Morgen Calendar vs Fantastical

Morgen Calendar falls into two categories. First and foremost, it's a calendar with a much more beautiful interface than Google Calendar, Outlook, or Apple Mail. If you're considering Morgen as a calendar for personal use, you can't go wrong as it will give you a much more elevated experience. The second category Morgen toes the line with is being a daily planning tool. But when considering it as a daily planner tool, it's quite barebones compared to other daily planners on the market.

For example, if you're considering Morgen Calendar for personal use and basic task management and you don't have a ton of things to manage within the app, then it's worth giving a shot. But if you're considering it for professional use, we recommend checking out tools like Motion (which offers AI auto-scheduling of tasks, and is a full-blown project manager—also is what we use here at Efficient App), Akiflow, or Sunsama. Even thought Morgen has started to build more professional features, it doesn't compare to the other tools we mentioned in terms of powering up your workflow.

When evaluating Morgen, we thought the user experience was quite swift, the the desktop app is intuitive and there was a minimal learning curve. The app works precisely as you'd expect.

Morgen has a free (albiet very basic) plan. Expect that you'll quickly want to upgrade to get access to unlimited calendars and task integrations with other tools (or even use a more fully-featured daily planner tool). You also need to upgrade Morgen to get access to their mobile app (something we think is a miss because to really get the most out of a tool, phone + desktop continuity is important 😬).

We're naming Morgen as the best daily planner for those who are unsure if daily planning is for them because it's perfect if you want to dabble into the world of daily planning, perhaps don't have a ton of tasks to manage, and just want to tinker rather than invest into a full-blown daily planner setup.

In general, we'd love to see Morgen become more differentiated with time, but for now, it's a relatively inexpensive calendar + barebones daily planner tool that will give you just enough features to keep you a bit more organized.  That said, heavy users might find themselves outgrowing the tool fairly quickly, and yearning for more robust features.

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How Morgen Calendar Works

Morgen Calendar has a desktop app (available on Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android). You get all the functionality you'd expect from your normal calendar, but in a much more beautiful interface with a better user experience.

When it comes to daily planning, Morgen Calendar allows you to add super basic tasks (e.g. task name + deadline) and drag tasks onto your calendar. It will show you tasks that are upcoming or overdue, although it doesn't do anything to necessarily help you get more work done. Think of it as just being able to add static tasks onto your calendar. If you don't get them done, or if you want to categorize tasks with labels like you'd need for a bigger project, you can't do that in Morgen Calendar.

If you're already using a project management tool like Linear, ClickUp, or Notion, you can integrate your tasks with Morgen (heads up that integrations with Morgen Calendar are still very limited at this time, so check to see if your project management tool integrates before diving in!).

Morgen Calendar Limitations

We're impressed with Morgen's user experience, especially for those who have very basic tasks to manage (or want to use it for personal use). But when it comes to professional use, it feels a bit too manual and barebones at the moment to fully rely on it as a business or for more robust task management.

For instance, if you miss a task deadline, you need to go back through your calendar and re-schedule all of your tasks, making it a manual tool to keep up to date accurately.

Morgen Calendar Pricing

Morgen Calendar has a free tier although it is incredibly limited—you don't even get access to the mobile app on the free tier. We'd recommend starting off with the free trial (14 days) to get your head around the app, and then upgrading to the $9/month tier to unlock features such as meeting scheduling and the mobile app.

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