Hey guys, welcome back to another video, it's Francesco here
So in today's video I'm going to be looking at Fantastical 3 again
I did a breakdown last week many of you may have watched that already if you have not you can see that video
but I missed a few things I missed a few things in terms of talking about the freemium some of the core features and also
discussing the pricing as well
so in today's video
We're going to jump into all of that dive over to the laptop and explain a little more of some of those questions
So without further ado guys, let's roll into today's video
Okay, first things first guys, what I wanted to do is clear up the freemium side of stuff
so I didn't actually nearly mention in the first video that
Fantastical 3.0 and the new pricing does introduce a free version of the experience
So what you get would be
essentials so the free account is broken up into
Varying parts. So you do get the ability to add accounts and events and tasks delete events and tasks
notifications show location event details and also three days worth of weather forecasting and
Standard email support and that's in the essentials category
So that almost works in very identical sense to apple calendar
So when it comes to a few of the more advanced features, this is where the premium comes in
so what you can't get inside of the free account is full screen day week and month and
Year view as well
You also do not get the full task support including iCloud reminders and todoist
You also only get one set of calendar
So essentially you won't be able to toggle between certain
Calendars one of the features as well that you do not get in
The free account is calendar sets syncing. This apparently is the ability to sync calendar sets to all of your devices
Including Apple watch and you also will not get the time travel and time to leave
Notifications as well as entry in calendar now. It does become a little bit trickier inside the free account
You do not get as many collaboration abilities. You can't get invitees
Scheduling which means propose times
Google Hangouts Google means or zoom support
Combine duplicate events hide events and favorite time zones
And you also lack on some of the customization for example the templates for events and tasks
Which is becoming a very popular feature custom event colors
Custom home screen for example at the icons on iOS and iPad as well as custom notification sounds on
IOS and iPad, so there are the things you do get in free
It's mainly the viewing and editing options of each event
so you could use this in a very simple way you pretty much like you would Apple calendar and
if you wanted the premium features, they would come at the
$39 90 now an annual price or billed monthly
Which I'll include a link in description
So just being clear. There is a free experience to fantastical 3.0 and you can download it or down below if you want
So you're probably wondering what do the premium features look like?
And that was one of the many questions weather forecasting you can get up to ten days
And this is what that looks like you can basically see the forecast
From the AccuWeather for as much as you can within ten days, which is very helpful
Sometimes associating the weather to a certain day
For example the weekend what you're exactly going to do is quite useful
So apparently whatever device you're on one is premium features that full screen day week month and year view
Which will let you see whatever view you want. You can see a quick overview of the calendar
Including the day ticket and calendars view. This will be more highlighted in the iOS tour that we'll do in a minute
So if you're looking to connect up iCloud reminders and todoist and notifications again
This is only available for premium. And this is what that looks like
You also get unlimited
Calendar sets as well as the ability for the syncing
Which is something that a lot of people in the comments were really really happy for
So that they can have all Canada synced in real-time
You also have travel time and time to leave notifications as well as interesting calendars
Now some of the collaboration features you can invite people as you can see here
You can schedule and propose times zoom support combining duplicate events hide events
Favorite time zones, which is all very useful as well as a template functionality
So there's some of the premium features that a lot of people were talking about
Okay, so one of the many questions that you guys had was what does the fantastical three iOS application look
Like and as you can see, this is what it looks like in premium. It's got this really nice daily
Ticker view allowing you to essentially see what's coming up
You can scroll ahead and you can even see all of the events as well as any apps you've connected to the experience
Now as you can see up here we're currently in data to view
But you can also view the tasks Sony or calendar only as well as the day week month and year and again
These fullscreen views are only available in premium
Ok, so inside of the premium. This is the full screen views as you can see here
You can basically see a really nice clear view of the day
You can also scroll to the week view, which is something that is available
In other apps like woven and calendars 5, however, it doesn't it nice and clean and easy to view
But again, a lot of people would argue this is currently available in Apple calendar
You can also get month view as well something now
I don't particularly like but I know a lot of people enjoy it and also year view as well
Again a bit like the heat map that we demonstrated in a fantastic f3 breakdown
So that's really nice and be able to see your tasks. This pulls in all of the iCloud reminder tasks as well
But what I did noticed is I am signed in on my to-do list on the Mac version
But they aren't pulling the tasks in that I had from that version
So there may be a syncing issue that might need to be solved here
So you're probably wondering what does the Apple watch?
Version look like so the Apple watch version looks like this and they've tried to keep the design very similar now
Apparently the syncing works on this one as well. And again, this would be more of a premium experience
So you'll get all the cross-platform abilities inside of the premium edition
You
You can scrub all through which is really nice and you also get the plus button which allows you to ant using intelligent input
Very similar to dates smart date passing allowing you to add an event really easily
You can also change that to a task if you wanted to now down here once you've set up templates
you can quickly access one for a specific event or a specific task allowing you to essentially if you wanted to say organize a
Monday morning meeting you could quickly do that using that template
So I had a look guys a lot of you guys questioned
Do I get the upgrade if I was on fantastic hour - and already paid?
according to their FAQ all the features from fantastical - are
Automatically available and do not require a fantastical premium subscription
This is only available to existing fantastic out to customers
So anything you've had in version 2 and you sign in you get everything you had before?
however, if you want any of the new
3.0 features, then you'll have to upgrade so they mention here
There are also new features available for the free to existing fantastic out to cut users
You can see there that there's anything from the weather to the to do is support the parser upgrades the autocomplete
Recommendations as well as some of the iOS Mac and iPad specific updates. So that's something to note for anyone
That is a fatass Scout to user something. I should have mentioned in the last feature
So I actually had a lot of questions about their pricing and a lot of people were sort of buying back in the comments about
The pricing being too much and I totally agree
Sometimes once you paid for an application like that for such a long time
Say you've done a one-off and you've kept it for about three or four years
It's sort of like a bonus because you're actually getting a pretty fantastic deal if you're paying
$49 90 9 and you have that application for three years only works out to about
15 bucks to 20 bucks a year, which is fairly reasonable for a calendar application
Now a lot of applications are heading in the subscription model way and I think that this is almost
Pretty much a certainty that this will happen in the future. But the thing I'd say is that it really depends on
Whether you use a calendar as much as this for example
Some people use email quite aggressively and you can get email for free for $0 on Gmail
but a lonely people looking at super human missive and other
Paid email applications because the experience is far superior in terms of design
The quality and the support that you have with these applications. So people are paying
from you know between $30 a month and
100 dollars a year on email
So it's the same with calendar if you value in calendar a lot if you time block a lot if you have lots of meetings
if you
manage for example zoom calls
Google Calendar invitees
Then this $40 is gonna go a long way for the year
But I feel like in a way I feel like fantastic. Our two users should have been upgraded
to six months worth of premium
Instead of necessarily. Just getting all the existing features
maybe they should have added on that six months for the extra loyalty and
I guess this sort of came out of the blue
Maybe I didn't check in on some of the news
But I guess they just sort of chucked this on us as they did this new release
So they felt like they were getting the subscription out before
Actually just releasing yet. But overall I think fantastical is a fantastic calendar application in my opinion. It's a solid
Application. It's pretty much Apple only but it is a good application. I'd really love to hear some of your thoughts
I read all those comments and I agreed with a lot of the points there and
Thank you very much to the likes of Adrian on Twitter who mentioned
About my review not being fair because I wanted to make sure I covered all of those points
So hopefully I did do that in today's video
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