Fantastical Calendar vs ToDoSphere
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!
ToDoSphere
Visualize your day as a collection of spheres, where size represents task duration. This app helps you see if your schedule fits at a glance, allowing easy rearrangement and categorization. It offers insights into your time usage and planning habits.
- Task visualization as spheres
- Time capacity bar
- Drag-and-drop task arrangement
- Color-coded categories
- Task templates
- Daily planning reminder
- Time usage analytics
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ToDoSphere turns your day into something you can see. Every task is a sphere, and its size is the time it takes. A two-hour block is large. A ten-minute errand is small. Put them on one screen and you stop guessing whether your day fits — you can simply look at it. REBUILT FROM THE GROUND UP This version is a complete rewrite. The app opens faster, moves more smoothly, and holds up under a real workload. The idea has not changed. How well it works has. SEE WHAT ACTUALLY FITS A capacity bar shows planned time against the length of your day, so an over-booked day announces itself before you live through it. Set your own day length — nine hours is a default, not a rule. PLAN BY MOVING THINGS AROUND Drag spheres to arrange your day. Push one to the edge to send it to yesterday or tomorrow. Tap a sphere to change its duration, category or notes. COLOUR IS CATEGORY Every sphere takes the colour of its category, always. Rename categories, recolour them, and pick an icon from a wider set — so your day is readable at a glance rather than after reading. KEEP WHAT REPEATS Save a day's tasks as templates and stamp them onto any other day. Mornings that look alike should not be typed out twice. A REMINDER THAT SUITS YOU One daily nudge to plan, at a time you choose, and one switch to turn it off. No stream of alerts for individual tasks. SEE YOUR CONSISTENCY Completed tasks, your planning streak, and where your time actually goes by category — real numbers from your own data, not encouragement invented for you. SIGN IN YOUR WAY Use your email, or sign in with Google or Apple. FREE AND PRO Free covers five tasks a day and one saved template. Pro removes the limits, adds custom categories, and supports the work. Premium is an auto-renewing subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase, and renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel in your account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.todosphere.app/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: ToDoSphere at 100% against Fantastical Calendar's 47%. ToDoSphere also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.6). Fantastical Calendar's advantage is ratings volume (25K vs 1) and rating (4.2 vs 4.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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 ToDoSphere sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Fantastical Calendar holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 4.0. 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 100% of ToDoSphere's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Fantastical Calendar ships an update every 3 weeks, ToDoSphere every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fantastical Calendar | ToDoSphere |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (25K ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 47.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 25K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Best chart rank | #164 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 186 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Flexibits Inc. | Ubinair |
Customer experience
Fantastical Calendar
ToDoSphere
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
ToDoSphere
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
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
ToDoSphere
- ToDoSphere Premium Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- ToDoSphere Premium Annual14 Days trial$14.991 Year
Questions
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