward to viewing my OmniFocus tasks on a visual board as a complement to the current list format. I’ll be sharing examples of scenarios where this view is especially helpful.
Thanks, Omni Group 🙏
I’m grateful to the talented folks at Omni for their continued commitment to OmniFocus and their other productivity apps. I look forward to showcasing their efforts on Learn OmniFocus and sharing practical ways you can use these innovations to enhance your productivity.