Fantastical

About

Fantastical is Flexibits' calendar for the Mac, the app that turned natural language event entry ("Lunch with Anna Friday at 1") into the standard everyone else copies. Calendar Sets switch whole groups of calendars on and off by context, Openings lets people book time against your real availability, and tasks from Reminders and Todoist sit alongside events. Weather forecasts, travel time and conference call detection round out the day view.

The free version covers basic calendaring; Flexibits Premium costs $6.99 per month or $56.99 per year and unlocks the full feature set across Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Fantastical 4 shipped in October 2024, and version 4.1.16 followed in June 2026 with event mirroring to prevent double-booking and a Meet With tool for checking colleagues' availability.

Alternatives

• BusyCal

  Pick BusyCal if you would rather pay once: it is $49.99 for a perpetual licence with 18 months of updates, runs on macOS 12 and later, and has a 14-day trial.

• Notion Calendar

  Pick Notion Calendar if your projects live in Notion: it is free, shows your Notion databases beside your events, and also runs on Windows, iPhone and Android.

• Calendar

  Stay with Calendar if you only need events and invitations: it comes with every Mac, is free, and syncs through iCloud with no account or trial to manage.

At a Glance

Requires

macOS 12.4 Monterey or later

Price

Free; Flexibits Premium is $6.99 a month or $56.99 a year, with a 14-day free trial

Also On

Windows, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Apple Vision Pro

Get It From

flexibits.com and the Mac App Store