Fantastical 2: Calendars and Reminders Done Right 2.0.2
Device: iOS iPhone
Category: Productivity
Price: $2.99, Version: 2.0.1 -> 2.0.2 (iTunes)
Description:
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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
ADDING NEW EVENTS OR REMINDERS IS FUN
• 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!
THE FUTURE LOOKS BRIGHT
• 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
FAST, FRIENDLY, AND FLEXIBLE
• 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
With its powerful natural language event and reminder creation, DayTicker, calendar, and week view, Fantastical 2 is the fastest and friendliest scheduling app you'll ever use!
* Dictation requires an iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPhone 5s, iPhone 5c, or iPod touch (5th generation or later) and Internet access.
What's New
Thank you VERY much for making us #1 on the App Store during our launch! To show our appreciation, here’s a quick update to improve a few things and fix many of your reported issues. We hope you’re continuing to enjoy Fantastical 2.
2.0.2:
- Improved location matching and search results for event details and when setting geofences for reminders
- Added yet another App Icon Badge option: All Overdue Reminders (the same behavior as Apple’s Reminders app)
- Fixed AM/PM incorrectly appearing in some places when using 24-hour time
- Fixed invitees section appearing too small on 4" screens
- Various fixes and improvements
2.0.1:
- Fantastical 2 notifications now have a sound
- Additional App Icon Badge options: Today's Remaining Events, Today's Due Reminders, and Incomplete Reminders
- Adding a phone number as a location shows a call button in event details
- Double-tapping a date picker switches between showing every minute and every five minutes
- Added a "reminder" and "due" parameter to the URL handler. Example: fantastical2://parse?sentence=Buy%20milk&reminder=1&due=yyyy-MM-dd%20HH:mm
- Additional parser improvements
- Performance improvements for iPhone 4
- Updated time zone database
- Fixed a display issue with certain Asian languages
- Fixed Dynamic Type not respecting large type settings from Accessibility
- Fixed an issue where calendar colors could appear too dark or too light
- Fixed an issue when editing events with a custom time zone
- Fixed addresses in notes not opening in Google Maps when they should
- Various fixes and improvements
Fantastical 2: Calendars and Reminders Done Right