Update: Finally! Timezones!
Quadrupling the number of stars as timezones are now in the UI and done better than anything else. Well done! I’m going back to using Fantastical.
I’m reserving the last star until I can determine if it still gets upset about WiFi captive portals and nags incessantly.
**** older reviews below:
Updating this review because a recent update apparently added timezone support so I thought I’d give it a second chance since I paid for it.
Functionality looks essentially unchanged as far as I can tell. It also still spews error alerts whenever your laptop associates with a captive portal - very annoying while you are trying to sign in to get ‘net access. I end up quitting the app completely because of this.
**** original review stil stands:
Im traveling 80% of the time and have been using the awful Google Calendar before Fantastical - and now I’m back to preferring Google. Here’s why:
1. Fantastical has basically NO timezone support. It will follow the system timezone, or allow you to override that with a single zone. I’m traveling across Asia, Europe, and USA every week and the people that I need to schedule meeting with are in a different zone much of the time. Fantastical gives me NO help with that. I need to revert to Google Calendar or another meeting planner when setting meetings, putting flights on my calendar, etc.
2. When I am in a hotel or airport (which seems to be very often - I’m writing this review in a hotel) with a captive portal then Fantstical goes into a loop with an annoying error alert window that comes into the foreground and will immediately reappear until dismissed. This will happen until I authenticate to the hotel/airport Internet service - which is frustrated by the Fantastical alerts. Why can’t it just wait quietly LIKE EVERY OTHER APP.
Anyway - it has been sufficiently annoying for me to overlook all the nice features it probably has. I despise Google Calendar but still end up using it.
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