
BusyCal: Calendar & Reminders 4+
To Do List. Planner. Schedule
Busy Apps FZE
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
BusyCal is the most powerful, flexible, reliable calendar app for macOS. It's packed with innovative, time-saving features including customizable views, calendar sets, integrated tasks, travel time, smart filters, natural language input, weather, moons, graphics, tags, do not disturb mode and much more.
The app comes with a free 14 day trial and requires an active subscription to function. Please see the In-App Purchases section for pricing information. One subscription covers the entire family.
CUSTOMIZABLE VIEWS
BusyCal displays your calendar in Day, Week, Month, Year and List views. What makes BusyCal unique is its ability to customize these views to more precisely meet your needs. You can choose the number of weeks shown per month, or days shown per week, and you can even customize the calendar's appearance by choosing a font face and size, calendar colors, time format, work week and a lot more.
INTEGRATED TASKS
In BusyCal, Tasks are integrated into your calendar, display on the date or time they are due, and carry forward until completed. You can also display a Task List in the sidebar. NOTE: Reminders in iOS 13 / macOS 10.15 is not compatible with BusyCal.
INFO PANEL
BusyCal's info panel enables you to quickly view and edit event details with speed and precision. The info panel can be displayed in the sidebar, as a popup or a floating window. And it's completely customizable, you can choose from a wide range of attributes to display including time zones, tags, maps, private notes, last edit time and more.
NATURAL LANGUAGE INPUT
BusyCal enables you to create events and tasks using natural language. A preview of the event details are displayed while you type as it recognizes titles, dates and times, locations and more. You can even use it to add contacts or attendees to an event, set alarms, add URLs, and to indicate the calendar to create the event on.
TRAVEL TIME
BusyCal allows you to block out time for walking, driving or taking mass transit to an event or location. You can set a fixed amount of travel time or determine it automatically using the integrated support for Location Services and Apple Maps. You can even receive alerts when it's time to leave as traffic conditions change.
MENU BAR APP
The BusyCal menu bar app is always running, even when the main BusyCal app is not running, so you always have access to your schedule.
SMART FILTERS
BusyCal's Smart Filters are a powerful tool for managing your calendar. Smart Filters can be accessed with a keyboard shortcut or a button on the toolbar to display calendar sets (showing/hiding multiple calendars), perform saved searches (events that contain 'Joe'), apply view settings (an 8-week month view) and much more.
ALARMS
BusyCal displays alarms in a movable, resizable floating window that offers the ability to snooze an alarm for any number of minutes from now or before the start of an event, or snooze multiple alarms at once. And BusyCal Alarms trigger even when the main BusyCal app isn't running, so you'll never miss an important appointment.
WEATHER & MOONS
BusyCal displays a live 5-day weather forecast, phases of the moon, and sunrise and sunset times.
GRAPHICS
BusyCal lets you add graphics to your calendar to highlight holidays and special events. You can choose from the built-in Emoji and IconFinder images, or drag images from your desktop or web.
BUSYCONTACTS INTEGRATION
BusyCal integrates with its sister app, BusyContacts, forming a flexible easy-to-use CRM solution. By adding contacts to events in BusyCal, you have instant access to a contact's email address and phone number, as well as a record in BusyContacts of your interactions with them.
SYNC AND SHARE CALENDARS
BusyCal supports iCloud, Reminders, Todoist, Google, Exchange, Office 365, CalDAV, Fastmail, Custom CalDAV Servers, Zoom, Google Meets, GoToMeeting, LAN sharing as well as WebDAV subscriptions.
What’s New
Version 2023.4.4
· [NEW] Quick Entry enhancements with Natural Language Input now supported for Spanish, Italian, and Dutch
· [NEW] Sort tasks by modification or creation dates
· [NEW] Context menu option added to the calendar source list for applying an alphabetical sort to calendars
· [NEW] "Show only these calendars" context menu option added to calendar groups
· [NEW] "My Status" can now be changed for Google meetings you're an organizer of
· Improved sync with custom CalDAV servers that incorrectly advertise some supported features
· Improvements to natural language input
· Fixed bug where travel time reporting would not stop at times or would remind for an event that hasn't yet started
· Ongoing stability improvements
Ratings and Reviews
looong time use but to expensive as subscription
I'm a long time user of Busy Cal and Busy Contact however it has become way to expensive for what it provides. I have stoped usin g BusyContact alltogether and Busy Call is to epensive considering apple calendar does mots Busy Call does.
Developer Response ,
This is a major new paid update. Subscription is the only way to offer paid upgrades on the App Store. Please contact us so we can help restore your purchase.
works fine but expensive
The app works fine. but I don’t see why it was so expensive for the few improvements that it gave to the system. Not worth the money.
Bugs
When I copy and paste an existing calendar event to create a new event it doesn't syncronise the new event.
It's also not reliable when sending event invitations to other people via the add attendees option. Some people receive the invites, but not all people get them. A bit hit and miss.
Developer Response ,
This doesn’t sound right. Please can you get in touch with support so we can help?
App Privacy
The developer, Busy Apps FZE, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Busy Apps FZE
- Size
- 55.7 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 10.15 or later.
- Languages
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English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- Copyright © Busy Apps
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Monthly $5.99
- Yearly $48.99
- Yearly $48.99
- Monthly $5.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.