Comparison

OmniPlan 4 vs Float

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

Head to head
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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

Screenshots

OmniPlan 44 screens
Float4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

OmniPlan 4 ships an update every 2 months, Float every 6 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
OmniPlan 4 versus Float: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOmniPlan 4Float
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (20 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews23.5% of reviews95.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings20 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 6 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS16.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size68 MB72 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThe Omni GroupMylo Creative Limited

Customer experience

OmniPlan 4

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

Float

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews21 reviews
Positive95.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative4.8%

In-app purchases

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
2 purchases

Float

Subscriptions2
  • Out of Sight Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Out of Sight Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year

Questions

Is OmniPlan 4 free?
OmniPlan 4 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Float free?
Float is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, OmniPlan 4 or Float?
Float is rated higher. OmniPlan 4 averages 3.9 out of 5 from 20 ratings, while Float averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do OmniPlan 4 or Float have ads?
Neither OmniPlan 4 nor Float shows ads.
Which is updated more often, OmniPlan 4 or Float?
OmniPlan 4 ships an update every 2 months, and Float every 6 months. Most recently, OmniPlan 4 was updated on November 3, 2026 and Float on November 3, 2026.

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