BusyCal: Calendar & Reminders at Mac App Store analyse

BusyCal is the most powerful, flexible, reliable calendar app for macOS. Its 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.

The app comes with a free 14 day trial and requires an active subscription to function. Please see the In-App Purchases section for pricing information. 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 calendars 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

BusyCals 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 its 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.

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 its 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

BusyCals 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 isnt running, so youll 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. You can choose from the built-in Emoji and IconFinder images, or drag images from your desktop or web.

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 contacts 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.

Latest version BusyCal: Calendar & Reminders: 2024.3.3

[NEW] You can now configure individual calendars to prevent meeting invitations from appearing in the Inbox (double-click on a calendar to change options)
[NEW] New edit options for repeating events: repeat on work days, bi-weekly, bi-monthly or quarterly
[NEW] Birthday calendars can be configured to show death anniversaries if a death date is detected in Contacts (see Settings > General)
[NEW] A keyboard shortcut can now be configured to display the BusyCal Alarm Window
* All-day event titles now display at all times when scrolling horizontally in the week view
* Hex codes are now sorted below tag names in the Tag Editor
* Natural language parsing improvements
* Enhanced compatibility with Kerio
* Fixed a bug where smart filters based on "tags or categories" would not filter correctly
* Fixed a bug where custom keyboard shortcuts for menu commands would not work immediately after launching the app
* Fixed a bug where dragging and dropping events on the mini calendar would fail if the left panel was stretched to exceed the calendars width
* Fixed an issue where the app was unable to read from disk for some users after restoring macOS from Time Machine
* Ongoing stability and performance improvements

Apps Changes History:

• 3 months ago: New App Version 2023.3.3 ☛ 2024.3.3