FocusGTD is the Android app that syncs with OmniFocus 4* on your Mac and iPhone: tasks, projects, tags, planned dates and repeats.https://focusgtd.app/https://focusgtd.app/post/2026-11-07-focusgtd-3.9.0/https://focusgtd.app/post/2026-11-07-focusgtd-3.9.0/It has been a busy few weeks. OmniFocus 4.7 introduced a couple of new features and I wanted FocusGTD to keep up with them, so that nothing gets lost or silently ignored when you sync between your Mac and your Android device. In the last three weeks I have released 3.8.0 up to…Sat, 07 Nov 2026 17:00:00 GMThttps://focusgtd.app/post/2022-10-13-focusgtd-3.6.16/https://focusgtd.app/post/2022-10-13-focusgtd-3.6.16/A minor improvement for 3.6. - FEATURE: in case of a DB inconsistency the app will now show a warning rather than crash So I have these rather rare but persistent crashes in my crash reports which seem to indicate a database inconsistency after deleting projects. Unfortunately,…Thu, 13 Oct 2022 10:21:45 GMThttps://focusgtd.app/post/2022-09-25-focusgtd-3.6.15/https://focusgtd.app/post/2022-09-25-focusgtd-3.6.15/Its been a while (again)! While I have not stopped updating the app and fixing bugs, I did forget to post about it. That has to stop. So here is a rundown of all that has happened since 3.6.7. - FIX: fixed crash on Android 13 - FEAT: library upgrades and make it compatible with…Sun, 25 Sep 2022 10:21:45 GMThttps://focusgtd.app/post/2023-09-23-focusgtd-3.6.24/https://focusgtd.app/post/2023-09-23-focusgtd-3.6.24/Long time, no see. While I have been a bit lazy on the blog and the release notes, it does not mean that no fixes were deployed. I have released 8 updates from October 2022 until now. Nothing earth shattering, but still some nice fixes. To recap all that happened since then here…Fri, 23 Sep 2022 17:21:45 GMThttps://focusgtd.app/post/2021-12-19-focusgtd-3.6.7/https://focusgtd.app/post/2021-12-19-focusgtd-3.6.7/Its been a while! Pre-holiday time is usually quite hectic so I didn't have a lot of time to work on FocusGTD. However, you might have noticed a few smaller updates improving the look&feel especially in dark theme. - FIX: fix widget text color in dark theme - FIX: fix colors for…Sun, 19 Dec 2021 10:21:45 GMThttps://focusgtd.app/post/2021-09-20-focusgtd-3.6.4/https://focusgtd.app/post/2021-09-20-focusgtd-3.6.4/This is a bugfix release addressing minor problems that occur quite rarely. - FIX: improved rare data loss when marking a project as sequential - FIX: improved error handling when checking off a repeated task which caused a crash for some users - FIX: when resetting the repeat…Mon, 20 Sep 2021 07:21:45 GMThttps://focusgtd.app/post/2021-08-28-focusgtd-3.6.3/https://focusgtd.app/post/2021-08-28-focusgtd-3.6.3/Since Google has updated the icon design specifications, I have been dragging my feet a bit to update the iconography to their latest specifications. Also I am not much of a designer so it took me quite a while to adapt the app icons. Finally, this release also fixes a problem…Sat, 28 Aug 2021 14:11:45 GMThttps://focusgtd.app/post/2021-05-13-focusgtd-3.6.2/https://focusgtd.app/post/2021-05-13-focusgtd-3.6.2/Google threw me a curve ball here. In 3.6.x I switched to the Google-blessed Material Components date/time picker dialogs in the hope of getting better support and them being better integrated (and nicer looking). However, turns out you have to manually test every android…Thu, 13 May 2021 07:21:45 GMThttps://focusgtd.app/post/2021-05-07-focusgtd-3.6.1/https://focusgtd.app/post/2021-05-07-focusgtd-3.6.1/A nice UI improvement release for FocusGTD. I spent the last couple of days upgrading the app to the lastest library versions and polished the UI a bit. - IMPROVEMENT: better date / time picker dialogs - IMPROVEMENT: improved layout for task edit dialog - FIX: correctly remember…Fri, 07 May 2021 06:11:45 GMThttps://focusgtd.app/post/2021-02-28-focusgtd-3.5.11/https://focusgtd.app/post/2021-02-28-focusgtd-3.5.11/This is an minor bugfix/polish release to 3.5.10. - FIX: quick entry dialog background is no longer translucent As always, the version has been released to the testers group and will be rolled out to the public in the coming days (unless problems occur).Sun, 28 Feb 2021 07:32:45 GMThttps://focusgtd.app/post/2021-02-09-focusgtd-3.5.10/https://focusgtd.app/post/2021-02-09-focusgtd-3.5.10/This is an minor bugfix/polish release to 3.5.9. - FIX: fixed rare crash when trying to delete a task - FIX: fixed showing the correct tasks in the forecast view after a screen rotation - FIX: fixed sync progress indicator not going away in rare cases As always, the version has…Tue, 09 Feb 2021 14:32:45 GMThttps://focusgtd.app/post/2020-12-22-focusgtd-3.5.9/https://focusgtd.app/post/2020-12-22-focusgtd-3.5.9/This is an minor bugfix/polish release to 3.5.7. - FIX: fixed rare crash on settings screen - FIX: fixed task ordering when adding new tasks to the inbox (also caused sorting in the inbox to act weird) - FIX: fixed crash on login screen As always, the version has been released…Mon, 04 Jan 2021 17:32:45 GMThttps://focusgtd.app/post/2020-12-22-focusgtd-3.5.7/https://focusgtd.app/post/2020-12-22-focusgtd-3.5.7/Sometimes, life is a bit harsh. Google pulled the rug under a feature I was using. This basically means spending hours over hours just for the app to keep working as it did before. While I am all for progress and getting the platform forwards, this kind of sucks as it does not…Tue, 22 Dec 2020 07:32:45 GMThttps://focusgtd.app/post/2020-10-28-focusgtd-3.5.6/https://focusgtd.app/post/2020-10-28-focusgtd-3.5.6/This is an minor bugfix/polish release to 3.5.5. - FIX: fixed rare crashes on tablets and folding phones - FIX: fixed a few more rare crashes with attachments and quick entry - IMPROVEMENT: improve dark mode for quick entry As always, the version has been released to the testers…Wed, 28 Oct 2020 07:04:45 GMThttps://focusgtd.app/post/2020-10-22-focusgtd-3.5.5/https://focusgtd.app/post/2020-10-22-focusgtd-3.5.5/This is an minor bugfix/polish release to 3.5.3. - FIX: fixed task availability when moving into a sequential task/project - FIX: fixed a few rare crashes IMPROVEMENT: redesigned forecast view settings As always, the version has been released to the testers group and will be…Thu, 22 Oct 2020 11:34:45 GMThttps://focusgtd.app/post/2020-09-29-focusgtd-3.5.3/https://focusgtd.app/post/2020-09-29-focusgtd-3.5.3/Wow, this was a lot of work but finally its done. FocusGTD 3.5.3 has been released with Dark Mode support. To learn a bit more what this seemingly simple change has involved, read the previous blog entry. - FEATURE: dark mode support (requires Android 10 or higher) - FIX: fixed…Tue, 29 Sep 2020 06:11:45 GMThttps://focusgtd.app/post/2020-09-20-the-road-to-darkmode/https://focusgtd.app/post/2020-09-20-the-road-to-darkmode/I wanted to share my current status of what I am working on. The last weeks have been quite busy getting ready to implement dark mode. Initially I thought, hey, thats not going to be a big deal, but boy was I wrong. FocusGTD is already quite an old app with the code base going…Sun, 20 Sep 2020 06:11:45 GMThttps://focusgtd.app/post/2020-09-08-focusgtd-3.4.4/https://focusgtd.app/post/2020-09-08-focusgtd-3.4.4/This is an minor bugfix release to 3.4. - FIX: fixed showing attachments - FIX: improved robustness when parsing attachments - FIX: improved error handling when parsing invalid dates - FIX: fix synching newly created tags As always, the version has been released to the testers…Tue, 08 Sep 2020 06:34:45 GMThttps://focusgtd.app/post/2020-07-19-focusgtd-3.4.0/https://focusgtd.app/post/2020-07-19-focusgtd-3.4.0/A small but nice improvement is the new 1x1 widget that can show you the number of tasks (due, in inbox, ...). - FEATURE: new 1x1 counter widget As always, the version has been released to the testers group and will be rolled out to the public in the coming days (unless problems…Sun, 19 Jul 2020 06:11:45 GMThttps://focusgtd.app/post/2020-06-22-focusgtd-3.3.8/https://focusgtd.app/post/2020-06-22-focusgtd-3.3.8/This is an minor bugfix release to 3.3. - FIX: fixed rare crash when opening today view - FIX: fixed thows today tagged tasks when they are deferred - FIX: fixed a few rare crashes when navigating through the app As always, the version has been released to the testers group and…Mon, 22 Jun 2020 07:34:45 GMThttps://focusgtd.app/post/2020-06-12-focusgtd-3.3.5/https://focusgtd.app/post/2020-06-12-focusgtd-3.3.5/This is an minor feature and bugfix release to 3.3. - FEATURE: it is now possible to create new tags - FIX: fixed handling of deleted attachments which caused parsing errors As always, the version has been released to the testers group and will be rolled out to the public in the…Fri, 12 Jun 2020 05:34:45 GMThttps://focusgtd.app/post/2020-06-04-focusgtd-3.3.4/https://focusgtd.app/post/2020-06-04-focusgtd-3.3.4/This is an minor bugfix release to 3.3. If you were using many different devices and they all got out of sync it could have happened that db merges with more than 2 states could happen (i.e. a device saw that there were 3 different independent states from as many devices it was…Thu, 04 Jun 2020 06:34:45 GMThttps://focusgtd.app/post/2020-05-20-focusgtd-3.3.3/https://focusgtd.app/post/2020-05-20-focusgtd-3.3.3/This is an important bugfix release to 3.3. Due to upgrade of used libraries it appears that WebDAV support for Apache servers was broken. - FIX: fixed crash when opening settings on older android versions - FIX: fixed filename encoding issues when using apache webdav servers -…Wed, 20 May 2020 06:34:45 GMThttps://focusgtd.app/post/2020-05-15-support-email-issues/https://focusgtd.app/post/2020-05-15-support-email-issues/Well that was embarrassing. I moved my hosting provider and during this process, I had to change the DNS server to point to the new host. In that process I failed to correctly apply the email forwarding which caused your support requests to go into the void. If you were…Fri, 15 May 2020 06:34:45 GMThttps://focusgtd.app/post/2020-05-10-focusgtd-3.3.1/https://focusgtd.app/post/2020-05-10-focusgtd-3.3.1/This is a minor bugfix release to 3.3.0. While trying to start integrating dark mode I made a mistake which caused wrong colors to be shown on Android 10 devices with dark mode. Unfortunately, integrating dark mode is more work than anticipated which is why I held off on…Sun, 10 May 2020 06:34:45 GMThttps://focusgtd.app/post/2020-05-04-focusgtd-3.3.0/https://focusgtd.app/post/2020-05-04-focusgtd-3.3.0/I have worked a long time for attachments support and now it is finally here. For now FocusGTD 3.3.0 only supports attachments in read-only mode, but since most people will be attaching files on their Mac I think this is already a big improvement. - FEATURE: read-only…Mon, 04 May 2020 05:34:45 GMThttps://focusgtd.app/post/2020-03-19-focusgtd-3.2.6/https://focusgtd.app/post/2020-03-19-focusgtd-3.2.6/This release adds support for floating time zones which was introduced by OmniFocus 3.6. - FEATURE: support floating timezones (OmniFocus file format 3.6) - IMPROVEMENT: due today tasks that are not yet overdue will show up yellow As always, the version has been released to the…Thu, 19 Mar 2020 06:00:45 GMThttps://focusgtd.app/post/2020-01-26-focusgtd-3.2.5/https://focusgtd.app/post/2020-01-26-focusgtd-3.2.5/FocusGTD 3.2.5 small improvements for dropped tasks as well as layout fixes for devices with a Notch such as Pixel 3 XL. - FIX: improved handling of dropped tasks within a project - FIX: fixed layout of status bar on devices with notch (Pixel 3XL) As always, the version has been…Sun, 26 Jan 2020 05:14:45 GMThttps://focusgtd.app/post/2019-12-29-focusgtd-3.2.4/https://focusgtd.app/post/2019-12-29-focusgtd-3.2.4/Happy new year! FocusGTD 3.2.4 brings the configuration option to specify a start screen as well as improvements for dropped tasks. - FEATURE: Allow setting the default start screen - IMPROVEMENT: settings section cleaned up - FIX: fixed issue where some dropped tasks were not…Sun, 29 Dec 2019 05:14:45 GMThttps://focusgtd.app/post/2019-11-17-focusgtd-3.2.3/https://focusgtd.app/post/2019-11-17-focusgtd-3.2.3/Another bugfix update fixing a problem with certain formatted task notes. - FIX: fixed issue where certain task notes were not displayed - FEATURE: support Omnifocus 3.4 new file format - FEATURE: offline / standalone support (use FocusGTD without OmniFocus) As always, the…Sun, 17 Nov 2019 06:00:45 GMThttps://focusgtd.app/post/2019-10-07-focusgtd-3.2.2/https://focusgtd.app/post/2019-10-07-focusgtd-3.2.2/Another bugfix update fixing a few rare problems. - FIX: "due today" widget now only shows tasks that are due today (previously also showed due soon) - FIX: Forecast no longer shows completed repeating tasks - FEATURE: support Omnifocus 3.4 new file format - FEATURE: offline /…Mon, 07 Oct 2019 14:00:45 GMThttps://focusgtd.app/post/2019-09-21-focusgtd-3.2.1/https://focusgtd.app/post/2019-09-21-focusgtd-3.2.1/Another bugfix update fixing a few rare problems. - FIX: fixed rare crash on tag selection screen - FIX: fixed rare bug causing a wrong task order in the inbox - FIX: fixed rare crash during synchronization - FEATURE: support Omnifocus 3.4 new file format - FEATURE: offline /…Sat, 21 Sep 2019 08:00:45 GMThttps://focusgtd.app/post/2019-09-16-focusgtd-3.2.0/https://focusgtd.app/post/2019-09-16-focusgtd-3.2.0/Finally, FocusGTD can now also be used without a sync account! So in case you want a GTD app but don't own Omnifocus for iOS or Mac you can still use FocusGTD. - FEATURE: enable offline use without a sync account - FIX: fix completing tasks from notifications - FEATURE: support…Wed, 18 Sep 2019 05:14:45 GMThttps://focusgtd.app/post/2019-09-09-focusgtd-3.1.7/https://focusgtd.app/post/2019-09-09-focusgtd-3.1.7/A bugfix update specifically interesting for tablet users. - FIX: fixed opening the correct task when clicking one of multiple due notifications - FIX: fixed opening a folder on tablets - FIX: fixed assigning a task to a newly created project - FEATURE: support Omnifocus 3.4 new…Mon, 09 Sep 2019 05:00:45 GMThttps://focusgtd.app/post/2019-08-21-focusgtd-3.1.6/https://focusgtd.app/post/2019-08-21-focusgtd-3.1.6/A new widget! You can now also add a widget that only shows tasks that are due today (in case you have a very busy live). This will not include overdue or other scheduled tasks for later. In addition to that, the forecast view was corrected in case you were using the defer…Wed, 21 Aug 2019 05:14:45 GMThttps://focusgtd.app/post/2019-07-30-focusgtd-3.1.5/https://focusgtd.app/post/2019-07-30-focusgtd-3.1.5/Another small bugfix release which should address rare crashes that occurred recently. - IMPROVEMENT: hide auto-created elements in case of DB inconsistencies - FIX: fixed undoing a completed task - FIX: removing the due date from a task now also removes the notification -…Tue, 13 Aug 2019 05:00:45 GMThttps://focusgtd.app/post/2019-07-30-focusgtd-3.1.4/https://focusgtd.app/post/2019-07-30-focusgtd-3.1.4/Another small bugfix release which should address rare crashes that occurred recently. - FIX: improved robustness when completing repeating tasks - FIX: improved UI robustness - FEATURE: support Omnifocus 3.4 new file format As always, the version has been released to the…Tue, 30 Jul 2019 05:00:45 GMThttps://focusgtd.app/post/2019-07-26-focusgtd-3.1.2/https://focusgtd.app/post/2019-07-26-focusgtd-3.1.2/Now that was embarassing, shortly after the public release of FocusGTD 3.1 I received reports of synching problems. I received a couple of anonymized DB dumps, however, I could not replicate the problem. Turns out that this problem goes away by OmniFocus cleaning up the database…Fri, 26 Jul 2019 04:25:39 GMThttps://focusgtd.app/post/2019-07-19-focusgtd-3.1.0/https://focusgtd.app/post/2019-07-19-focusgtd-3.1.0/I have release FocusGTD 3.1 to the testers group. This version is the first one to support the new Database format introduced by OmniFocus 3.4 which now supports dropped actions. If you have only recently purchased OmniFocus or if you have already migrated your database to the…Fri, 19 Jul 2019 05:44:39 GMThttps://focusgtd.app/post/2019-07-07-dropped-actions/https://focusgtd.app/post/2019-07-07-dropped-actions/Currently, FocusGTD does not yet support the new "dropped actions" feature which was released by Omni last week. However, Omnifocus will notice that you are using a sync client that has not advertised the availability of this feature and therefore will show you a warning in case…Sun, 07 Jul 2019 07:03:57 GMThttps://focusgtd.app/post/2019-07-04-focusgtd-3.0.26/https://focusgtd.app/post/2019-07-04-focusgtd-3.0.26/Another smaller bugfix release with hopefully big consequences. Sometimes your task database gets slightly corrupted. This can happen when using multiple devices and you delete a project (or task) on one device and make modifications to that project on another (which has not yet…Thu, 04 Jul 2019 05:00:45 GMThttps://focusgtd.app/post/2019-06-24-focusgtd-3.0.25/https://focusgtd.app/post/2019-06-24-focusgtd-3.0.25/After the easy fixes are all done, only the difficult remain ... I have been working on support issues for the past few weeks. In addition a russian user was kind enough to provide me with russian translations of most of the app texts. Thanks a lot again! This is a very first…Mon, 24 Jun 2019 05:00:45 GMThttps://focusgtd.app/post/2019-05-29-focusgtd-3.0.24/https://focusgtd.app/post/2019-05-29-focusgtd-3.0.24/If you are reading this you are already aware of the new website. I finally managed to migrate all information from the previously handcrafted HTML site to a more modern, fully responsive website. So the new URL is https://focusgtd.app and the old https://focusgtdapp.com will…Wed, 29 May 2019 07:27:45 GMThttps://focusgtd.app/post/2019-05-21-focusgtd-3.0.22/https://focusgtd.app/post/2019-05-21-focusgtd-3.0.22/I am constantly monitoring the automatic crash reports and addressed the most frequent issues. - FIX: fixed occasional crashes when updating tasks Note that 3.0.21 had big improvements on sync reliability, therefore, in case you were experiencing crashes, please delete the…Tue, 21 May 2019 05:30:29 GMThttps://focusgtd.app/post/2019-05-04-focusgtd-3.0.21/https://focusgtd.app/post/2019-05-04-focusgtd-3.0.21/The work goes on. Thanks a lot to the feedback and support in helping me making FocusGTD3 even better. The new release fixes a few problems which could lead to crashes. - FIX: fix crash when deleting a project or folder - FIX: fixed crash when trying to show tag without title -…Sat, 04 May 2019 07:30:26 GMThttps://focusgtd.app/post/2019-04-28-bugfix-release/https://focusgtd.app/post/2019-04-28-bugfix-release/After a quite successful launch, I have been receiving a few support requests and bug reports about problems which slipped through alpha testing. Here are the changes in FocusGTD 3.0.20: - FIX: avoid saving the same task 2x when pressing save quickly - FIX: improved sync…Sun, 28 Apr 2019 00:13:10 GMThttps://focusgtd.app/post/focusgtd3/https://focusgtd.app/post/focusgtd3/It’s done. FocusGTD3 has been released to the public. It has been a long way with lots of challenges but finally, I am glad it is out. FocusGTD3 has been in development for over a year. While visually it looks the same as the previous version, its all new under the hood. We got…Mon, 15 Apr 2019 05:51:00 GMT