Fantastical 2 for Mac - The calendar app you won't be able to live without

@jtriest Thanks so much! :) Well, it's a full productivity app that you'll use every day and we've added innovative features like calendar sets and our own CalDAV engine. We feel that for an app you'll use every day, it will provide an incredible return on your investment.

@macguitar Sunrise is super lucky Microsoft acquired them before this came out :)

@jtriest Wow! Thank you. I'm blushing :)

@macguitar @jtriest I think this is a great new price! The full price $49 sounds like a great spot to position the product. It's worth it from the time and frustration that it saves me every single day.

@macguitar Congrats Michael! The new design looks great. You can tell there was a lot of attention paid to every last detail.

@robjama Thanks so much, Robleh. Coming from you, it means a lot! :)

@macguitar Congrats on the release! Looks awesome :-)

@joshdance I'm curious about this as well - I have the same use case and couldn't justify upgrading just for design changes.

@joshdance @morewillie My eyes glazed over on the full feature list he wrote below (no offense @macguitar!) A few use cases I don't think he listed, that I'm guessing at from the video: * Voice event creation * Create an event from highlighted browser text (clipboard text? couldn't tell) * TODO list integration * Choose a subset of calendars you see based on which computer you're using (actual GPS location? couldn't tell)

@jadojodo We are having a 20% discount at launch to provide a discount for users who bought Fantastical 1 for Mac. New users will also get this discount, but there's no way around this due to the way the Mac App Store works. We actually didn't want to have a launch sale, but we felt prior users should get some sort of discount, so we decided on the 20% off launch sale. Thanks for the kind words! :)

@jadojodo @macguitar Along the same line of thought, is there a reason why you guys decided to build an all new mac app instead of adding to the current app? I think I remember paying something like $20 for the status bar app and it's a little unsettling to think that if I buy this one, you guys might make a Fantastical 3 that I would just have to buy again. Otherwise love the product!

@macguitar To clarify, is $39.99 the normal price and it's 20% off that or $39.99 INCLUDES the discount...?

@jadojodo @cwrichardkim Short answer: back in 2011, our goal for Fantastical 1 was to "fix" iCal. With Fantastical 2, our goal was to "fix" Fantastical itself. :) This included things like not having to switch to Calendar whenever we needed to do certain tasks, plus the other benefits a full window provides. Still, we'll consider your feedback. Thanks!

@jadojodo That's correct. The standard price will be $49.99 - thanks!

@ugurkaner Thanks for your feedback. Just so you know, we launched Fantastical 1 back in 2011, and we've provided almost 4 years of free updates. Here's a look at our version history so can see exactly what we've done: http://flexibits.com/fantastical... Thats said, Fantastical 2 is an all-new app with many new features (check my post above for a list!) Being a full reinvention of Fantastical and taking it to the next level, we decided to price it appropriately. We understand that you may not find the value in its benefits, as not every app is for every person. We hope you'll reconsider the work we've done and the new features we've added and the benefits Fantastical 2 provides.

@corleyh Thanks for the question... we're pulling from Calendar still for Outlook/Exchange in Fantastical 2.

@macguitar Exchange is different than Outlook.com. I know, confusing. Regardless, Fantastical looks great! And if you are the first to solve this Outlook.com integration point, I'll sign-up. :-)

@corleyh @macguitar: Does this work now?

@ankushdharkar @corleyh Sure does! Native Exchange support was added in 2.2: http://flexibits.com/fantastical

@crixlet Thank you!

@zaccoffman Thanks, Zac! :)