Standard
Features
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General
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Gantt Charts
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Mac iPhone
& iPad
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View your
project timeline as a beautiful, interactive Gantt chart.
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Network
Diagrams
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Mac iPhone
& iPad
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When you need a
clear, evident depiction of the relationships between tasks, and the
project chronology is getting in your way, you can view and edit your
project as a Network diagram.
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Project Outline
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Mac iPhone
& iPad
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Quickly create
and organize your project structure in a dedicated project outline view
with fully customizable columns and support for common outlining keyboard
commands.
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Resource View
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Mac
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Manage
resources and their assignments via a timeline of their assigned tasks in
the unified Resource View.
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Import
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Mac
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Import
Comma-separated Values (.csv), Tab-delimited (.tsv) text files, and
OmniOutliner files.
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Export
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Mac iPhone
& iPad
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Export projects
as iCalendar (.ics) files, Comma-separated Values (.csv), OmniOutliner
(.ooutline) files, Graphviz (.gv) files, and as a variety of image
formats (.png, .pdf, .tiff, .jpg). Some export formats only available on
Mac.
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Project
Scheduling
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New Project
Assistant
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Mac
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Quickly and
easily configure new projects with the project setup assistant. If you
find yourself frequently creating similar projects, you can create your
own templates to make the process even easier.
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Automatic
Schedule Creation
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Mac iPhone
& iPad
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Input
information like task duration, dependencies, date constraints, and
assigned resources, and OmniPlan will automatically create an optimized
schedule for your project. Project schedules can be scheduled forward
from a fixed project start date, or backwards from a fixed project end
date.
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Schedule
Granularity
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Mac iPhone
& iPad
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Schedule your
project tasks in days, hours, or minutes, or even right down to the
second if you need.
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Undetermined
Project Dates
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Mac iPhone
& iPad
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If you don¡¯t
know when your project will start or end, tell OmniPlan your project
dates are ¡°to be determined¡±; all dates will be represented by an amount
of time after ¡°T day¡± until a specific project start date is set.
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Resource
Leveling
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Mac iPhone
& iPad
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When resource
leveling is enabled for a project, OmniPlan automatically schedules
project tasks to make sure resources are being used efficiently. After
leveling, resources are never scheduled for more than 100% of their
available units at any time, and tasks assigned to resources are
scheduled in an order optimized for project completion.
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Violation
Resolution
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Mac iPhone
& iPad
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If your
schedule has a logical impossibility, OmniPlan will find it and suggest
the best courses of action to restore order. When possible, OmniPlan will
offer to make the change for you.
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Catch Up and
Reschedule
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Mac iPhone
& iPad
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Quickly mark
all tasks up to a specific date as complete, or reschedule all
uncompleted project tasks for a future date.
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Task
Dependencies
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Mac iPhone
& iPad
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Create
relationships between tasks that are as simple or complex as your project
requires.
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Date
Constraints
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Mac iPhone
& iPad
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Assign date
constraints to tasks that must be completed before a specific date, after
a specific date, or within a specific window of time.
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Manual Task
Scheduling
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Mac iPhone
& iPad
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Tasks can be
assigned fixed start and end dates so that OmniPlan will not
automatically reschedule them.
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Recurring Tasks
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Mac iPhone
& iPad
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Tasks can be
scheduled to repeat on daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly intervals.
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Additional Task
Types
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Mac iPhone
& iPad
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Create hammock
tasks with flexible effort whose duration changes based on constraints
imposed by tasks scheduled before and after it, or split up tasks to
optimize your project schedule. Mark important points in the project
timeline with milestone tasks.
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Resource Types
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Mac iPhone
& iPad
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Set your
project up with staff resources, equipment resources, and consumable
material resources. Enhance the accuracy of your project schedule using
optional advanced settings for resource allocation and customizable
resource units.
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Custom Data
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Mac
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Assign custom
data or variables to tasks and resources in your project.
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Work Calendar
Customization
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Mac iPhone
& iPad
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Customize your
project work schedule, or work schedules for individual resources. With
OmniPlan Pro on Mac, automatically sync work hours from a calendar.
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Project
Tracking & Reporting
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Critical Path
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Mac iPhone
& iPad
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Highlight tasks
in the project schedule that directly influence the completion date of
your project or of specific milestones within the project.
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Multiple
Baselines
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Mac iPhone
& iPad
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Take snapshots
of your schedule, then compare them as your project progresses to make
sure you¡¯re still on track.
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Slack
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Mac iPhone
& iPad
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View the total
slack (or ¡°float¡±) for your project, or the free slack for a specific
task and its successor.
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View Filtering
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Mac iPhone
& iPad
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Filter your
project view by various criteria to only display a specific subset of
your project tasks.
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Calculate Costs
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Mac iPhone
& iPad
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Calculate total
task or project cost by assigning monetary costs to resources or
individual tasks.
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Change Tracking
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Mac iPhone
& iPad
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Review the
changes you¡¯ve made in your project. If you¡¯re collaborating with
OmniPlan Pro, use change tracking to review, browse, and then accept or
reject changes task by task or en masse from your collaborators.
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Interval Cost
& Effort Tracking
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Mac
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Display cost
and effort below tasks in the Gantt chart or in the header above. Show
either the total cost or effort for each period, or as the cumulative
total cost or effort up to each point. This interval tracking data can be
configured and included in document exports.
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Designed for
Mac, iPad, and iPhone
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Universal App
Licensing
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Mac iPhone
& iPad
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Get full access
to OmniPlan 4 on your Mac, iPad, and iPhone with a single purchase or
subscription.
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Project Syncing
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Mac iPhone
& iPad
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Sync your
projects across all of your personal devices using iCloud Drive or
third-party services such as Box, or host your own content via Git or
WebDAV with apps such as Working Copy.
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Automatic Dark
and Light Modes
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Mac iPhone
& iPad
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OmniPlan can
make project planning easy on the eyes by automatically switching to the
right color mode: Dark or Light.
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App Lock
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iPhone &
iPad
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Secure your
documents with an additional passcode, Touch ID, or Face ID.
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Touch Bar
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Mac
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If your Mac
supports it, OmniPlan uses the Touch Bar to bring useful tools and
controls to your fingertips. When no task is selected, the Touch Bar
displays an overview of the Gantt chart or resource timeline along with
controls to Level, Catch Up, or Reschedule tasks. With a task selected,
the Touch Bar adapts to offer contextual control for reviewing and
assigning resources to the task.
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Apple Pencil
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iPhone &
iPad
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With Scribble
support on iPadOS, start writing with your Apple Pencil on an existing
task in Outline View to insert text, or cross out text to delete it.
Write below the existing project outline to quickly create a new task.
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Hardware
Keyboard Shortcuts
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Mac iPhone
& iPad
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Navigate & organize
your project outline via keyboard shortcuts when connected to an external
keyboard. Unlock even more power on your Mac will full keyboard shortcut
support throughout OmniPlan.
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Siri Shortcuts
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iPhone &
iPad
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OmniPlan works
with Siri so that as you create and open projects on your iPhone or iPad,
Siri will notice and make Shortcut suggestions. The suggestions may
appear in Spotlight, on the lock screen, in Siri Settings, and in the
Shortcuts application.
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Pro Features
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Additional
Project Tracking & Reporting
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Multi-Project
Dashboard
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Mac
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Assemble a
beautiful dashboard to review your projects at a glance, and see how busy
or idle each team member is across all of them.
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Collaboration
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Mac iPhone
& iPad
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Confidently
work on your project with other OmniPlan users by syncing either through
Omni¡¯s servers using a free Omni Account or by using your own WebDAV
server. Change management allows you to track changes made by your
collaborators and reject changes that you don¡¯t want.
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Automatic
Publishing Actions
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Mac
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Set up
publishing actions to sync your project with a calendar, to export the
current state of your project schedule, or to execute a script, and run
them with all with a single click or automatically any time the project
is saved.
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Resource Load
Sharing
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Mac iPhone
& iPad
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If a resource
is shared between multiple projects published to the same server
repository, the scheduled task load for that resource across all
published projects can be taken into account when leveling.
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Reporting
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Mac
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Generate
project reports with a single click using OmniPlan¡¯s customizable
built-in HTML templates, or create your own HTML report templates.
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Earned Value
Analysis
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Mac
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Measure
progress at any point in the project, and forecast its completion date
and final cost, without having to remember all of those EVA formulas.
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Monte Carlo
Simulation
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Mac iPhone
& iPad
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Run multiple
simulations in seconds to forecast milestone completion dates with
varying levels of confidence.
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Effort
Estimation
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Mac iPhone
& iPad
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Let OmniPlan
assign your best and worst estimates to account for every scenario.
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Advanced
Integration
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Microsoft
Project Support
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Mac iPhone
& iPad
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Open Microsoft
Project¢ç (.mpp) and Extensible Markup Language (.xml) documents directly
in OmniPlan, plus export directly to these formats.
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Omni Automation
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Mac iPhone
& iPad
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Full Omni
Automation support provides user automation that is truly Apple
device-independent. Scripts and plug-ins, written in JavaScript, can be
shared and synced between iPhones, iPads, and Macs, enhancing your
project workflows by delivering consistent and secure automation.
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AppleScript
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Mac
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Automate
OmniPlan with the classic Apple scripting language for Mac.
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