This is better than the natural language processing on Apple’s Calendar app, which wouldn’t pick up cues for repeating events among other things we had a similar issue when testing this phrase with Google Calendar as well. Instead of selecting from a bunch of toggles, you can just type the way you talk and Fantastical will do the rest.

It will alert you 15 minutes before the event and add this event to your Work calendar. The app will then schedule the event for Wednesday every week, and it even picks up the location of the office and marks it on a map. You can add events by tapping the + button and typing: “Record Orbital Podcast at NDTV office at 7.30 pm every Wednesday calendar Work alert 15 minutes before”. The best thing about Fantastical 2 is natural language processing - it's not a unique feature, but it's very well implemented. Fantastical 2 also has a neat menu bar app, which shows you all your calendar entries for any day, apart from the calendar in month view, and lets you add entries to the calendar as well.

We began using Fantastical 2 to keep track of interviews, sports events, holidays, and even found a way to make the app display results of recently concluded sports matches. To give us points of reference, we tried out Apple's Calendar app, Bus圜al, and Google Calendar simultaneously, and we also looked at alternatives such as Outlook's built-in calendar app (which includes features from Sunrise Calendar that was acquired by Microsoft) and InstaCal, which is just a simple, menu bar app if that's all you want. Things 3 shows all entries you add to your calendar, so the combination worked well for us. We’re more into to-do apps such as Cultured Code’s Things 3, but during the course of the review period we found quite a lot of use for calendar apps as well. Our job doesn’t require us to do advanced tasks with calendar apps so we never bothered to use the stock Calendar app much.

We used it for over a month to see what it has to offer. It also lacks a menu bar icon, which can provide easy access to many features.įantastical 2 is a calendar app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, made by the indie developer Flexibits and it claims to be a superior alternative to the stock Calendar app. The stock Calendar app's natural language processing could use improvements for things such as repeated events, and its rudimentary widget isn't good enough for many. The default Calendar app on iOS and macOS does a pretty decent job for most people but power users definitely want more.

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