No need to check multiple apps to see everything going on in your life. BusyCal gives you a comprehensive view of everything that needs your attention across multiple services, whether that’s calendars from iCloud, Google, Outlook, and Exchange; tasks from Todoist and Reminders; or links to your upcoming video calls.

What we love: All the ways BusyCal lets you customize your view. Choose how many weeks or days are visible; the days that make up your work week; colours, fonts, and text sizes; and much more. And the app’s convenient menu-bar calendar and desktop widgets show you the most important info at a glance.

Quick tip: Create custom calendar sets to view subsets of info—for example, only events for you and your family members along with tasks from your Family list. Pair these with layout settings and Smart Filters (see below) to switch among your favourite views, like a list of upcoming meetings for a project, or a two-month calendar view of your soccer team’s practices and games.

Meet the creator: BusyCal was created by the same team that built the calendar app Now Up‑to‑Date in the early 1990s. BusyCal and its companion app, BusyContacts, are now maintained by Fahad Gilani, developer of the task manager 2Do.