BusyCal: Calendar & Tasks 4+

To Do. Planner. Schedule

Busy Apps FZE

    • £9.99

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 4.7.2

· [NEW] Current & Upcoming Event Widget: Automatically displays the currently ongoing event as well as the upcoming event
· Ongoing stability and performance improvements

We push updates routinely to fine-tune existing features, enhancing the app's performance and overall responsiveness for a better user experience.

Ratings and Reviews

4.6 out of 5
480 Ratings

480 Ratings

Trogg71 ,

Switched from Fanatastical

I was a fairly content Fantastical user for a number of years, but after they dropped a 50+% price increase on users this year I realised they were on a money grab. My calendar is core to my remote working workflow, so I was a little anxious about switching but it’s been pretty smooth so far. My only gripe is the way that a second time zone is handled in the UI of BusyCal - it’s less intuitive/convenient to switch than in Fantastical. Otherwise, it’s full marks to BusyCal!

Developer Response ,

Thank you! Hopefully we can improve upon that.

J-1-M-B-0 ,

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.

the_jerk ,

Really liking Busycal

I mean pretty much everything about it is an improvement on the calendar apps I’ve had before it. Have only been using for a couple of weeks, but it’s intuitive and well featured and I’m optimistic that it’s a keeper.

Why the dropped star? My only gripe is that it just looks a bit dated. For a company that specialise in Mac apps, it just looks, err, a bit PC (especially in month view and the date dropdown in this view). Nothing major would be required to tighten it up and bring a more modern aesthetic to proceedings, but I just can’t quite love something that I find unappealing to look at. Would be great to see oiled and tweaked and it’d be a five star from me.

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

Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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