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Fantastical Updated for macOS Big Sur With New Design, Widgets, Native Support for Apple Silicon, and More

You had me at Teams support. This makes a massive difference to me and the way I run my day - it’ll save me lots of time.

if the stock app is enough for you, then great, save yourself some money. Fantastical offers a huge number of productivity advantages for me as an independent which add up over the year to way more than the price.
 
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page3 said:
In my opinion Week Calendar would be one.

Fantastical isn’t a bad app. In fact I found it a pretty good one. Just not worth either the price or the constant headlines it gets here.

Bottom line though is more choice is good.
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I agree about the choice option. I am all for more choices and finding an app that works well for one’s current needs.
 
Say about the subscription model what you want, but I know not even one calendar app that comes close to Fantastical if those three points matter to you:
- Mac, iPad, iPhone and Watch App
- Design
- Features
 
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page3 said:
it’s not really though is it? It’s an average calendar app. Better is out there.
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Like anything else in the world, if you need what it offers then sure it is great. I have tried other calendar apps, more than I can remember, and this is the one that sticks for me.

It’s not something that is for everyone (or even most people for that matter), but for the people that find value in the app the price is an easy decision to make. My whole point was just that there is a contingent that is just opposed on spec to any kind of subscription service. And that is fine. I don’t like them either in most cases. But if someone knows they hate them there is really no need for that person to jump in and verbally crap in the thread every time an app with a subscription model is mentioned.
 
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calvin2006 said:
The ability to propose multiple meeting times is very useful to me.

All software is a rental unless you never plan on upgrading to the newest version. If you care enough to follow this forum, you probably pay to upgrade apps and are therefore paying for a subscription to use your paid apps.
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To be honest.. Even if just say.... "Mac OS" was a yearly $99 subscription. I would pay. I mean.. I already pay $99/yr for my family to use O365. I feel this would give apple the vehicle to consistently patch and update at a higher frequency. Now that the M1 chip will debut soon attention to detail is needed at an unprecedented level.
 
Well done app and all that. I am glad they provide frequent updates.

However, since v. 3 it has become useless for me. Our corporate policy does not allow unauthorized apps connecting to the Office365/Exchange server. Fantastical used to use the native Mac OS API for this and it was working fine. But version 3 now requires direct access through Fantastical API and this is blocked by corporate. The only solution Fantastical offered me was "ask your corporate to whitelist us." Yeah, sure.
 
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I find FantastiCal to be exactly what it's name suggests, a Fantastic Calendar. I love many aspects of the app like ability to suggest meeting times, See the weather, Natural Language input, Calendar groups, syncs with my work calendar in Outlook on Office 365, syncs with Todoist and I can pull schedules of sports teams and TV shows, and a totally great design. Totally worth the $39.99 a year that I paid. And it works on ALL my devices, iMac, MacBook, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.
 
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haralds said:
The subscription include iOS anf iPad OS apps.
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As well as macOS and Apple Watch apps. The developer is really all in on the apple ecosystem.

I suppose if all the user has is an iPhone, paying $30+ a year for a calendar app might seem like a waste. But I have an iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, iMac, and am contemplating getting the AS MBA, so ensuring that I get a quality calendar app that is available on all my apple devices, and which will get timely updates feels like a small price to pay.

Oh, and it has some pretty nice widgets as well.

It doesn't help that the stock calendar app seems to have taken a step backwards with its awkward time-picker.

I still have a couple more months left, but I think it's a keeper.
 
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Rafagon said:
Every app has turned into a subscription service nowadays.

I wouldn't subscribe to this app even if the subscription cost a penny per decade. The stock calendar app is free and perfectly capable.
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A penny per decade for the natural language processing alone and you'd not go for it? Big mistake.
 
Westside guy said:
Severe weather alerts - just what I look for in a calendar app.
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I felt the same but it's actually quite useful for when you're planning. Yes, you can switch to the weather app but this is often more convenient in my experience (when I was planning things in the before times).
 
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