Fantastical is the best calendar app on the market. Funtasking is a daily planner focused on life balance. This isn't really a competition - they solve different problems.
Try Funtasking Free →| Feature | Fantastical | Funtasking |
|---|---|---|
| Primary Purpose | Calendar + Events | Daily Planner + Life Balance |
| Calendar Features | ✓ Best in class | ✓ Google Calendar sync |
| Task Management | ✓ Basic tasks & reminders | ✓ Full daily planner with categories |
| Natural Language | ✓ Industry-leading | ✓ Quick task entry |
| Life Balance Tracking | ✗ Not designed for this | ✓ Purpose Wheel (8 life areas) |
| Gamification | ✗ None | ✓ XP, levels, achievements |
| Meeting Features | ✓ Zoom/Meet links, proposals | ✗ Not the focus |
| Time Zone Support | ✓ Excellent for travel | Basic (local time) |
| Price | $4.75/month or $57/year | Free |
| Best For | Calendar power users, professionals | Daily planning with life balance focus |
Let me be clear: Fantastical is exceptional at what it does. If you need a powerful calendar app with natural language parsing, meeting scheduling, and time zone juggling, there's nothing better.
But Fantastical is a calendar app. Funtasking is a daily planner with life balance tracking. These are genuinely different categories.
Think of it this way: Fantastical helps you manage your time. Funtasking helps you make sure you're spending that time on things that matter across all areas of your life.
"Lunch with Sarah next Tuesday at 1pm at Cafe Luna" - Fantastical understands all of it. Name, time, location, all parsed perfectly. It's genuinely impressive.
Day, week, month, year - all beautifully designed. Multiple calendar sets, color coding, weather integration. It's calendar visualization at its finest.
If you travel or work with international teams, Fantastical's time zone features are unmatched. See multiple zones, convert times instantly.
Create Zoom/Meet links automatically, propose meeting times, see availability. Built for professional scheduling.
Works flawlessly across Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch. Widgets, complications, shortcuts - full Apple integration.
Fantastical is gorgeous. Clean typography, smooth animations, thoughtful details everywhere. It's a pleasure to use.
All of this is excellent. If your primary need is "manage my calendar and schedule meetings," Fantastical is worth every penny of the $57/year.
Funtasking isn't trying to be your calendar. It's your daily planner - the place where you decide what to focus on today, beyond just scheduled meetings.
Every task connects to one of 8 life areas: Career, Health, Family, Friends, Personal Growth, Fun, Finance, Love. See visually if you're balanced or burning out.
Fantastical shows you a full calendar and says "you're busy!" Funtasking looks at your tasks and says "you have 12 work tasks and zero health tasks this week."
Earn XP for completing tasks, level up, unlock achievements. But the real game is balancing your Purpose Wheel - not just racking up points.
See weekly/monthly summaries of which life areas got attention and which got ignored. This simply doesn't exist in calendar apps.
Purpose Wheel, gamification, all features - free. No subscription, no premium tier. Because everyone deserves to track life balance, not just paying users.
Fantastical costs $4.75/month or $57/year. For a calendar power user, that's reasonable - you get meeting links, proposals, templates, time zone conversions, and the best natural language parsing in the business.
But here's what you don't get for that $57:
Fantastical Premium is excellent at calendar features. It's not designed for life balance because that's not what calendars do.
Absolutely. Many people do:
Funtasking syncs with Google Calendar, so your events show up. You use Fantastical for the beautiful calendar views and meeting scheduling. You use Funtasking to make sure you're not just filling your calendar with work.
Questions Fantastical answers:
Questions Funtasking answers:
See the difference? Different questions, different tools.
Fantastical is built around the calendar metaphor: time is a grid, you fill it with events, you optimize the schedule.
Funtasking is built around the Purpose Wheel metaphor: life has multiple dimensions, you need to tend to all of them, you track balance not just busyness.
Both are useful. A full calendar doesn't mean a full life. A balanced wheel doesn't schedule your meetings.
Honest take: If you only pick one, choose based on your primary pain point. Scheduling chaos? Fantastical. Life imbalance? Funtasking. But there's no reason you can't use both - they complement each other.
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