Comparison

Fantastical Calendar vs Timepage

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

Timepage

This smart calendar app offers a visually appealing and intuitive way to manage your schedule. It integrates events, maps, contacts, and weather forecasts to enhance daily productivity. Enjoy features like timeline views, travel time estimates, and customizable themes.

Highlights
  • Unique timeline view
  • Month heatmap for busy/free status
  • Animated weather forecasts
  • Automatic travel time estimates
  • Easy event creation
  • Syncs with existing calendars
  • Customizable themes and widgets
Features
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Get Timepage – the most intuitive and delightful calendar app you’ll ever use. It's a powerful and fun way to get organized! “Fun to use and provides essential consolidated information in a way that makes you want to use your calendar.” – ZDNet “Timepage keeps bringing us these terrific updates and enhancements, making the app better all the time. The exquisite interface and smooth animations already make the app not only beautiful but impressive.” – AppAdvice “The new calendar app Timepage will make you forget the rest.” – Gizmodo Timepage is a revolutionary smart calendar with a gorgeous design. It makes every day more productive by combining your events, maps, contacts and weather. Design: • The unique timeline view makes it simple to look ahead in time • An intuitive month heatmap that instantly shows when you are busy and free. • Over 60 beautiful hand crafted theme colors for the app, home screen widgets and icon Devices: • iPadOS, iOS, Mac and Apple Watch Plan Your Day: • See beautifully animated temperature and rainfall forecasts for the day so you know what to wear and how to get around. • Never be late again! Timepage automatically gives you travel time estimates to walk, cycle, drive or catch public transport to your events. • Timepage will give you helpful hints like “2 hours free after this event then Gym at 6pm”. • Widgets for weather and events, so that essential info is always a swipe away. It Just Works: • The easiest event creation around, just swipe down and start typing • Works with any calendar already on your iPhone like iCloud, Google, Outlook, Exchange, Facebook, Yahoo and CalDAV. • Fast background sync so your events are always up to date when you edit events on the web, your computer or iPad. • Search for events using Spotlight on your iPhone. • Advanced calendar features you need like repeating events, reminders, calendar colors, app icon badge customisation, 24 hour time and more. Download Timepage and enjoy being more organized. –––MEMBERSHIP––– Timepage is a membership service with a free trial. Your calendar data is never deleted by Timepage, regardless of your membership status. If your membership expires, you can still use the app in read-only mode, without weather features. Calendar data will remain synced to your provider of choice (iCloud, Google etc). • Unlimited access on all your devices. • Both monthly and annual options available. Price may vary by location. Subscriptions will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription will automatically renew unless automatic renewal is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage your subscriptions and automatic renewal status in Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of the free trial peri​od will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription. Privacy Policy: https://bonobolabs.com/privacy Terms of Service: https://bonobolabs.com/terms –––QUESTIONS?––– If you’ve got a question or something isn’t working quite right, you can contact us directly from the Menu > Help > Contact Support. Got a feature idea? Let us know at https://bonobo.canny.io/timepage –––THANK YOU––– We have put thousands of hours into creating Timepage. We read every single one of your reviews. If you enjoy using Timepage please take a minute to leave us a nice review, thank you!

Screenshots

Fantastical Calendar4 screens
Timepage4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Timepage at 4.6 against Fantastical Calendar's 4.2. Timepage also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). Fantastical Calendar's advantage is chart position (#166 vs unranked). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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 Timepage sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Timepage holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 25K and 15K respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 47% of Fantastical Calendar's written reviews are positive against 54% of Timepage's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fantastical Calendar ships an update every 3 weeks, Timepage weekly. Both last shipped on November 10, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Fantastical Calendar versus Timepage: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFantastical CalendarTimepage
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (25K ratings)4.6 (15K ratings) — better
Positive reviews47.4% of reviews54.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings25K — better15K
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
Best chart rank#166 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Vision ProiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.616.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size186 MB250 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFlexibits Inc.Bonobo

Customer experience

Fantastical Calendar

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

Timepage

All ratings15,445 ratings
Positive90.7%
Neutral3.4%
Negative5.9%
Written reviews635 reviews
Positive54.2%
Neutral13.5%
Negative32.3%

User reviews

Fantastical Calendar

From 25K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Intuitive and easy to use
  • 👍 Excellent natural language input
  • 💡 Helpful calendar integration features
  • 🚀 Smooth syncing across devices
  • 👍 Beautiful and clean UI design

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Inconsistent behavior with reminders and event management
  • 💰 Expensive subscription model
  • 🤖 Overly aggressive upselling of premium features
  • 🤔 Concerns about forced account creation
  • 🐛 Sync issues between iOS and Mac versions

Timepage

From 15K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Gorgeous design
  • 👍 Intuitive and easy to use
  • 💡 Useful features like weather, travel time estimates
  • 👍 Highly customizable
  • 🚀 Smooth performance

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Buggy, crashes frequently
  • 🔒 Subscription model required for full functionality
  • 🔒 Separate subscription for companion app
  • 🔋 Slow load times
  • 👎 Missing key features like month view, to-do list

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

Timepage

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Events disappearing from calendar
  • Time zone changes causing issues with event times
  • Freezing and crashing when adding events or locations

Requested features

4 requests
  • Integrate to-do list functionality
  • Add month view
  • Improve syncing and cross-device support
  • Allow one-time purchase option instead of subscription

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
5 purchases

Timepage

Subscriptions4
  • Monthly Membership7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Annual Membership7 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • Bonobo Bundle (Annual)7 Days trial$29.991 Year
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  • Bonobo Bundle (Annual Family)7 Days trial$49.991 Year
One-time1
  • Bonobo Bundle (Lifetime)$129.99

Questions

Is Fantastical Calendar free?
Fantastical Calendar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Timepage free?
Timepage is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Fantastical Calendar or Timepage?
Timepage is rated higher. Fantastical Calendar averages 4.2 out of 5 from 25K ratings, while Timepage averages 4.6 from 15K ratings.
Do Fantastical Calendar or Timepage have ads?
Neither Fantastical Calendar nor Timepage shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fantastical Calendar or Timepage?
Fantastical Calendar ships an update every 3 weeks, and Timepage weekly. Most recently, Fantastical Calendar was updated on November 10, 2026 and Timepage on November 10, 2026.

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