Comparison

Fantastical Calendar vs DupliCal Calendar

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

DupliCal Calendar

Manage your daily schedule with this straightforward calendar app. It offers day, week, and month views, supports syncing with popular services, and allows for customizable recurring events. An optional Plus package unlocks advanced features like unlimited calendar sets and batch event actions.

Highlights
  • Day, week, and month views
  • Sync with iCloud, Google, Outlook
  • Customizable recurring events
  • Event search functionality
  • Unlimited calendar sets (Plus)
  • Batch event actions (Plus)
Features
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DupliCal is a daily use calendar application. The application is simple and immediately ready to use. It is based on day and week view. The month view shows the number of events on the day. You can easily change the content of the calendar by switching between sets of calendars. You don't need to create an account to use it. The basic version will allow you to easily manage your daily schedule. Basic Features: • Sync calendars from iCloud, Google or Outlook etc. • Day, week and month wiew • Week numbers • Add contacts, notes, URL, and locations • Customisable recurring events • Quick edit function (reschedule, copy, add alert, add note…etc) • Event search (by title, notes, invitees and location) • Calendar sets (Base + 1) • Zoom in on a day in week view • Notifications • 42 alert sounds to choose from • Dark View • Settings sync in iCloud • Change the application icon • No Ads Extended functions (DupliCal Plus package) • Calendar sets (any quantity) • Actions on multiple events  - Reschedule - Copy - Delete - Delete duplicated events - Change calendar • Customised notification sounds (each calendar can have a different notification sound) • Templates • Pre-set Events • Alarms (up to 5 alerts for an event) • Pre-set Events DupliCal Plus is available with a one-time purchase: • Duplical Plus Lifetime -$19.99 (best price) or through automatically renewable subscriptions: 1. DupliCal Week - duration: 1 week - Price: $0.99 - introductory offer: 3 days free trial 2. DupliCal Month - duration: 1 month - Price: $1.99 - introductory offer: 1 week free trial 3.DupliCal Year - duration: 1 year - Price: $14.99 - introductory offer: 1 week free trial • Prices are in US dollars, may vary in countries other than the US, and are subject to change without notice. • If you choose to purchase DupliCal Plus, payment will be charged to your iTunes account, and your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. • Subscription may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. • Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication. Privacy Policy: https://www.apps4delivery.pl/duplical-privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Have any feedback, coments or issues? Please contact: dupli.cal@icloud.com

Screenshots

Fantastical Calendar4 screens
DupliCal Calendar4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Fantastical Calendar at 4.2 against DupliCal Calendar's 1.0. Fantastical Calendar also leads on review sentiment (47% vs 20%) and ratings volume (25K vs 5). DupliCal Calendar's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). 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

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 DupliCal Calendar sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. 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 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 47% of Fantastical Calendar's written reviews are positive against 20% of DupliCal Calendar's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Fantastical Calendar versus DupliCal Calendar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFantastical CalendarDupliCal Calendar
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (25K ratings) — better1.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews47.4% of reviews — better20.0% of reviews
Number of ratings25K — better5
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#149 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size186 MB66 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFlexibits Inc.Tomasz Kasperczak

Customer experience

Fantastical Calendar

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

DupliCal Calendar

All ratings5 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive20.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative80.0%

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

DupliCal Calendar

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
7 purchases

DupliCal Calendar

Subscriptions6
  • DupliCal Plus Week Start3 Days trial$0.997 Days
  • DupliCal Plus Week$0.997 Days
  • DupliCal Plus Month Start7 Days trial$1.991 Month
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  • DupliCal Plus Month$1.991 Month
  • DupliCal Plus Year Start7 Days trial$14.991 Year
  • DupliCal Plus Year$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • DupliCal Plus Lifetime$19.99

Questions

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

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