You can customize the icons it uses, the default new event layout, and the various colors. You can add things like weather forecasts, famous birthdays, sports calendars, and more to your list.įrom a customization standpoint, it’s probably got the most significant feature set. It lacks a natural language input, but it does have a Calendar Store. You can drag and drop events to new dates/times. You can see your entire view from a single screen. The week view is probably the most interesting one. It includes a number of different views (week, list, month, agenda, etc.). If you have a hectic schedule, Week Cal may be an app you’ll want to check out.
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Fantastical also has an excellent Today widget for getting quick access to your calendar.įantastical for iPhone is free on the App Store, and there is a free trial of Fantastical Premium to unlock many additional features like a Mac version, subscriptions to interesting calendars, 10-day weather forecast (free version includes three days), full task support for Todoist and Google Calendar, templates, and more. You can add in your iOS reminders, use Google Maps as your default map app (when you tap on an address), and it has a beautiful design. It’s extremely fast to add new events using its natural language input (dinner with Mom Saturday at 7 p.m. It’s the pioneer of the natural language input for calendar apps (unless I am missing an app that did it so well first).įantastical has a lot of things going for it. It’s long been a gold standard for third-party calendar apps. When I asked people for their favorite calendar apps recommendations, Fantastical was mentioned by many people. If you are entering many events on your iPhone, Apple’s calendar app will get tedious quickly. For many apps now, that is a standard feature. Where it could improve is in its “time to enter an appointment.” While it has added auto-complete, it should add better natural language input for quick entry. It integrates all of your calendars into a single app, provides updated travel time information (pulling the data from Apple Maps traffic data), and is easy to use.
It’s heavily integrated with the rest of Apple’s platform.Īpple’s app does a lot of things well. But, I do like to get a glance at my week to know what I have coming up. I don’t have many events on my calendar (I tried to avoid meetings like the plague).
It shows the date icon on the home screen (something no other app can do without using a notification badge). When I’m using this app, I stay in the “List View” to scroll my upcoming events. There is a lot to like about Apple’s default calendar app for iPhone.
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