Fantastical Comes to Apple Watch
In bringing Fantastical to the Watch, Flexibits kept the app’s marquee feature – natural language input – and revised it with the ability to create new events just by speaking commands to Siri. Any time you want to create an event in Fantastical, press firmly on the screen, tap Add Event, and start talking; Fantastical will then recognize relevant event information such as dates, times, and locations like it can on iOS, and it’ll create a new event directly on the Watch. Obviously, the event creation screen on the Watch doesn’t have the full functionality of the iPhone app, but for a slimmed down experience that’s solely focused on dictation and returning to what you were doing, the Apple Watch app works fairly well.
Fantastical looks really good and is probably the best Calendar app you can get for Apple Watch today. I’m really hoping that Apple opens up third-party complications. That’s an area where Fantastical could really shine. Until then, we’ll have to make due.