It’s a bit prettier, and it has a strict sense of what a week is, so when I have it display the “week” view (which is my standard), I get a sense of progression through the week. I think I’d be happy with either one.Īfter spending 30 days with both (first one, then the other), I prefer Fantastical by a hair. Both are MUCH better than iCal, and the level of quality and the feature-sets are fairly similar. And, honestly, I think they’re both pretty close.
#Fantastical windows for free
To decide for yourself which you prefer, you can download both of them for free and use them unhindered for 30 days, which is exactly what I did.
#Fantastical windows full version
They both cost $50 for the full version (which might be steep, but keep in mind you’re using this tool daily). If you look around, there are several calendar apps out there, but two stand out as the most comprehensive, full-featured programs for a Mac (as of October 2016): That’s clearly unacceptable, so the search was on for a replacement! (Many people have experienced other problems with Apple’s Calendar app, such as not receiving updates or deleting entries unexpectedly - I didn’t use it long enough to have such issues.) They do it smoothly enough that it would almost be an acceptable solution EXCEPT that once you move an event out of the main Exchange calendar-even to another calendar on the same account on the same Exchange server-that event will no longer receive updates (e.g. It is unable to understand event categories, preferring to force users to move events between multiple calendars to get any sort of organization. It can talk to an Exchange server and display things… mostly. However, the Calendar app Apple provides is, well… I think “basic” is the kindest way of putting it. For reference, check out Mail Act-On and MailTags, and anything else from SmallCubed. Mail.app works really well - better than I’d remembered, actually, and there are some really excellent plugins for it that add a lot of functionality to make it solidly a better email client than Outlook (there may be similar plugins for Outlook, I don’t know). Thus, I returned to Mail.app and Calendar.app (which used to be known as iCal).
#Fantastical windows install
I was pretty surprised, as I’ve been using Outlook on Windows for the last 3 years, and it actually works relatively well (as long as you install something like XKeymacs to get working Emacs-like keybindings, like Ctrl-E to go to the end-of-line). However, I found its interface for general-purpose email use really slow.
Of course, I have a copy of Microsoft Outlook on my Mac, and that has some excellent features - for instance, it has a good understanding of rooms vs people as meeting attendees, and also has a great room-finder feature for when you’re setting up new meetings. I recently began using a Mac full-time in a corporate environment again (yay Amazon!), which is to say that I’m using it to talk to a Microsoft Exchange server for both email and calendar events.
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