Comparison

Fantastical Calendar vs SeedTale

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

SeedTale

Features
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SeedTale is a voice and text journal that listens, transcribes, and summarizes your thoughts — while keeping them truly private. WHY SEEDTALE Most journaling apps ask you to trust a privacy policy. SeedTale is built so you don't have to. Every entry is encrypted right on your device. When you sync between devices, the encryption key never touches our servers — we only ever see meaningless, encrypted noise. HOW IT WORKS • Record a voice memo or type a note, whenever a thought needs somewhere to go • AI transcribes your recording into text in seconds • Your audio is deleted immediately after transcription — we don't keep it • Periodic AI summaries turn scattered entries into clear insights, so you can see patterns without rereading everything • Build summaries from summaries — turn daily reflections into a weekly overview, and weekly overviews into a monthly one PRIVATE BY DESIGN • End-to-end encryption for cross-device sync — link devices with a QR code, no passwords to remember or lose • Your data stays on your device unless you choose to sync it • Export your entries as PDF whenever you want your own copy MULTIPLE JOURNALS Keep separate journals for different parts of your life — work, personal reflection, health tracking — each with its own icon and color. AVAILABLE IN 7 LANGUAGES Russian, Ukrainian, English, Thai, Chinese, French, and Spanish. PLANS • Free — get started with limited daily transcriptions and summaries • Comfort — more recording time and daily summaries • Pro — unlimited journals, longer recordings, cross-device sync, and PDF export SeedTale is a personal journaling tool, not a substitute for professional medical or mental health advice. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Fantastical Calendar4 screens
SeedTale4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SeedTale at none against Fantastical Calendar's 10. SeedTale also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). Fantastical Calendar's advantage is chart position (#158 vs unranked) and device support (4 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. SeedTale asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fantastical Calendar ships an update every 3 weeks, SeedTale weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Fantastical Calendar versus SeedTale: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFantastical CalendarSeedTale
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (25K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews47.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings25K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
Best chart rank#158 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.616.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size186 MB68 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFlexibits Inc.DIGITAL IT ADVISOR COMPANY LIMITED

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

SeedTale

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

SeedTale

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fantastical Calendar free?
Fantastical Calendar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SeedTale free?
SeedTale is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Fantastical Calendar or SeedTale have ads?
Neither Fantastical Calendar nor SeedTale shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fantastical Calendar or SeedTale?
Fantastical Calendar ships an update every 3 weeks, and SeedTale weekly. Most recently, Fantastical Calendar was updated on November 6, 2026 and SeedTale on October 31, 2026.

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