Review: Fantastical for iPhone shines despite iOS-caused limitations
Fantastical started life on the Mac, offering easy access to your calendars, and impressively quick approaches for creating new appointments and meetings. We liked it enough that we recognized the app as a Mac Gem () and awarded it an Eddy in 2011. On Thursday, the app made the leap from the Mac to the iPhone—and it sticks the landing. In jumping to iOS, Fantastical by necessity must shed a few of the features that make it stand out on the Mac, but still manages to offer a compelling alternative to the stock Apple app on your iPhone.
The app, which is built for the iPhone and iPod touch and optimized for the iPhone 5’s taller screen, currently costs $2, though developer Flexibits says that the regular price will be $4.
When you first launch Fantastical on your iPhone, you’ll be asked to grant it access to your calendars. Unsurprisingly, if you decline, the app is kind of useless; when you approve the request, Fantastical can act like a seamless conduit for any calendars you’ve added in the Settings app.
Tick, Tick, Boom: The DayTicker atop Fantastical's interface makes quick work of navigating to the date you're after.
At the top of the screen in Fantastical sits a clever Flexibits innovation called the DayTicker. It’s a horizontally scrolling list of dates, centered on today by default, with visual representations of your appointments for each day. As you scroll through the dates, your list of scheduled events for each day appears on the lower portion of the screen.
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