Informant 5 - Calendar

Fanatic Software

In-app purchases

About this app

Personal Organizer & Calendar App, with Tasks & Projects, Notes and Contacts, all in one location! Beautifully designed with you in mind, Informant brings ease-of-use and extreme functionality to your busy life.

Calendar:
Choose from several built-in views, including: Month, Week, Multi-Day, Day, and more
Adjustable Multi-Day view lets you select how many days to show, from 1-7
Natural Language Entry - type everyday phrases such as “lunch with Jim at 12:00 tomorrow” and Informant will understand and create the event accordingly
Attach contact info or a written note
Support for ICS attachments
Printing (requires Android 4.4 or above)
Use the built-in TravelAssist™ to help manage event timezones while traveling
Weather integrated into the calendar views (in-app purchase)
Locations
Much More!

Tasks:
See your Tasks on your calendar
Checklists for tasks containing lists of items such as groceries or packing
Natural Language Entry
Parent/Child tasks
Group Parent/Child tasks in calendar view
Attach contact info or a written note
User-Defined Smart Groups
Much More!

Notes:
Text Notes
Voice Notes

Contacts:
Accesses the Contacts from your device
Attach Contact information to an event or task
Send ICS attachments to Contacts
More!

Sync:
Informant Sync (requires subscription of $24.99/year)
Google Calendar
Google Tasks
Evernote
Dropbox Backup
Toodledo

Ratings and reviews

Interesting looking app, and it seems to have potential. Unfortunately I didn't know most of the features were paid features and I evidently didn't start looking at the app intro today and the trial has expired. I cannot find a list of what the paid fee is and what I'm getting. Are there different fees for different features? Without understanding how the app works, I can't give it a high rating. Is it encrypted?

As a longtime user of Informant I am extremely disappointed in the way the move to a new app has been handled. Forcing people over into your subscription service in order to use the app, including the old app, is just unacceptable. I've always used Informant as a means of combining both Toodledo and Google Calendar services into one app, and Informant has excelled at that. Forcing me now to pay for a yearly subscription syncing service is something I neither need nor want.

I've used informant 4 for years *exclusively* for the month calendar view, which was very powerful. It had a split interface with two adjustable panes that hold months alongside a view of the currently selected day. This minimized wasted screen space while keeping details accessible! Informant 5 lost this feature, which set v4 apart from other apps, and has and put dark mode behind it's one-size-fits-all subscription. v5 is definitely not for me; low rating in part for the daily upgrade popup in v4 :(

What's new

Reintroduced the highly requested split view from the PI4 app, enhancing multitasking capabilities.
Redesigned the task/event info pop-up for a more intuitive user experience.
Fixed the issue where information pop-up windows disappeared prematurely.
Resolved the problem with deleted projects not syncing across devices.
Introduced a new feature allowing tasks to be converted into projects easily.
Enhanced the overall code structure, improving the app's stability and performance.