Submitted by Soupy on and last modified on 4 October, 2017
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Description of App:
The award-winning, best-selling calendar app has been redesigned and reimagined for iOS 7, including new features such as reminders, a new week view, and much more! "Great iOS 7 update to my favorite iPhone calendar app. Looks great, works great, and now integrates iOS reminders." - John Gruber (Daring Fireball) “...if you need a pure replacement for the iPhone's stock calendar-app, Fantastical 2 is your best bet.” - The Verge"Fantastical is one of those apps that just works. Love it." - Jim Dalrymple (The Loop)"Fantastical is my new favorite iPhone app. It looks great, it works reliably, and, more importantly, it made managing my schedule better." - MacStories“Fantastical 2 is not only the absolute best calendar app on iOS, but the best reminders app as well.” - iMore Just enter "Lunch with Elon in Palo Alto on Friday" and Fantastical 2 will schedule it! Or type in "todo buy milk at 5pm" and a reminder will alert you at 5PM! If your device supports dictation* you can speak the details for your event or reminder and Fantastical 2 will handle the rest. ONE NEW APP, MANY NEW FEATURES• Reminders! - See your events and dated reminders together in the main list - Add reminders directly from the Reminders list or new event screen - just flip the switch to toggle between events and reminders - Set dates, times, and geofences (when I arrive/when I leave) • Significant new parser features, including: - Create reminders by starting your sentence with "reminder", "todo", "task", or "remind me to" - Expanded, expressive repeating events such as third Thursday of every month, every weekend, last weekday of the month, and more - Create alerts with phrases such as "remind me tomorrow at 3PM", "alert 1 hour before", or "alarm 3PM"
- All-new event details, including a map to show your event’s locations and better repeating event options
- An elegant week view when you rotate your iPhone to landscape
- Background app updating allows events, reminders, and alerts to be pushed to Fantastical 2 even if you don't launch the app very often
- An extended keyboard when creating new events or reminders, providing instant access to numbers and symbols for dates and times (only for 4" screens)
- Birthday options - tap on a birthday to see contact information or send a quick greeting
- TextExpander support
- Many other refinements and improvements
- The easiest and fastest way to add new events or reminders
- Just type in your details or use dictation* and watch your words magically turn into an actual event or reminder!
- Fantastical 2's DayTicker is the efficient and enjoyable way to see your schedule
- The expansive and beautiful event list makes it easy to find your events
- Tap an event or reminder to show and edit its details
- Tap and hold an event to duplicate, move, or share
- Use search to instantly locate specific events or reminders
- View and manage your Facebook events
- Supports the same calendar services as the built-in Calendar app, including iCloud, Google Calendar, Exchange, and more!
- Fantastical 2 is fully localized in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish
- Just type or speak* your event or reminder in any of these languages and Fantastical will automatically understand
Apple Watch Support:
Not Known
Version:
2.2.1
Free or Paid:
Paid
Device(s) App Was Tested On:
iPhone
iOS Version:
8.1
Accessibility Comments:
Version 2.0.1 has addressed some accessibility problems that were present in the previous release. One of the problems in 2.0 was that it took some trial and error to get past the welcome screens when running the app for the first time. I don’t know if this is now better for new users. The calendar is only usable with VoiceOver in portrait mode, When switching to landscape, the app uses a display layout which doesn’t tell you what days the events are scheduled for when flicking through them. However, in portrait mode the app plays nicely with VoiceOver. Double-tapping on a day in the Day Picker will now scroll the list so that the required day is at the top - something it didn’t do in the previous release. One thing to note, is that you cannot swipe right from the day picker to the list of events/reminders. Flicking right will simply have you going through day after day after day. So, once you have double-tapped on the required day in the picker, you will need to locate the list with your finger to move VoiceOver focus. Not a big deal. The button labeled ‘Go to today’ that you will find on the top menu bar when viewing the calendar will also now correctly scroll the list when using VoiceOver. It may not be obvious, but if you do a double-tap and hold on this button, a picker appears that you can use to select a specific date. This works with VoiceOver. I’m still finding my way around this app, but from what I’ve read elsewhere, it seems like lots of other VoiceOver users are using it. So, if you have located any issues that I’ve yet to encounter, do please post a comment to warn me and others (smiles)
VoiceOver Performance:
VoiceOver reads most page elements.
Button Labeling:
All buttons are clearly labeled.
Usability:
There are some minor accessibility issues with this app, but they are easy to deal with.
App Store Link:
Developer's Website:
Developer's Twitter Username:
@flexibits
14 Comments
#1 Mac Version
Submitted by Nicholas Parsons on
#2 More improvements on the way
Submitted by David Goodwin on
#3 More improvements to accessibility in 2.0.5
Submitted by David Goodwin on
#4 Fantastical 2 version 2.0.7
Submitted by Michael Hansen on
Fantastical 2 version 2.0.7 is now available:
"What's New in Version 2.0.7
- Improved week view layout when showing many overlapping events
- Fixed a problem where alerts for reminders didn't update when using Move or Duplicate
- Fixed a problem where posting to Facebook from a birthday wouldn't work
- Fixed a problem where events in the week view could temporarily appear with the wrong color
- 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! :)"
#5 Someoen on another lit wants
Submitted by KE7ZUM on
Someoen on another lit wants to trythis app but they don't know if it is accessible. They asked me to find out for them as they I believe don't want to yet spend the $10 on the app.
So, is the app accessible totally and what advantages does it have over the calandar app for ios? I read the discription but I myself don't know as all I know is the ios calandar and tha'ts all I've used for 4 years.I don't like the other calandar apps I've used. they are too busy.
#6 calendar question
Submitted by Jessica Brown on
If I make an event in this app, will it also show up in the stock iOS calendar app?
#7 How about on iPads?
Submitted by Jesus R on
Hi. A question. I've been using Fantastical on my iPhone for a while now, and saw there was an app spisific for iPads, for $10 more. Normally I find that iPad apps are better for the iPad screen , but I heard somewhere that I should just use Fantastical for iPhone, even on iPad. Is this the case, is there any real reason why I might want to get Fantastical for iPad?
Thanks.
#8 Is anyone using this app successfully with iOS 9?
Submitted by Melissa Wagner on
I can not get this to work properly, and i have had this app since sometime in iOS 8. It used to work fine. Now when I try to enter events it just puts them on random dates that I didn't pick and if I use the "go to" function to try to pick a date it just picks its own date and takes me there instead of where I chose to go. It will also randomly scroll to different places when I am trying to see my events by day when I swipe left or right. Is there some setting i have to change to make this app work better, or did something break in one of the updates? Just checking to see if others have had any similar problems.
#9 calender and day to day view
Submitted by Jesus R on
Hello,
I think you switched to the calender view perhaps by doing something eith the date picker. Do a three finger flick down on the day ticker I believe, or just when in calender. Let me know if that works, if not, I'll try and look at the app in the mean time.
#10 Fantastical Vs. the Built-In Calendar
Submitted by Kelly Sapergia on
For my calendar, I currently use the built-in one in conjunction with Siri. Lately, though, I've been hearing about Fantastical 2. The description does sound promising, but I'm wondering if there's any point in getting it compared to using the built-in app?
#11 Fantastical vs calendar
Submitted by gailisaiah on
Kelly, That is my question too. We already have a calendar and reminders that are free. What is the advantage of buying this app?
#12 I certainly don't find
Submitted by alex wallis on
I certainly don't find fantasticals calender as easy to use as the built in one, however one advantage there is in using fantastical is you can set several times up to be reminded of events whereas with ios built iin reminders calender etc you can only set one time up. so what I generally do is create the thing I want to be reminded about in the regular ios calender or reminders then use fantastical to set several different reminder times. the nice thing is you can set several different reminder times for the same day or even different days, so for example say its someone's birthday you could set reminders on different days to buy them a present.
#13 The major advantage of Fantastical
Submitted by Lysette Chaproniere on
...is its natural language processing, where you can type in the details of your event in normal everyday language and have it set it up for you. That's so much easier than fiddling with all the controls to set the date and time. You could stick with the default calendar app and use Siri, but I find that typing in the details is a more reliable way of making sure everything gets entered. If you also have Drafts, you can make it even easier because there are actions that will send a list of events/reminders to Fantastical and add them to your calendar all at once. you can just write a list of events in Drafts, one on each line, then use one of the actions from the link below to send them to Fantastical. (Here's the page where you can download the Drafts actions for use with Fantastical). Tip: if you use one of the Drafts actions from that page that allows you to create multiple events at once, it'll give you an error message when it's finished even though it's created them successfully.
#14 Bought Fantastical and Love It!
Submitted by Kelly Sapergia on
Sorry for taking so long to respond to the answers to my question.
I bought Fantastical shortly after the comments were posted, and absolutely love it! The natural-language feature is amazing, and makes entering appointments a whole lot easier, particularly if an appointment repeats on the third Friday of the month, for example.
Sure, you can add those using the built-in calendar, but from what I've seen, it's a tricky, if not time-consuming, process.
I do wish you could change the alert sounds the app uses, but other than that minor issue, I highly recommend it.