OmniPlan 4

A really comprehensive and powerful project management app. I love that you can enhance it with JavaScript scripts using Omni Automation. It's very good at adapting your project if you need to make changes. The network diagram is a great way to see and set up dependencies. Leveling gives you a plan that optimizes your use of resources. Lots of ways to track costs, including costs over time. I'm brand new to project management, but found it very intuitive to start using this and learn more as I went. Support is also very good, and answers quickly. I definitely recommend this! It also syncs with your iPad and iPhone.

Virtually impossible to export your plan to a PDF file. Whoever developed this was not thinking.

Testing

I purchased this app a while ago and paid WAY too much. I utilized it a few times and then quit using it. I recently reopened it, and I discovered I have to pay for it again. It wasn't worth it the first time; believe me, it's certainly not worth it the second time. DO NOT BUY!

After the update a couple of weeks ago, it cannot be printed or saved to pdf because inconsistent characters are coming out. The letters and words are reversed. It already has quite a few shortcomings and now this!

The free trial worked for me, I was able to create new projects and there were no limitations. It does have a bit of a learning curve but so does OmniFocus. If you like OmniFocus, like me, then you’ll probably like OmniPlan. The monthly subscription is totally worth it 👍

On latest iPad Pro 12.9” with latest ipad OS 14.6. It is just so difficult to do things with this. Want to simply add a task? Good luck. Want to simply indent a task to make it a child of a parent task (aka indent it so task above it becomes a group top and the task itself is a member), good luck. It just should not be this hard. I registered for trial so I’d hoped to get more use out of it as evaluation. Maybe unless you pay a hundred bucks or 20 monthly, all these user interface problems disappear? Dunno. Don’t care to find out. Off the shelf, this is a cryptic, difficult to use app that takes legacy MS Project, CA Turbo Project, ConceptDraw Project, and other such industry standard user interfaces and ignores all those decades of lessons learned. It’s as though programmers were told go do whatever you want, don’t even think about usability nor what industry likes to do with other tools this one is supposed to compete with. Go ahead and make it something only you the author of the code can figure out how to use. That’s how I feel this app was pulled together. If you want to find a PM app to get things done on your iPad Pro, look elsewhere. This app will drive you madd.

Do you really need to download the app to find out that it's a trial version and you need to sign up.

I need a project planning tool, This looks like a great one. I would like to try using it during the “free trial”, but I can’t. The two week free trial is in “read only” mode, where I can’t make a project to try it out. Yes, I could sign up for the monthly subscription- but I’m not going to, (1) now I have to remember to cancel it if I don’t like this app, and (2) I feel lied to. The product description didn’t say anything about a read-only trial, it’s only in the app. And to me, that is disingenuous & I cannot support that

Version 4 is no different than 3 from what I could see. A few new features that do not help with scheduling, just fluff. Omniplan 3 is now broken and unusable and the fix is to buy a new version. Why would I buy a new version when we are still waiting on fixes from the previous version? I have been trying to use Omniplan 3 for a few years to run my fabrication shop schedule. It has had the same bugs and short comings since day 1. But instead of fixing the one I paid for they made version 4 and said I can upgrade. I paid for the full pro version and was amazed at how buggy it was. And, when it did work it was mediocre at best. We deceived to go with Omniplan and get 1 dedicated Mac just for this software only to find out you can only share with other Omniplan users. So I have to print out screen shots or PDF’s to share with my team. And the tech support, that’s a just message board that has long been abounded I have questions up there for almost a year and not a single person from Omniplan has even bothered to acknowledge them.