BusyCal: Calendar & Tasks

Name: BusyCal: Calendar & Tasks
Price: 14.99 AUD
Rating: 4.7 (307 reviews)
Author: Busy Apps FZE

To Do. Planner. Schedule

$14.99

307 Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Productivity
Developer

Busy Apps FZE
Language

EN
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107.3
MB

BusyCal is a powerful, flexible and an extremely customizable calendar app for managing busy schedules, events and tasks. BusyCal's unique features include natural language input, customizable calendar views, an integrated to do list, meeting scheduling, travel time, maps integration, tags, alarms, search, weather, moons, birthdays, anniversaries, graphics and more. BusyCal provides reliable support for iCloud, Google Calendar, Google Tasks, Exchange / Microsoft Outlook, Office 365, Todoist and other CalDAV servers, enabling you to sync and share calendars with other Mac and iOS devices running BusyCal or the built-in Calendar app. CALENDAR VIEWS • Display your calendar by Month, Week, Day, List or Year. • Pinch and zoom to control the number of weeks shown per month, and days shown per week. • Customize the calendar appearance including calendar colors, weather, moons, birthdays, anniversaries, event times, week numbers and more. CALENDAR SETS • Manage different, named collections of calendars • Quickly switch between different Calendar Sets • Assign different default calendars to different sets • Create new sets based on existing collections PASSWORD PROTECTION • Enhanced privacy with the option to lock all your calendar sets or just the ones you choose WIDGETS So. Many. Widgets • Upcoming • Event List & Calendar • Calendar & Heatmap • Today's Date • Next two days • This week • Next two weeks EVENTS • Create events manually or automatically using natural language. • Choose from a wide range of attributes to display when viewing or editing events including travel time, time zones, attendees, contacts, tags, maps, last edit time, and more. • Add tags to events to track projects and important events. TASKS • Tasks are displayed directly in the calendar and carry-forward until completed. • Tasks can be undated, or scheduled to occur on a specific date or time. • Tasks can be scheduled to repeat daily, weekly, monthly, etc. • Tasks can be sorted and filtered by date, priority, calendar or title. JOURNALS • Journal entries you create are displayed directly in the calendar as all-day events • Journal can be scheduled to repeat daily, weekly, monthly, etc. TRAVEL TIME, LOCATIONS & MAPS • Create and use Favorite Time Zones • Supports Location Services for adding locations to events. • Supports both Apple Maps and Google Maps for driving directions. • Travel time allows you to block out time to travel to an appointment. • Alarms can warn you in advance of travel time when it's time to leave. PERSONALIZATION • Display Birthdays and Anniversaries, including birthday age and anniversary number. • Display a live 10-day weather forecast. • Display phases of the moon. • Display graphics created in BusyCal for macOS. SYNC & SHARE CALENDARS • Sync and share calendars with iCloud, Google Calendar, Exchange, Outlook, Office 365, Todoist, Fruux, Yahoo, Kerio, Zimbra, Oracle, OwnCloud, Confluence, macOS Server, SabreDAV and other CalDAV servers. • Sync with other Mac and iOS devices running BusyCal or the built-in Calendar app. • Add Zoom, Webex, GoTo Meetings accounts to create meetings directly from the app MORE • Year Overview and Highlights • Receive Inbox notifications of meetings and changes to events on shared calendars. • Search your calendar for past and future events and tasks. • Set default settings for events, tasks and alarms. • Dark Mode

Ratings & Reviews

4.7

out of 5

307 Ratings

Desktop calendar feel on iPhone
04/02/2024

biologyoracle
BusyCal, more than other calendar apps, lets me feel like I can see at a glance, what’s coming up in the next days and weeks. I really like month view and how tapping on a date expands it to see details - while still staying in month view. It’s clever. It has a ‘big desk calendar’ feel - even on a small screen. Nothing is hidden or out of sight - which gives me confidence that I am not missing something. (especially great if you have a very irregular schedule). Entering dates has become easier recently in BusyCal, too - though I still prefer entering events in another calendar app (which I use just for that purpose). But when I want to see what’s on for a particular date nothing beats month view in BusyCal. I also really like how graphics pasted into BusyCal on Mac show up in BusyCal on iOS - and they are not just a limited selection of clip art - you can put any graphics in. When I’m consulting at a company on a date, for example, I put their company logo on the date as a ‘sticker’ which makes it easy to see an important event at a glance when scrolling through the calendar.

Developer Response
iPhone X support has been added to v3.3.2, coming in a day or so. We'd appreciate an updated review.
Desktop calendar feel on iPhone
04/02/2024

biologyoracle

BusyCal, more than other calendar apps, lets me feel like I can see at a glance, what’s coming up in the next days and weeks. I really like month view and how tapping on a date expands it to see details - while still staying in month view. It’s clever. It has a ‘big desk calendar’ feel - even on a small screen. Nothing is hidden or out of sight - which gives me confidence that I am not missing something. (especially great if you have a very irregular schedule). Entering dates has become easier recently in BusyCal, too - though I still prefer entering events in another calendar app (which I use just for that purpose). But when I want to see what’s on for a particular date nothing beats month view in BusyCal. I also really like how graphics pasted into BusyCal on Mac show up in BusyCal on iOS - and they are not just a limited selection of clip art - you can put any graphics in. When I’m consulting at a company on a date, for example, I put their company logo on the date as a ‘sticker’ which makes it easy to see an important event at a glance when scrolling through the calendar.
Developer Response 02/05/2018
iPhone X support has been added to v3.3.2, coming in a day or so. We'd appreciate an updated review.
A solid companion to the Mac app
18/08/2025

iTravel.life
I’ve owned this app for quite a while, however I hadn’t gotten around to using it because I mostly use the Mac app. Whilst travelling, I needed to rely on the iOS app, and I found that is actually a very capable app on its own. If you own the BusyCal Mac app, or if you have gotten it through Setapp, it is well worth buying this companion app at a small price to support the developers. I appreciate the fact that, unlike the Apple calendar app, the developer doesn’t keep your data. I only wish they would add BusyContacts integration so that contacts could be accessible on the iPhone.
A solid companion to the Mac app
18/08/2025

iTravel.life

I’ve owned this app for quite a while, however I hadn’t gotten around to using it because I mostly use the Mac app. Whilst travelling, I needed to rely on the iOS app, and I found that is actually a very capable app on its own. If you own the BusyCal Mac app, or if you have gotten it through Setapp, it is well worth buying this companion app at a small price to support the developers. I appreciate the fact that, unlike the Apple calendar app, the developer doesn’t keep your data. I only wish they would add BusyContacts integration so that contacts could be accessible on the iPhone.
Behind functionally…
21/06/2023

Dymmas
Update to initial review:The developers have obviously been hard at work over the last few months, as the updates that have come through are really useful. Some real thought is going into making workflows easier without just copying functionality from the built-in iOS apps (long press of the today icon to bring up a date selector is brilliant, as is the long press to bring up an event type selector and drag for time period).Great work guys - keep it coming!Initial review:I started to write this review over a year ago - that BusyCal for iOS feels quite antiquated in terms of functionality and when compared with other modern calendar apps’ interfaces. Over a year later and no update to bring the app at the very least in line with other apps regarding features and functionality. It is slipping further behind. I adore the desktop app and am frustrated with the iOS version in comparison. Can we at least have the ability to create an event by long pressing a time in the calendar? Keyboard shortcuts for navigating / functionality / switching views? Long pressing the Home Screen icon to quickly add an event / task? Command T to go to Today for heaven’s sake!
Behind functionally…
21/06/2023

Dymmas

Update to initial review:The developers have obviously been hard at work over the last few months, as the updates that have come through are really useful. Some real thought is going into making workflows easier without just copying functionality from the built-in iOS apps (long press of the today icon to bring up a date selector is brilliant, as is the long press to bring up an event type selector and drag for time period).Great work guys - keep it coming!Initial review:I started to write this review over a year ago - that BusyCal for iOS feels quite antiquated in terms of functionality and when compared with other modern calendar apps’ interfaces. Over a year later and no update to bring the app at the very least in line with other apps regarding features and functionality. It is slipping further behind. I adore the desktop app and am frustrated with the iOS version in comparison. Can we at least have the ability to create an event by long pressing a time in the calendar? Keyboard shortcuts for navigating / functionality / switching views? Long pressing the Home Screen icon to quickly add an event / task? Command T to go to Today for heaven’s sake!
Great app just add the option to display alternative calendar
14/02/2024

Sabharwalvabi29
The app has been working quite well for me bought the subscription to unlock all the features just wanted to ask you to add alternative calendar cause mac has it already can add it to ios all as well rest i have one word for this app excellent
Great app just add the option to display alternative calendar
14/02/2024

Sabharwalvabi29

The app has been working quite well for me bought the subscription to unlock all the features just wanted to ask you to add alternative calendar cause mac has it already can add it to ios all as well rest i have one word for this app excellent

· Improved compatibility with Stalwart CalDAV server · Improved reliability when opening Apple Maps from BusyCal location links · Improved alarm snoozing and dismissal handling from notifications · Fixed a bug where Todoist's legacy identifiers were not being recognized in certain cases · Fixed privacy row not showing for new events for some users · Fixed bug where opening a recurring occurrence from notifications would sometimes open the wrong occurrence · Fixed a race condition where selected times could revert when switching views while editing an event · Fixed bug where the 'Skip syncing color' option under calendar settings would not show for some accounts · Ongoing stability and performance enhancements

Version 6.5.1

15 Feb

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