BusyCal: Calendar & Tasks 4+
To Do. Planner. Schedule
Busy Apps FZE
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- £9.99
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Description
BusyCal is a powerful, flexible 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.
BusyCal for iOS is a full-featured mobile companion to BusyCal for macOS, the leading calendar solution for macOS that thousands of users have trusted and depended on for years.
CALENDAR VIEWS
• Display your calendar by Month, Week, Day or List.
• 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
• 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, 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.
MORE
• Dark Mode
• 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.
What’s New
Version 5.2.11
* [NEW] Alternative Calendar can now be enabled under Settings: Chinese, Hebrew, Islamic, Day of Year, World Season Calendar
* Long-press preview in day / week view now uses the default event duration when creation of New Tasks is disabled for the context menu
* Improved natural language parsing of contacts / attendees
* Improved handling of failures when synchronizing with Microsoft Office via the Graph API
* Ongoing stability and performance enhancements
Recently:
* [NEW] iOS 18 related improvements: Lock Screen / control center widgets for adding new events, tinted widget support and dark mode app icon
* [NEW] Multiple default alarms can be configured in Settings for events
* [NEW] The Go To Date feature now includes a standard date-picker, allowing for easy selection of both past and future years alongside the existing calendar view
* [NEW] "+" button added to the Two day widget
* [NEW] Context menu option for converting Journal entries to Tasks
* [NEW] Accessibility setting to make Today's date more obvious
* [NEW] Accessibility setting to turn off floating month labels when scrolling month view
* [NEW] Travel time displayed in List view
* [NEW] New setting to turn off showing graphic attachments on a given calendar (under Account > Calendar settings)
Ratings and Reviews
What I’ve been looking for
This app is exactly what I’ve been looking for. An app that lets me manage my person, freelance and work calendars easily.
It’s beautiful, easy to use and presents complex information clearly. Enough flexibility to let me customise the things I care about without overloading me with choices about the features I don’t.
I’ve used Fantastical for years and Apple Calendar too. This is the perfect mix of both at the right price. Enough money so I can be confident they will stay around, but not so much I have to carefully justify it.
Can’t recommend highly enough.
Plus the Mac app is great too (and in SetApp)!
Great app but lacks an easy way to report bugs
Generally a fantastic calendar app that has two issues.
1) you have to sign in with iCloud to sync iCloud calendars. The majority of apps don’t ask you to do this. They just interact with the iPhone calendar. It’s a more reliable realtime sync that polling the iCloud account at a sent interval in the way BusyCal does. BusyCal doesn’t do this with reminders so please fix this as it’s not necessary and not as effective.
2) no direct way to report a bug/provide feedback. There is a bug I want to report. Creating multiple day events seems to be clunky. When selecting the dates, it keeps moving the start date. Then when changing the start date back, it moves the end date. Sometimes it works but this morning it only worked once then refused to play ball on the second calendar entry for multiple days I was trying to create. I resorted to using a different app. Please fix this too.
Otherwise, great app with the best month view I’ve found. For the month view, it beats fantastical. For overall usability, not quite there but I still have been using this as the price point is far more personal use friendly.
v5 font colour has been messed up
Why on earth have you messed about with the font colour of events!! There was nothing wrong with them. Now all of my reminders have the font colour the same as the reminder colour whereas before, the font was black (or light grey if in dark mode) and only the tick-able circle (or recycle icon) was in the colour of the reminder which was perfect. However, now, if my reminders colour is dark and I’m in dark mode, it’s virtually unreadable. Ditto if I use a light colour when I’m in light mode. Why did you feel the need to change this when it was fine. Also, it just looks tacky now and unprofessional with all these colours everywhere. I used to use an app called “Calendars” by firstseed that also did this and is why I moved to BusyCal, despite BusyCal being much more expensive. I’ve just see Calendars again and now they have the ability to have the colouring as I like it so it looks like I’ll be cancelling my BusyCal subscription. Even Fantastical doesn’t do this. Absolutely terrible decision. What were you thinking!!!!!!
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 based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- Busy Apps FZE
- Size
- 67.5 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 14.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- Apple Watch
- Requires watchOS 9.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 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
- £9.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.