Fantastical 2 vs Rooster: Calendar and Tasks

Fantastical makes it really easy to add events using their superb natural language parser. For instance, an entry like "breakfast at 9am at The Diner" will be handled correctly.

In addition to their best in class natural language processing, Fantastical has awesome features such as allowing users to append "/work" or "/personal" in order to add events to the specified calendar and setting up abbreviations that will add snippets of text.

Google, iCloud, Facebook, CalDAV, Exchanged, and iPhone calendar are all supported out of the box.

Although pretty simple, the Dayticker view, located at the top of the user interface, is simply fantastic for quickly seeing which days are booked out. It also acts as a convenient way to add new events (long press on a day).

The app displays inline map of the event's provided location. Additionally, users can choose between Apple's Maps or Google's Maps applications to use the feature with.

Using the natural language parser, reminders can be added with the keywords "reminder", "todo", "task", or "remind me to."

Existing reminders can be used or adde with Siri.

With Fantastical 2, the calendar can be accessed through a widget in order to save time.

Fantastical 2 lets users flick, scroll, and swipe to quickly move through different views and types of information.

Tasks can be color coordinated in order to see their categories at a glance.

The divider between the two views can be dragged for customized viewing.

Don't need to know all the particulars? Toggle them off for an even cleaner list.

To add an appointment, you just need to tap them in. No long forms. No interpretation error of natural language. It's truly unique and superior to other calendars.

Responsive, friendly and helpful if you ever need to get in touch.

It has been designed to show you everything you'd want to about your schedule on one screen. You don't need to tap through for address details, room location or for the title of your meeting. It's clean and easy to read too.

You can use iCal on your laptop and Rooster on your phone. The phone version of iCal takes longer to enter events and the UI isn't as streamlined.

Standout design. This app makes staying simple. Very well thought out. Even fun to use.

Any tasks you don't finish carry forward to the next day.

The keyboard entry makes it so easy to create repeating events.

Super handy for any tasks that you don't want to put on a date and just want to keep it around to be completed one day.

Has everything you need, without adding bulk that you'll never use. Gestures and animations are just clean and intuitive

They aren't trying to mine information from personal events and tasks.