Comparison

Fantastical Calendar vs FlickType

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Fantastical Calendar

This powerful calendar and task management app offers intuitive natural language input for event creation, multiple calendar views, and robust task integration. It provides weather forecasts and advanced features like meeting polls and video conferencing integration for premium users.

Highlights
  • Natural language event and task creation
  • Multiple calendar views (day, week, month, year)
  • Integrated task management (Todoist, Google Tasks)
  • Weather forecasts
  • Meeting scheduling and polls
  • Video conferencing integration
Features
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Fantastical is the award-winning calendar app with powerful features including intuitive natural language text parsing, beautiful full calendar day, week, month, quarter and year views, tasks, time zone support, and much, much more. TRY FANTASTICAL FOR FREE • Beautiful, clean, and easy to use calendar app allowing you to manage basic events • The DayTicker and calendar makes your schedule look the nicest it ever has • Full screen day, week, month, quarter, and year views • Full task support including Todoist and Google Tasks • 3 day weather forecast (powered by AccuWeather) • 14 day free trial for Flexibits Premium UPGRADE TO FLEXIBITS PREMIUM FOR EVEN MORE (requires subscription) • Includes Fantastical on all devices: Mac, iPhone, Apple Watch, and iPad • Openings: Schedule events based on your availability • Proposals: Create meeting polls • Add Zoom, Google Meet, Webex, and Microsoft Teams calls • Extended 10 day weather forecast with RealFeel and MinuteCast up-to-the-minute weather data (powered by AccuWeather) • Browse and instantly subscribe to interesting calendars, including sports, TV shows, holidays, and much more (powered by SchedJoules) • Calendar sets - quickly toggle multiple calendars on or off with a simple click or automatically when you leave or arrive, based on location • Event and task templates • Sync calendar sets and templates across devices • Apple Watch app with Up Next and Weather (and works over LTE) • Parser autocomplete recommendations for invitees, locations, and calendars/task lists • Propose multiple times to easily ask people when they can meet • Combine duplicate events across multiple calendars • Invitees and availability lookups • Respond to event invitations • Default alerts • Time zone override • Favorite time zones • Push updates for Google and Exchange • Set event travel time and receive time to leave notifications • Custom event colors • Custom home screen icons • Custom alert sounds • Hide events without deleting them • Add attachments to events on iCloud, Google, and Exchange • Priority email support ADDING NEW EVENTS OR TASKS IS FAST AND FUN • The easiest and fastest way to add new events or tasks • Type in your details or use dictation and watch your words magically turn into an actual event or task! • Powerful parser features, including: - Create tasks by starting your sentence with “task” ”reminder", "todo", or "remind me to" - Powerful and expressive repeating events such as third Thursday of every month, every weekend, last weekday of the month, and more - Create alerts with phrases like "remind me tomorrow at 3PM", "alert 1 hour before", or "alarm 3PM" THE BEST TASKS APP, TOO • See your events and dated tasks together in the main list • Add tasks directly from the Tasks list or new event screen - just flip the switch to toggle between events and tasks • Set dates, times, and geofences (when I arrive/when I leave) • Support for iCloud Reminders, Todoist, and Google Tasks WORKS THE WAY YOU DO • Connects to your favorite calendar services including iCloud, Google, Exchange, Office 365, Todoist, and more • Automatically add alarms to your new events • Fantastical is fully localized in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, and Portuguese • Start typing your event or task in any of these languages and Fantastical will automagically understand! EVEN MORE FANTASTICAL • Lots and lots of iOS and iPadOS widgets • Background app updating enables events, tasks, and alerts to be pushed to Fantastical even if you don't launch the app often • Birthdays and Anniversaries - see your contact’s details or send a quick birthday or anniverary greeting • Handoff support between Fantastical for Mac, iPhone, and iPad • Time zone support including floating time zone support • Dark and light themes • Stickers • Accessibility support • And much, much more!

About

FlickType

This app offers a faster and more intuitive typing experience for your smartwatch. It utilizes a unique algorithm for word prediction and supports quick punctuation and easy editing with the digital crown. Enjoy fluid and fun typing with customizable options.

Highlights
  • Swipe typing
  • Smart auto-correct
  • Digital Crown editing
  • Fast punctuation
  • Customization options
  • Emoji support
Features
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The fastest Apple Watch keyboard, now better than ever. With powerful Auto-Correct, Swipe Typing, customization features, and more, FlickType will change the way you use your Apple Watch. SURPRISINGLY SMART. Don't slow down or try to be accurate. Just tap where it feels right and FlickType's unique algorithm will find the correct word from the pattern of your taps. FAST PUNCTUATION Double space to add a period. EASY EDITS Use the Digital Crown to change words, punctuation, or emoji. FAST, EASY & FUN. FlickType keyboard users type up to three times faster compared to the standard keyboard, Scribble, or even dictation after edits. Emoji, text shortcuts, and deep customization options make typing fluid and fun, just as it should be — even on your Apple Watch! NOTE: Currently only English is supported.

Screenshots

Fantastical Calendar4 screens
FlickType4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: FlickType at every 8 days against Fantastical Calendar's every 3 weeks. FlickType also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.6). Fantastical Calendar's advantage is chart position (#152 vs unranked) and review sentiment (47% vs 39%). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Fantastical Calendar sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and FlickType sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Fantastical Calendar holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 25K and 12K respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 47% of Fantastical Calendar's written reviews are positive against 39% of FlickType's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fantastical Calendar ships an update every 3 weeks, FlickType every 8 days. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Fantastical Calendar versus FlickType: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFantastical CalendarFlickType
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (25K ratings) — better4.0 (12K ratings)
Positive reviews47.4% of reviews — better38.5% of reviews
Number of ratings25K — better12K
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#152 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Vision ProiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.614.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size186 MB81 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFlexibits Inc.Kpaw, LLC

Customer experience

Fantastical Calendar

All ratings24,689 ratings
Positive80.1%
Neutral3.4%
Negative16.5%
Written reviews959 reviews
Positive47.4%
Neutral11.5%
Negative41.1%

FlickType

All ratings12,388 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral4.3%
Negative20.8%
Written reviews758 reviews
Positive38.5%
Neutral9.0%
Negative52.5%

User reviews

Fantastical Calendar

From 25K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Intuitive and easy to use
  • 👍 Excellent natural language input
  • 💡 Helpful calendar integration features
  • 🚀 Smooth syncing across devices
  • 👍 Beautiful and clean UI design

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Inconsistent behavior with reminders and event management
  • 💰 Expensive subscription model
  • 🤖 Overly aggressive upselling of premium features
  • 🤔 Concerns about forced account creation
  • 🐛 Sync issues between iOS and Mac versions

FlickType

From 12K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Efficient keyboard
  • 👍 Convenient for Apple Watch
  • 🔥 Impressive accuracy
  • 💡 Useful alternative to default options

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Compatibility issues
  • 💰 Expensive in-app purchases
  • 🔒 Limited functionality without paying
  • 🤔 Confusing free vs paid aspects

Bugs and requests

Fantastical Calendar

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Apple Watch sync problems
  • Events disappearing or changing unexpectedly
  • Freezing and crashing on certain user actions

Requested features

4 requests
  • Option to disable predictive input features
  • Improved calendar set management
  • Enhanced integration with third-party apps and services
  • Ability to customize app icons and themes

FlickType

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Keyboard not showing up in some apps
  • Inconsistent performance, app crashes
  • Issues with autocorrect/predictive text

Requested features

4 requests
  • Integration with more apps beyond iMessage
  • Customization options for keyboard size/layout
  • Ability to add words to dictionary
  • Easier access to numbers/symbols

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Fantastical Calendar

Subscriptions10
  • Premium (2020 Upgrade)$6.991 Month
  • Flexibits Premium14 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • Premium (2020 Upgrade)3 Months trial$6.991 Month
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  • Premium for Families14 Days trial$10.491 Month
  • Premium Family (2020 Upgrade)$10.491 Month
  • Premium (2020 Upgrade)$56.991 Year
  • Flexibits Premium14 Days trial$56.991 Year
  • Premium (2020 Upgrade)3 Months trial$56.991 Year
  • Premium for Families14 Days trial$89.991 Year
  • Premium Family (2020 Upgrade)$89.991 Year
1 purchases

FlickType

One-time1
  • FlickType Premium2 variants$7.99

Questions

Is Fantastical Calendar free?
Fantastical Calendar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is FlickType free?
FlickType is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Fantastical Calendar or FlickType?
Fantastical Calendar is rated higher. Fantastical Calendar averages 4.2 out of 5 from 25K ratings, while FlickType averages 4.0 from 12K ratings.
Do Fantastical Calendar or FlickType have ads?
Neither Fantastical Calendar nor FlickType shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fantastical Calendar or FlickType?
Fantastical Calendar ships an update every 3 weeks, and FlickType every 8 days. Most recently, Fantastical Calendar was updated on November 5, 2026 and FlickType on November 5, 2026.

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