Comparison

Fantastical Calendar vs Vimar VIEW Door

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

Vimar VIEW Door

Control your Vimar connected video door entry system remotely and securely. Manage calls, activations, view logs, record videos, and access cameras. Supports voice assistant commands for compatible devices.

Highlights
  • Manage video door entry calls
  • Control pedestrian and vehicle entry
  • View call history
  • Record videos and images
  • Access connected cameras
  • Voice assistant integration
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View Door provides mobile phone management of the functions of the Vimar connected video door entry systems in complete safety away from home too. Instant and user-friendly, the App lets you: • Manage video door entry system calls • Manage activations (pedestrian entry, vehicle entry) • View your call log • Manage the settings • Record videos and images • View video door entry cameras and compatible TVCC cameras - if connected • Zoom videos • Functions and controls via voice assistants (for compatible devices Wi-Fi video doorbell K40960 and K40965, IPo2w monitors K40980, K40981 and 40980.M) • Receive notifications To start using the App, you need to configure it. For Wi-Fi connected video door entry kits (K40945, K40946, K40947, K40955, K40956, K40957, K42945, K42946, K42947, K42955, K42956, K42957) and IPo2w kits (K40980, K40981, K40980.AU, K40981.AU and 40980.M) simply scan the QR code displayed on the video entryphone monitor, then follow the procedure in app and configure or use your MyVimar account if required. For Wi-Fi video doorbell (K40960 and K40965), scan the QR code on the back of the device, then follow the procedure in app and configure or use your MyVimar account. Further information can be found in the device documentation.

Screenshots

Fantastical Calendar4 screens
Vimar VIEW Door4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Fantastical Calendar at 4.2 against Vimar VIEW Door's 2.3. Fantastical Calendar also leads on review sentiment (47% vs 16%) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months). Vimar VIEW Door's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On price, ads and device support 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. Vimar VIEW Door asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Fantastical Calendar holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fantastical Calendar has 25K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 47% of Fantastical Calendar's written reviews are positive against 16% of Vimar VIEW Door's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fantastical Calendar ships an update every 3 weeks, Vimar VIEW Door every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Fantastical Calendar versus Vimar VIEW Door: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFantastical CalendarVimar VIEW Door
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (25K ratings) — better2.3 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews47.3% of reviews — better16.4% of reviews
Number of ratings25K — better3
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
Best chart rank#159 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size185 MB67 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFlexibits Inc.Vimar S.p.A.

Customer experience

Fantastical Calendar

All ratings24,537 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral3.4%
Negative16.6%
Written reviews954 reviews
Positive47.3%
Neutral11.5%
Negative41.2%

Vimar VIEW Door

All ratings3 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%
Written reviews67 reviews
Positive16.4%
Neutral14.9%
Negative68.7%

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

Vimar VIEW Door

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

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
None

Vimar VIEW Door

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fantastical Calendar free?
Fantastical Calendar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Vimar VIEW Door free?
Vimar VIEW Door is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Fantastical Calendar or Vimar VIEW Door?
Fantastical Calendar is rated higher. Fantastical Calendar averages 4.2 out of 5 from 25K ratings, while Vimar VIEW Door averages 2.3 from 3 ratings.
Do Fantastical Calendar or Vimar VIEW Door have ads?
Neither Fantastical Calendar nor Vimar VIEW Door shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fantastical Calendar or Vimar VIEW Door?
Fantastical Calendar ships an update every 3 weeks, and Vimar VIEW Door every 5 months. Most recently, Fantastical Calendar was updated on October 21, 2026 and Vimar VIEW Door on October 15, 2026.

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