InstaCal - Menu Bar Calendar

Name: InstaCal - Menu Bar Calendar
Price: 4.99 USD
Rating: 0 (0 reviews)
Author: Higher Bar, LLC

The best menu bar calendar.

Only for Mac

$4.99

Ages

4+
Years
Category

Productivity
Developer

Higher Bar, LLC
Language

EN
English
Size

8
MB

Mac

InstaCal is the missing menu bar calendar macOS deserves. InstaCal is an affordable, yet powerful calendar app that puts all your events right at your fingertips, always available in your Mac's menu bar. InstaCal is quick and convenient, and can be opened at any time with a configurable keyboard shortcut. From there you can view your calendar events, make changes, invite friends or even add new events. You can also see your Reminders list, and add new reminders as well as view and edit existing ones. You can use any of the calendars added to your Mac (those available in the Calendar app) as well as adding unlimited accounts from: - Google Calendar (view, respond to invitations, create new events and edit existing events) - Office 365 (view and respond to invitations) - Outlook (view and respond to invitations) InstaCal also includes: - Customizable calendar colors and overall appearance - Useful menu bar options (to replace the system date) - Touch Bar support - Support for Dark Mode If you have any questions or suggestions, please reach out to support@higherbarapps.com. We are always working to improve our apps and add useful features requested by our customers!

Ratings & Reviews

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If you prefered the old menu only Fantastical...
04/25/2018

n.dialectic
I was disappointed when Fantastical decided to become a full-fledged calendar app. Frankly, I don’t need Fantastical's bells and whistles. I’ve tried a few menubar calendars after Fantastical and I parted ways and InstaCal is the first that I’ve found to be agreeable. It does what it is supposed to do: it’s a calendar that sits in your menubar, looks nice when you open it up, and makes adding events just a little bit easier. It is not able to ‘read’ text the way Fantastical does, unfortunately, but for me that’s not a dealbreaker (although it would be nice if it could!).I’ve given 4 stars instead of five because the one thing this app doesn’t do consistently is respond to trackpad gestures. You can scroll up and down through events, but you can’t swipe (or anything else) through the months. Also, two taps should allow you create an event, but instead you have to click the plus sign at the bottom of the window.
If you prefered the old menu only Fantastical...
04/25/2018

n.dialectic

I was disappointed when Fantastical decided to become a full-fledged calendar app. Frankly, I don’t need Fantastical's bells and whistles. I’ve tried a few menubar calendars after Fantastical and I parted ways and InstaCal is the first that I’ve found to be agreeable. It does what it is supposed to do: it’s a calendar that sits in your menubar, looks nice when you open it up, and makes adding events just a little bit easier. It is not able to ‘read’ text the way Fantastical does, unfortunately, but for me that’s not a dealbreaker (although it would be nice if it could!).I’ve given 4 stars instead of five because the one thing this app doesn’t do consistently is respond to trackpad gestures. You can scroll up and down through events, but you can’t swipe (or anything else) through the months. Also, two taps should allow you create an event, but instead you have to click the plus sign at the bottom of the window.
Missing support
05/01/2021

rrk1769
As mentioned, this is a good replacement for the original Fantastical. I had trouble setting it up initially but eventually was able to get it to sync with an Office365 account. However, all events show up 3 times. I cannot find any online help and there does not appear to be a way to contact the developer. This is very annoying and so only 3 stars. If there was a way to fix this, i would rate it 4 stars. It does not show the details of the events (links, notes, etc) and this would keep it from being 5 stars for me.Update: I found that by deleting the birthday and holiday calendars, events only appear once. Loss of the holiday and birthday calendars is not critical as this computer is used for work. So upgraded to 4 stars. Links to meetings sometimes are clickable, sometimes not. Would be nice if this were fixed or more consistent.
Missing support
05/01/2021

rrk1769

As mentioned, this is a good replacement for the original Fantastical. I had trouble setting it up initially but eventually was able to get it to sync with an Office365 account. However, all events show up 3 times. I cannot find any online help and there does not appear to be a way to contact the developer. This is very annoying and so only 3 stars. If there was a way to fix this, i would rate it 4 stars. It does not show the details of the events (links, notes, etc) and this would keep it from being 5 stars for me.Update: I found that by deleting the birthday and holiday calendars, events only appear once. Loss of the holiday and birthday calendars is not critical as this computer is used for work. So upgraded to 4 stars. Links to meetings sometimes are clickable, sometimes not. Would be nice if this were fixed or more consistent.
Handy Calendar
09/04/2020

Mktjng
The calendar is always at hand; easy to access and close, allows one to see appointments and tasks whenever needed. Of all the calendars I've sen, this one integrates exceptionally well with just about every other calendar I have used. It syncs immediately behind the scenes and picks up everything in Google Calendar, so that I am alwyas up to date. I would love to see each event expand when double tapped. There is only one negatiive: I wanted to clean my macbook pro and needed to delete the app to do so. As far as I can tell, there is no way to delete the app once it is installed. Being able to delete the app is actally important. In this case, one of my calendares was malfunctioning and I needed to delete them all to identify the problem area. This app just cannot be deleted once you install it. I think the programmers shoiuld allow the user to delete it if necessary.
Handy Calendar
09/04/2020

Mktjng

The calendar is always at hand; easy to access and close, allows one to see appointments and tasks whenever needed. Of all the calendars I've sen, this one integrates exceptionally well with just about every other calendar I have used. It syncs immediately behind the scenes and picks up everything in Google Calendar, so that I am alwyas up to date. I would love to see each event expand when double tapped. There is only one negatiive: I wanted to clean my macbook pro and needed to delete the app to do so. As far as I can tell, there is no way to delete the app once it is installed. Being able to delete the app is actally important. In this case, one of my calendares was malfunctioning and I needed to delete them all to identify the problem area. This app just cannot be deleted once you install it. I think the programmers shoiuld allow the user to delete it if necessary.
Love this app!
06/09/2018

Footprint76
I’ve been using Fantastical for years (purchased), then they came out with Fantastical 2 and wanted me to RE-PURCHASE at full price! Junk! So that’s when I came across this app! WOW! Almost perfect replacement and in some ways better. I do wish you could customize colors even further, but how they have it is pretty great too. What I do miss is the ability to just type in the top (event, time, date) in natural language and it just plops in the calendar. That would make this calendar BETTER than Fantastical. Also, to ask of a huge favor to the developers, I like the strike through option for past events, but that doesn’t hold in the settings after a reboot of the computer. It goes back to default ‘none’ hopefully you can fix that in a future update, then 5 stars for sure. Great job! I’m very happy with this purchase..
Love this app!
06/09/2018

Footprint76

I’ve been using Fantastical for years (purchased), then they came out with Fantastical 2 and wanted me to RE-PURCHASE at full price! Junk! So that’s when I came across this app! WOW! Almost perfect replacement and in some ways better. I do wish you could customize colors even further, but how they have it is pretty great too. What I do miss is the ability to just type in the top (event, time, date) in natural language and it just plops in the calendar. That would make this calendar BETTER than Fantastical. Also, to ask of a huge favor to the developers, I like the strike through option for past events, but that doesn’t hold in the settings after a reboot of the computer. It goes back to default ‘none’ hopefully you can fix that in a future update, then 5 stars for sure. Great job! I’m very happy with this purchase..

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