Comparison

Fantastical Calendar vs GEESI

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

GEESI

Instantly translate text from signs, documents, and menus into English. Get plain-English explanations and identify key details from scanned pages. Supports 40 languages with on-device processing for enhanced privacy.

Highlights
  • Live camera translation
  • Document scanning and translation
  • Plain-English explanations
  • Key detail extraction
  • Ask questions about scanned text
  • Supports 40 languages
  • On-device text recognition
Features
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See something you can’t read? See it in English. GEESI helps you understand the letters, forms, school notices, menus, signs and other written things you meet every day. Point your iPhone camera at text to see it in English, or scan an entire page for a translation, a plain-English explanation and the key details you may need to act on. LIVE CAMERA TRANSLATION Hold your iPhone over a sign, menu, label or notice and see English appear over the written text. Switch between English, Original and Both views whenever you want to compare what you’re reading. Live camera translation is included with GEESI Free. DOCUMENT MODE Scan a letter, bill, form, school notice or other document. You can also import supported photos, screenshots and PDFs. GEESI translates the page so you can read it calmly and at your own pace. Choose Natural English for easier reading or Literal English when you want wording that stays closer to the original. EXPLAIN — WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? Translation tells you what the words say. Explain helps you understand what they mean. Get a short, plain-English explanation of the page and what it may be asking you to do. Especially useful for school notices, appointment letters, workplace documents and official correspondence. KEY DETAILS YOU CAN CHECK GEESI can identify useful details already written on the page, including dates, deadlines, amounts and actions. Each detail links back to the passage it came from, so you can check the source yourself. If the answer isn’t on the page, GEESI tells you: “This page doesn’t say.” No guessing. ASK THIS PAGE Ask questions about what you scanned: “When is this due?” “What do I need to bring?” “Does this mention a fee?” “What am I being asked to do?” Answers are grounded in what the page actually says. 40 LANGUAGES → ENGLISH GEESI translates text from 40 supported languages into English, including Spanish, French, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Urdu, Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Swahili, Amharic and many more. GEESI can automatically detect the source language, so you usually don’t have to choose one first. BUILT WITH PRIVACY IN MIND GEESI is designed to minimize what leaves your device. Camera video remains on your iPhone. Where supported, text recognition is performed on-device. Extracted text may be securely processed by GEESI’s translation services to provide the English translation and requested understanding features. Saved translations remain on your device and can be opened without an internet connection. Use Private Scan when you don’t want a translation added to your history. MORE HELPFUL TOOLS • Hear the English translation read aloud • Compare Original and English side by side • Correct text that wasn’t read clearly • Save translations you may need again • Share a clean English version • Export supported translations as PDF A NOTE ON ACCURACY Machine-generated translations and explanations can contain errors. For important legal, medical, financial or official decisions, verify critical information against the original document and, when appropriate, with the sender or a qualified professional. GEESI FREE + PRO GEESI Free includes live camera translation, document scans and a monthly allowance for advanced understanding features. GEESI Pro unlocks multi-page documents and expanded access to document scans, Explain, Key Details, Ask This Page and other premium tools. Monthly and annual subscription options are available. Eligible new subscribers to the annual plan may receive a 7-day free trial where offered. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. You can manage or cancel your subscription from your App Store account settings. See something you can’t read? GEESI. See it in English. Support: https://geesi.app/support Terms of Use: https://geesi.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://geesi.app/privacy

Screenshots

Fantastical Calendar4 screens
GEESI4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: GEESI at 5.0 against Fantastical Calendar's 4.2. GEESI also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks). Fantastical Calendar's advantage is ratings volume (25K vs 2) and chart position (#140 vs unranked). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 GEESI sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

GEESI holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fantastical Calendar has 25K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fantastical Calendar ships an update every 3 weeks, GEESI every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Fantastical Calendar versus GEESI: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFantastical CalendarGEESI
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (25K ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews47.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings25K — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
Best chart rank#140 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size186 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFlexibits Inc.Akintade Akinsunmoye

Customer experience

Fantastical Calendar

All ratings24,689 ratings
Positive80.1%
Neutral3.4%
Negative16.5%
Written reviews959 reviews
Positive47.4%
Neutral11.5%
Negative41.1%

GEESI

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

GEESI

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
2 purchases

GEESI

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly$5.991 Month
  • Pro Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Fantastical Calendar free?
Fantastical Calendar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is GEESI free?
GEESI is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Fantastical Calendar or GEESI?
GEESI is rated higher. Fantastical Calendar averages 4.2 out of 5 from 25K ratings, while GEESI averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Fantastical Calendar or GEESI have ads?
Neither Fantastical Calendar nor GEESI shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fantastical Calendar or GEESI?
Fantastical Calendar ships an update every 3 weeks, and GEESI every 3 days. Most recently, Fantastical Calendar was updated on November 3, 2026 and GEESI on October 29, 2026.

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