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OmniPlan 4

Gantt-chart project planning with a perpetual v4 licence

Price: $199.99 once

This versionThe next major is a new purchase

Price read on omnigroup.com, the page Buy direct opens.

The catch

A future OmniPlan 5 is a separate paid upgrade, historically discounted for existing owners

The full picture

The perpetual licence covers the 4.x line only, so the next major version is a purchase decision again. Multi-user collaboration through a shared server and the more advanced scheduling and analysis features are Pro-only at $399.99, and because the $199.99 annual subscription grants Pro, the honest comparison is $199.99 a year against $399.99 once. There is no Windows or web client, so a mixed-platform team will be trading Microsoft Project files. Development moves slowly, and the price is high for an audience this small.

Pays back in
10 months
Seats
No Mac count statedOmni licences count "computers or people, whichever number is smaller" — one person may install a single licence on all their own Macs, and the same purchase also unlocks iPhone, iPad and Vision Pro.
Developer account
Required
Buy once$199.99Rent 5 years$1,150

$950 kept over five years, and you still have the app.
Against Merlin Project at $230 a year, Merlin Project for Mac, US$229.99 per year. Also replaces OmniPlan Annual Subscription at $200 a year, Microsoft Project Plan 3, Smartsheet and Monday.com.

What it looks like

Images belong to their developers.

What you’re buying

OmniPlan is what you open when a task list stops answering the question you actually have, which is normally: if this one job slips three days, what else moves? It draws real Gantt charts, tracks dependencies and the critical path, levels resources so one person is not booked twice on the same afternoon, and keeps baselines so the plan you promised sits next to the plan you have.

The $199.99 Standard licence is one payment and covers Mac, iPhone, iPad and Vision Pro together. Omni is unusually direct about where that stops: the licence includes every 4.x update, and a future major version will be a paid upgrade with a discount for existing owners. Pro at $399.99 adds shared-server collaboration and the deeper scheduling and analysis work. Since the $199.99-a-year subscription grants Pro, the comparison worth doing is a year of subscription against owning Pro outright.

Do not buy this to organise personal projects — a to-do app does that, and OmniPlan asks for enough setup that you will resent it for a grocery list. Do not buy it for a team living on Windows either. And take the trial seriously: there is a 30-day money-back guarantee, and $200 is a lot to spend discovering you only needed a dependency chart twice a year.

What owners report

Points that recur across the discussions below. A report of what users say, not our verdict: we don’t review software.

Criticised

  • Almost every thread about OmniPlan is someone pricing up alternatives — Merlin, Aeon Timeline, ProjectLibre, GanttProject — and defenders of the price rarely turn up

Details

The price in full

Perpetual v4 licences read from Omni's buy page: Standard "$199.99 USD", Pro "$399.99 USD", both universal across Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Vision Pro and both including "all 4.x updates" with upgrade discounts available. The alternative is an annual subscription at "$199.99 USD per year", which grants the Pro version. 30-day money-back guarantee.

The OmniPlan 4 page at omnigroup.com
The developer’s own page. omnigroup.com, captured 22 Sep 2026
Free trial
Yes
Works offline
Yes
Apple Silicon
Native
On Setapp
No
Minimum macOS
macOS 12
App Store rating
3.9 from 20 people
Developer
The Omni Group

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