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Readdle has announced the discontinuation of its popular Calendars 5 app, marking a significant change in its time-management app offerings. This move aims to streamline user experience by focusing on its single, unified planner app, Calendars.
What’s the catch? Instead of a one-time purchase like Calendars 5 was, the Calendars app is based on a subscription model.
“Having multiple app versions can be confusing. Our goal is to simplify and enhance the user experience,” Readdle stated on Tuesday.
Calendars 5 has been a prominent tool for productivity over the past decade, known for its intuitive natural language input and straightforward interface. It’s been a great calendar app that has a nice month view that shows all your entries.
“It’s an opportunity to take the lessons learned and feedback gathered over the years to heart. We envision Calendars as a supportive companion that understands the unique challenges and aspirations of our users,” said Dmytro Protserov, VP of Consumer Apps.
Readdle says once Calendars 5 sunsets from the App Store, existing users will still be able to use it. New users just won’t have the option to purchase it as a standalone app anymore. The new Calendars app will include a free trial for users to test it out. If you want natural language input in the Calendars app, you’ll need to pay for it.
“While we acknowledge that the introduction of a subscription may appear as an additional cost, by embracing this model, we can continue to deliver the high-quality service and support our users deserve for years to come,” said Readdle in response on X to a customer’s concern over the change.
Readdle says its Calendars app for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch is used by over 20 million users.
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Fantastical, while ridiculously expensive, is the best calendar app out there!
Funnny how whenever some developer decides to pump you for more money and switch to a subscription model, they always cite improved user experience as a reason. Like they are doing this for our own benefit. When that happened recently with a great graphic design app Vectorinator, they killed its functionality, changed its name to Linearity Curve and started charging the subscription because they wanted to ensure “the long-term sustainability of the application, allowing us to keep delivering the quality updates and new features our users expect.”
But paying a reasonable amount for the one time permanent purchase, like Affinity offers for their apps, and in order to ensure continued updates and improvements, a small fee (a fraction of the purchase price) every time there is a meaningful update, could also accomplish that goal of sustainability. Only, they are greedy.
I find it very frustrating how this blog never wants to actually link to their sources. All those links just lead to other posts on the blog that are not relevant.
https://readdle.com/blog/calendars-5-farewell
We’d like to add that Calendars (the one with the blue icon on the App Store) now offers a Lifetime purchase option. This includes all the benefits of our discontinued Calendars 5 app, now integrated into our flagship product.
Access to Calendars 5 will remain available even after it’s removed from the App Store.
Calendars 5 users who decide to upgrade will enjoy an extended free period with the modern Calendars version and can then purchase a Lifetime option at a special price. This will ensure continuous support and access to new features.
Learn more https://readdle.com/blog/calendars-lifetime-purchase-option. Contact us at rd*******@*****le.com if you have any questions.