Waste of money

I’ve been using this app as my main calendar app for the past 3 months, with Google calendar. For visibility, I wrote the exact same review in the iOS app store as the issues are exactly the same.

I was really excited at first, but I uncovered a number of missing features that I really needed for use at work:
- Push notifications for incoming calendar invites do not work or are VERY delayed. I have to rely on my email to notify me of incoming invites. Opening the app and refreshing the invites will then make the invite show up. That’s a big problem for me.
- Along the same lines, cancelled events don’t actually update until you open the app. For example, my colleague cancels an event a week from now. If I don’t open the app for a week, I will get a reminder about the event, even though it has been cancelled. That’s extremely annoying as I can no longer trust event notifications.
- Cannot invite people to events not created by me. Again, I have to rely on Google calendar to invite people to events that are not created by me.

Overall, I like the NLP part of the app and how it works. UI is a bit unintuitive, but I somewhat got used to it.

Lastly, I think the app would be an okay-ish replacement for a light calendar user, provided that it would be made free. Price definitely not justified. It’s actually the first app I’ve ever bought that I feel I wasted my money on.

Don’t waste your money with this one if you care about push notifications and editing invites.

vladli123 about Fantastical - Calendar, v2.1.4