The core aspects of Fantastical for iOS – the list of events and reminders and the DayTicker – are mostly unchanged on the iPad, with the exception that they now display more information. These four areas are always visible, but they adjust in interesting ways depending on device orientation or user interaction. Rather than making the iPhone app’s vertical layout bigger for the iPad, Flexibits used the increased screen space to organize Fantastical in four areas: the top toolbar the DayTicker, now displaying more days the list and, on the right side, a traditional month calendar. The result is what Flexibits calls the “Fantastical Dashboard”. With Fantastical for Mac having reached a sort of feature stability under Mavericks and Fantastical 2 for iPhone topping the charts of iPhone productivity, Simmons felt it was time to go back to the iPad and apply everything they had learned with Fantastical 2 to a larger canvas. Simmons and Sutherland were planning to release Fantastical for iPad last year, but the launch of iOS 7 and its deep reimagination of the iPhone’s interface forced the duo to focus their efforts on updating Fantastical for iPhone, which became Fantastical 2 with Reminders integration, a new week view, and several other additions and tweaks. It’s the quickest way to add something, find something…it’s modal”, he added regarding the way that Flexibits intended to build Fantastical on the iPhone.

“On the iPhone, Fantastical is a mobile app.

Since launching Fantastical on the Mac three years ago, Simmons and the other half of Flexibits, Kent Sutherland, brought Fantastical to the iPhone in late 2012, introducing the concept of the DayTicker in lieu of traditional calendar views. An iPad is not just a big iPhone”, Michael Simmons, co-founder of Flexibits, tells me over Skype. “We don’t want to make an iPad app that just blows up the screen. I put Fantastical in my dock when I received the first beta in November, and I wouldn’t be able to go back to using Apple’s Calendar and Reminders apps on my iPad. Fantastical for iPad, released today by Flexibits, is that app.īased on the solid foundation of Fantastical 2 for iPhone, Fantastical for iPad expands the app’s functionality to take advantage of the larger screen while retaining intuitive features and powerful advanced options. Ever since Apple introduced Reminders in 2011, I’ve been looking for a truly great app capable of combining my todos and calendar events in a single, coherent interface.

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