OmniLog Support

It tracks the games, books, shows and movies you're into, and the time you spend on them. Start a session when you pick something up, end it when you put it down, and OmniLog learns your pace, forecasts when you'll finish, and suggests what fits the time you have tonight.

No. There is no OmniLog account, no sign-up and no email. Your library lives on your device and syncs through your own iCloud.

An iPhone or iPad running iOS 27 or iPadOS 27 or later. The Apple Watch app needs watchOS 27. Features that use Apple Intelligence need a device that supports it, and everything else works without it.

An Android version is in development. There is no Mac version at the moment.

On Up Next, pick how much time you have (or set a default in Settings). OmniLog puts what fits at the top. Change it any evening.

Yes. Settings › Show the welcome screens again. "How OmniLog works" explains each feature.

Open an item and tap Start. Tap End when you're done and say how far you got (minutes, pages or episodes). You can also start and stop from the widget, Lock Screen timer, Control Center, Apple Watch, an NFC tag, Siri or Shortcuts.

OmniLog watches for sessions left running for a long time and can remind you (Settings › Nudges › Forgotten running sessions). When you end one late, you choose how far you got, so the time and progress you record stay right.

It divides what's left by your own recent pace (pages per minute, episodes per week, hours per session). The more sessions you log, the better it gets. Games show a "time to beat" figure from IGDB until you have enough of your own sessions.

Up Next ranks your items by whether a sensible session fits your time budget, and by leaving dates, due dates and what you were in the middle of.

The one-line notes you add when you end a session can be turned into a spoiler-safe recap the next time you pick the item up. It's written from your own notes by Apple Intelligence.

Yes. Tap the mic in the end-of-session sheet. See Privacy below for how speech is handled.

Tap + and search by title, or scan a shelf with the camera, import from another app, paste or share a link, or tell OmniLog in a sentence (for example "started Hades II on Switch").

Yes. Add it by hand with a title, and fill in anything you like. You can attach your own cover from Photos.

Goodreads, StoryGraph, Letterboxd, Sofa and Trakt exports, plus any CSV with a Title or Name column (this covers Sequel, Backloggd and spreadsheets). Open Settings › Switching from another app for each app's steps. Your original data is never changed. Steam and other store pages can be added by sharing their link.

In Safari, Steam, the TV app and others, tap Share › OmniLog to add what you're looking at.

OmniLog matches by title and year to avoid duplicates, but names that differ a lot can slip through. Open the extra one and delete it.

Mark it as finished again. OmniLog keeps a completion count and your sessions for each pass.

Open the item, tap Edit, and change the title, cover, length or anything else. Your edit is kept and never overwritten by catalog data.

Try the exact title, or the original title. Search is limited by what the catalogs know. You can always add it by hand.

OmniLog needs an internet connection to search. Your library, sessions and forecasts work offline. If you're online and it still fails, try again in a minute, because the catalogs rate-limit.

IGDB for games, TMDB and Movie of the Night for shows and movies, and Open Library for books. Attributions are in Settings › About.

Availability data depends on your region setting and on what the catalog knows. Check Settings › Where to watch & prices. If a service is wrong, tell us the title and country.

Prices are the ones the catalog reports for your region. Some titles don't have one.

Open the series and find Episodes. Tap an episode to mark it watched. Touch and hold an episode for "Mark watched up to here" or to mark a whole season.

Touch and hold the last episode you watched and choose "Mark watched up to here".

Episode lists come from TMDB and may differ from your streaming service's. Your streaming service's count may differ from the catalog's.

Optional ones: a nudge at the time you choose, "leaving soon" for shows and games leaving a service you subscribe to, and "due back soon" for library loans. All are scheduled on your device.

Check iOS Settings › Notifications › OmniLog and make sure they're allowed, and that Focus modes aren't muting them. In OmniLog, Settings › Nudges shows what's turned on.

An OmniLog Plus feature. It watches the games and shows on your wishlist and tells you when a release date is set, when it arrives on a service you pay for, or when its price drops. It checks in the background a few times a day. It can be switched off in Settings › Release radar & your services.

iOS decides when background checks happen. Opening OmniLog also checks. It's best-effort, not instant.

"Start a session in OmniLog", "end my session", "what should I start tonight?" and similar. Siri phrases appear in the Shortcuts app under OmniLog.

Touch and hold the Home Screen or Lock Screen › Edit › add OmniLog. The Live Activity appears on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island while a session runs.

In an item's ••• menu, choose Write NFC tag and hold a blank tag to the top of your iPhone. Tap it later to start or end a session. It works on iPhone with NFC.

Yes. Settings › Automations: log without tapping lists ready-made recipes for Shortcuts (for example, start a session when you tap an NFC tag).

Install OmniLog on your iPhone and open the Watch app › OmniLog › Install. It syncs through iCloud, so sign in to iCloud on both.

Open OmniLog on the iPhone first and make sure iCloud is on and signed in on both. Give it a minute to sync. Watch apps can't sync in simulators.

Yes. Pick an item, tap Start, and tap End. Your complication shows what you're on and for how long.

Yes. It uses a sidebar and a detail page, and the same library as your iPhone.

On foldable dual-screen devices, OmniLog lays pages across both halves like a book. In tabletop posture, a session timer sits on the lower half.

Your library syncs between your devices through your private iCloud database, with no account and no server of ours. It needs iCloud to be signed in, and iCloud Drive to be on for backups.

Check iOS Settings › your name › iCloud, that you're signed in with the same Apple Account on both devices, and that you have free iCloud storage. Changes can take a minute to arrive.

In the Files app › iCloud Drive › OmniLog. OmniLog keeps the latest ten. To restore, Settings › Restore from a backup, then choose Add missing items (keeps what you have) or Replace my library.

Sign in to the same Apple Account with iCloud on, and install OmniLog. Your library will download. You can also Export on the old phone and Import on the new.

Settings › Your data › Export library saves a JSON file you can keep, read or import elsewhere.

Settings › Your data › Delete everything. This removes all items and sessions from your devices and iCloud. OmniLog saves one backup in iCloud Drive first, so you can restore it if you didn't mean it. Delete that file if you want it gone too.

No. It's still in your iCloud and will return when you reinstall. To remove it permanently, use Delete everything before you delete the app, or remove OmniLog's data in iOS Settings › your name › iCloud › Manage Account Storage.

Your whole library and sessions, Up Next and finish forecasts, widgets, Watch, Siri and Live Activities, iCloud sync, backups and full export. These stay free.

"Previously on…" recaps, "Start next" explained by Apple Intelligence, scanning a shelf to add it all, release radar alerts, sharing your year in review, and Watch together. The OmniLog Plus screen in the app lists what's included and shows the price in your currency before you buy.

Plans are monthly and yearly. In the US, they are $2.99 a month and $19.99 a year, and the yearly plan can include a free week. The exact price and trial for your account are on the purchase screen.

iOS Settings › your name › Subscriptions › OmniLog, or Settings › Manage subscription in the app. Deleting the app doesn't cancel it. You'll keep Plus until the end of the period you paid for.

Apple handles refunds: reportaproblem.apple.com. We can't issue them because Apple processes payments.

Open the OmniLog Plus screen and tap Restore purchases while signed in to the Apple Account that bought it. If it still fails, email us your Apple order number.

Not at the moment. OmniLog Plus is for the Apple Account that buys it.

Nothing is lost. You keep your library, sessions, backups and exports. Only the Plus features switch off.

Mainly the title you search for, and your region, to look up covers and details. The full list is in the Privacy Policy, and in the app under Settings › Privacy.

No. There are no ads, no analytics, no third-party SDKs and no tracking.

No. It's in your own iCloud, and we have no access.

No. Apple Intelligence runs on your device or in Apple's Private Cloud Compute. We never receive it.

Where your iPhone supports it, speech is recognized on the device. Otherwise Apple's speech service may process the audio. OmniLog never keeps the audio.

Turn off Apple Intelligence in iOS Settings, or don't use scan, recap and sentence logging. Everything else works the same.

Yes, through a file. On the iPhone, open Settings › Your data › Export library. Move the file to your Android phone and open OmniLog › Settings › Your data › Import an OmniLog export. The format is the same both ways, and items you already have are left alone. There is no live sync between iPhone and Android, because OmniLog has no server.

On your phone. OmniLog › Settings › Your data › Backups and restore saves a dated backup every day; choose a folder (Google Drive, a memory card, anywhere the file picker reaches) to keep copies outside the app. Your library is also part of Android's own backup to your Google Account when that is on. To move to a new phone, restore from a backup or from Google's phone transfer.

Add the OmniLog widget to your home screen (touch and hold the home screen › Widgets). The notification shows a live timer with an End button while a session runs. Add the OmniLog tile in Quick Settings (swipe down, tap the pencil). Touch and hold the app icon for shortcuts.

Open an item, tap ⋮ › Write NFC tag, and hold a blank tag against the back of your phone. Tapping the tag later starts or ends that item's session. Tags written on an iPhone work on Android and the other way round.

Allow notifications for OmniLog in Android Settings. Some phones put apps to sleep aggressively; if the widget stops updating, set OmniLog's battery use to Unrestricted.

Unfold your phone. OmniLog lays two pages side by side that meet on the fold, with the menu on the right edge by your thumb. Each page scrolls on its own. On the cover screen it is a single column.

Install OmniLog from Google Play on your phone; the watch app is offered for your paired Wear OS 3 or newer watch in the Play Store on the watch. It shows what fits tonight, starts and ends sessions, marks episodes, and has a tile and a complication. It talks to your phone, so keep them paired.

In Google Play › Payments & subscriptions › Subscriptions › OmniLog Plus, or from OmniLog › Settings › OmniLog+ › Manage subscription. To restore it on a new phone, open OmniLog+ in Settings on a phone signed in to the same Google Account. Refunds are handled by Google Play.

They are written on your phone by Google's Gemini Nano, which only some phones have (recent Pixel and Galaxy models). Without it you still see your last session note and the plain reasons. The first use may download the model, so try again on Wi-Fi.

Text is read on your phone. Use good light, hold the phone level, and scan a few spines at a time with the titles facing the camera. Review the matches before adding.

Only what the Privacy Policy lists: the title you search, and diagnostics Google's ML Kit sends for shelf scan and recaps.

Update to the latest iOS and OmniLog, restart the device, and try again. If it continues, email us the iOS version, your device model and what you were doing.

Check that Date & Time in iOS Settings is set automatically. Edit a session in History to correct it.

Check that "Lock Screen timer (Live Activity)" is on in OmniLog Settings, and that Live Activities are allowed in iOS Settings › OmniLog.

Use good light, hold the phone level, and scan a few spines at a time. Review the matches before adding.

Use Restore purchases on the OmniLog Plus screen with the same Apple Account (iPhone) or Google Account (Android).

Write to us. Please don't include anything private in the email.