Buy once instead of Fantastical Premium

4 apps in the directory cover what people use Fantastical Premium for. 3 of them are a one-time purchases, and one costs nothing at all.

Fantastical Premium costs about $57 a year. At that rate Dato, the cheapest dollar-priced replacement at $18, pays for itself in 4 months.

Read the catch on each one before you switch — a one-time price is not automatically the better deal, and we say so where it is not.

The replacements

free menu bar month calendar, MIT licensed

Free Open source

Events can be created and deleted but not edited — editing still means a trip to Calendar.app

menu bar calendar and clock with a no-subscription promise in writing

$18 Perpetual

power-user Mac calendar that never went subscription

$49.99 Paid upgrades

The licence never expires but includes only 18 months of updates

full calendar app with a $49.99 one-time unlock

$49.99 Lifetime tier

The $49.99 unlock is an in-app purchase, and separate iOS-only unlocks are sold alongside it