It’s not going to have additional features like natural language processing or give you scheduling links that make booking the appointment easier. It lets you see your appointments and schedule new ones, but that’s about it. The big reason to upgrade is that the built-in calendar app is pretty limited. So why would you want to spend money on a third-party calendar app for your iPad?
There is already a solid looking calendar app that ships on every Apple device. But there is also a huge swath of users who find the stock iOS calendar app meets their needs, save for its somewhat uninspired design. There is a wide variety of users in the calendaring world, some of which are captured perfectly with the high-end power user features found in Fantastical 3’s subscription.
Any keen-eyed readers will notice we didn’t immediately provide a selection for the best calendar app for the iPad on Fantastical 3’s launch day - on that day, we weren’t sure Fantastical 3 was the best calendar app for the iPad.Įven now, we see multiple points of view.
Fantastical 3 spawned a conversation about app subscriptions, to be sure. The debut of Fantastical 3 in January 2020 sparked a variety of conversations, specifically with our app picking team.