Flexibits introduces new productivity features for its Fantastical and Cardhop apps

Fantastic scheduling increases break times, lead times, and so on. Cardhop now lets you track birthdays, anniversaries, and more.

• What is happening? Developer Flexibits has released feature-rich updates to its Fantastical to-do and calendar app, as well as its Cardhop contact management software. Fantastical is getting various scheduling improvements, and Cardhop now lets you keep track of birthdays, share business cards via QR codes, and more.
• Why care? Fantastical and Carhop are some of the best apps for Apple platforms and are regularly updated to ensure you get new features and security fixes. These are the apps you can rely on. Both Fantastical and Carhop are also beautifully designed. Developer Flexibits brings the latest Apple platform features in a reasonable amount of time, instead of making you wait years to get just basic features like drag and drop.
• What to do? Update your copies of Fantastical and Cardhop to their latest respective versions in the App Store to try out the new features.

Fantastic schedule improvements

Fantastical for iOS/iPadOS [ App Store link ] and Fantastical for macOS [ App Store link ] are getting several performance-focused improvements, which the company said was one of the most popular user requests. The app’s scheduling features, which we’ve covered in detail, are getting enhanced support for video conferencing.

Now that you’ve determined your availability with the Jobs feature, you can automatically add Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and Webex to your meetings. And to make it easier for you to control your meetings, the team has added break times and prep times to define personal time between meetings so you always have time to prepare and never schedule one after the other. You can also restrict opening appointments to a specific date range.

For more information on scheduling, discoveries and other features available in this to-do, calendar and reminder software, read our Fantastical review.

Cardhop makes it easy to keep track of birthdays

As we wrote in our review, Carhop for iOS/iPadOS [ App Store link ] and CardHop for macOS [ App Store link ] are probably the only contact apps you really want to use. Like Fantastical, Cardhop supports natural language processing, integrates seamlessly with your favorite apps, and looks great. Cardhop 2.1, the latest update, contains a new feature called Celebrations that makes it easy to keep track of the birthdays and anniversaries of all the people in your contact lists.

The Cardhop home screen widget on iOS now supports QR codes to easily share your virtual business card with others. Other highlights include a new action to easily create a task or event from Cardhop to Fantastical and more.

Prices and Availability

All new features in Fantastical and Cardhop are available for free with a Flexibits Premium subscription. Billed monthly ($4.99) or annually ($3.33), this subscription includes all Fantastical and Cardhop features on all your devices. Fantastical Premium is also available for families of five for $7.99/month, or $5.42/month with an annual subscription.

For more information visit flexibits.com/pricing.