![]() ![]() The new menu bar app is exceptionally smooth too. The heavy layer of UI that held the paper calendar with staples and stacked pages maintains the same visual theme of a red calendar above a dark themed list view of appointments and reminders. The theme will be familiar to users of the latest iPhone and iPad version, and the new menu bar design fits right in with OS X Yosemite and looks vibrant and crystal clear on a Retina display. Fantastical 2 in the menu bar no longer lives in the OS X Yosemite and earlier design world. But what about the menu bar app?įantastical 2 has a visually overhauled menu bar app. If all you wanted from a new version of Fantastical was a new look and feel in the menu bar, you won’t be disappointed by the 2.0 release. It’s the same story as Fantastical for iPhone and iPad: it’s just simply easier to create and manage appointments and reminders in your calendar, and the information and presented in a streamlined view that doesn’t require hunting for information. Where Fantastical 1 started this experience in the menu bar, Fantastical 2 as a full calendar app excels leaps and bounds. ![]() The funny thing now is that the idea of switching back to using Apple Calendar as the full app really creates anxiety about missing information. I’ve had plenty of time to decide if this would be solely for review purposes or not. As a menu bar app, Fantastical complimented the existing calendar experience on the Mac, but replacing your calendar entirely is a tall order.įantastical 2 is now not only the lone calendar in my dock, it’s set as my default calendar. It’s admittedly a nervous experience, however, as you don’t want to risk missing information like important appointments and birthdays and reminders. That’s the scope of ambition for Fantastical 2: completely replacing the calendar app that comes with your Mac and not looking back. Both have been designed with the aesthetics of OS X Yosemite in mind and loads of under-the-hood features and improvements including the ability to actually change which calendars you see based on your location.įantastical is now a full calendar replacement for your Mac. I’ve been using the new version of Fantastical for the last month or so, and even though it’s exactly the calendar I wanted since the iPad version launched, taking Apple Calendar off my dock and only using Fantastical 2 was still a process for me. What Fantastical 2 for Mac actually became is even better: the same menu bar calendar users know and love (but new and improved!), and a full-sized calendar app with an optional dock icon. So when Fantastical first debuted on iPad almost a year ago putting the efficient list view next to a larger full calendar, I wrote optimistically that “the iPad’s app design could spill over into a future version of the Mac app (maybe as a dock app rather than a menu bar app).” The menu bar app includes a compact month view calendar above a streamlined, scrollable list view of appointments and reminders, but sometimes it’s nice to stretch out and view your schedule in a different context. Still, I say in addition to because Fantastical for Mac has lived in the menu bar next to your clock, WiFi status, and other utilities where you can quickly access it for reference or adding an appointment from anywhere in the OS. Apple Calendar has picked up some language parsing smarts in recent updates, too, but it still doesn’t match Fantastical’s control and real-time appointment preview. Fantastical’s ability to parse natural language input and create detailed appointment entries on your calendar has always been the primary reason to use it instead of or in addition to Apple’s own Calendar app on the Mac. ![]()
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