By Justin Pot
Publication Date: 2025-11-15 11:30:00
Much Apps add artificial intelligence to their products in the most direct way possible. Companies like Google, Microsoft and Meta are adding colorful buttons and pop-ups to their interfaces and bombarding their customers with marketing emails clamoring for everyone to try out the new AI features.
In this context, it was refreshing to speak to indie app maker Omni Group about its approach to AI. The Seattle-based company makes OmniFocus, a powerful task management application that has long been popular among reviewers and enthusiasts for its extreme flexibility. If you can imagine how you would like to manage your tasks, OmniFocus is flexible enough to make this possible without ever seeming overly cluttered. And the plan for AI is consistent with that: the development team wants to keep AI offline and private, giving users the ability to set it up however they want.
This means that the average OmniFocus user will not see pop-ups asking them to use AI in the application…
