Desperately Needs an Update or Replacement. – List Omni Lists Review

First let me say that this is still the most customizable list type application that I have found to date. It lets you create different ‘views’ of your data/lists much like a database application. So, lets say you have a list of movies you own. You may have a dozen different types of info about each movie that you track (i.e. Title, Director, Genre, Release date, actors, and on and on.). You can then set up multiple ‘views’ that show a portion of that data. So, maybe you want to see a list of movies you own by a particular director, you can set up a view for that. Or, maybe you want a view by genre, you can do that to. Or, maybe by release year, that is also do-able. You can have multiple lists and each list can have it’s own set of multiple views. I have a “Books” list that has headings by Author. Under each heading, I have “series” that the author has written. Under that, I will list all of the books in that series. Finally, I have another field provided by the program called “Action”. So, for each book in the list, I have created two actions “Buy” and “Read”. That way, when I go to the bookstore, if the action reads “Buy”, I know I have not purchased it yet (prior to this app, I have ended up ‘re-buying’ books I had already read :-( ). Once I buy it, I change the action to “Read” because my wife reads a lot faster than I do, so I may buy 6 or 7 books at a time and they may sit around for quite a while. Once I read it, I click the ‘check box’. Now, with all that said, this application is getting very, very long in the tooth. Although you can run this application on an iPad, it is in the ‘scaled’ mode. There is no ‘syncing’ between devices. There is not a desktop version (such as Wunderlist has). You can download a template of your individual lists to your computer and use excel to modify the list. You must then upload that file to each device. So, it is not as simple as Wunderlist where you simply add an item to a list on any of your devices and it gets synced to a desktop version and all of your iOS devices. What I would love to see is an updated iOS version and a new Mac version that all synced the way that Wunderlist does but has the customizability that the existing ListOmni has. I have corresponded with the developer and he had indicated that he planned an iPad version. However, in later communications, he indicated that he had had some life changing issues that had put ListOmni on the back burner. That was over a year ago. So, I sadly believe that my wishes for an update will not come true. So, if you don’t need a desktop version and you don’t need an iPad version, this application is still great. However, if your needs require synchronizing and/or a desktop version and/or an iPad version, then you will need to look elsewhere. Hope this is of some help.
Review by JLTOIII on List Omni Lists.