AgenToDo vs OmniFocus

AgenToDo

• Mac users who follow Getting Things Done and want a guided weekly review
• People who would rather describe a change in a sentence than click through menus
• People moving from OmniFocus, whose keyboard model the app borrows
• Anyone who wants tasks kept in their own iCloud and off the vendor's servers

OmniFocus

• People managing many projects on Apple devices
• Workflows built around defer dates, tags and regular project reviews
• Buyers who want to choose between a one-time license and a subscription

AgenToDo

• Mac only: the site requires macOS 26 (Tahoe) on Apple silicon and says there is no Windows, Android or web version.
• The AI features spend Setapp AI credits. Setapp plans include a monthly allowance, and extra credits are a monthly add-on from $17.99 for 15,000.
• The site's only download route is Setapp, MacPaw's own app store, and the AI features need a Setapp account.
• No iPhone or iPad app is listed on the vendor's site; in an August 2026 reply on its Setapp listing the developer said one was in testing.

OmniFocus

• Native apps are for Apple devices only. Web access comes with the subscription or costs $4.99 a month on top of a license.
• Custom perspectives, Focus mode and automation are Pro features and are not in the $74.99 Standard license.
• There is no free plan; after the 14-day trial the app falls back to a viewer mode.
• Education discounts do not apply to subscriptions or to purchases made through the App Store.

AgenToDo

AI command bar

A request typed or spoken in plain language becomes a set of proposed changes shown as a preview. Nothing is applied until it is approved, and one sentence can carry several changes.

GTD structure and eleven views

Inbox, Today, Forecast, Flagged, Waiting On, Review and five more built-in views, with sequential, parallel and single-action projects, folders and nested tags.

Calendar and time blocking

Events from the Mac's calendars appear beside tasks in day, week and month views. Tasks can be dragged onto time slots, and a commitment meter shows when a day is overbooked.

Quick Entry and smart parsing

A global shortcut opens a capture window from any app. The title field picks out flags, tags, projects, people, estimates, dates and repeats, in English and Ukrainian.

iCloud sync and shared projects

Data sits in a local database and syncs through the user's own iCloud. A project can be shared with edit or view-only access, with an activity feed and task assignment.

Automation and command line

Siri, Apple Shortcuts, Spotlight indexing, interactive desktop widgets and a bundled command-line tool are included. Read.ai can pass meeting action items in for review.

OmniFocus

Projects, folders and tags

Actions are grouped into projects and folders and labeled with tags, flags, due dates and defer dates. Repeat schedules handle recurring work.

Forecast

Shows upcoming actions together with calendar events. Calendar integration is available in the native apps but not in the web version.

Review

A review mode steps through projects at a regular interval, such as once a week, so that projects and goals stay current.

Custom perspectives and Focus (Pro)

Pro adds custom perspectives, which are saved views built from filtering and grouping rules in a perspective editor, along with Focus mode.

Automation (Pro)

Pro runs Omni Automation plug-ins and, on Mac, AppleScripts.

Encrypted sync

Syncing through the free Omni Sync Server or a server of your own is described by the vendor as end-to-end encrypted. The web version requires Omni Sync Server.

AgenToDo

• Free$0

  The full task manager without AI: all eleven views, the calendar, widgets, the command-line tool, iCloud sync and shared projects.

• Setapp Mac$14.99

  per month, billed monthly; $107.88 billed yearly

  Setapp membership for 1 Mac. It supplies 1,000 AI credits a month for AgenToDo's AI features, or 300 a month when billed yearly.

• Setapp AI Enthusiast$22.99

  per month, billed monthly; $161.88 billed yearly

  Setapp AI+ plan for 1 Mac with 6,000 AI credits a month, or 3,750 a month when billed yearly.

• Setapp AI Expert$35.99

  per month, billed monthly; $259.08 billed yearly

  Setapp AI+ plan for 4 Macs and 4 iOS devices with 9,000 AI credits a month, or 7,500 a month when billed yearly.

OmniFocus

• OmniFocus for the Web Subscription$4.99

  per month, or $49.99 per year

  Browser access as an add-on. Requires an existing OmniFocus setup on Mac, iPad, iPhone or Apple Vision Pro.

• v4 Standard License$74.99

  one-time purchase

  Version 4 with all 4.x updates on Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Apple Vision Pro, with the standard feature set.

• OmniFocus Subscription$99.99

  per year

  The latest Pro version on Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Apple Vision Pro plus web access, with no charge for major version upgrades.

• v4 Pro License$149.99

  one-time purchase

  Version 4 with all 4.x updates, plus the Pro features: custom perspectives, Focus mode and automation.

AgenToDo

• Annual discount

  Up to 40% off Setapp plans billed yearly

  Setapp's pricing page advertises savings of up to 40% with yearly billing. Yearly plans carry fewer AI credits a month: 300 against 1,000 on the Mac plan.

• Education

  20% off Setapp's annual Mac + iOS plan

  Students, researchers and educators who are new to Setapp get 20% off the annual Mac + iOS plan, listed at $107.88 a year with 300 AI credits a month.

OmniFocus

• Lifetime license

  One-time v4 license instead of a subscription

  A v4 Standard ($74.99) or Pro ($149.99) license is bought once and kept, with all 4.x updates included, as an alternative to the $99.99 yearly subscription.

• Education

  Education pricing on licenses

  Staff, faculty and students of accredited educational organizations can buy discounted licenses from Omni's Educational Store. Subscriptions and App Store purchases are excluded.

• Other savings

  Quantity discount on perpetual licenses

  Each license beyond the first in the same transaction takes a further 5% off the whole order, up to 30%. The discount is not available on subscriptions.

• Other savings

  Family sharing through an Omni Account

  A personal license or subscription can unlock the apps for immediate family members living in the same household. OmniFocus for the Web access cannot be shared.

• Other savings

  Upgrade pricing for owners of versions 1 to 3

  The purchase page says upgrade discounts are available. The App Store listing shows upgrades from v1-v3 at $37.49 for v4 Standard and $74.99 for v4 Pro, half the full license prices.