New features include event proposals, interesting calendars, new calendar views and weather forecasts. I’m watching David Sparks’ free field guide to Fantastical to get up to speed.Flexibits, the company behind popular calendar app Fantastical, is releasing Fantastical 3.0 on all platforms today - macOS, iOS, iPadOS and watchOS. but it never stuck as my “full time” calendar app.įantastical 3 looks like it may have added enough of the features to get me to switch over. Fantastical has had some great features such as calendar sets, the ability to specify how you want “week view” to look (I want to see today+6 days, I don’t care about days already passed), etc. I’ve always liked Fantastical for creating new events, but preferred Bus圜al for most other calendar-like things. I bought licenses for Bus圜al versions 1, 2, and 3… and for Fantastical 1 and 2 (Mac and iOS). If you are already paying for Setapp, I can see that as being an attractive solution. Of course you can (for the foreseeable future) use Fantastical 2 for entering new events and use Bus圜al for the rest. Now that Busycal is on Setapp (also a subscription), I may not go Fantastical premium version 3.įWIW - Bus圜al’s new event natural language parsing is terrible compared to Fantastical‘s. (“Generous” is doing things like defining a subscription package as including other platforms.) If companies like FlexiBits can be generous with the value they provide in exchange for a subscription, they may win over more folks like me. In my newest job, I’m having to keep careful track of car expenses, and was delighted to learn that the MileIQ app for iOS is considered part of the Office 365 subscription. It’s not as onerous as I once thought it would be. Thanks to discounts and generous family-share policies, I’m hooked in to the Microsoft Office 365 suite even though I swore I’d never pay them a red cent in subscription fees. Subscription models are clearly gaining ground. Thankfully, that’s not right, but it did make me a little nervous about my existing installation of Adobe CS6 that Adobe has made clear they’d like to tear right out of my Mac if they could. I read this to mean that somehow FlexiBits was going to force-update an existing v.2 app to v.3, then unlock the v.2 feature set. If you own a Fantastical 2 license, launching the app will automatically update it to version 3.0 with existing Fantastical 2 features unlocked and usable. ($39.99 annual subscription from Flexibits and the Mac App Store, 21.7 MB, release notes, macOS 10.13.2+) To use any of the new Fantastical 3 features or the standard calendar views, you’ll need to subscribe to Fantastical Premium.Ī free, fully functional 14-day trial of Fantastical 3 is available after creating a Flexibits account and providing a credit card. However, that limited version lacks support for adding tasks, collaboration features, and even viewing the Day, Week, Month, and Year calendar views, thus limiting you to just the sidebar view. If you own a Fantastical 2 license, launching the app will automatically offer to update it to version 3.0 with existing Fantastical 2 features unlocked and usable. The iPhone and iPad apps are now included with Fantastical Premium, whereas they previously cost $9.99 and $4.99, respectively. Previously priced at $49.99 as a one-time purchase for Fantastical 2 for the Mac, Fantastical 3’s new subscription rate for Fantastical Premium is $4.99 per month (or $39.99 annually, a 33% savings). Fantastical also lets users add “interesting” calendars that feature sports teams from around the globe (such as Fjölnir FC in Reykjavik, Iceland), favorite TV shows, and holidays from various countries, religions, and education systems. New features include the capability to propose multiple meeting times with others, 10-day AccuWeather forecasts that appear as a clickable icon on each day, support for Todoist tasks, and calendar sets that work across all platforms. Fantastical 3.0 boasts a refreshed user interface, a unified look across all platforms (macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS), and a new subscription pricing model. #1664: Real system requirements for OS 2023, beware Siri creating alarms instead of timersįlexibits has updated Fantastical to version 3, a major release for the alternative to Apple’s Calendar app.#1665: Important OS security updates, abusive Web notifications, solve myopia with an iPhone, Self Service Repair.#1666: Air quality websites and apps, The Password Game.#1667: OS Rapid Security Responses, 1Password and 2FA, using Siri to request music.#1668: Updated Rapid Security Responses, OS public betas, screen saver bug fixed, “Red Team Blues” book review.
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