Box Events vs OmniFocus 4
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Box Events
Enhance your event experience with real-time updates, networking opportunities, and detailed session information. Connect with other attendees, explore exhibitor details, and personalize your event schedule.
- Real-time updates and interaction
- Activity feed with trending sessions
- Detailed event agendas and speaker info
- Attendee networking and connection
- Exhibitor exploration
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Explore event agendas, access session information, create personalized schedules, interact with other attendees and expand your network to get the most out of each Box event. Features: * Update: share photos, leave comments and ask questions in real time * Activity feed: view attendee comments, event photos, trending sessions and other topics * Agenda: view full event agendas and related information (session time, room number, speaker information, etc.) * Users: see who’s at the event and connect with them on the app * Exhibitors: explore Box partners in the Partner Pavilion (when applicable)
OmniFocus 4
This task management application helps busy professionals organize and prioritize their work. It offers a unified interface across multiple Apple devices, allowing users to create, organize, and focus on tasks efficiently. A free trial is available.
- Unified interface across Apple devices
- Task creation and organization
- Perspectives Bar for navigation
- Focus mode for specific projects
- Secure, end-to-end encrypted sync
- Universal cross-platform purchase
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OmniFocus is powerful task management software for busy professionals. With tools to help tame the chaos, you can focus on the right tasks at the right time. Two-week free trial! OmniFocus 4 introduces a modernized, unified interface across Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro. Centered around your task outline, OmniFocus 4 brings a consistent experience, optimized for each device type, to all of your Apple devices. Easily create tasks anytime–from anywhere–and organize them with projects, tags, and dates. Quickly navigate OmniFocus on any device using the Perspectives Bar, Quick Open, and Back and Forward history. With Pro, use Focus to help focus your attention on specific projects or folders, and customize OmniFocus to only display the information most relevant to you. New to OmniFocus? The simple, efficient OmniFocus 4 interface will help you discover and implement a trusted system that works and grows with you. Upgrading from a previous version of OmniFocus? In OmniFocus 4, discover enhanced versions of all the powerful task management features you already rely on, along with new features that will level-up your workflow. Omni offers a free and secure sync service, protected with end-to-end encryption, ensuring only devices you authorize can access your data. And now, for the first time ever, OmniFocus is available as a universal cross-platform purchase: get full access to OmniFocus 4 on your Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro with a single license purchase. Accomplish more every day–anywhere you go–with OmniFocus 4.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Box Events at 5.0 against OmniFocus 4's 4.0. Box Events also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 8) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 18.2). OmniFocus 4's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (346 vs 5). On price and ads 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
Both are free to download. OmniFocus 4 sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Box Events asks for nothing beyond the download.
Box Events holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: OmniFocus 4 has 346 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Box Events ships an update every 5 months, OmniFocus 4 every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Box Events | OmniFocus 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better | 4.0 (346 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 52.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 346 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 18.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 138 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Box, Inc. | The Omni Group |
Customer experience
Box Events
OmniFocus 4
Bugs and requests
Box Events
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
OmniFocus 4
Reported bugs
6 issues- View options button not working consistently
- Custom perspectives not persisting in sidebar
- App crashing on launch
- Drag and drop functionality issues
- Incorrect task completion when adding new tasks
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- Inconsistent behavior when changing due dates
Requested features
6 requests- Markdown support in notes
- Gantt view for projects
- Ability to reorder perspectives in the sidebar
- Print to PDF with due dates and completed dates
- Natural language processing for task creation
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- Board view for projects
In-app purchases
Box Events
No in-app purchases
OmniFocus 4
- Legacy Subscription$9.991 Month
- Legacy Subscription$99.991 Year
- Upgrade to v4 from v1-v3$37.49
- Upgrade v4 to Pro from v1-v3$37.49
- Unlock Standard$74.99
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- Upgrade from Standard to Pro$74.99
- Upgrade to v4 Pro from v1-v3$74.99
- Unlock Pro$149.99









