I’m not sure why it’s not on by default because this always comes close to being a deal breaker for me, when apps don’t support this. While Fantastical was a pioneer for this technology, I actually found a setting in Bus圜al to turn on natural language event creation. Bus圜al is truly just an all-around powerful calendar app and one of the most powerful ones I’ve used on iOS to date. It shows the high and low weather forecast for your current day and week ahead, it lets you add in your own travel time and then accounts for that in the calendar display, it can include attendees and tags for your events and more. This alone could be a deal breaker depending on which services you use.Īside from that, Bus圜al has a lot of nice features throughout the app that really add up. The list is similar but Bus圜al still wins. Fantastical supports all of the same services that the built-in Calendar.app supports: iCloud, Exchange, Google, Yahoo, Outlook, CalDAV or subscribed calendars. For one, it supports a slightly larger array of calendar services: iCloud, Google, Office 365, Microsoft Exchange, Fruux, Yahoo, plus any CalDAV or WebDAV calendar. What Bus圜al lacks in design it makes up for in features. Bus圜al deserves props for its excellent month view. It also takes much better advantage of the iPad’s larger screen while Bus圜al just looks stretched out. Aside from just being downright better looking, it wins major points for conciseness across the board especially when adding a new event. It relies mainly on natural language input, though you can show all the details if you wish.įantastical takes the cake for design. The search bar is at the top and the New Event sheet located above that is clean and easy to understand. If you turn your iPhone horizontally you can see Fantastical’s week view, but there is no month view to be found. They work in sync with each other so as you scroll through the list, the calendar moves down the line too so you never get lost. More on that in a bit.įantastical takes a very clean approach: a calendar at the top showing when you’re busy and an interactive list of all your events below. However, Bus圜al does support natural language input, but not as the default setting. It’s extensive, but that can be either a good or bad thing. But the New Event form at first seems primitive as you have to manually go through all the fields: title, location, start and end time, calendar, alarm, etc. The live search feature is located at the top right of the screen at all times as is the New Event sheet. Even though it shows all of your events in tiny boxes spread across the screen, tapping one expands the view for that day into a clean schedule complete with all your calendars and even the weather if the date is close by. The best view is actually the month view. There is also a separate To Do list view of all your reminders. You can see your events in a single list, in day view, by the week or by the month. It’s a rather plain app with different calendar views based on your preference. Bus圜al has never been much of a looker even on the Mac and it appears the design didn’t get any sort of radical re-imagining for iOS.
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