I've been using Fantastical on iOS since v2, and when I heard about v3 and the subscription model, I was hesitant at first but wanted to give it a fair shot. After reading through the features and going through the tutorial videos, I started a trial and took the new Fantastical for a spin.From the first launch, it’s clear that the team at Flexbits has put a lot of time and effort into v3—from the wide variety of display options to features like location-based calendar sets. It's not just loaded with helpful new features but it also has a lot of "nice to have" features too. It’s also clear that the team is working hard on bug fixes and updates—just check out the version history to see the frequency of updates and the number changes with each version.So what’s holding me back from subscribing to Fantastical Premium? Simply put, the cost is too high for the value I'd get out of it. Fantastical 3 has a lot of great features that support collaboration, but I use it exclusively for individual productivity. As much as I wish I could use those collaboration features, I simply have no need for them. Now if Flexbits offered a subscription geared for individual users without the collaboration features and at a lower price, I’d be all in!

Such a great app and useful way to remain organized. I used to use several apps to keep track of events and reminders, but Fantastical helped me streamline the process. Works for Mac and Iphone. I am able to look at both my work calender and check off reminders that I set for myself without even unlocking my iphone (through widgets). Great connection to additional apps such as reminders and outlook. I can still keep track of reminders in the reminders app and set work events on my work outlook, but now have it all organized in one place (Fantastical). What to improve- I LOVE the widget, but it often feels too condensed/clunky. I would love for a more clear and spacious format, specfically by minimizing all day events. Also, I believe events for the following day do not need to appear until ~6pm. At 11am I do not necessarily need to see the following day's reminders, but would rather have current reminders spread out (on the iphone widget). I would just reconsider the overall widget design, while I love the customization with colors, I would try to reduce the fixed colors and simplify design so that it is clean, spacious and yet fits several lines worth of events. I would try to make it as similar as possible to the notification center widget, as that one is perfect!Great App and worth the buy!!

I've a long-time Fantastical user from the Mac v1 version, and have bought every iteration for every platform - and even as a fan, I had to swallow a bit and ask myself if the $40/yr was really worth it to me. And I'll be honest, the first couple of months were a bit rough, with Watch sync and a couple of other features not entirelythere.Once some of the bugs got ironed out, though, I haven't really looked back - or wanted to look back. The ability to directly connect my work (Google) calendar and my personal (FastMail) calendar without tying control of my phone to work is really really handy, with full support for every feature on each platform; it's something no other calendar app I've tried can do. As someone that's worked remotely since before COVID, the recently added direct meeting join has been super-handy. Feature and sync parity for things like calendar sets has been a godsend, along with the customization and features and great design that's defined Fantastical.Is it going to be worth it for everyone? No - and that's fine. But if you want a feature-rich and beautiful calendar that works across every Apple device you own, it's absolutely worth giving a shot.

I’ve been using Fantastical since its very first version, and it remains to this day my “use-it-every-day-all-the-time” ulitlity, on my desktop, laptop, phones and iPads. Fantastical’s best feature is its “plain language” ability to create new events. Works nearly flawlessly to parse dates, times and complicated recurring events (“first day of the month,” "second Tuesday of the month,” etc.). The user interface is excellent, even on small phone screens. Most importantly, this app is dependable, reliable. It syncs flawlessly with itself on all my devices, very quickly. Handles invitations from Outlook users well, and handles locations/maps well, too. Integrates smoothly with Google calendars and with Apple Calendar. Handles shared ICS event files flawlessly.If I have any complaint (a minor one), it’s that I’d prefer to be able to tweak my user interface a bit, such as enlarging text on the iPhone version, adjusting (‘toning down”) the app’s jarring red color banner, etc.The iOS version works well. I’m hoping the developers create a “shortcut” capability (other than Siri, which it already has) to allow users to enter events directly from the new Apple “Shortcuts” app, without having to open Fantastical on the phone.This is a first class app, made for people who use it - and depend on it - heavily.

Fantastical is a really great, thoughtfully designed calender app that does exactly what I was hoping for. I was frustrated that my apple calender couldn't show my reminders on the calender. There are a lot of things I'd rather make a reminder than a calender event for such as remember to get gas, remember to make a phone call, schedule an appointment, grab an item or 2 from the grocery store, etc.Fantastical lets you customize which reminder lists you want to see on your calender and it works so well. My only complaint for this area is you get double alerts from the reminders app and Fantastical. I wish I had the option to turn off the notification from Fantastical because the Apple reminders app allows you to customize reminder alerts by priority which gives you more control over the alerts you receive. Other than that small thing, Fantastical does it all. It works seemlessly from all my devices and I'm grateful for an app that allows me to use my phone as a customizable planner rather than trying to utilize a paper planner! You can't go wrong with such a generous free trial to really get to know the app before you commit. Thanks Fantastical!

I have to admit I was wrong. When Fantastical first went the paid route app, I was disappointed. I wasn't interested in calendar sets and the other features. But Availability and the booking page has blown my socks off. I've tried free and cheaper alternatives, but they aren't as reliable, or only allow 1 link url, respectively. I do believe the new price is a bit much for an individual, but it can be worth it for people like me that are freelancing and trying to book with multiple people a week for different things. I have several people I work out with that I have a Gym openings for. My mom and I both get anxiety with unscheduled calls, so I have one for her to book times with me, and I do a few coffee chats per week to keep up to date with colleagues and acquaintances. For this type of thing, Openings/Availability is invaluable. The only other feature I thought I liked is the 10-day forecast, but then I realized how the weather here is almost never correct the next day. So Availability/Openings is really the only reason I'll be converting from the Pro trial to Paid.

Was my daily calendar app, my organizer, my scheduler. I paid for the premium unlocked versions for my phone AND my Mac. That's two purchases. for the same app. I did this cuz it was my literal "go to" for all insundry, every day, to keep someone who has difficulties with focusing and keeping track of the minutia from losing their mind. They switched to this subscriotopn model and previously paid for features have now either been relegated to pretty lame, or now a part of the subscription. Any app that changes it's subscription mode from a paid-in-full model to a subscription model immediately loses prestige as far as its brand goes from my perception. Going off the amount of previously 5 star reviews to the gamut of 1/2/3 [max] star reviews from EXISTING customers and you can tell how well this switch was "welcomed" by people who have been absolute brand champions for this app for not just one year or a paltry few month, but for 3-4 years in some cases. Myself Included. I've moved on to a lesser app while i find something else to fill the gap that Fantastical occupoed until they took a big dump on their stalwart customer base with no recompense or thank you for years of support based on a - one time - lifesaver of an app. There's better out there now with multiperous functionality. Go find one that works for you and use it.

I bought Fantastical V1 right when it was first released and have loved it right up till this morning. I held off upgrading when V2 came out because I was perfectly happy with the last version of V1, and didn’t feel like spending the money. It was an expensive upgrade back then as now. However, the latest version has improved on things to the point where I felt it was only right and proper that I upgrade, though I’m still not happy about the pricing, and, despite that, I’m happy that I did so: from the new color schemes to the wealth of additional data that’s now available (time to leave, which I want to see if it works with public transportation here in NYC), I’m happy. Had there been a reduced price for those upgrading (on top of a generally lower price overall), even so long after V2 first came out, this would’ve been a 5-star review. Instead, a star loss because of the price.If you’re still using V1, I think it’s time to come around and support the developer, despite the lack of an upgrade price.If you’ve never used it before, you’ll be very happy with it. The ease of the drop-down calendar from the top-line menu is simply terrific and I’ve used that all the time.

Natural language processing works pretty much flawlessly. If you're a busy executive who needs to achieve maximum efficiency arranging meetings for your teams, this app is indispensable. It has become a staple of my daily workflow. I love the option to generate Google Meetings links when creating an event, and having all my contacts autopopulate in the invite saves so much time. Note! You need to study how to set up Fantastical if you're using lots of calendars. It's a little tricky at first, but once you have it locked in you'll never leave. To the people who are complaining about having to pay for subscriptions, this app is not for you. Don't even bother. This is for serious people who have real needs and are happy to pay for the ease and organization that only an app llike this can provide. Apple should screen out all of these petty reviews, so people who are trying to decide can assess the pros and cons quickly. If ever there was a 5 star app, this is it. Will happily pay for a subscription until I'm retired and no longer need it.

I did the trial with this calendar app and liked it enough to buy it. I really love a couple of key features that my iCal is missing. Unfortunately, lately the app seems to be glitching or something. There is now an issue with creating repeating schedule items. Usually if I make a recurring item and then I make any changes to one of those items, it will prompt me if I want changes to be apply to all future events or just that one. Lately it doesn’t consistently ask that or give me the option. It will just alter all past and future items in that repeat. I use recurring scheduling items to keep track of when I complete things. A kind of check list. It doesn’t work for me if the program is just going to alter every item past and future to match the changes of any single day. It didn't used to do this. Now I have to go back to using iCal or look for another app because it isn’t efficient or effective to have to manually enter every recurring item for every day just so that I have the ability to make singular changes to any given item. I will also note that I just updated the app on all my devices and this is still happening.

The app idea and most of the implementation is great. Unfortunately, it has serious issues that are why I had to cancel my yearly subscription. My google account through my scohol was deleted, and even though I switched the account, Fantastical could not handle that. It crashed my entire calendar and subscription, and has not worked since then despite my best efforts. I have had to switch calendars because of this. The following part of the review was from before, and I stand by it but it pales in comparison to it just stopping working. Other than this though the app did work fantastic... except that everything costs money. It is impossible to just even have it function as a normal calendar without paying money. I think the free version should be something actually decently substantial, and then there should be a cost associated with a pro version... rather than having a fake free version and then making the pro version the only thing that works! The cost is really just too much for an app that can be replaced by google calendar. I think this app is great, and synergizes well with the Apple Calendar, but because of the choppiness and high price to enter without any substantial free version, I would struggle to recommend it. I hope the devs consider fixing some of this!

Flexibits has created a visually beautiful, extremely useful front end for Apple Calendar, Reminders and Contacts. It works great and provides additional capabilities, such as Calendly-like scheduling and ability to create Zoom or Teams meetings right from the calendar, as well as additional flexibility like the ability to create calendar sets, integrate non-Apple apps like ToDoist, etc. BUT, it’s not cheap. At $60 /year it’s nearly the same prices as Office365. HOWEVER, the MOST frustrating part is WHY? Despite how beautifully this app looks and works (and this must be acknowledged), it does not do a SINGLE THING that could not, and should not, be integrated into the Apple apps. I mean, seriously, Apple finally stumbled upon the obvious by now allowing dated reminders to appear in the calendar. But, even this was half-a**ed. There is no option to have completed reminders drop off, nor to roll forward reminders that were not completed (as Fantastical allows). Great app. But, as Steve Jobs would have observed, it’s not a product, it’s a feature. And an expensive one at that.