Fantastical vs. Google Calendar

Fantastical is excellent for someone who appreciates the ease of data entry without having to tick boxes and use drop-down menus. Fantastical also provides a number of different view options based on how the user prefers to see their calendar and tasks.

Incentivized

Google Calendar is well suited for scheduling 1:1 and smaller group meetings and recurring meetings. It's also well suited to connect with scheduling software. However, there is still a lot of opportunity for improvement when you want to make a very well-organized calendar (for example, limitations with the meeting tagging & categories). It's also not as well suited for helping with scheduling for bigger groups.

• Manage multiple calendars.
• Data entry for events and tasks.
• Connection between all my devices.

Incentivized

• Scheduling and manipulating time slots for an event or meet
• Provides alerts before the scheduled event's time
• Direct integration with google meet which enables the user to organize a hassle free meeting.
• Subscription to other's google calendar's to keep a track of their schedule.
• Integration of multiple calendars into one.

• Sometimes there are issues in syncing calendars between devices.

Incentivized

• the user interface should be improved for better experience.
• Needs more app integration for example adding notes to calendar events.
• I would also love to see an integration with google maps, where I can share locations from maps to events directly on calendar.

Incentivized

Fantastical provides a visual experience that I appreciate more than the simplified Apple iCal design. It also provides a lot of options that help with the more detailed events.

Incentivized

Most of the other services we would use don't have the same integration with other Google services that Google Calendar has. The ability to view and set things from your email is very convenient. So is the ability to have your notifications automatically show up on an Android phone as a reminder.

Incentivized

• Ability to quickly and easily enter events and tasks.

Incentivized

• Very significant improvement in employee productivity (more than 10%), because people spend much less time arranging meetings.
• Essential tool to develop remote work within the company during Covid.
• No need to build an email infrastructure (significant cost reduction in IT infrastructure).

Incentivized