Fantastical Calendar 4+
Reminders & Todo List
Flexibits Inc.
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Fantastical is the award-winning calendar app with powerful features including intuitive natural language text parsing, beautiful full calendar day, week, month, quarter and year views, tasks, time zone support, and much, much more.
TRY FANTASTICAL FOR FREE
• Beautiful, clean, and easy to use calendar app allowing you to manage basic events
• The DayTicker and calendar makes your schedule look the nicest it ever has
• 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 devices: 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
• Custom home screen icons
• Custom alert sounds
• Hide events without deleting them
• Add attachments to events on iCloud, Google, and Exchange
• Priority email support
ADDING NEW EVENTS OR TASKS IS FAST AND FUN
• The easiest and fastest way to add new events or tasks
• 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"
THE BEST TASKS APP, TOO
• See your events and dated tasks together in the main list
• Add tasks directly from the Tasks list or new event screen - just flip the switch to toggle between events and tasks
• Set dates, times, and geofences (when I arrive/when I leave)
• Support for iCloud Reminders, Todoist, and Google Tasks
WORKS THE WAY YOU DO
• Connects to your favorite calendar services including iCloud, Google, Exchange, Office 365, Todoist, and more
• Automatically add alarms to your new events
• Fantastical is fully localized in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, and Portuguese
• Start typing your event or task in any of these languages and Fantastical will automagically understand!
EVEN MORE FANTASTICAL
• Lots and lots of iOS and iPadOS widgets
• Background app updating enables events, tasks, and alerts to be pushed to Fantastical even if you don't launch the app often
• Birthdays and Anniversaries - see your contact’s details or send a quick birthday or anniverary greeting
• Handoff support between Fantastical for Mac, iPhone, and iPad
• Time zone support including floating time zone support
• Dark and light themes
• Stickers
• Accessibility support
• And much, much more!
What’s New
Version 3.9.1
- Dark and tinted versions for all app icons (requires iOS 18)
- New control widgets for launching Fantastical directly from Control Center, the Action button, and the lock screen (requires iOS 18)
- Live Activities now appear on your Apple Watch (requires watchOS 11)
- Added a new “Today’s Schedule” complication (requires watchOS 11)
- Quickly jump to the next or previous event in a recurring series
- Added a new way to switch between task lists by tapping on the task header
- You can now change your Openings username from Fantastical
- Openings settings have been consolidated into a single screen
- Support for combining OneCal blocking events with the original event
- Event details on Apple Watch now include individual attendee statuses
- Fixed an issue that caused small text in Date complication on watchOS 11
- Fixed a potential crash when syncing personal Microsoft 365 accounts
- Editing an out of office event on Google no longer warns that the changes will not sync
- Fixed an issue where the some Teams links with password parameters weren’t fully recognized.
- Fixed a rare issue where tasks would appear to not get saved
- Fixed an issue that caused Fantastical to incorrectly report a Graph API error when interacting with detached events
- Fixed an issue that caused the List view in watchOS to flash briefly for some users
- Fixed an issue that caused a crash for some users when toggling “Show Completed” tasks
- Fixed an issue that caused Goodtime.io links to incorrectly match as Skype for Business conference calls
- Fixed a rare issue where Fantastical would crash when encountering bad data coming from an Exchange account
- Fixed an issue causing the Up Next widget to always show events as happening "In 2 days"
- Fixed an issue where the checkboxes for tasks were not correctly aligned in some scenarios
- Various fixes and improvements
By the way, App Store reviews are very helpful to us. If you think Fantastical is worthy, would you mind taking a moment to write a nice review? We'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks for using Fantastical! :)
Ratings and Reviews
Good, not great
Fantastical is a nice calendar app, definitely better than the built in offerings. Not so much so I’d pay 40 quid a year for it though. I did try out the openings feature which I thought might have been worth the money but it seems to do half the job it ought to. It cuts your day up into slots of the size you specify but that seems to suppose you want to have multiple meetings of the same type every day. For example, I’m trying to set up a single 4 hour meet up in an 8 hour window. That only allows the option of two times. Whereas if I was scheduling that myself I could suggest the meet up start anytime between the first slot and 4 hours from the end. Perhaps the use case is only for people who make business meetings of exactly 1 hour slots but I already have teams for that and would like something to help organise my social life.
Developer Response ,
Please contact us so that we can log your feedback and make improvements in the future: https://flexibits.com/contact
A Whisper of Perfection
What makes this app above and beyond for me is the slickness. It’s a dream to use and maximises the functionality of the iPhone using swipe, portrait and landscape (rotated giving the full view of the week ahead). It’s a super-smooth user experience and interfaces with natural language parsing which makes the app enticing to use despite its feature-rich disposition. In dark mode, these features just pop. I know what the weather is and what the time is thanks to the constantly updated red timeline across the day.
I like to regularly attach links and attachments to meetings, and the app has all the tools to allow me or others (via Openings) to schedule a meeting via Google Services including adding Meet links. The ability to create templates from an event and or share tasks with the Reminders app adds powerful geofenced reminder options.
I won’t say there is no learning curve with it as there is a good deal of settings but I find that I enjoy tweaking these over time to improve my flows.
When an app becomes this intuitive, it has matured into something else; Fantastical has reached the ‘where would I be without this?’ app status in my everyday productivity app survival kit.
And the icing on the cake is tech support. The turnaround times with subscription priority support are pretty breathtaking. Worth every penny/cent.
Developer Response ,
Thank you for your review! We are glad that you enjoy the app as much as we do and truly appreciate you taking the time to share your experience with both Fantastical and our support staff.
Better than Calendar
I’m not a very demanding calendar user and the free version of Fantastical is better than the standard Calendar apps for me. The main benefits for me are a better design/layout and the ability to switch between “All Calendars” and my one subset group.
But the downsides mean I’m always wondering about changing back to the default app. First, the “clever” interpretation of event titles is always infuriating and never useful to me. e.g. if I type “Hotel tonight” I end up with an event called simply “Hotel” and have to edit it to type in “tonight” a second time. I wish this unintelligent “assistance” could be disabled.
Second, and worse, the recently-added pop-up to encourage subscription is infuriating. I understand the need to convert users to paid but (a) the nice-but-minor benefits to me will never be worth the cost (because I don’t need most of the features) and (b) if the internet connection is slow, like mine often is, the pop-up can take a long, long time to load completely. In the meantime the app is unusable.
Developer Response ,
Thank you for taking the time to leave your feedback! We have passed this along to our team so that they can keep this in mind for future consideration.
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App Privacy
The developer, Flexibits Inc., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Location
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Information
- Provider
- Flexibits Inc.
- Size
- 199.4 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
- Apple Watch
- Requires watchOS 10.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Location
- This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease battery life.
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2011-2024 Flexibits Inc.
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Flexibits Premium £6.99
- Flexibits Premium £59.99
- Premium (2020 Upgrade) £6.99
- Premium for Families £9.99
- Premium (2020 Upgrade) £6.99
- Premium (2020 Upgrade) £59.99
- Premium Family (2020 Upgrade) £9.99
- Premium for Families £99.99
- Premium (2020 Upgrade) £59.99
- Premium Family (2020 Upgrade) £99.99