Comparison

Fantastical Calendar vs COLOP e

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

COLOP e

Design custom imprints and print them in full color on various absorbent surfaces using a compatible printer. Personalize existing designs, create your own from scratch, or download additional templates and clipart.

Highlights
  • Design custom imprints
  • Print in full color
  • Personalize existing designs
  • Create designs from scratch
  • Upload PNG and JPEG images
  • Insert and customize text
  • Access template and clipart store
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1. Design an imprint in the e-mark go app and send it to your e-mark go 2. Print your design on various absorbing surfaces in full colour 3. Make your items special, colourful and personal You need an e-mark go printer to bring your designs from the app onto many different absorbing materials like paper, cardboard, textiles, cork, wood and many more absorbent surfaces. The app already contains many imprints, which you can personalise completely. You can create designs from scratch and upload PNG and JPEG images. Insert texts and change colour and font, and even upload your own fonts. Insert clipart that come with the app and change colours or flip them. There are no limits to your creativity with the e-mark go app. The app stores up to 500 different designs per account. Create an account to get even more imprints and to access the template and clipart store. There you can choose to download further free designs and buy special designs for an attractive price. You can log in with one account on up to 5 devices at the same time. Print your designs with the e-mark go in full colour. Connect directly via the app, a Wi-Fi connection will be established. Put the printer on an absorbent surface and move either to the left or right side, lights will show you where your design will be printed.

Screenshots

Fantastical Calendar4 screens
COLOP e4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Fantastical Calendar at 4.2 against COLOP e's 1.0. Fantastical Calendar also leads on ratings volume (25K vs 1) and chart position (#140 vs unranked). On price, review sentiment, update cadence 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 COLOP e sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. 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 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fantastical Calendar has 25K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 47% of Fantastical Calendar's written reviews are positive against 50% of COLOP e's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fantastical Calendar ships an update every 3 weeks, COLOP e monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Fantastical Calendar versus COLOP e: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFantastical CalendarCOLOP e
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (25K ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews47.3% of reviews50.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings25K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#140 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.616 — better
Further details — not scored
Size185 MB45 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperFlexibits Inc.Colop Digital GmbH

Customer experience

Fantastical Calendar

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

COLOP e

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

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

COLOP e

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
11 purchases

COLOP e

One-time11
  • Christmas$2.99
  • Coffeehouse$2.99
  • Home$2.99
Show 8 more
  • Lifestyle$2.99
  • Easter$2.99
  • Spring$2.99
  • Garden$2.99
  • Halloween$2.99
  • Valentine's Day$2.99
  • Winter$2.99
  • Journey$2.99

Questions

Is Fantastical Calendar free?
Fantastical Calendar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is COLOP e free?
COLOP e is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Fantastical Calendar or COLOP e?
Fantastical Calendar is rated higher. Fantastical Calendar averages 4.2 out of 5 from 25K ratings, while COLOP e averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Fantastical Calendar or COLOP e have ads?
Neither Fantastical Calendar nor COLOP e shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fantastical Calendar or COLOP e?
Fantastical Calendar ships an update every 3 weeks, and COLOP e monthly. Most recently, Fantastical Calendar was updated on October 20, 2026 and COLOP e on October 2, 2026.

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