Fantastical Calendar vs Motion
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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!
Motion
This AI-powered assistant intelligently plans your day, schedules meetings, and manages projects, helping busy professionals and teams get work done faster with fewer interruptions. It automates task reorganization and meeting coordination, freeing up valuable time.
- Automated daily planning
- Smart to-do notifications
- Team collaboration
- One-click meeting scheduling
- Siri task integration
- Document and note management
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Use AI to get work done 2x faster with 90% less check-ins, emails and messages, meetings, status updates. Ranked #1 fastest-growing product by Amplitude's Product Report. Motion uses automation and AI to intelligently plan your day, schedule meetings, and manage projects. Used by 1M+ busy professionals and teams to: - Automatically plan your day - See smart notifications for to-do items - Collaborate with your team - Schedule meetings in 1-click - Add tasks using Siri - Create and manage docs and notes With Motion, your AI executive assistant, you no longer have to: - Manually reorganize tasks and meetings - Keep track of fragmented calendars - Spend time coordinating meetings Motion has the most accurate algorithm in the world to plan your perfect day. Motion is best used on a computer; this mobile app is a companion to our web/desktop app and is not a standalone app. Certain settings can only be adjusted on the web/desktop version. We do not encourage users without a computer to download this mobile app. Use of the Motion app requires a Motion subscription. Motion offers both monthly and annual subscriptions which can be canceled online anytime. Start your 7-day free trial today! Questions or issues? Contact our support team at https://help.usemotion.com/. We’d love to help. Love the app? Leave a review! Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Fantastical Calendar at freemium against Motion's subscription. Fantastical Calendar also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (25K vs 1.9K). Motion's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). On price, rating, review sentiment and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Fantastical Calendar sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and Motion sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $44.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.2 for Fantastical Calendar against 4.1 for Motion. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fantastical Calendar has 25K ratings behind it against 1.9K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 47% of Fantastical Calendar's written reviews are positive against 42% of Motion's.
Fantastical Calendar ships an update every 3 weeks, Motion weekly. Both last shipped on November 11, 2026.
| Parameter | Fantastical Calendar | Motion |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (25K ratings) — better | 4.1 (1.9K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 47.4% of reviews — better | 42.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 25K — better | 1.9K |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium — better | Subscription |
| Best chart rank | #162 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 186 MB | 65 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Flexibits Inc. | NexusBird, Inc |
Customer experience
Fantastical Calendar
Motion
User reviews
Fantastical Calendar
From 25K App Store ratingsWhat 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
Motion
From 1.9K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Highly efficient task scheduling
- 🔒 Robust calendar integration
- 👍 Intuitive desktop experience
- 👍 Helpful for users with ADHD
- 👍 Improves productivity and organization
Room to improve
- 🐛 Buggy and glitchy mobile app
- 🔍 Limited mobile app functionality
- 💰 Expensive subscription cost
- 🔍 Difficult to cancel subscription
- 🔍 Confusing setup process
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
Motion
Reported bugs
4 issues- Mobile app crashes frequently
- Syncing issues between desktop and mobile
- Tasks not rescheduling properly
- Inability to view full task details on mobile
Requested features
5 requests- Improved mobile app with full functionality
- Ability to edit tasks on mobile
- Push notifications for upcoming tasks
- Monthly/weekly calendar view in mobile app
- Better integration with other calendars and task managers
In-app purchases
Fantastical Calendar
- 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
Motion
- Monthly7 Days trial$44.991 Month
- Annual7 Days trial$294.991 Year








