Comparison

SheetPlanner vs OmniPlan 4

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

Head to head
About

SheetPlanner

This app provides a powerful and flexible outliner for organizing information, planning life, and scheduling tasks. It offers advanced features like timeline and calendar views, smart filters, and collaboration, with a free core outliner and an optional trial for premium functionalities.

Highlights
  • Outliner with customizable columns
  • Timeline and calendar views
  • Smart filters for focused task management
  • Syncing via iCloud Drive
  • Collaboration features
  • Linking to files, folders, and webpages
Features
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SheetPlanner helps you organize information, plan your life and schedule your tasks and activities with unparalleled power and flexibility. FREE OUTLINER; advanced features available via 21 day in-app trial: SheetPlanner's outliner supporting multiple columns, styles, notes, links, and more is available completely free forever. Try advanced features including timeline and calendar views, multiple sheets, smart filters, and more, free for 21 days. At the end of the trial, purchase to unlock those features, or continue with the free outliner. Get organized: Organize all your activities in an outliner, categorize them using the standard columns including progress, start and finish dates. Create your own date, text, number, symbol or drop down list columns. Auto enter cell values. Link to documents and web sites. Make a plan: Plan and visualize your goals, project tasks and schedule in the timeline view. View task duration and sequence. View timeline by days, weeks, months, quarters or years. Create dependencies between rows. View predecessors and successors. Get things done: Use filters or focus to concentrate on whats important, due today, due tomorrow, or whatever criteria you decide. View tasks in a month or year calendar or both. Features: Outliner with columns: Organize and give structure to text. Add your own text, number, date, symbol or list type columns. Sync Syncing via iCloud Drive is now supported. Edit a document on multiple Macs, and the changes will periodically sync. Collaboration Collaborate with other people. Share a document, and see their changes highlighted, and even their selection. Notes: Notes inline below row topic and in own tab with full text editor. Row Styles: Custom fonts, size, color at each row level or specific to individual rows. Focus: Focus on a row or a row and its children. Transverse hierarchy via path bar. Search: Search the outline across columns from the toolbar with an option to save as a Smart Filter. Sorting: Sort the outline by any column, by ascending, descending order or by the order of values in a ‘List’ type column. Smart filters (in-app purchase): Create Smart Filters with simple or complex criteria and save them for future use via the Filter Bar. Link files, folders & webpages. Link to web pages, documents and folders on your Mac or in the cloud, or view them via Quick Look or tabs. Multiple Tabs: View sheets in multiple tabs at once in any combination of views: month view, outline, timeline or year view. Monthly Calendar (in-app purchase): View outline rows with assigned dates in a monthly view. Yearly Calendar (in-app purchase): Heat-mapped year view indicating number of activities commencing and/or finishing on each day. Timeline (in-app purchase): View and adjust key dates for each task on a horizontal timeline. Create dependencies between rows. Dependencies can be of the following types: Finish to start, start to finish, start to start, finish to finish. Board View (in-app purchase): View Outline rows on a board. Organize cards by Topic, column list values, symbol list values, people. Organize by vertical and horizontal lanes. Drag to move cards between lanes. Multiple Sheets: A document can now include multiple sheets, each with their own columns, rows, styles, filters, etc. Organize and access multiple sheets using the sidebar and folders. Printing: See a preview of what will be printed, including printing the outline and timeline together. Properties: Customize cell, column, row, calendar and timeline settings. Import & Export: Import & export in CSV or OPML format. Copy & Paste: Copy and Paste from/to Excel & Numbers. Themes: Personalize Outline view with green-bar, yellow notepad or green notepad themes. Templates: Ready to go templates for business, education and personal use. Save templates for future use via the template chooser.

About

OmniPlan 4

This app offers robust project management capabilities, allowing users to view, edit, and organize complex projects. It provides tools for tracking progress, managing teams, and improving workflows with features like automatic scheduling and critical path highlighting.

Highlights
  • Automatic project scheduling
  • Resource leveling
  • Team collaboration
  • Critical path highlighting
  • Interactive Gantt timeline
  • Network diagram view
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OmniPlan gives you the power to manage complexity by helping you view, edit, and organize projects. Easily track your progress, manage your team, and continuously improve your processes with powerful project management features including automatic project scheduling, resource leveling, collaboration, milestones, and critical path highlighting. View your project as an interactive Gantt timeline, a customizable project outline, or as a beautiful Network diagram. Manage simple or complex projects—all at a glance. Purchase OmniPlan once for full access to OmniPlan 4 on your Mac, iPad, iPhone, and Apple Vision Pro.

Screenshots

SheetPlanner4 screens
OmniPlan 44 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: SheetPlanner at 86% against OmniPlan 4's 24%. SheetPlanner also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.9) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). OmniPlan 4's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (20 vs 3). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. SheetPlanner sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and OmniPlan 4 sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

SheetPlanner holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: OmniPlan 4 has 20 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of SheetPlanner's written reviews are positive against 24% of OmniPlan 4's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SheetPlanner ships an update every 2 weeks, OmniPlan 4 every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on July 27, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
SheetPlanner versus OmniPlan 4: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSheetPlannerOmniPlan 4
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better3.9 (20 ratings)
Positive reviews85.7% of reviews — better23.5% of reviews
Number of ratings320 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size55 MB68 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperSheetPlanner Software LLCThe Omni Group

Customer experience

SheetPlanner

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews21 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral14.3%
Negative0.0%

OmniPlan 4

All ratings20 ratings
Positive65.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews68 reviews
Positive23.5%
Neutral10.3%
Negative66.2%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

SheetPlanner

One-time3
  • Free Trial2 variantsFree
  • Upgrade SheetPlanner$39.99
  • Unlock SheetPlanner$49.99
10 purchases

OmniPlan 4

Subscriptions2
  • Legacy Subscription$19.991 Month
  • Legacy Subscription$199.991 Year
One-time8
  • Free Upgrade to v4 ProFree
  • Free Upgrade to v4 StandardFree
  • Upgrade to v4 Standard$99.99
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  • Upgrade from Standard to Pro$99.99
  • Unlock Standard$199.99
  • Upgrade to v4 Pro$199.99
  • Upgrade from Standard to Pro$199.99
  • Unlock Pro$399.99

Questions

Is SheetPlanner free?
SheetPlanner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is OmniPlan 4 free?
OmniPlan 4 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, SheetPlanner or OmniPlan 4?
SheetPlanner is rated higher. SheetPlanner averages 5.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while OmniPlan 4 averages 3.9 from 20 ratings.
Do SheetPlanner or OmniPlan 4 have ads?
SheetPlanner shows ads; OmniPlan 4 does not.
Which is updated more often, SheetPlanner or OmniPlan 4?
SheetPlanner ships an update every 2 weeks, and OmniPlan 4 every 2 months. Most recently, SheetPlanner was updated on July 27, 2026 and OmniPlan 4 on September 21, 2026.

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