Today should see the release of our full paid version of the Midnight version of The Grid Calendar. We really like this product and hope that having a paid version can support it into the future.
We have mentioned it several times in the past but thought we’d break it down here, We think The Grid is a superior product to Fantastical, the app that garnered so much attention in the press at the same time as every major release of “The Grid”. While they did a good job on that product, initially it was full of a lot of holes, that Im glad that they have partially fixed. It does have a unique way of scrolling through dates and a couple neat features, but really the UI isn’t over the top attractive and stays quite Apple generic.
So here is a breakdown of what we see as benefits of each:
| The Grid Midnight | Fantastical | |
| Month View | X | X |
| Week Strip View | X | X |
| Search | X | X |
| Copy/Move Events | X | X |
| Week Numbers | X | X |
| Day Badge | X | X |
| Attendees | X | X |
| Natural Language Entry | X | |
| Time Zone Support | X | |
| Drag-n-Drop | X | |
| Templates | X | |
| Text on Calendar | X | |
| One Touch Filtering | X | |
| Advanced Repeating Events | X | |
| Multiple Event Alarms | X | |
| Email and Share Events | X | |
| Multiple Themes | X | |
| Universal | X | |
| Dated Reminders | X | |
| Weather | X |
And a little secret, we have a couple things in the works for the only 2 things they have we don’t.
Thanks for considering ‘The Grid’, and if you aren’t convinced try out the FREE version and give it a try before upgrading or buying Midnight.
