GTD Software comparison: OmniFocus vs Asana
OmniFocus |
vs Asana ▼ |
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| Company |
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| Company name | The Omni Group | Asana |
| Rating | ★★★☆☆ | ★★★☆☆ |
| TRO Ready | 𐄂 | ✓ |
| Key features |
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| Description | Full-featured task manager for Mac and iPhone. | Social task and project management with collaboration for individuals, teams, and small businesses. Limited support for shared workspaces. |
| Home page | OmniFocus | Asana |
| Tro training | No TRO training available. | No TRO training available. |
| Platform | ||
| Requires | Mac OS X 10.4.8 or later, or iPhone 3G | |
| Version |
3.3.6 released: 2019-09-19 |
released: 2017-03-03 |
| Release date | 2019-09-19 | 2017-03-03 |
| Type | Commercial | Freeware |
| Has free version | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free version notes | Free 14 day trial | Free feature-limited version |
| A paid version is available | ✓ | ✓ |
| Full price low | $19.99 | $1200 |
| Full price high | $79.95 | $9600 |
| Made specifically for GTD | 0 | 0 |
| Syncs with | iCal (auto sync); multiple OmniFocus Mac or iPhone DBs (manual, MobileMe, Bonjour, iDisk, WebDAV); TaskPaper, TXT, HTML CSV (manual export) | |
| Sync methods | Automatic Sync |
Manual Sync Automatic Sync |
| Mobile access |
Web Access Mobile App |
Mobile Optimized Web Access Mobile App |
| Email-to-task support | Emails are automatically tasks |
Link to Task Emails are automatically tasks |
| Categories | Unlimited contexts | Unlimited contexts |
| Time boxing | No time boxing support | No time boxing support |
| Number of date fields | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has reminders | ✓ | ✓ |
| Can automatically prioritize tasks | 𐄂 | 𐄂 |
| Project support | Projects can be nested within other projects | Tasks can be assigned to multiple projects, but projects cannot be assigned to other projects |
| Calendar integration | No support for integration between the tasklist and calendar | Tasks can be linked to the calendar |
| Features URL | www.omnigroup.com/products/omnifocus/features | asana.com/product |
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| GTD setup notes | ||
| Data can be manipulated via an API | 𐄂 | ✓ |
| Short details | A professional task list featuring contexts and projects with different filtering and sorting options. | Asana connects your tasks and projects to anyone you want to work with. Use of workspaces to organize all the teams and collaborate with other people while keeping everything separate. All history and discussions for each task are kept together and updates you of the changes to the tasks and projects. |
| Category dimensions | 2 | 2 |
| Persistent reminders | 𐄂 | 𐄂 |
| Number of priority levels | 0 | 0 |
| Number of prioritization dimensions (besides dates, categories, etc.) | 0 | 0 |
| Collaboration and team support |
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| Date last reviewed | 2019-09-29 | 2017-04-28 |