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The Omni Group

Logo: The Omni Group, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

American software company

The Omni Group is an American software company that develops software for the macOS, iOS, and watchOS platforms. The Omni Group was informally founded as a NEXTSTEP consulting company in 1989 by Wil Shipley, who immediately brought on Ken Case and Tim Wood. The three incorporated together under the name Omni Development, Inc. in 1993, because the name "Omni Group" was taken by another Seattle firm.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

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The Omni Group is an American software company that develops software for the macOS, iOS, and watchOS platforms. The Omni Group was informally founded as a NEXTSTEP consulting company in 1989 by Wil Shipley, who immediately brought on Ken Case and Tim Wood. The three incorporated together under the name Omni Development, Inc. in 1993, because the name "Omni Group" was taken by another Seattle firm. Omni initially produced custom database software for the NEXTSTEP platform for clients such as the William Morris Agency and McCaw Cellular Communications (then Cingular Wireless; now AT&T Inc.). During this period they also ported a number of games to NEXTSTEP, then later to Mac OS X (after Apple acquired NeXT in 1997). Around 2000 the company decided to start focusing on their own consumer applications for the Mac, and as of 2004 the vast majority of their revenue came from their consumer products.2

The story

Founded by Wil Shipley in 1989.1

Leadership

Who has led The Omni Group, and when. Pick a name to see everywhere that person has worked.

Products and brands

  • software

Listed on Wikidata.1

Productivity

OmniDazzle

OmniDictionary: a discontinued dictionary app that uses the DICT protocol.

OmniDiskSweeper

OmniGraffle

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OmniGraphSketcher

OmniOutliner

OmniPlan

OmniPresence: folder syncing via OmniSync or WebDAV server

OmniWeb

OmniFocus

Frameworks

The Omni Group uses many frameworks in their applications, and releases them under an open source license. Most of the frameworks are dependent on the macOS platform, and require Xcode 2.3 and thus Tiger.

OmniAppKit

OmniBase

OmniFoundation

OmniHTML

OmniNetworking

Omni Web Framework

Games

As users of a platform that was not targeted by commercial porting houses, the Omni Group historically did source ports of games for NeXTStep/OpenStep pro bono, especially maintenance updates of id games. They continued to do so during the transition through Rhapsody into macOS, catching the eye of the existing Macintosh games industry in the process, and were then contracted to port a number of games commercially.

Activision Anthology Remix

Alchemy Deluxe

Aliens versus Predator 2

Big Money! Deluxe

Doom

Doom II: Hell on Earth

Fallout

Fallout 2

Freedom Force

Giants: Citizen Kabuto

Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K.²

Incoming

No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.'s Way

Oni (Cocoa)

Quake

Quake II

Quake III: Arena

Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix

From Wikipedia’s article on The Omni Group, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Timeline

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