'Vantage Calendar' is Apple's Free App of the Week

[malexandria]

all I want is a Calendar app that doesn't screw up my complex schedule the minute I change timezones. Drives me batty. I hate being forced to schedule in the timezone I'm not in. For instance, I'm on the east coast, when I travel west, I have to set the calendar to pacific time so that when it shifts the timing is correct, but it's a pain in the ass when I'm home and I'm looking at next week's schedule and everything is 3hrs behind. I just want to be able to easily set a calendar and then not have it shift when the time zone changes. Why can't I do this??

 

[travelsheep]

It looks really nice, sure was a lot of work (in development and marketing). I use WeekCal since couple of years, very satisfied (Seth Godin calls this marketing situation the "Pain Reliever Problem"). I think Vantage Calendar will be fun for teenagers and pre-schoolers, who have something like one appointment per day or less. For business, with a full schedule, I can't see myself using it.
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all I want is a Calendar app that doesn't screw up my complex schedule the minute I change timezones. Drives me batty.

I haven't yet found a calendar that can handle timezones properly. I live in Austria/EU, but when I go to other timezones, I always use notepad to write down appointments. I use google calendar as well, but timezone handling is a total mess. Notepad. Can you imagine??

 

[CAO 303]

Calendars5 FTW for this reason: in month view, it shows in words exactly what your day's events are instead of a bunch of freakin' colored dots.

Fantastical FTW for its widget.

 

[bpcookson]

Tries really hard to look cool, but just ends up being difficult to read. Plus they did it all wrong: the next event should be at the bottom, closest to you.

 

[jonnysods]

I got Fantastical and Calendars by Readdle, both are good but I always go back to the stock app because they lack something, like Travel Times.

If you use fantastical but keep you Calendar notifications on you get both. I don't have fantastical notifications on, just Reminders and Calendar and it works for me.

 

[iDento]

If you use fantastical but keep you Calendar notifications on you get both. I don't have fantastical notifications on, just Reminders and Calendar and it works for me.

Thanks, I'll try that.

 

[H2SO4]

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Nice work, Vantage. I appreciate their exploration of the Z-axis. Offers some interesting potential.

That said, I keep trying other calendaring apps. But I keep coming back to the stock iOS offering. I'm so engrained/entrenched in Apple's Calendar/ecosystem that it will likely be a challenge for me to make it my daily. But, I'll give it a whirl.

Maybe the happy medium would be Apple implementing Z into their calendar view options.

Useless if you want to go back more than a year in history. How are you so engrained that you’ll be missing out?

 

[jonnysods]

Thanks, I'll try that.

Works great. Just shut off fantastical notifications.

 

[malexandria]

It looks really nice, sure was a lot of work (in development and marketing). I use WeekCal since couple of years, very satisfied (Seth Godin calls this marketing situation the "Pain Reliever Problem"). I think Vantage Calendar will be fun for teenagers and pre-schoolers, who have something like one appointment per day or less. For business, with a full schedule, I can't see myself using it.
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I haven't yet found a calendar that can handle timezones properly. I live in Austria/EU, but when I go to other timezones, I always use notepad to write down appointments. I use google calendar as well, but timezone handling is a total mess. Notepad. Can you imagine??

Yeah, why is it so difficult to have a setting that allows you to override the System Location/TimeZone function?