Fantastical 2 Update Brings Sound for Notifications, Additional Badge Options, More

Fantastical 2 has been updated with a sound for notifications, additional app icon badge options, and numerous other improvements and bug fixes.

The award-winning, best-selling calendar app has been redesigned and reimagined for iOS 7, including new features such as reminders, a new week view, and much more!

ONE NEW APP, MANY NEW FEATURES
• Reminders!
   - See your events and dated reminders together in the main list
   - Add reminders directly from the Reminders list or new event screen - just flip the switch to toggle between events and reminders
   - Set dates, times, and geofences (when I arrive/when I leave)


• Significant new parser features, including:
   - Create reminders by starting your sentence with "reminder", "todo", "task", or "remind me to"
   - Expanded, expressive repeating events such as third Thursday of every month, every weekend, last weekday of the month, and more
   - Create alerts with phrases such as "remind me tomorrow at 3PM", "alert 1 hour before", or "alarm 3PM"

• All-new event details, including a map to show your event’s locations and better repeating event options
• An elegant week view when you rotate your iPhone to landscape
• Background app updating allows events, reminders, and alerts to be pushed to Fantastical 2 even if you don't launch the app very often
• An extended keyboard when creating new events or reminders, providing instant access to numbers and symbols for dates and times (only for 4" screens)
• Birthday options - tap on a birthday to see contact information or send a quick greeting
• TextExpander support
• Many other refinements and improvements

What's New In This Version:
- Fantastical 2 notifications now have a sound
- Additional App Icon Badge options: Today's Remaining Events, Today's Due Reminders, and Incomplete Reminders
- Adding a phone number as a location shows a call button in event details
- Double-tapping a date picker switches between showing every minute and every five minutes
- Added a "reminder" and "due" parameter to the URL handler. Example: fantastical2://parse?sentence=Buy%20milk&reminder=1&due=yyyy-MM-dd%20HH:mm
- Additional parser improvements
- Performance improvements for iPhone 4
- Updated time zone database
- Fixed a display issue with certain Asian languages
- Fixed Dynamic Type not respecting large type settings from Accessibility
- Fixed an issue where calendar colors could appear too dark or too light
- Fixed an issue when editing events with a custom time zone
- Fixed addresses in notes not opening in Google Maps when they should
- Various fixes and improvements

You can purchase Fantastical 2 from the App Store for $2.99.


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