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 5.3.71

* [NEW] Show events from holiday calendars in the footer area (like the mac app). This behavior can be changed from under Settings > Accounts > Calendars and editing the new calendar option
* [NEW] Huge performance improvements for calendars with thousands of events (past and present). Scrolling and app launches should be considerably faster.
* Fixed an issue where changing the timezone of a floating event would set the wrong duration
* Fixed bug where adding a new google account would not reset previously saved keychain information
* Ongoing stability and performance enhancements


Recently:

* [NEW] Sync New Accounts Across Devices: Once added to one device, new accounts now automatically sync to all other devices (including BusyCal on macOS) via iCloud. Please note: Re-authentication is required as credentials are not transferred or synced.
* [NEW] Calendar Sets now seamlessly sync across all your iOS devices (iPhones and iPads) running BusyCal
* [NEW] Settings / Accounts / Calendar Set syncing via iCloud can be optionally turned off, if needed, on individual devices under Settings > Advanced
* [NEW] Improved settings screen with better grouping

Ratings and Reviews

4.7 out of 5
3.8K Ratings

3.8K Ratings

Sister mom ,

Wish for more

I really like it’s format and integration of tasks and calendar. I like it’s flexibility to work with multiple different types of accounts. I wish it would work with the latest iOS reminders better. I was really disappointed when the first iOS upgrade of reminders broke part of how I was using busycal. If it weren’t for that I would give it five stars for iOS and 4.5 stars for the desktop version. If it had the ability to show tasks on the date originally scheduled, but all overdue tasks in the task list bar on the right, and option two complete tasks on yesterday instead of today or the date originally scheduled, I could give the desktop five stars. I wish it had all of the features of goodtask, or synchronized with reminders in a way that would not undo the awesome BusyCal regenerate feature when also synchronizing with goodtask. I wish my chronify Integration could synchronize to a task list instead of a calendar.

AndHow Arts ,

The strongest link

My spouse has Parkinson’s. It is imperative that all meetings, outings & every other occurrences on both of our iPhones, iPads & MacBooks sync perfectly. We have been using the ‘Busy’ software since the beginning. Not only is the software stable, the people who run it are always there for support in a calm and friendly manner even when the answer is not what I had hoped for. Though it can be accessed by & from the three hardware devices I find it best to choose one MacBook as central station using the others for reference & to make quick changes on the fly. The other use for the non-central devices, especially the iPhones, is to take notes on an appointment when developing it, then take the time to fully describe it when at home. The full description is important especially when you consider that when ever you think you will remember what a short-hand will mean later… you won’t.

CVesta81 ,

Fantastic App, but needs an Apple Watch App

So I have used Fantastical for a very long time and among the many out there, I have been disenfranchised by their massive annual cost increase. So I was looking for a new app. I noticed that SetApp had Busy call in their offerings so I took a look at the app on the Mac. AND I LOVE IT! The user interface in my opinion is so much more beautiful than Fantastical and I love that on the Mac App, the menu bar actually tells you how much time before your next appointment.

The only thing I DON’T like is the absence of an Apple Watch app, when almost every app in the App Store has this feature. Hopefully the company is working on this. In the meantime I am using Apple’s default calendar app on my Apple Watch, which is okay, but it’s antiquated compared to Fantastical’s watch app in my opinion. It would be great to know if you’re working on one, but I will still be using your calendar if you don’t.

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, for example, based on 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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