BusyCal for macOS

Powerful, Elegant, and Customized

BusyCal is a powerful, flexible, highly customizable, and most reliable calendar application for macOS. It has time-saving features and is compatible with all leading cloud services, including reminders, iCloud, Google, Exchange, Office 365, Yahoo, Fastmail, Kerio, Synology, Nextcloud, ownCloud, and more. BusyCa l also integrates with online conferencing solutions from Google Meetings, Zoom, Webex, and GoTo Meeting, and identifies more.

BusyCal also supports wireless LAN synchronization, suitable for those who do not want to use cloud services to solve privacy issues or keep things simple. Share offline calendars at work or home through WiFi.

BusyCal displays your calendar in the "Day", "Week", "Month", "Year", and "List" views. The uniqueness of BusyCal lies in its ability to customize these views to more accurately meet your needs. You can choose the number of weeks displayed in the "Month" view and the number of days displayed in the "Week" view, and even customize the appearance of the calendar by selecting fonts and sizes, calendar colors, time formats, and more.

Information panel

One of the popular features of BusyCal is its embedded information panel, which is displayed in the sidebar, allowing you to quickly and accurately view and edit event details.

The information panel has been completely redesigned in BusyCal, with a more concise and modern appearance, and improved controls for selecting dates and times, adding locations, attendees, and more.

More importantly, the information panel is completely customizable. You can choose to display only basic content, or choose to display other fields such as time zone, labels, and graphics.

BusyCal also supports displaying information panels as floating or pop-up windows.

Integration Task List

In BusyCal, tasks will be integrated into your calendar, displayed on expiration dates, and carried forward until completion. We have also added support for scheduled tasks that occur at specific times of the day and are displayed inline with your calendar events.

You can also display a task list in the right sidebar, sorted by date, priority, calendar, title, label, or manually. The tasks in BusyCal are compatible and synchronized with macOS 10.14 and iOS 12 and earlier versions of the Reminder app.

Travel time

BusyCal has added support for travel time, which is one of the most needed features. Travel time allows you to set aside time to travel to events or locations.

You can set a fixed travel time, or use the integration of location services and Apple Maps to automatically determine the travel time. You can even receive alerts to leave when traffic conditions change.

Menu bar application

The completely redesigned menu bar application now displays a navigable mini month calendar with colored dots and bar charts, providing a visual density map of usability.

The menu will display a scrolling list of events and tasks, as well as an 8-day weather forecast.

You can click on events in the menu bar to view their detailed information and create new events and tasks using natural language.

Moreover, unlike other calendar applications, the menu bar application of BusyCal is always running, even if the main BusyCal application is not running, so you can always access your schedule.

Quick input

BusyCal enables you to create events and tasks using natural language. As you type, a preview of the activity details will be displayed, as it can recognize titles, dates and times, locations, and more.

You can even use it to add contacts or attendees, set alarms, add URLs, or indicate a calendar to create events on.

Calendar List and Calendar Set

BusyCal displays your calendar list (along with optional mini months) in the left sidebar.

You can rearrange the calendar list and use it to show, hide, and share calendars. You can also rename calendars, change calendar colors, or arrange related calendars into foldable groups. You can display or hide the calendar list as needed.

You can even create a calendar set to quickly open or close multiple calendars with just one click.

Intelligent filters

BusyCal's intelligent filters are powerful tools for filtering and formatting calendars.

The most common use of smart filters is to create a calendar set, where multiple calendars can be quickly opened or closed with just one click (see above).

You can also use smart filters to create saved searches (such as events containing "Joe"), or to remember view settings (such as displaying an 8-week month view with hidden weekends), all of which can be accessed through keyboard shortcuts or buttons on the toolbar.

alert

BusyCal displays alarms in a movable and resizable floating window that provides the ability to pause the alarm for any minute, hour, or day. You can even pause the alarm a few minutes before the event starts, and pause multiple alarms at once.

Moreover, unlike other calendar applications, even if the main BusyCal application is not running, the BusyCal alarm will still be triggered, so you will never miss important appointments, meetings, or events.

label

BusyCal allows you to tag events for tracking and filtering. Tags are user-defined tags that you can use to classify and color events in BusyCal.

You can also search and filter events in the calendar based on tags. Note: The tags in BusyCal are mapped to categories in Exchange/Outlook.

weather

BusyCal uses location services to display real-time weather forecasts for 8 days based on your current location (in three different styles). It can also display the phase of the moon as well as the sunrise and sunset times.

graphical

BusyCal allows you to add graphics to your calendar to highlight holidays, birthdays, and special events. You can choose from hundreds of built-in emoji images in macOS, or type keywords in BusyCal to automatically search for images on IconFinder.com. You can even drag images from the desktop or web to BusyCal.

Dark mode

BusyCal's dark mode is designed to illuminate your day. By choosing subtle dark tones, the interface maintains your way, so you can focus on important things.

You can choose between automatic, constant light, and constant dark modes.

BusyContacts integration

BusyCal integrates with its sister application BusyContacts to form a flexible and easy-to-use CRM solution. By adding contacts to events in BusyCal, you can instantly access their email addresses and phone numbers, as well as your interaction records with these contacts in BusyContacts.