OmniPlan 4 vs Float
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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.
Float
This app helps students manage essay writing by breaking down word count goals into daily targets. It also supports book reading goals, providing daily page targets. An "Essay Tennis" feature allows friends to challenge each other with word counts.
- Daily word count targets for essays
- Daily page targets for reading
- Essay title, word count, and deadline input
- Essay Tennis word count challenges
- Time management for students
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-App of the Day- Float helps students break down deadlines and stay focused together. Whether you’re writing an essay, finishing an assignment, or trying to get through a book before a deadline, Float helps you turn big tasks into smaller daily goals. Add what you’re working on, enter your word count or page count, choose your deadline, and Float will calculate how much you need to complete each day. No more guessing, panicking, or leaving everything until the night before. With our new feature Out of Sight, you can put your phone away at the same time as friends, join focus sessions, and stay accountable while you study. Choose a time, see who else is focusing, and make phone-free study feel more social and easier to stick to. Float is built for students who want to feel more in control of their workload, reduce last-minute stress, and build better study habits one day at a time. Key Features BREAK DOWN ESSAYS Enter your essay word count and deadline, and Float will create a simple daily writing target. TRACK READING GOALS Add a book, page count and deadline, and know exactly how many pages to read each day. STAY FOCUSED WITH OUT OF SIGHT Put your phone away, join friends in focus sessions, and stay committed while you study. FOCUS TOGETHER See when friends are going Out of Sight and join the same study time. STAY ACCOUNTABLE Nudge friends to focus with you and build a better study routine together. MAKE DEADLINES FEEL SMALLER Turn big assignments into manageable daily progress. https://www.thefloatapp.com/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Float at 95% against OmniPlan 4's 24%. Float also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.9) and monetization model (free vs paid). OmniPlan 4's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 6 months) and ratings volume (20 vs 3). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. OmniPlan 4 sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month and Float sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Float 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: 24% of OmniPlan 4's written reviews are positive against 95% of Float's.
OmniPlan 4 ships an update every 2 months, Float every 6 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | OmniPlan 4 | Float |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (20 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 23.5% of reviews | 95.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 20 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 68 MB | 72 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The Omni Group | Mylo Creative Limited |
Customer experience
OmniPlan 4
Float
In-app purchases
OmniPlan 4
- Legacy Subscription$19.991 Month
- Legacy Subscription$199.991 Year
- 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
Float
- Out of Sight Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Out of Sight Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year









