Compared August 2026 · every price and feature below was checked against Fantastical’s own site and App Store listing on 28 August 2026. These change — check the Fantastical site and App Store listing before deciding.
A whole calendar app that added mirroring. If you already pay for it, you may not need this one.
Start here: if you already pay for Fantastical, try its mirroring first. Flexibits added Calendar Mirroring in June 2026, it runs on your device, and it is included in a subscription you are already buying. Paying $2.99 for a second app to do a job the one you own already does would be daft.
The case for a separate utility is narrower than that. Fantastical is a calendar app — you adopt it, and mirroring comes along. Calendar Mirror is a utility that adds nothing to your screen: you keep Apple Calendar, or Fantastical, or whatever you already use, and it quietly maintains copies underneath. The concrete differences are how far ahead it mirrors, how finely you can select events, and what it costs.
| Calendar Mirror | Fantastical | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 once · free from source | Free tier; Flexibits Premium $6.99/month or $56.99/year, Families $10.49/month or $89.99/year |
| What it is | A utility that only mirrors — you keep your calendar app | A full calendar app; mirroring is one feature of it |
| Where it runs | Entirely on your device | On device — “No event information is sent to Flexibits servers” |
| How far ahead it mirrors | 365 days by default, adjustable from 1 to 3650 | 2 weeks on Free; 6 months on Premium |
| How far back | 30 days by default, adjustable | Always 2 weeks |
| Platforms | iPhone, iPad, Mac | Mac and iOS, with Windows stated as coming |
| Speed | Within seconds on the macOS build from source; otherwise on a schedule | “Instant One-Way Sync”, in real time |
| Rules synced across devices | No — configured per device | Yes |
| Busy-only copies | Yes, with your own label and an optional prefix | Yes — full details or “Busy” |
| Filters | Declined, unanswered, cancelled, all-day, free, duration bounds, title, time-of-day and weekday window | Choose which events to include; the rules are not published in detail |
| Duration filters | Yes | Not published |
| Per-event override | Yes — a tag in an event’s notes | Not published |
| Open source | Yes — MIT | No |
| Everything else a calendar app does | Nothing — it has no calendar UI at all | Natural-language entry, widgets, weather, scheduling, and the rest |
Not a privacy comparison. Flexibits states that no event information is sent to its servers or saved outside your device, so mirroring in Fantastical is on-device just as it is here. The differences are range, selection and price.
The range limit is the one worth checking against your own use. Fantastical always looks two weeks back, and forward by the amount its tier allows — two weeks on Free, six months on Premium. If you mirror a work calendar so that next year’s leave shows up at home, six months may not reach far enough.
You can run both, and it is a reasonable setup if you like Fantastical but want more range or finer selection than its mirroring offers.
Fantastical reads the same calendars any Apple device exposes, so copies made by Calendar Mirror appear in it like any other event. Keep Fantastical as the calendar you look at, and let Calendar Mirror maintain the copies underneath — a year out, filtered on declined and cancelled meetings, or tagged event by event.
Bridging adds a hop: Calendar Mirror writes the copy on your device, and the other service then reads that copy on its own schedule. It needs the destination account set up on your Mac or iPhone, and the copy is one-way, like every Calendar Mirror mirror.
None of these are coming later. If you need one of them, buy something else:
One purchase covers iPhone, iPad and Mac. Calendar Mirror is not affiliated with Fantastical in any way, and this page is written by Calendar Mirror’s author.