OmniFocus for Windows and Android
There is no OmniFocus app for Windows or Android. OmniFocus runs on Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Vision Pro, and the Omni Group's support site says it does not plan native Windows or Android versions.
If your work has moved to a Windows PC, or your phone is now an Android, you have three options. Here they are, including the two that are not Relay.
Option 1: OmniFocus for the Web
OmniFocus for the Web runs in a browser on Windows, Linux or an Android phone, and it uses your real OmniFocus database. If you still have a Mac or an iPhone running OmniFocus and only need to reach your lists from a Windows machine now and then, it is the simplest answer.
- It needs an Apple device behind it
- The web app is a companion. It requires an existing OmniFocus setup on a Mac, iPhone, iPad or Vision Pro, and some settings can only be changed there.
- It costs extra
- It comes with the $99.99 a year subscription, or as an add-on for people who bought a licence, at $4.99 a month or $49.99 a year.
- It has no Review perspective
- The manual lists Review among what the web version does not support, along with notifications and editing repeats. If your weekly review happens on Windows, it happens without the tool built for it.
Option 2: two apps
Keep OmniFocus on your Apple devices and use something else on the others. It works for a while. The trouble is that a GTD system only works if you trust it to hold everything, and a system split across two apps holds everything in neither. Most people who try this end up reviewing one half.
Option 3: one system on every device
Relay is a full Getting Things Done app with native apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android and Windows, and a web app that runs in any browser, Linux included. In Chrome or Edge you can install it as an app with its own window. The same review and the same lists work on all of them, and so do quick add, paste and email to Inbox.
If you know OmniFocus, most of Relay will feel familiar, because both are built on the same method.
| In OmniFocus | In Relay |
|---|---|
| Inbox | Inbox, fed by quick add and email on every device; a capture shortcut on Windows and Mac; widgets on Android, iPhone, iPad and Mac; the share sheet on Android, iPhone and iPad |
| Projects, parallel or sequential | Projects, parallel or sequential |
| Folders | Areas of focus, plus goals, vision and purpose above them |
| Tags | Contexts, and separate energy and time fields |
| Defer date | Scheduled: the action waits in Scheduled, out of Next Actions, and comes up in Engage on that day |
| Due date | Due date |
| Forecast | Engage: today's calendar, what you earmarked for today, and what you could do next |
| Review perspective | A guided weekly review that runs every step in order, plus a daily review |
| On hold | Paused projects, and Someday/Maybe for whole ideas |
Moving your tasks across
Relay imports from OmniFocus. It reads OmniFocus's Plain Text export in two files, one for your projects and one for your Inbox, and keeps your projects, action groups, tags, dates, repeats and notes.
- Export your projects from OmniFocus on a Mac Open Projects and choose View > Expand All, so nothing folded away is left out. Then choose File > Export, pick Plain Text and save.
- Export your Inbox Open your Inbox and export it the same way. OmniFocus exports only what its window shows, so the Inbox needs a file of its own.
- Choose both files in Relay In Relay, open Settings, then Integrations, and under Import choose Import from OmniFocus. Choose the projects file, then the Inbox file.
- Say what each tag is OmniFocus uses tags for places, tools, people and anything else, and Relay files each kind differently. Mark each tag as a context, a person or a workspace. A tag you skip or leave unsorted is left behind.
- Check, then import Relay shows where everything will land and every way it will differ from OmniFocus. Nothing is written until you press Import. Undo takes the imported items back out, from the message that confirms the import or later with Undo that import on the same screen.
OmniFocus makes the Plain Text export only on a Mac. On an iPhone or iPad its only export is CSV, from Database Settings, which the importer does not read. You can still open that file in a spreadsheet, copy the task column and paste it into quick add in Relay: each line becomes an item in your Inbox.
What comes across
- Projects
- Every project, with its actions and notes. A sequential project stays sequential.
- Action groups
- A group in a project becomes a sub-project. A group inside that one joins it, and each of its actions says in its note which group it came from.
- Tags
- As contexts, people or workspaces, the way you sorted them.
- Dates
- A defer date becomes the scheduled date, and a due date stays due. A planned date becomes the scheduled date when there is no defer date, and goes in the note when there is.
- Estimates
- As the time each action takes.
- Repeats
- Including repeats from completion. A repeating action keeps one date, the one OmniFocus repeats, as its scheduled date, because a Relay repeat moves only the scheduled date. A repeat Relay cannot express goes in the note.
- Your Inbox
- Items from OmniFocus's Inbox land in Relay's Inbox, with any context or person tags left off, so they wait for you to process them.
What stays behind
- Folders
- The export does not include them, so every project arrives at the top level.
- On hold
- The export does not say which projects are on hold, so every project arrives active. Pause the ones you had on hold.
- Flags
- Relay has no flags, so flagged items arrive without one.
Before you press Import, Relay tells you how many projects and items each of these touches.
At a glance
| OmniFocus | Relay | |
|---|---|---|
| Runs on | ||
| iPhone and iPad | Yes | Yes |
| Android | No | Yes |
| Mac | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | No | Yes |
| Web browserPartly: a companion to the apps, with less in it | Partly | Yes |
| Built for GTD | ||
| Inbox, Next Actions, Waiting For and Someday built inPartly: some are, the rest you set up yourself | Partly | Yes |
| Contexts | Yes | Yes |
| Agenda lists for people | No | Yes |
| Sequential projects | Yes | Yes |
| Sub-projects | Yes | YesOne level |
| Areas, goals, vision and purposePartly: one level above projects | Partly | Yes |
| Reference material kept with its projectPartly: a separate reference list, or notes on the project itself | Partly | Yes |
| Trigger lists you can edit, for the mind sweep | No | Yes |
| Reviews and planning | ||
| Guided weekly reviewPartly: a review list, checklist or reminder, without guided steps | Partly | Yes |
| Guided daily reviewPartly: a daily list or reminder, without guided steps | Partly | Yes |
| Guided reviews in the phone appPartly: a review list, reminder or template, without guided steps | Partly | Yes |
| Next Actions cut to the time you havePartly: you filter by how long each action takes yourself | PartlyPro only | YesHours, calendar and daily review |
| Actions | ||
| Repeating actions | Yes | Yes |
| Checklists inside an actionPartly: sub-tasks, each one a full task | Partly | Yes |
| Snooze an Inbox item | YesInbox set to Available | Yes |
| AI help clarifying the next actionPartly: one narrow place, a beta, or a paid add-on | Partly | Yes |
| Around the lists | ||
| Google or Outlook calendar in the appPartly: only calendars already on the device | Partly | Yes |
| Two-way sync with other task appsPartly: a one-way import from another app | Partly | YesItems brought in from them |
| Home-screen widgets with your lists | Yes | YesNot on Windows or web |
| Workspaces that filter your lists | YesPro only | Yes |
| Saved custom views | YesPro only | NoEach list keeps its own sort and grouping |
| Shared projects | No | No |
| Look | ||
| Dark theme | Yes | Yes |
| Choose your own colours | YesiPhone and iPad | Yes |
| Price | ||
| Free plan | No | No |
| Buy once, no subscription | Yes | No |
Sources, checked 10 October 2026
Every cell was checked against OmniFocus's own site, help pages, release notes or store listing.
OmniFocus: OmniFocus, OmniFocus pricing, OmniFocus manual, perspectives, OmniFocus and OmniFocus Pro, OmniFocus manual, custom perspectives, OmniFocus manual, settings, OmniFocus manual, widgets and Focus, OmniFocus release notes.
Also in Relay
- Pin an item for today, tomorrow or this week, and it shows in Engage and the daily review.
- Your own sections in Someday/Maybe.
- Choose which sections each task, project and reference item shows, for one item or as the default.
- A default workspace for new items on each device.
- On a phone, choose the screens in the bottom bar.
- Reminders to process your Inbox at the times you choose. In the web app they show as a banner while Relay is open.
What OmniFocus does that Relay does not
- Custom perspectives
- OmniFocus Pro lets you build and save views of your own. Relay has fixed lists with filters, each keeping its own sort and grouping, but no views of your own.
- Per-project review intervals
- OmniFocus can review one project weekly and another monthly. Relay reviews every active project in each weekly review.
- Automation, Apple Watch and location
- Relay has no scripting, no Apple Watch app and no location-based contexts.
- A one-time price
- OmniFocus 4 can be bought outright. Relay is a subscription only: €8 a month, or €5 a month billed yearly.
If you live entirely on Apple devices and use those features daily, OmniFocus is a very good app and you should probably stay. Relay is for the moment your devices stop being all Apple.
Sources, checked 3 October 2026: Omni on Windows and Android versions, OmniFocus pricing, OmniFocus for the Web manual, OmniFocus export options. OmniFocus is a trademark of The Omni Group, which is not affiliated with Relay.
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