An OmniFocus alternative for the web, iPhone and Android
You like the discipline of OmniFocus, but it only lives on Apple devices, doesn't share, and has no idea why you do any of it. AltoFocus kept the best parts and filled in the rest.
For long-time OmniFocus, Things or Todoist users who practise GTD and have hit its limits.
Shop rebuild
Area: Business · Goal: Revenue without overtime
Write up checkout requirements
Send the brief to three agencies
Pick an agency
Prepare the product migration
The situation
Jana runs a small e-commerce business and has used OmniFocus for six years. Her system is tuned: contexts, defer dates, sequential projects. But her work laptop runs Windows, the colleague she's preparing an autumn trade fair with uses Android, and when she looks at two hundred tasks on a Friday she can't tell which ones actually move her forward.
She doesn't want to give up what works. She wants the same thing, available everywhere, with an answer to the question why.
What it looks like in AltoFocus
The same foundation: Inbox, projects, next actions
A sequential project shows only the first open step, a parallel one shows them all. Tasks can be deferred (hidden until a date), given a due date, a flag or a repeat. Switching views works from the keyboard.
Perspectives instead of contexts
Save a filter — say the #phone tag, the Work area and available tasks only — and it sits in the sidebar one click away. What OmniFocus Pro perspectives give you, without a paid upgrade.
New: a line upwards
Every project belongs to an area and can point at a goal. Tasks show a quiet “why” line, and the review surfaces projects that don't lead anywhere.
Switching without stress
There is no automatic OmniFocus import yet. We'd suggest not looking for one: retype your active projects (there are fewer than you think) and leave the rest archived. If you'd rather script it, there's a REST API.
What changes
- One system on Mac, Windows, iPhone and Android (PWA).
- A shared trade-fair project with her colleague — without sharing the rest of her list.
- A Friday review that ends with “actions without vision, vision without actions”.