Comparison

OmniFocus 3 vs HEY Email

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

OmniFocus 3

This app helps you organize projects and tasks with tags and priorities. It offers a forecast view for daily planning and a review perspective to keep you on track. Syncing across devices ensures your data is always up-to-date and secure.

Highlights
  • Task and project organization
  • Tagging for cross-project organization
  • Forecast view for daily planning
  • Review perspective for staying on track
  • Secure syncing across devices
  • Batch editing for multiple tasks
  • Customizable perspectives
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Two-week free trial! OmniFocus Standard and Pro are in-app purchases, with discounts for people who bought earlier versions of OmniFocus for iOS. Or you can get OmniFocus for iOS, Mac, and web for just one price with the OmniFocus Subscription. Download the app for details. Use OmniFocus to accomplish more every day. Create projects and tasks, organize them with tags, focus on what you can do right now — and get stuff done. OmniFocus — now celebrating 10 years as the trusted, gold-standard to-do list app — brings unrivaled power and flexibility to your iPhone and iPad, making it easy to work the way you want to work. OmniFocus manages everything in your busy life. Use projects to organize tasks naturally, and then add tags to organize across projects. Easily enter tasks when you’re on the go, and process them when you have time. Tap the Forecast view — which shows both tasks and calendar events — to get a handle on your day. Use the Review perspective to keep your projects and tasks on track. Then let our free syncing system make sure your data is the same on all your iOS devices. (And on OmniFocus for Mac and Web, available separately.) Because your data is encrypted, it’s safe in the cloud. STANDARD FEATURES • NEW: Tags add a powerful additional organizing tool. Create tags for person, energy level, priority, location, and more. • NEW: Batch editing lets you set due dates, tags, and other data for multiple tasks all at once • NEW: Flexible inspectors allow you to show only the features you use, and reorder them so your favorites are where you want them • NEW: The Forecast view shows your tasks and calendar events in order, so you can better see what’s coming up in your day • NEW: Enhanced repeating tasks are easier than ever to set up — and they work with real-world examples such as the first weekday of the month • Inbox is where you quickly add tasks — save them when you think of them, organize them later • Syncing supports end-to-end encryption so that your data is safe wherever it’s stored, on our server or yours • Notes can be attached to your tasks, so you have the information you need • Attachments — graphics and audio — add rich information to your tasks • View options let you customize each perspective by deciding what it should show and how it should filter your tasks • The Review perspective takes you through your projects and tasks — so you stay organized • With Siri support you can add tasks just by talking • OmniFocus Mail Drop adds tasks via email and works with services like IFTTT and Zapier • The Today Widget and the Apple Watch app show you your most important items — you don’t even have to open OmniFocus on your phone to know what’s up Pro features make OmniFocus even more powerful: PRO FEATURES • Custom perspectives help you create new ways to see your data by filtering and grouping projects and tags. NEW: The filtering rules are simpler to use while being more powerful than ever, letting you combine rules with “all,” “any,” and “none.” You can also choose any image to use as your custom perspective’s icon, and a custom tint color to go with it. • NEW: Today’s Forecast can include items with a specific tag, and you can reorder those tasks however you choose, so you can plan your day better • The customizable sidebar and home screen lets you organize your perspectives the way you want to, for super-fast access • The Today Widget shows a perspective of your choice in Notification Center Download OmniFocus and start your free trial! The app includes a quick tutorial and a manual — and there’s plenty more on the website. SUPPORT If you have feedback or questions, our Support Humans would love to hear from you! Send email to omnifocus@omnigroup.com, call us at at 1-800-315-6664 or +1-206-523-4152, or reach us on Twitter at @omnifocus. Subscription Terms of Service: https://www.omnigroup.com/legal

About

HEY Email

This email client streamlines your inbox with features like call-like screening for senders, grouped message organization, and a unified attachment library. It offers unique ways to read emails, manage receipts, and protect your privacy from trackers.

Highlights
  • Screen senders like calls
  • Naturally grouped messages
  • Read multiple emails at once
  • Unified attachment library
  • Set aside emails for later
  • Dedicated receipt management
  • Blocks email trackers
Features
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It’s “you’ll never go back” better HEY replaces workarounds, messy hacks, and daily frustrations, with built-in workflows, effortless organization, and clever features that levels-up email in meaningful ways. Screen emails like you screen calls You screen your calls, so why can't you screen your emails? With HEY, you can. HEY puts you in complete control of who's allowed to email you. Don't want to hear from someone? Screen them out and won’t hear from them again. Naturally grouped Inboxes are typically an intertwined mess of new and old messages haphazardly mixed together. Yuck. With HEY, new messages are always grouped together at the top, and previously seen emails are always at the bottom. Neat and orderly by default. No need to wade through the inbox jungle with a machete. Spread ’em out, read ’em together Let's say you have 7 unread emails. Why do you have to open one, close one, open one, close one, open one, close one, and so on. It's rediculously inefficient. With HEY, you can open multiple emails at once and just scroll though them, just like you would a newsfeed. It's a revolutionary way to read your emails. You'll never go back to the old way. Find files without pulling your hair out If you’re looking for an attachment, why should you have to find an email first? That’s backwards. With HEY, you get an attachment library that gathers up every attachment you’ve ever received in one organized, siftable place. Just set it aside Sometimes you get emails you need to reference later - travel info, handy links, numbers you need, etc. With HEY, you can 'Set Aside' any email in a neat little pile for easy access whenever you need it. At hand, but out of your face. Put receipts in The Paper Trail Receipts, confirmations, and transactional emails getting in your way? With HEY, you can send those types of emails to The Paper Trail where they'll be out of your way, but easy to find when you need them. Blocking email spies 24/7/365 Many companies track which emails you open, how often you open them, and even where you were when you opened them. It's a massive invasion of your privacy. HEY blocks these trackers and tells you who's spying on you. Fix bad subjects without busting threads If you don’t start the thread, you're often stuck with other people’s generic, non-descriptive email subjects. With HEY, you can rename a subject so it makes sense for you without changing things for the other person. Add private notes to any email thread Conversations may start in email, but they may continue somewhere else. Some emails turn into lunches or calls or video conferences. Where do you put the notes from those - especially if they relate to the initial email conversation? With HEY, you can add personal, private notes (and files) to any thread. This way you keep everything related to the conversation on one page, even if it didn't all happen via email. Notifications you control HEY push notifications are off by default so your phone doesn’t steal your attention every time an inconsequential email hits your inbox. However, HEY lets you selectively turn them on for specific contacts or threads so you don't miss the things you really care about. A built-in ‘Reply Later’ workflow What if you need to reply, but you don't have time right now? With HEY, just click the “Reply Later” button to move an email to a dedicated ‘Reply Later’ pile at the bottom of the screen so you don’t lose or forget it. Stop heavy senders from dominating your inbox When you get lots of emails from someone, they can take over your Inbox. With HEY, you can choose to bundle a sender into a single row. This means no matter how many emails they send you, they'll only take up a single row in your Inbox. Clean, controlled, and calm. Get off threads without having to ask Stuck on a mega email chain and want off? Good luck asking someone to remove you. With HEY, you can unfollow any thread and replies won’t show up as new emails anymore. Out of your face forever.

Screenshots

OmniFocus 34 screens
HEY Email4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: HEY Email at 4.6 against OmniFocus 3's 3.9. HEY Email also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 10) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 3 months). OmniFocus 3's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.2). On price and review sentiment there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. OmniFocus 3 sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. HEY Email asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

HEY Email holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.1K and 4.3K respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 68% of OmniFocus 3's written reviews are positive against 61% of HEY Email's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

OmniFocus 3 ships an update every 3 months, HEY Email every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
OmniFocus 3 versus HEY Email: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOmniFocus 3HEY Email
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (1.1K ratings)4.6 (4.3K ratings) — better
Positive reviews67.9% of reviews — better60.8% of reviews
Number of ratings1.1K4.3K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 10 days — better
Ads—No
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.2
Further details — not scored
Size167 MB138 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThe Omni Group37Signals LLC

Customer experience

OmniFocus 3

All ratings1,058 ratings
Positive71.1%
Neutral5.9%
Negative23.1%
Written reviews53 reviews
Positive67.9%
Neutral11.3%
Negative20.8%

HEY Email

All ratings4,324 ratings
Positive91.7%
Neutral1.8%
Negative6.5%
Written reviews309 reviews
Positive60.8%
Neutral9.4%
Negative29.8%

User reviews

OmniFocus 3

From 1.1K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Powerful and customizable task management
  • 👍 Helps stay organized and on top of tasks
  • 🔒 Reliable and trustworthy system
  • 💡 Flexible tag system improves organization
  • 👍 Excellent customer support

Room to improve

  • 💰 Expensive, especially with need to repurchase for upgrades
  • 🐛 Occasional sync and stability issues
  • 🔍 Steep learning curve for new users
  • 📱 iOS app feels less polished than Mac version

HEY Email

From 4.3K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Streamlined email workflow
  • 🔒 Strong privacy focus
  • 👍 Intuitive and user-friendly design
  • 💡 Innovative email organization features
  • 🚀 Fast and responsive app

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional bugs and glitches
  • 🔋 Concerns about offline functionality
  • 💰 Expensive subscription cost
  • 🔍 Limited search and navigation capabilities

Bugs and requests

OmniFocus 3

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Apple Watch complication showing incorrect task count
  • Inability to view task completion dates on mobile

Requested features

3 requests
  • Calendar integration with start time sorting
  • Checklists and structured notes within tasks
  • Improved aesthetics and UI design

HEY Email

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Keyboard issues on iPad
  • Inconsistent behavior when moving between email views

Requested features

3 requests
  • Support for custom email domains
  • More advanced filtering and automation options
  • Improved integration with other apps and services

In-app purchases

8 purchases

OmniFocus 3

Subscriptions3
  • Legacy OmniFocus Subscription14 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • OmniFocus Subscription$9.991 Month
  • Legacy OmniFocus Subscription14 Days trial$99.991 Year
One-time5
  • Free Trial3 variantsFree
  • Upgrade to v3 Standard$24.99
  • Upgrade to v3 Pro$37.99
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  • Unlock Standard$49.99
  • Unlock Pro$74.99
None

HEY Email

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is OmniFocus 3 free?
OmniFocus 3 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is HEY Email free?
HEY Email is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, OmniFocus 3 or HEY Email?
HEY Email is rated higher. OmniFocus 3 averages 3.9 out of 5 from 1.1K ratings, while HEY Email averages 4.6 from 4.3K ratings.
Which is updated more often, OmniFocus 3 or HEY Email?
OmniFocus 3 ships an update every 3 months, and HEY Email every 10 days. Most recently, OmniFocus 3 was updated on October 23, 2026 and HEY Email on October 29, 2026.

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