Steve Kovach May 14, 2016 at 06:09AM
In a few short months, Microsoft will officially kill my favorite calendar app, Sunrise.
For Sunrise fans like me, that's not so bad on mobile because Sunrise is spinning it into the excellent Outlook email app for iPhone and Android. (If you don't like Outlook, check out Fantastical or Google Calendar.)
But it's a different story on the desktop.
Sunrise will be part of the desktop version of Outlook, which costs a whopping $150 as part of Microsoft Office. This is a huge letdown for people like me who use Sunrise on the desktop. What used to be an excellent, free app, is now part of the $150 Microsoft Office suite. (You can also subscribe to Office 365 for $100 per year.) There's no way around it.
So, what are you supposed to do?
Things look kind of hopeless right now.
For Mac users, the desktop version of Fantastical is great, but its $50 price tag can be tough to swallow. And don't even think about using Apple's calendar app for Mac. It stinks.
As for me, I'm going to keep using Sunrise on the desktop until August 31. Hopefully by then Fantastical drops its price or another developer creates something just as good for much cheaper. If that doesn't happen, I guess I'll either have to eat the $50 for Fantastical or endure Apple's calendar app.
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