BusyCal: Calendar & Reminders
Day Planner, Tasks & Agenda
Only for Mac
Free · In-App Purchases
Mac
Free to use, with a 14-day trial of everything. Type "Lunch with Joe next Tuesday at noon" and it is on your calendar, with tasks, travel time and every account you use.
BusyCal is the calendar for people who live by their schedule. It shows events and tasks together, connects to every account you use, and lets you shape each view to the way you work. Type an event the way you would say it, block travel time, and keep every device in step.
Free to use for everyday calendaring. A 14-day trial unlocks the full app, and one subscription covers your whole family through Family Sharing.
VIEWS YOU SHAPE
• Day, Week, Month, Year and List views: 1 to 12 weeks per month, 2 to 31 days per week, your own fonts, colours and work week
• Year view as a planner or heat map, with Highlights on your busiest months, calendars and people
• List view with sortable columns, custom date ranges and duration totals, and light, dark or automatic appearance
TYPE IT THE WAY YOU WOULD SAY IT
• "Lunch with Joe next Tuesday at 12:30" or "Team meeting every other Monday at 9:30 /work alarm 15m" becomes a complete event as you type
• Understands repeats, alarms, locations, attendees, time zones and calendars, in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, Korean and Simplified Chinese
TASKS IN YOUR CALENDAR
• Dated, timed and undated tasks sit right on the calendar and carry forward until done
• A Task List in the sidebar sorted by due date, priority, calendar, tag or by hand, with repeat after completion and Paste as Task
• Syncs with Apple Reminders, iCloud, Google Tasks, Todoist and Microsoft To Do
EVERY ACCOUNT, ONE CALENDAR
• iCloud, Google Calendar, Microsoft 365, Outlook.com, Exchange, Yahoo, Fastmail and any CalDAV server, plus WebDAV subscriptions for holidays and sports
• Push updates where the server supports them; settings, smart filters and tags follow you between Macs over iCloud
• Works alongside BusyCal for iPhone and iPad and the built-in Calendar app
MEETINGS DONE RIGHT
• Invite attendees, respond from the Inbox, propose a new time, and check availability on Exchange, Microsoft 365, Google and Fastmail
• Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Webex and GoTo links become join buttons, and Zoom meetings can be added with one click
• Block time on other calendars by rule or by hand, with details or just "busy"
THE INFO PANEL
• View and edit everything about an event in the sidebar, a popover or a floating window
• Choose the fields you want: travel time, time zones, tags, maps, attachments, private notes and more
• Suggestions as templates reuse past events as you type, and Find and Replace works across your whole calendar
TRAVEL TIME, MAPS AND TIME ZONES
• Block out driving, walking or transit time to an event, with a Time to Leave alert that follows traffic
• Favourite time zones, extra time zone rulers, floating time, and events spanning two zones
MENU BAR, ALARMS AND WIDGETS
• The menu bar app shows a mini month, an endless agenda, the weather and Quick Entry, and keeps working when the main app is closed
• Alarms in a floating window you can snooze for any interval, plus email, file and location alarms
• Do Not Disturb with one click, and a full set of widgets for what is next, your agenda, the week and your tasks
TAGS, SMART FILTERS AND CALENDAR SETS
• Colour-coded tags, automatic tagging rules per account, and time tracking by tag with duration totals
• Smart Filters save calendar sets, searches and view settings behind one click or shortcut
AND MORE
• Weather, moon phases, birthdays, anniversaries and holidays, plus graphics, stickies and journal entries
• Automatic backups, archiving, and export to .ics or .csv
• AppleScript, a URL scheme, Siri and Shortcuts, Raycast and Claude Desktop extensions for automation
• Pairs with BusyContacts to link people to meetings
Trusted by Mac users for more than a decade. Questions? Visit busymac.com/docs or write to us from within the app.
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· [NEW] macOS 27 support, along with the new Siri AI and Shortcuts related improvements and additions
· [NEW] Added support for Google Calendar’s expanded palette and custom event colors
· [NEW] New Task list font setting in Settings Appearance Fonts
· [NEW] New Hide Info Panel when nothing is selected option in Settings Info Panel, giving your tasks the full sidebar until you select an event or task
· [NEW] Find & Replace window now supports regular expressions, with capture groups and backreferences for rearranging matches
· [NEW] New Year Planner option to align weekdays across months, wall-planner style
· [NEW] Add guests to Google meetings you've been invited to, when the organizer allows it
· [NEW] New Settings screen with built-in search, making it faster and easier to find the options you need
· [NEW] New advanced setting lets you choose which app opens when you click a phone number
· [NEW] New Remove Blocking command in the Block on Calendar menu, which now also checkmarks the calendars an event is already blocked on
· [NEW] New Include All-Day Tasks setting to show or hide all-day tasks in the calendar
· [NEW] Added Russian localization
· Improved calendar imports to better handle invalid .ics files
· Improvements to BusyCal's MCP support for assigning priorities to tasks
· Today's border in Year view now pulses when switching to Year view or clicking Today
· Improvements to the date picker
· Faster display and redraw of events with graphics
· Day and Week views size the time column to its content, leaving more room for events
· Improvements to LAN sync performance and reliability
· Improved reliability of database upgrades so attachments and custom graphics are preserved
· Improved syncing events on shared Google calendars
· A lot of improvements for Office 365 accounts when handling meeting responses and cancellations
· Improved overall reliability of Google Calendar syncing for meetings, RSVPs, and shared calendars
· Microsoft Outlook categories now sync more frequently to keep your categories up to date
· Fixed Google Tasks not moving to their new list in BusyCal when moved in Google
· Fixed bug where month-view multi-selection drags would not keep each event's day offsets
· Changing the privacy of an existing Google Calendar event from BusyCal now syncs correctly
· Fixed a rare timing issue where the calendar and menu bar app would briefly showing outdated information for a few seconds after a sync
· Fixed the Dock badge for Today's Remaining Items showing zero or too few appointments until an event was edited or BusyCal was relaunched
· Fixed blocking events created by automatic rules not being removed when the original event no longer qualifies
· Fixed meeting invitations on Microsoft 365 and Outlook accounts not appearing in the Inbox when the invite was sent to a group or distribution list
· Fixed an issue where temperatures could appear on the wrong date
· Fixed the weather forecast missing from the Shortcuts agenda action
· Fixed imported events with no attendees, such as Facebook event files, incorrectly showing an editable "Attending" status
· Fixed the Info Panel showing a repeating event's first occurrence one day late for events using a floating time zone
· Fixed times entered in 24-hour format, such as 0600 or 0950, being changed to PM in the time picker
· Fixed directory search and attendee autocomplete not returning results reliably for password-based CalDAV accounts
· Ongoing stability and performance enhancements
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
Accessibility
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Information
- Provider
- Busy Apps FZE
- Size
- 71.1 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 13.5 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 13.5 or later.
- Mac
- Languages
English and 10 more
- English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Monthly ₹ 499
- Yearly ₹ 3,999
- Monthly ₹ 499
- Monthly ₹ 499
- Yearly ₹ 3,999
- Yearly ₹ 3,999
- Copyright
- Copyright © Beehive Innovations

