Omnifocus On Twitter: Omnifocus 2.12 For Mac
I won’t downvote you because it’s a legit question. It seems like there are plenty of apps with frequent paid upgrades.
However, OF isn’t one of them. I bought the OF2 upgrade when it came out five years ago. Amortized over 5 years, it’s one of the cheapest “real” apps I own. Suppose I buy the pro upgrade version of OF3 for $40.
If I get 5 no-extra-cost years out of that, it will set me back $8 per year. Running parallels desktop 8 for mac download. That’s just over half the price of a certain popular note taking app, and I use OF way more than that.
Omni is one of - maybe the only - app makers that I’ll throw money at sight unseen. They make good stuff and charge extremely reasonable prices. I’d much, much rather support this business model than to have to make an IAP to remove ads or enable syncing or such. Because I am in the software business my perspective may be biased, but here it is: those features have been on the OmniFocus roadmap, but not necessarily the OmniFocus 2 roadmap. 2016 look ahead (no mention of tags): 2017 look ahead (mentions tags and flexible repeat notifications, both of which are in OF3): OmniFocus 2 for Mac was released in May 2014, and OF2 for iOS later that year) — 4 years since paid updates. Tagging was I’m sure requested from the very first release of OF, but wasn’t mentioned until early 2017.
Omnifocus On Twitter: Omnifocus 2.12 For Mac Free
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I suppose I can understand why someone would buy into OF2 after that 2017 look ahead expecting tags, but the reality is that roadmaps are plans, not promises. They likely looked at all the features they wanted to add to OF3 — tagging, flexible repeats, web view, etc. And the associated engineering efforts to develop those and decided that was worth a paid upgrade — the first one in 4 years. Because they’re not using a subscription model, it’s sometimes tough for a company to set a paid/free update rhythm that makes sense to consumers, and certainly everything every paid update in the history of software has resulted in your opinion from some customers.
For me personally, given that OF3 is 50% off for upgrades from OF2, it’s more than worth $70 ($40 for Mac and $30 for iOS) to continue to support the company and get the new features and continued product support in return.