Tuesday, May 19, 2026

Fantastical at 15

Flexibits:

So, grab a slice of virtual cake and join us on a trip down memory lane as we look back at how far Fantastical (and Flexibits) has come!

Still one of my favorite apps, though I don’t use most of the advanced features.

Previously:

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Has a lot of features, I don't personally need any of them.

Years ago I asked their support to fix the fact that no matter how tall or short you make the window, stupid ugly vertical scrollbars are always present. Something about how they do the layout, probably some ui container doesn't properly fit in another container. Years later they haven't fixed it. Psssss me off on principle, a stupid ugly wrong thing that everyone can see wasn't worth their time to fix even years later, no, just focus on adding another 200 features almost no one needs.


@ER: A lot of people don't even bother to paint the _front_ of the cabinet.


I don’t need any of the extra features. The only reason I pay for it is to get that stupid, ugly, dumb “demo” watermark off the menubar calendar, which is the only thing I use. And Cardhop is superfluous for me.

So, congrats, Flexibits. Your rent-seeking behavior was nearly ahead of its time. Now it’s just par for the course.


Tom, Does Itsycal not do what you need? https://www.mowglii.com/itsycal/


It’s quite curious to me seeing the multiple opinions that are less than stellar about Fantastical. I absolutely love it. Far better interface than Apple calendar. Fills in several shortfalls of managing various Outlook calendars that the native Outlook app falls short on— especially calendars for meeting rooms that I manage. I understand how some people think of Cardhop as superfluous, but it comes with the Fantastical subscription, and the celebrations page is extremely handy to me.

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