Fantastical Calendar App Expands to Windows

Popular calendar app Fantastical is expanding beyond the Apple ecosystem for the first time, bringing the full Fantastical experience to Windows. Support for Windows has been a top-requested feature for quite some time, primarily from Apple users who have the need to use Windows for work, software availability, or other reasons, so Flexibits has spent the past three years building Fantastical for Windows from the ground up for a fully native experience.

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While Apple's Calendar app has improved significantly in recent years, multi-award-winning Fantastical has remained popular as a third-party option due to its support for natural language parsing, the ability to manage tasks and reminders from Google Tasks, Microsoft 365, and Todoist, scheduling features like Openings that let you open up calendar time slots for others to book and Proposals that let organizers poll potential attendees to determine the best time for an event, glanceable weather information tied to event location, and more.


Fantastical for Windows arrives as part of Fantastical 4.0, which is available for free with limited features across Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Vision Pro. A Flexibits Premium subscription priced at $6.99 per month or $56.99 per year (a 14-day free trial is available) is required to unlock all features, and the new Windows app is covered under that same subscription with no increase in pricing. Flexibits Premium for Families offers up to five family members full access to Fantastical across all platforms for $10.49 per month or $89.99 per year.

Also included in a Flexibits Premium subscription is full feature unlock for Cardhop, a Contacts app alternative that works across Apple's platforms with natural language parsing, widgets, Shortcuts support, simple contact card sharing, business card scanning, and more.

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Top Rated Comments

GeoStructural Avatar
11 months ago
This is a $10.5 per month subscription… what am I missing here? Is there so much this app can do that is not already possible in the stock Calendar app or the plethora of free ones available? All of them sync across devices too.
Score: 10 Votes (Like | Disagree)
turbineseaplane Avatar
11 months ago
I assume this subscription is useful for some folks

I just can't imagine paying a subscription for a calendar App, but to each everyones own
Score: 10 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Kissmo1980 Avatar
11 months ago
I am one of the idiots that pays yearly sub.
Though I am not using it 100%, I tried to get back to Mac OS Native calendar and couldn't.

Fantastical has a few things that I can't live without - natural language is one of them.

I don't fancy subs - I make fast purge of the useless ones, but this + DayOne, are 2 subs I keep since years and don't see myself parting soon.
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
CalMin Avatar
11 months ago
It’s a great app and I happily paid for it when it was $36/year. When they bumped the price I canceled. I miss some features, but for the subscription to make sense, you really need to exploit all the functionality like scheduling and bookings. I just used it as an excellent calendar, but it’s overpriced for just that.

If you can exploit the features then get it. It’s great software from a great developer.
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
wanha Avatar
11 months ago

This is a $10.5 per month subscription… what am I missing here? Is there so much this app can do that is not already possible in the stock Calendar app or the plethora of free ones available? All of them sync across devices too.
There are three reasons I've stuck with Fantastical:

1. The natural language parsing for event creation is THE way to go vs populating countless fields in your typical calendar app.

2. The menubar functionality is so good that I almost never have to launch the full app

3. It automatically integrates with all of my calendars on the Mac

That said, I don't pay the subscription myself. I use the basic version + I have some added grandfathered features that I received for purchasing Fantastical 2 (or 3 or whatever the version number was at the time)
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
wanha Avatar
11 months ago
FWIW I just tried the new SiriAI on my Mac to see if it can parse natural language to create a calendar event like Fantastical.

My prompt included date, time, location, and topic... Siri nailed it ?



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Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)