An optional Premium subscription unlocks several advanced features such as full calendar windows, calendar sets, weather, interesting calendars, scheduling, event and task list, as well as natural language event and task creation. The app remains free to download, with all paid Fantastical 2.0 users continuing to enjoy the features they already paid for without extra charge. Introducing a Premium subscriptionįantastical has switched to the subscription model. If you’ve ever tried to co-ordinate a meeting between more than two invitees, you instinctively know that event proposals solve a very real problem. ![]() Once everyone responds and a common time is found, the app turns the proposal into an event on your calendar just like that. Simply provide multiple times for the invitees to vote for. ![]() With meeting proposals, you can ask people what days and times work for them best without the back and forth via email or phone. Scheduling meetings in Fantastical is now easier than ever. You can toggle between different sets of calendars in an instant or create location-based calendar sets that Fantastical will auto-switch to when you arrive to or leave a specified location. For those unaware of calendar sets, they can include both visible and hidden calendars that you have cherry-picked. Your calendar sets, which were available in previous versions, now sync across all your devices, even on Apple Watch. You can choose from hundreds of interesting calendars. Unlike special calendars that I used to hunt with a little help from Google, these so-called interesting calendars in the new Fantastical are powered by SchedJoules, ensuring their relevancy and richness. Fantastical 3 brings an insanely comprehensive collection of special calendars for holidays, sports, television and many other topics of interest. In previous version of Fantastical, I used to import special calendars like US Holidays. Any services added with the Accounts feature are automatically available in Fantastical on your other devices, no need to re-authorize them separately. You can now log in to a preferred service directly from within the app without having to add it through Settings on iOS or System Preferences on macOS. Fantastical’s menu bar app on the Mac.Ī new Accounts feature in Fantastical 3.0 simplifies connecting to your favorite services. Fantastical can use the system database that Apple apps like Calendar and Reminders plug into, as well as connect directly to Google, Exchange, Office 365, Todoist, Meetup or any CalDAV-compliant service. Since its inception this app’s let you effortlessly add, view and search all of your events and tasks. This feature ties in with Fantastical’s time to leave notifications, “so you’ll never forget to take your umbrella with you,” as per Flexibits. The app uses AccuWeather’s MinuteCast to show a minute-by-minute forecast of when it will start or stop raining or snowing. Seeing what the weather might be like at the event location is crucial in deciding whether to move around the meeting. Left to right: Dark Mode, drafts, interesting calendars, time zones and weather. Your calendar now also includes advanced forecasts based on event location. Like with Apple Reminders, you can add dates, times and location-based geofences (when I arrive/when I leave) to your tasks. Weather data is powered by AccuWeather.Ĭonnect iCloud Reminders and any changes made to to-dos in Fantastical are reflected in iCloud Reminders and the stock Reminders app, and vice versa. Like with calendars, Fantastical supports external to-do services like iCloud Reminders, Todoist and Google Tasks. That’s right, no more asking Google how 3pm EST translates into your local time zone! Weather forecasts and richer task supportįantastical supported to-dos before, but the new version has a focused Tasks view that lets you see events and dated tasks together in the main list. Fantastical 3 supports multiple time zones. ![]() You can now add as many time zones to your calendars as you like and easily see event times in several of your favorite time zones directly in the event view. Left to right: day ticker and your fullscreen views on iPhone (day, week and month).įrequent travelers and other users are going to like yet another improvement in Fantastical 3 - time zone support. Browsing your calendar in fullscreen mode is the best way to focus on task management and your agenda for any given day. ![]() I like the new fullscreen modes, they take the utmost advantage of the available screen real estate, especially on iPad. Fullscreen calendar viewsįantastical now includes a fullscreen calendar window on iOS with your day, week, month and year views. Aside from the all-new design, Fantastical supports many native OS features such as a handy Today widget, Action and Share sheet extensions as well as Handoff support for seamless continuity between the Mac, iPhone and iPad editions of the software.
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