1. ➶ Fantastical - Some Quick Notes

    Fantastical is a new lightweight calendar app that just launched. There’s a tonne of things I’m already loving:

    • The natural language detection is the best I’ve seen.
    • The UI is slick, and incredibly well thought out.
    • The first-run particularly stood out, as the guide also prompts the user regarding what to do with the Keychain prompts - an arrow helpfully points you to ‘Always Allow’. I know what I’m supposed to click on to allow access to my iCal accounts, but the average user may not.

    I’m a big fan of Second Gear Software’s Today, and whilst Today has a much smaller window footprint than Fantastical, the extra style and smartness in Fantastical has set the bar higher for future releases of Today.

    Interestingly developer Flexibits has made the app available via the Mac App Store, however there’s no mention of its App Store presence on their website. You can, of course, buy it via Flexibits directly1.

    If you’re not convinced, there’s a demo available, which I’m running right now giving you 15 days to give the app a spin.

    Fantastical is $14.99 until 1st June, and is available both from the developer and the Mac App Store. I’ll almost certainly be picking up a copy soon, and I’d recommend you do too.

    1. I’m aware of the reasoning for this, I merely post it as an observation. ↩

    Posted on Tuesday May 17th, 2011