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. Free to use with an option to upgrade.

The app comes with a "Free Edition" for basic calendaring needs, entirely free to use. Explore premium features with a 14-day trial before subscribing. 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: 2024.4.30

· [NEW] Major update! Tasks can now be assigned individual custom durations
· [NEW] Natural language input now supports taking in task durations, e.g. by typing [15m] for 15 minutes
· [NEW] Tasks can now be assigned priorities and due times even if the service does not support it (such as Google Tasks, Microsoft Todos, Outlook, Exchange). Priorities and due times now sync to other devices running BusyCal (requires latest update)
· [NEW] Tasks now have a new superpower - these can be assigned a Starred status separate from priorities. This also syncs across services that do not support syncing this status (such as iCloud, Reminders, Google Tasks, Microsoft Todos, Outlook, Exchange).
· [NEW] Introducing Task statuses! You can now mark your tasks as “In Progress,” “Needs Action,” or “Cancelled.” via a new drop-down edit option. Plus, these statuses seamlessly sync with supported services such as NextCloud.
· [NEW] Tasks can now be marked as ‘Cancelled’ through the new ‘status’ option. Cancelled tasks, which do not carry forward, appear strikethrough and can be hidden via the ‘View > Show cancelled events’ preference
· [NEW] Smart filters updated to support filtering on the new Star status
· [NEW] You can now individually disable alarms for Events, Tasks, or Journals under Settings > Alarms
· [NEW] New setting to control the display of completed Undated Tasks in the calendar, under Settings > Tasks
· [NEW] Chinese Simplified now supported in Natural Language Input (Quick Entry)
· [NEW] Korean now supported in Natural Language Input (Quick Entry)
· [NEW] Added support for tabbing into the calendar-name selection drop-down to facilitate easier keyboard navigation
· Improved compatibility with NextCloud; sub-tasks no longer become detached after syncing back and forth
· Implemented a workaround to address a Google Calendar change that introduced birthdays and anniversaries into the main calendar without a way to turn this off. BusyCal now automatically marks such events as Hidden during sync
· Ignore calendar color option added to calendars under Reminders
· Fixed bug turning on "Ignore calendar color" under calendar options would not work for some services
· Fixed bug where the location field would copy over when creating "Busy Only" time-blocking events on another calendar
· Fixed bug where the menu app was displaying an identical event from an arbitrary calendar rather than the current calendar set
· Fixed an issue where tabbing between fields within the Info Panel could occasionally fail, especially with specific combinations of visible fields
· Resolved an issue where travel time calculations were occasionally failing when using the current location.
· Improved handling of MS Graph runtime errors after these were recently changed
· Improved handling of intermittent server timeouts for MS Graph accounts
· Ongoing stability and performance enhancements

Apps Changes History:

• 3 days ago: New App Version 2024.3.3 ☛ 2024.4.30
• 5 months ago: New App Version 2023.3.3 ☛ 2024.3.3