Comparison

OmniPlan 4 vs OnlyCheckboxes

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

OnlyCheckboxes

Features
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Know what needs doing. Know what got done. OnlyCheckboxes gives you one clear place for work, home, routines, errands, and projects. Start with a simple checklist. Add notes, dates, sub-checkboxes, tags, and attachments only when the work needs more detail. WHY YOU'LL LOVE ONLYCHECKBOXES KEEP UP WITH EVERYTHING See overdue, due-soon, active, and recurring lists together so the next thing never hides in another app or notebook. MAKE EVERY STEP CLEAR Give each checkbox its own notes, smaller steps, tags, dates, and files. The list stays simple until you need more. REPEAT WHAT WORKS Turn any useful list into a template. Schedule it to come back on the dates that fit your life. WORK WITH AI WITHOUT LOSING THE RECORD Supported AI assistants can create lists and work through steps with you. Their progress lands in the same checklist you can inspect later. FIND ANYTHING FAST Search across lists and checkboxes when you need to pick up old work or check what happened. FEATURES • Simple personal checklists • A dashboard for overdue, due-soon, active, and recurring work • Reusable templates • Recurring schedules • Due dates and date ranges • Notes and sub-checkboxes • Tags and search • File attachments • Support for connected AI assistants • Light and dark modes OnlyCheckboxes keeps what needs doing and what got done in one clear place—without turning your life into a project-management system. Download OnlyCheckboxes and start with one list. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

OmniPlan 44 screens
OnlyCheckboxes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: OnlyCheckboxes at every 4 days against OmniPlan 4's every 2 months. OmniPlan 4's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. OmniPlan 4 sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month and OnlyCheckboxes sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.00 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

OmniPlan 4 ships an update every 2 months, OnlyCheckboxes every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
OmniPlan 4 versus OnlyCheckboxes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOmniPlan 4OnlyCheckboxes
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (20 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews23.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings20 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size68 MB61 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThe Omni GroupAndrew Byrd

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

OnlyCheckboxes

Subscriptions2
  • OnlyCheckboxes Monthly$12.001 Month
  • OnlyCheckboxes Yearly$99.001 Year

Questions

Is OmniPlan 4 free?
OmniPlan 4 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is OnlyCheckboxes free?
OnlyCheckboxes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do OmniPlan 4 or OnlyCheckboxes have ads?
Neither OmniPlan 4 nor OnlyCheckboxes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, OmniPlan 4 or OnlyCheckboxes?
OmniPlan 4 ships an update every 2 months, and OnlyCheckboxes every 4 days. Most recently, OmniPlan 4 was updated on November 3, 2026 and OnlyCheckboxes on October 31, 2026.

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