![]() ![]() Subscriptions are the way of the future for commercial software. I can imagine, a few years from now, an Omni suite subscription, similar to Adobe’s Creative Cloud, that covers all of their apps on all platforms. Previously: Business Licensing for Omni’s iOS Apps, Transmit 5 on the Mac App Store. Presumably, Omni could sell them directly to customers, bypassing the App Store’s 30% and offering educational discounts if they want. Not yet announced: who you’ll pay for the subscriptions. This seems very logical and well explained. The initial cost to start using the product is lower, but over time subscriptions will end up costing more-and unlike our one-time purchases, it’s not an investment: when you stop subscribing to OmniFocus you’ll lose access to the things that were being provided by that subscription. I should note that subscriptions do have significant downsides. ![]() If you’ve already invested in OmniFocus 3 and just want to add the web service, the cost for that will be $4.99/month. The OmniFocus subscription will cost $9.99/month, giving you access to the web service as well as OmniFocus Pro on all your Mac and iOS devices. Offering a subscription option for our desktop and mobile apps would help with all of these requests. That you don’t want to have to think about whether you’ve bought the app for Mac or for iOS that instead, you just want to use it on whichever device you happen to be using. That you’d rather not have to worry about when the next major upgrade is coming, budgeting for how much that will cost. That you would prefer the option to pay a subscription each year which covers the price of future upgrades and unlocks the app everywhere. Some of you have told us that you’re frustrated by our current “a la carte” pricing model, where each edition of the app is purchased separately. ![]() With storage space being so cheap these days it's no big deal to leave dead wood like Reminders laying around - as long as it doesn't have any security holes.Beyond supporting this new service model, there are some other benefits to offering subscription pricing as an option. I imagine Apple doesn't even have a team working on it. It does so little, as far as I can tell it does not even integrate with Calendar. I love Apple, but Reminders seems like an ugly wart that should have been excised or replaced two or three iOS/macOS versions ago. Seeing what tools like OmniFocus are able to do also reminds me of how pathetic Apple's own Reminders app really is. Android support is good to have as well, and web support is always a backstop if there is no native app available for a supported operating system. I always shoot for Windows, Mac, Linux, and iOS compatibility. Cross platform access is a big deal for me. But for smaller projects, agile teams, personal/home projects, and to-do lists I've found Trello (and comparable tools that can scale to support team collaboration) are often good enough and at least worth trialing. If you're doing commercial construction, aerospace/military projects, medical systems, etc., I'm sure the bigger ticket tools are essential. The end result from a productivity and delivery standpoint doesn't appear to be much different and the lightweight tools seem to fit the agile approach somewhat better. After years of using complex and highly integrated tools for prioritizing, managing, and scheduling work, e.g., MS Project, Microsoft TFS, I've seen the pendulum swing back the other way towards very simple and low overhead Kanban oriented tools like whiteboards (with Post-Its as needed), Trello, and Slack. OmniFocus is undoubtedly a very powerful GTD oriented tool for folks who have to manage a lot of complexity in their daily lives. ![]()
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