Flexibits today announced Fantastical 2 for iPhone, a new version of its trademark calendar app which brings an iOS 7-inspired design, Reminders support, week view, background refresh, and more. The app is a paid upgrade for all users, and hits the App Store today for an introductory price of $2.99, but will later move up to $4.99.
Fantastical on both Mac and iPhone has always been known for its slick, legible design, and Fantastical 2 is no different. The app draws a lot of inspiration from iOS 7, adding thinner text, a flat navigation bar, and a vibrant color-scheme while still maintaining the elements that make Fantastical great. The “Day Ticker” bar is still at the top of the app, for example, but with an important difference: today’s date is on the left and no longer in the middle of the bar. “The [date] lens was more visually pleasing in the center, appealing to our love of symmetry, but iOS 7 has led me towards making an app that’s better for the user,” says Flexibits co-founder Michael Simmons. “The lens being on the left is definitely function over form, since you care more about the days ahead than the two days before.”
This choice embodies most of the very utilitarian changes made in Fantastical 2, like the addition of a Maps preview inside events, a tasteful implementation of week view, and improvements to its natural-language-parsing engine. Another useful new feature is support for the iOS Reminders app, which lets you view to-dos inside the context of your daily agenda. Reminders isn’t a great app, but its iCloud sync makes for a powerful compliment to Fantastical. It’s even possible to add and check-off to-dos right from within Fantastical.
“I don’t believe in upgrades at prices that currently exist in the apps economy.”
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