DigiCal Calendar vs FastMail

An easy way to move and copy every event to another day or moment.

DigiCal has 6 polished widgets, one for each view, available both for homescreen. Each widget has 9 themes (5 free, 4 paid) to choose from and allows some customization.

Google Now integration provides directions and traffic information.

DigiCal supports the 11 Google Calendar colors and 19 additional colors. Using the extra colors allows for the user to easily see different events scheduled on the calendar without having to read the titles of the events.

DigiCal has day, week, week agenda, agenda, month, text month, list and year views. In addition to events and event information, all views include weather information, some views attach other views to it to provide context.

There's a free ad-supported version of DigiCal as well as this paid unlock key version that costs $4.95 that removes ads as well as adds more features.

DigiCal allows for Google Calendar integration as well as Exchange, making for an easy to use app for businessmen as well as regular users.

Notifications can be snoozed and they also provide shortcuts for maps and navigation.

The built-in location map is very handy for looking up a location. You can zoom in and out and pinch to pinpoint a location in the interactive map.

All views and widgets support light and dark themes.

The calendar app allows you to schedule an event with a local and foreign time zone. Ideal for intercontinental flights.

It's easy to adjust the calendar view on screen, so it perfectly matches personal preferences. This refers to both size and looks and feel, because you can adjust colors, transparency, lettertype and lettertype size.

Although the company doesn't have a privacy policy stated on their webpage they are seated in the netherlands which mean they fall under a much stricter privacy protection than companies in the US.
https://www.loc.gov/law/help/online-privacy-law/netherlands.php

DigiCal has the ability to create multiple widgets with each one displaying a chosen calendar. It allows for a widget on screen for work events, another widget for family activities, and a third for favorite sport team's schedules.

Premium calendar subscriptions available for holiday, sports event, TV shows, public company events and lifestyle.

Once a location is provided the application will display a 3 day weather forecast in either imperial or metric units.

A premium weather subscription will expand the forecast to 15 days, add graphs and ability to set multiple weather locations.

Based on the title event keywords such as locations, activities, an illustration or a photograph will show up.

Great interface for managing calendar invitations.

1. Check the weather directly from the navigation drawer
2. Easily switch calendar views
3. Change visibility of your calendars
4. Collapsable calendar acounts

Depending on your point of view, requiring to pay for Fastmail is actually a positive aspect of the service. This way you know the company is at least making some revenue (they have been around since 2010) and you know who the customer is. Pricing is as follows (go here for their on-site pricing info).

As you are their customer, Fastmail provides human support.

Gmail has a tendency to dumb down the interface (try to sort by sender). Fastmail gives full control over email, just like a "traditional" client would.

Supports two-factor authentication, one-time passwords and fully encrypted connections.

The Fastmail interface is fully responsive across all browser sizes.

As Fastmail does away with all the extra bells and whistles of Gmail it is super fast to interact with. It also has faster IMAP and SMTP performance than Gmail.

You can write your own Sieve scripts for filtering/rerouting email.

Like gmail, you can "Pin" emails to the top of your inbox to deal with later with either a checkbox or the keyboard shortcut. Like Gmail you can also both archive and delete emails.

Get your old email out of Gmail easily with their migration tool.

On writing this Fastmail has Basic, Normal, Aggressive or Customisable spam filtering which can be selected in the Advanced settings.

Each user has an individually trainable bayes database to improve spam filtering. You can train your personal bayes database by selecting some messages and using the Report spam and Report Non-Spam options from the Action menu on the Mailbox screen.

For IMAP users who don't use the web interface much, you can specify folders as spam/non-spam training folders on the Folders screen. Then just move messages into those folders as appropriate to train your bayes database.

For your personal bayes databases to be active, you have to train it with at least 200 spam messages and 200 non-spam messages. If you haven't trained enough messages, then we use a global continuously updated bayes database against your incoming messages, which helps detect spam/non-spam, but isn't as good as a personally trained one.

Instead of using plus addressing (e.g. foo+bar@email.com), FastMail offers the ability to receive mail through subdomain addresses (e.g. foo@bar.email.com).

Fastmail allows saving attachments and other files into their own file storage system for easy retrieval later.

FastMail has full support for folders, unlike Gmail where you only have labels.

Fastmail automatically filters your email into:

• All
• Unread
• Personal
• Notifications
• Mailing Lists

With identities and aliases, you can set up a completely new email address that can be managed from your account, without paying for more. As of time of this writing, FastMail offers up to 500 identities and 600 aliases per account, regardless of plan type.