When comparing Business Calendar 2 vs Fantastical, the Slant community recommends Fantastical for most people. In the question“What are the most useful Android phone apps?” Fantastical is ranked 19th while Business Calendar 2 is ranked 34th. The most important reason people chose Fantastical is:
If you're locked into using an Exchange account, Google Calendar won't work without 3rd party syncing options. Fantastical works flawlessly with Exchange and with Google Accounts so you can have both. It also supports iCloud, Office365, Yahoo, and Facebook calendars.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Responsive support
Developer provides prompt and understanding support with problems raised/questions asked.
Pro Multiple Calendar + Multiple Task functionality
Allows you to manage multiple calendars and multiple task (Google) accounts with ease.
Pro Multiple flexible widgets
Allows you to customise the look/feel of the widget, even after it has been created. Show different calendar/task accounts per widget.
Pro Advanced scheduling options
Every 2 weeks, then edit four weeks in for 'This and following instances' etc., perfect with Google Calendar.
Pro Supports multiple calendar platforms
If you're locked into using an Exchange account, Google Calendar won't work without 3rd party syncing options. Fantastical works flawlessly with Exchange and with Google Accounts so you can have both. It also supports iCloud, Office365, Yahoo, and Facebook calendars.
Pro Fantastical can comprehend natural language
You can copy and paste a line from a meeting note and Fantastical can copy down and present the relevant information
Pro Beautiful and highly polished design
Cons
Con Trackers!
Con Unskippable Ads
Users are forced to sit through a timer window every day before the ads will skip (for that day). Stupidly poor idea for a "Business" focused calendar app.
Con Isn't multi-platform
No option to manage from PC, it would be cool if there was multi-platform for this app as website, Windows App, Mac OS, etc.
Con Support
Con Expensive for a single utility app
Fantastical on OS X costs $49.99 and an additional $4.99 if you want to use it on iOS.
Con Only supports iOS and OSX
Fantastical doesn't support web, Windows or Android.