![]() ![]() Available from, the $19.99 app is on sale for $9.99 for the holidays. ![]() In addition to discounting Fantastical for each platform, Flexibits is also taking half off its Chatology app which helps you archive and search messages on your Mac. Both the iPhone and iPad versions feature Today view widgets, extensions, and interactive notifications for iOS 8 users, and the Mac app is a simple menu bar app for accessing from anywhere.įantastical for iPhone: $4.99 $1.99 (60% off)įantastical for iPad: $14.99 $4.99 (65% off and lowest price yet)įantastical for Mac: $19.99 $9.99 (50% off) If you haven’t already tried Fantastical, it’s my favorite calendar replacement app–especially for iPhone–with natural language input and a clear list view for finding your appointments easily. 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.įlexibits, makers of Fantastical for Mac, iPhone, and iPad, just kicked off their huge Black Friday holiday sale early with savings up to 65% off the regular price of their apps. 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. ![]() Cardhop also features action buttons throughout the app for calling, messaging, videoing, and emailing contacts.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. Search ‘Email Tim’ and Cardhop will only present the email address for Tim Cook and not all the other information in the contact. The natural language parser also lets you easily search contacts and even launch actions. This makes sense since a name looks like a name, an address looks like an address, and a phone number looks different than an email address, but the same single text entry in the built-in Contacts app creates a new contact with the first name ‘Tim Cook 1 Apple Park, Cupertino, CA 95014 80 birthday ’ and no other details.Įasy contact creation is only the start of what Cardhop offers. For example, you can type (or copy and paste) ‘Tim Cook 1 Apple Park, Cupertino, CA 95014 80 birthday ’ and Cardhop will create the new entry with the correct fields populated. Just like Fantastical, Cardhop intelligently parses natural text to create new entries and launch actions. You just don’t notice because something magnitudes better hasn’t existed. Even as a basic database, Apple’s Contacts app can feel clunky and not well considered. I treat it like a database that’s primarily used to populate contact information in Mail, Messages, FaceTime, and Calendar. Personally, I don’t launch Apple’s Contacts app very often. That’s partly because Apple’s Contacts app hasn’t changed in several versions aside from gaining a rich leather address book theme then shedding the leather in favor of its current stark design. Cardhop is a super smart contacts app that makes the built-in Contacts app feel like it was made 20 years ago. Flexibits, the team behind the excellent calendar app Fantastical, is out with a brand new Mac app that turns your messy contacts database into something completely usable and interactive.
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