OmniOutliner 5 is now available!

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For those who might not have seen this on our blog…

We’ve been talking about OmniOutliner 5 since last November, and I’m pleased to announce that the day has finally arrived: OmniOutliner 5 is shipping!

When an app has been in open development for months, it’s easy to wonder what there is to say about it that hasn’t already been said—in our original announcement of the public test, or our annual roadmap update, or in our introduction of OmniOutliner Essentials.

Well, perhaps nothing… but perhaps it’s all worth saying again in one place!

OmniOutliner now comes in two editions: Pro and Essentials. The Pro edition has all the power that we’ve always brought to OmniOutliner, with support for multiple columns, attachments, focus, automation, and so on—and for version 5 we’ve added even more, with advanced filtering, word count, typewriter mode, customizable keyboard shortcuts, and so on. (See the release notes for details!)

[Video: What’s New in OmniOutliner Pro]

For the new Essentials edition, our goal was to introduce the joys and benefits of outlining to a much broader audience than our core Pro customers. Our focus for this edition was on making OmniOutliner much simpler, and much more affordable.

[Video: OmniOutliner Essentials]

As I said in the blog post which introduced Essentials in February:

With that background, I’d like to introduce you to OmniOutliner Essentials: a svelte, focused, and extremely affordable outlining app. In OmniOutliner’s new Essentials edition, your entire focus is on your own content: there are no distracting sidebars or panels. You can choose to work in a window or in a distraction-free full-screen mode, selecting from a set of beautiful built-in themes. As you write, you’ll be able to see some key statistics about your content so you can track progress towards your goals. But our goal is to help you focus on your content and whatever task you’re working on—not on the tool you’re using.

With the Essentials edition, we’ve lowered OmniOutliner’s entry price from $49.99 to an extremely affordable $9.99. And since we want our upgrade price from Essentials to Pro to be $49.99, the new list price for Pro has been lowered to $59.99:

OmniOutliner 5 pricing chart
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As I said before, anyone who upgrades from any previous version of OmniOutliner (even those free copies Apple bundled with all those Macs a decade ago) is eligible for a 50% discount—so you can upgrade to the new Essentials edition for $4.99, or to the new Pro edition for just $29.99. And anyone who purchased OmniOutliner Standard within the last few months will get a free upgrade to OmniOutliner 5 Pro. (If you purchased directly from us, please check your email!)

Thank you all for your support through the years. And welcome to OmniOutliner 5!

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Can someone please explain 1) where OmniOutliner 4 fits into all this? Will it continue to be supported? Or is it Pro or bust for those of us who don’t want to upgrade to but it seems like Essential has fewer features than OO 4? Also where does iOS sync fit in to all these options? Thanks!

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Can someone please explain 1) where OmniOutliner 4 fits into all this? Will it continue to be supported?[/quote]

OmniOutliner 4 is no longer under development, but we will continue to support customers using version 4 just like we continue to support customers who are still using versions 1, 2, and 3. (Like those older versions, it will continue to run on platforms it was developed to run on—including everything shipping today—but won’t be updated for compatibility with future platforms.)

We built Pro for all existing OmniOutliner customers, and we significantly reduced the price so that Pro is nearly the same price that Standard used to be. I went into this in a little more detail in another thread earlier today.

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Also where does iOS sync fit in to all these options? Thanks![/quote]

The currently shipping OmniOutliner 2 for iOS app can sync with OmniOutliner 3, 4, and 5 for Mac.

Hope this helps!

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So I have been crashing Omni 4.6.1… no notice from Omni of incompatibility with Hi Sierra…… but then I see something on the web that says Omni 4.6.1 incompatible with Hi Sierra but that Omni will provide free/reasonable upgrades. But nowhere to be found. So I download Omnioutliner 5 as a trial. Still no notice of upgrade for current owners on 4.6.1.

So then I try this Omni 5 trial…… it says GOTCHA…… Omni no longer supports my previous Omni files. WOW!!!

Not nice.

What gives? Has Omni just trashed all of the previous 4.6.1 owners? Is there not an upgrade option for 4.6.1 owners?

So, I have gone to the Omni Forum which says yes half price upgrade but no idea how and where…… was not on the site where I downloaded Essentials (which of course does not work with 4.6.1…… it just says READ ONLY…… good grief).

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Have you contacted support@omnigroup.com

You’re much more likely to get a quick response that works there