OmniOutliner 3

Awful user interface makes some columns inaccessible

Forcing customers to buy an account for each of their devices is outrageous and shows how this company feels about the consumer. Omni wants to gouge its customers, I wish I had known this before buying the desktop version I would have bought something else !

Bugs don’t get fixed. Support is minimal. The user interface is horrible. The major advantage is integration between iOS and macOS, however it gets confused about which version is current.

This app is amazing and awesome. It got me through graduate school and continues to propel my day-to-day work by helping me organize and track my planning. I wish it were updated more; Omni seems to be on the slow burn with this app, as it hasn’t been firing up the carts in the app store. It’s a shame. I get it. If Omni were to release an OmniOutliner 4 Professional with a monthly subscription, I’d jump on it.

Although the Mac app is a solid outliner that I highly recommend, I would avoid the iOS version for now. It is very buggy, and the sync function is weak. On the bug side, even though I paid for the pro subscription, the text of your outline bleeds off the screen, so that you’re forced to endlessly scroll horizontally to read your outline. This is a known bug that Omni needs to fix before the software becomes truly usable. Sync is also messed up and constantly forces you to choose from duplicate versions after you use both the iOS and Mac versions, even though you’re only using the iOS version to view your outline, not edit it. Very frustrating and not consistent with Omni’s usual high quality of product. For sure don’t waste your $50 on a pro subscription until the app is updated to address the bugs. I’ve removed the iOS version from my devices. Instead, I cut and paste my outlines into a Craft note and access them there. (BTW, Craft is a solid outliner with 80% of OmniOutliner’s functionality if you don’t need the most powerful though flawed outline ecosystem.) Sorry to be critical, Omni developers, because I love the Mac app, but the iOS version really disappointed me.

Would be even better if with apple keyboard in split app mode, tapping on the other app and then back resumed the keyboard editing position (rather than resigning the keyboard).

I never was into outlining before OmniOutliner. In fact, I didn’t even know such software existed, nor how much I would enjoy and benefit from it. The ability to move around my thoughts and notes in a hierarchical way not just helps me organize them, but actually improves the way I can think about them. I was never one for the classroom, but OmniOutliner singlehandedly has made me feel I could be a better student if I ever went back for more graduate studies. Beyond that I love the style settings, the support for extra columns, the ability to record inline, and even the mathematical spreadsheet-like capabilities (which are in a way even better than spreadsheets since you can organize the calculations hierarchically!). This is also a great developer to support. (I have no affiliation with them.) I also personally love OmniFocus and have both it and OmniOutliner on all my Apple devices - in fact, they are the only two pieces of software I have my Mac automatically start when I log in.

Very useful and I would buy it again. Would give it five stars except one important feature it is missing apparently, is that there is no feature in the app itself to take or access photos directly. You need to take a picture in the other photo app on your phone and then copy paste into this app.

I have subscriptions to several Mac and iOS apps that I bought on the App Store, all of which have a free trial period before I was charged the subscription fee. While no other app asked me to create an account, OmniOutliner would not me go past the launch page without first creating an account with Omni or just use the free “viewer” (like I need it if I never used Outliner). One of the reasons most off use buy apps ONLY form Apple’s App Stores is that we do not want to create accounts for every app we purchase. I hope the OmniGroup follow the example of other developers and let users try and purchase an use this app without having to create a separate account with Omni, especially since now it appears that we can sync with iCloud instead of Omni’s own sync server.

Don’t become dependent on this app. For the last few years I’ve dished out money for each upgrade which was supposedly optimized for the latest iOS and hardware. But each new version has gotten buggier and more unstable. My usage is very simple: public speaking outlines. No fancy stuff. Nevertheless, the most basic functions of the app are frustratingly slow and unintuitive. Several bugs come to the fore during split screen mode. Additional bugs exist in frequently used UI elements, requiring a lot of patience. It’s like the developers don’t actually test the app in the real world. Unfortunately, there is nothing close to this app that I’ve found yet. So I’m dependent on it.