Fantastical - Calendar
By Flexibits Inc.
- Category: Productivity
- Release Date: 2015-03-25
- Current Version: 3.7.8
- Adult Rating: 4+
- File Size: 57.82 MB
- Developer: Flexibits Inc.
- Compatibility: iOS 11.0+
Description
Fantastical is the multiple award-winning calendar app with powerful features including intuitive natural language text parsing, a full calendar window with day, week, month, quarter and year views, an ultra-quick access mini window, tasks, time zone support, and much, much more. Fantastical's natural language event and task creation, beautiful calendar views, and ultra-smart event list make it the best calendar and tasks app you'll ever use. Just type in that you have "Lunch with John on Friday at 1pm" and Fantastical will schedule it! Or type in "remind me to Buy Milk on Tuesday" and Fantastical will create a task with a due date! TRY FANTASTICAL FOR FREE • Beautiful, clean, and easy to use calendar app allowing you to manage basic events • Use the mini window to quickly check your schedule with customizable keyboard shortcut • Full screen day, week, month, quarter, and year views • Full task support including Todoist and Google Tasks • 3 day weather forecast (powered by AccuWeather) • 14 day free trial for Flexibits Premium UPGRADE TO FLEXIBITS PREMIUM FOR EVEN MORE (requires subscription) • Includes Fantastical on all platforms: Mac, iPhone, Apple Watch, and iPad • Openings: Schedule events based on your availability • Proposals: Create meeting polls • Add Zoom, Google Meet, Webex, and Microsoft Teams calls • Extended 10 day weather forecast with RealFeel and MinuteCast up-to-the-minute weather data (powered by AccuWeather) • Browse and instantly subscribe to interesting calendars, including sports, TV shows, holidays, and much more (powered by SchedJoules) • Calendar sets - quickly toggle multiple calendars on or off with a simple click or automatically when you leave or arrive, based on location • Event and task templates • Sync calendar sets and templates across devices • Apple Watch app with Up Next and Weather (and works over LTE) • Parser autocomplete recommendations for invitees, locations, and calendars/task lists • Propose multiple times to easily ask people when they can meet • Combine duplicate events across multiple calendars • Invitees and availability lookups • Respond to event invitations • Default alerts • Time zone override • Favorite time zones • Push updates for Google and Exchange • Set event travel time and receive time to leave notifications • Custom event colors • Hide events without deleting them • Add attachments to events on iCloud, Google, and Exchange • Priority email support THE EASIEST WAY TO ADD EVENTS AND TASKS • Open Fantastical with a single click or keystroke • Type in your details or use dictation and watch your words magically turn into an actual event or task! • Powerful parser features, including: - Create tasks by starting your sentence with “task” ”reminder", "todo", or "remind me to" - Powerful and expressive repeating events such as third Thursday of every month, every weekend, last weekday of the month, and more - Create alerts with phrases like "remind me tomorrow at 3PM", "alert 1 hour before", or "alarm 3PM" WORKS THE WAY YOU DO • Connects to your favorite calendar services including iCloud, Google, Exchange, Office 365, Todoist, Yahoo, and more • Automatically add alarms to your new events • Fantastical is fully localized in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish • Start typing your event or task in any of these languages and Fantastical will automagically understand! EVEN MORE FANTASTICAL • Lots and lots of macOS Widgets • Share Extension • Handoff support between Fantastical for Mac, iPhone, and iPad • Time zone support including floating time zone support • Dark and light themes • And much, much more!
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Reviews
Downhill
Prices go up, stability goes down. I've been using this app for two years and have relied upon it ever since my #1 choice of calendar app went the way of the dodo. In any case, over the last couple of months strange behavior has crept in: Zoom meetings no longer are sent, meeting invites are held up in email limbo, time zones act strange, meetings disappear in the app but show up just fine in GCal. The last straw was reaching out to support, only for them to send me KB info on how to add calendars. I can't rely on this app anymore, which is such a shame.
Great at integrating multiple sources
I never really understood the appeal of Fantastical until I had multiple calendars I needed to gather in one place from Google, Microsoft, and Apple. The program is very stable and syncs reliably. After years of struggling to make things work in Google or Apple Calendars I am enjoying having it all work easily in one place where I just don't have to think about it much. This app is worth it.
Is it time to say good-bye?
Fantastical is a great app, and I really like the ability to switch between calendar sets—between work, family members, and organizations, I have a *lot* of calendars. However, I don't use many of the other advanced features, since I have to use Outlook for work—I work in hospital IT, and data security / HIPAA compliance are critical. I'd love to be able to approve all the requests we get for Fantastical integrations, but that just isn't going to happen. That said, I had a hard time swallowing the old subscription price, and the recent price bump is just too much on a yearly basis. I'd be happy to pay $20-$30/year for calendar sets and sync, but I can't justify $60ish/year for just those. Maybe Fantastical can offer a middle tier for people like me who use calendar sets but don't need all the other features. That, or they can teach Microsoft how to write a decent calendar program.
A bit of fine tuning
First of all Fantastical is a very good calendar app, perhaps the best out there. One thing I have been missing for sometime now is a status indicator. ie; done, postponed, canceled. Support answered my question about this with "if it's done, just delete it". What happened is almost as important as the what is scheduled.
Great calendar app, you get what you pay for.
Ever since Sunrise shut down I've been a user. I loved Sunrise but Microsoft destroyed it and left me looking for a new option. When I found Fantastical I immediately switched. I am still astonished in 2023 they haven't built a web version but I think the apps are good. My issue is that every time I set up a new computer I get to relive the set up of Fantastical. Still, it's more than worth it. Great app that makes calendar management a breeze. I manage about 10 calendars at any time with it.
The upsells ruin the experience
Removing existing functionality in order to push users towards a subscription isn't a very good business plan. As a purchaser & user of this app for years I don't appreciate having core functionality removed, nor do I appreciate having upsell cruft shoved in my face.
Best Calendar App
This Calendar app is by far the best utility in the app store.
Almost perfect app
Most everything about Fanastical is great. The one glaring flaw is that events can not be created where the start and end times of an event can be made indicating separate time zones. For those who travel to a different time zone, this is an incredibly helpful feature in Google Calendar that is missing in Fantastical .
Fantastical Continues To Be Fantastic!
If Apple Calendar doesn't meet your needs, you can't go wrong with the great functionality of Fantastical.
Full version turned into Subscription Model then Price Hike
This application is great. Fantastic-al if you will. However, having paid for the full version of this app when it originally came out, only to have an update turn it into a subscription model (taking features away) has really frustrated me. The price started out at $4.99/month. Which is reasonable, I get it. Devs need to make a living too. But, now it's jumped up to $6.99/month for no additional features. I'm already being nickeled and dimed in every other aspect of my life. I don't need this from a calendar app. Especially one I paid full price for at one point.
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