BusyCal: Calendar & Reminders 4+

To Do List. Planner. Schedule

Busy Apps FZE

    • 4.4 • 253 Ratings
    • 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 2024.3.2

* Improved support for Kerio
* Enhanced default snooze settings to support "zero minutes before start of event"
* Patch for recent changes by Todoist to their sync APIs
* Moving a single instance of a daily recurring task now correctly applies the intended recurring date
* Menu app's window now correctly appears above on-screen notifications
* Fixed a bug where snoozing multiple events simultaneously sometimes only snoozed a subset of the selected events
* Ongoing stability and performance related improvements

Ratings and Reviews

4.4 out of 5
253 Ratings

253 Ratings

rich_the_writer ,

So far, so good

I was looking for a replacement for iCal, which has reduced its snooze period funcitonality since Big Sur, for some bizarre reason.

So far this looks and feels like a good replacement. You can customise the appearance quite a bit, including changing fonts etc, and there are many more snooze and alarm options. My only criciticism is that you can't lighten or darken the background, other than using it in dark mode, which doesn't work for me, and I can't find away of changing the colour of the text for events - you have a choice of black or grey.

My main criticism is that this product isn't cheap at just under £30, and at that price point you would expect the accompanying phone app to be free – it's not. It costs an extra £7, which is a bit tight.

Developer Response ,

You can change the appearance of the app separately form the view menu. You can also change events to appear in color from the Appearance preferences and selecting “Calendar / Tag color”

academiasalad ,

How much do I love thee, let me count the ways

I love the 14 day (2 week) calender
I love the Smart Filters and Views that I can set as buttons (favorites) and set key commands (in System preferences)
I love that it works well with iCloud, and MS Office
I love how will it integrates with Apple Reminders and Microsft ToDo
I love the "Show only this calender"
I love the Floating time zone feature because I travel internationally a lot (I did pre-covid and now its coming back), and thanks to the excellent support from the BusyMac support who wrote me a terminal script to se floating as default.
I love the iPhone app and Busy Contacts
It looks cool too.
I am a busy internationally traveling CEO propped up by the BusyMac people. Thanks guys & gals, it would be harder without you.

Developer Response ,

🥰 thank you

helespen ,

Busy Cal

I'm found the software easy to set up. It is helpful to be able to integrate different calendars and the reminders application. Also, I receive pop-up reminder notifications of upcoming things in my calendar.

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.

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Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.

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