BusyCal: Calendar & Reminders

Name: BusyCal: Calendar & Reminders
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Author: Busy Apps FZE

To Do List. Planner. Schedule

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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. Free to use with an option to upgrade. The app comes with a "Free Edition" for basic calendaring needs, entirely free to use. Explore premium features with a 14-day trial before subscribing. 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. SUGGESTIONS AS TEMPLATES Use past events as template-suggestions as you type. 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. 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.

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Love BusyCal
08/28/2019

heartofaviking
It is far superior to Apple Candle! Love the color coding options, the coordinating todo options, the flexibility of the users choice to show this or that list and not show another. Very well planned, maintained, and a long time standard for me on my macbook pro! I've tried others..... none compare.Only addition I'd like to see is a user "NOTES" page along side of (or 1 click away ) where a user can write long details of the day, events, add pictures or files attached to the date but on a separate full page per day. It would function somewhat like where they allow you to put "notes" at the end of each event, journal, banner, todo, or timed todo, but would provide you a dedicated space for each day (although you wouldn't have to write on each day .....so just a daily template available you could click to bring up) where you put other things happening that won't fit on the little squares of monthly calendar boxes. BTW I know you can type on the daily page, but it' s not geared to journaling or recording events and the details or adding pictures, files or memories for the day. Overall, I'd give them 10 stars for the functionality, reliability, fast email customer service requests, color coding, syncing !!! PERFECT SYNCING!! and the daily view which I find very helpful...like a timeline. Keep up the good work guys!
Love BusyCal
08/28/2019

heartofaviking

It is far superior to Apple Candle! Love the color coding options, the coordinating todo options, the flexibility of the users choice to show this or that list and not show another. Very well planned, maintained, and a long time standard for me on my macbook pro! I've tried others..... none compare.Only addition I'd like to see is a user "NOTES" page along side of (or 1 click away ) where a user can write long details of the day, events, add pictures or files attached to the date but on a separate full page per day. It would function somewhat like where they allow you to put "notes" at the end of each event, journal, banner, todo, or timed todo, but would provide you a dedicated space for each day (although you wouldn't have to write on each day .....so just a daily template available you could click to bring up) where you put other things happening that won't fit on the little squares of monthly calendar boxes. BTW I know you can type on the daily page, but it' s not geared to journaling or recording events and the details or adding pictures, files or memories for the day. Overall, I'd give them 10 stars for the functionality, reliability, fast email customer service requests, color coding, syncing !!! PERFECT SYNCING!! and the daily view which I find very helpful...like a timeline. Keep up the good work guys!
DO believe the "hype", this App fixed my calendar chaos
10/26/2023

aewktvIM)uw4^
iCal (as it was), Google Calendars x3, kids' calendars, etc--I couldn't find a way to keep things simple, but I had read reviews (reddit, elsewhere) of people recommending BusyCal for MacOS and iOS. I'm on the bandwagon now. It has helped me organize, streamline, simplify my calendars--centralizing things and being able to spend less time reorganizing things. I think there are a few minor wishes (can't send emails without MacOS "Mail" opening despite this not being my OS default app which is Gmail on Chrome, missing native Google Workspace features like seeing Google Calendar resources or invitees schedules, more granular control of tasks prioritization) but these don't stop me from giving this a 5 over a 4 (4.5 would've been my choice if it was possible). I installed this on my phone and feel the same. I still might use Google for some situations (like above) but I usually start from BusyCal and take over elsewhere for anything that needs native features. Hopefully, the devs behind this will find wasy to tap in to those features or maybe make their own solution. I'm a fan and think if you are struggling with multiple calendars, this will be your solution.

Developer Response
Thank you so much for your kind words and recommendation. Google calendar sadly does not support these features when it comes to 3rd party apps syncing via their public APIs. You can see invitees schedule / availability though via the availability viewer in BusyCal. It’s available under the menu or appears as a button when you add an attendee. Chrome on Google does not support replies with attachments and so BusyCal has to open Mail app for such replies. Once Google allows such customizations we will add support for these as well.
DO believe the "hype", this App fixed my calendar chaos
10/26/2023

aewktvIM)uw4^

iCal (as it was), Google Calendars x3, kids' calendars, etc--I couldn't find a way to keep things simple, but I had read reviews (reddit, elsewhere) of people recommending BusyCal for MacOS and iOS. I'm on the bandwagon now. It has helped me organize, streamline, simplify my calendars--centralizing things and being able to spend less time reorganizing things. I think there are a few minor wishes (can't send emails without MacOS "Mail" opening despite this not being my OS default app which is Gmail on Chrome, missing native Google Workspace features like seeing Google Calendar resources or invitees schedules, more granular control of tasks prioritization) but these don't stop me from giving this a 5 over a 4 (4.5 would've been my choice if it was possible). I installed this on my phone and feel the same. I still might use Google for some situations (like above) but I usually start from BusyCal and take over elsewhere for anything that needs native features. Hopefully, the devs behind this will find wasy to tap in to those features or maybe make their own solution. I'm a fan and think if you are struggling with multiple calendars, this will be your solution.
Developer Response 10/28/2023
Thank you so much for your kind words and recommendation. Google calendar sadly does not support these features when it comes to 3rd party apps syncing via their public APIs. You can see invitees schedule / availability though via the availability viewer in BusyCal. It’s available under the menu or appears as a button when you add an attendee. Chrome on Google does not support replies with attachments and so BusyCal has to open Mail app for such replies. Once Google allows such customizations we will add support for these as well.
Saves Me From Myself
04/04/2022

ajmack87
My job involves a lot of deep work. Often I'll be so locked into the task I'm working on that hours will go by without me checking my mail or calendar. I also have multiple screens, and the web-based cal apps and the Apple cal app all only show notifications in the top right corner of the screen. These notifications are remarkably easy for me to miss, and therefore they make it too easy for me to miss the start of an imminent meeting, which I was previously doing often. Not a great look for me.Busy Cal's pop-up meeting alert panel saves me. I set it to pop up and remain on top of all my other windows until I dismiss it, and to pop up both in advance of and right as a meeting starts, so that I'm prepared for the upcoming meeting too. I never fail to notice it - so finally I'm no longer showing up late for meetings on account of not failing to notice my meeting alerts.
Saves Me From Myself
04/04/2022

ajmack87

My job involves a lot of deep work. Often I'll be so locked into the task I'm working on that hours will go by without me checking my mail or calendar. I also have multiple screens, and the web-based cal apps and the Apple cal app all only show notifications in the top right corner of the screen. These notifications are remarkably easy for me to miss, and therefore they make it too easy for me to miss the start of an imminent meeting, which I was previously doing often. Not a great look for me.Busy Cal's pop-up meeting alert panel saves me. I set it to pop up and remain on top of all my other windows until I dismiss it, and to pop up both in advance of and right as a meeting starts, so that I'm prepared for the upcoming meeting too. I never fail to notice it - so finally I'm no longer showing up late for meetings on account of not failing to notice my meeting alerts.
Time does not happen in months
Mar 25

kathy.o
I’ve been a fan of BusyCal for years (decades, actually! Started in 2005). I like that I can have color coded separate categories (family, work, social, medical, volunteer, subscriptions, homemaintenance, etc) and also add google calendars. Many calendars do this. My favorite feature is that you can set how many weeks to see at a time (in month view) AND the borders between months do not have special status. I usually show six weeks at a time starting with today’s week. I can scroll forward (or back) by week, not just by month. Makes planning so much easier what I can frame the events I am focusing on, even if the don’t all occur in the same calendar month. Support is great too!

Developer Response
Thank you for leaving such a detailed review, truly appreciate the time you took out for this :)
Time does not happen in months
Mar 25

kathy.o

I’ve been a fan of BusyCal for years (decades, actually! Started in 2005). I like that I can have color coded separate categories (family, work, social, medical, volunteer, subscriptions, homemaintenance, etc) and also add google calendars. Many calendars do this. My favorite feature is that you can set how many weeks to see at a time (in month view) AND the borders between months do not have special status. I usually show six weeks at a time starting with today’s week. I can scroll forward (or back) by week, not just by month. Makes planning so much easier what I can frame the events I am focusing on, even if the don’t all occur in the same calendar month. Support is great too!
Developer Response May 6
Thank you for leaving such a detailed review, truly appreciate the time you took out for this :)

· [NEW] New keyboard shortcuts let you quickly focus fields like Calendar, Date, Location, Notes, and Tags to edit the selected event instantly · [NEW] New 'Snooze until start' option added to alarms when using notification center · Start time entry field now uses exact-match filtering · Improved handling of multi-line locations in events when syncing with MS Graph · Travel time now validates the starting location when auto-selected from a recent event · Menu countdown now accounts for travel time when available, even if time-to-leave alerts aren't set · Improvements to natural language parsing · All-day section now sorts overdue tasks by priority · Improved HTML detection in notes · Colored tags now display with their assigned colors in tag capsules · Task List now reloads significantly faster for a smoother experience · Task List now animates refreshes · Task List now honors the 'Show Rich Text' menu option per view (week / month / list) · Improved selection handling in the Task List · Events now open faster when viewed in the right-panel · Today button loses color when scrolled out of view, providing a subtle visual cue · Fixed repeated Event Suggestion lookups that could slow down performance on large databases · Fixed an issue where the right-click menu wouldn’t appear on toolbar buttons on macOS 26 · Fixed a bug where delegates would continue to see inbox meeting invites even when secretary mode is turned off · Fixed a bug where colored tags synced as 'Other' instead of retaining their original built-in color · Fixed a bug where temperatures on the map would display in Celsius even when set to Fahrenheit · Fixed a bug where Show events on Map function would hang for some users · Fixed a bug where clicking on the start date or time field would not auto-select the entire text · Ongoing stability and performance enhancements

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