![]() ![]() I’m 30% more profitable right off the bat. Personally, I tend to buy direct from developers when I can, and avoid the Mac App store. I have to wonder how much of this is Apple’s skim. Based on updates every three years, thats a big jump to $120 for three years versus $70. $40 a year is a bit steep, compared to the $70 ($50 Mac app, which is often on sale for $25, $10 for iPhone and $10 for iPad). I’m somewhat OK with the subscription model, as long as the app isn’t stagnant, or adding features and complexity for the sake of adding features to justify the subscription. Calendars 5 is the only app I’ve found that works. In re: to Fantastical 3 being a “pro” app, European business users would break GDPR by using Fantastical’s “pro” features, b/c other people’s personal data would be stored on Flexibits’ cloud servers, without businesses having an explicit order processing contract with Flexibits.Īpp Subscriptions Business Fantastical GDPR iOS iOS 13 iOS App Mac Mac App macOS 10.15 Catalinaīiggest question for me is whether or not I’ll be able to connect to an Exchange calendar without the app having to be authorized by corporate. Whereas if they’d swapped some of the “you need pro” stars into “loyal customer” icons, we’d all have a better sense of what we’re getting. So existing users only see the places they’re being asked to pay more. Weirdly, I think the way flexibits has let themselves down with the upgrade level for previous users is that there’s no in-app indication of “you’re getting X for free because you bought the app”. Fantastical is a professional calendaring (and now task management) app, and as Bohn points out, subscriptions are the best way for a developer like Flexibits to succeed in the App Store. ![]() And if, like me, you used Fantastical across iPhone, iPad, and Mac (they previously sold the iPad app as a separate version from iPhone), $40 a year is quite reasonable. Lots of complaining on Twitter, and Fantastical 3’s App Store reviews have been dragged down by angry users complaining about the pricing change. Productivity Apps and Subscription Pricing.See also: Zac Hall, Ryan Jones, Eric Slivka, David Sparks, Federico Viticci. While the Mac version of Fantastical has tended to be more full featured than its iOS variants, with this release the iOS apps are more or less at parity with the Mac version. I’m also thrilled to report that Fantastical’s natural-language parser has finally been upgraded to intelligently parse repeating events, something that I could never get to work right. To use Fantastical 3, you have to sign up for a free Flexibits account, whether or not you subscribe to the new features. I’m a fan of the direct connection to calendar services, because a lot of the weird quirks I’ve experienced with my calendars end up being quirks of Apple’s calendar syncing system, including random duplicate alerts from both Calendar and Fantastical. It’s also connecting with Flexibits’s own new cloud service, which adds a slew of new features-and further possibilities down the line. With this release, Fantastical is now stepping away from its attachment to Apple’s built-in calendar database, adding the ability to connect to all sorts of calendar and task services. I’m not interested in the syncing or collaboration features, so I was pleased to see that at least the Mac app seems to work just fine without creating a Flexibits account. And if you had previously purchased version 2, you can keep using the non-free features that you had before. It also works in free mode, which includes most if not all of the features I regularly use. The new version is $39.96 per year for all platforms. $39.99 for Fantastical 2 for Mac 2015 (intro pricing).And so much more.īut let’s talk about the thing that’s likely on everyone’s mind, the Fantastical Premium subscription. Beautiful full screen modes on iPhone and iPad (and the Mac has never looked better). ![]()
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