BusyCal for Mac
Powerful calendar app with multiple syncing options.
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BusyCal overview
BusyCal is the powerful, flexible, reliable calendar app for macOS. It's packed with time-saving features and compatible with all leading cloud services including iCloud, Google, Exchange, and more.
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 in the Month view and the number of days shown in the Week view and even customize the calendar's appearance by choosing a font face and size, calendar colors, time format, and more.
Features
- View and edit event details in a non-modal info panel.
- Create repeating To Dos that display in the calendar and carry-forward until completed.
- Scrolling Month and Week Views.
- Customizable list view lets you filter and sort events by date, calendar, and more.
- View live weather forecasts, sunrise/sunset times, and moon phases right in your calendar.
- Customizable event fonts, sizes, styles and colors.
- Add graphics to your calendar.
- Add virtual sticky notes to your calendar.
- Sync with the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch via MobileMe, Google Calendar, or iTunes.
- Sync with MobileMe Calendar and other computers/devices that sync with MobileMe.
- Sync with Google Calendar and other computers/devices that sync with Google Calendar.
- Sync with other BusyCal users on a local area network or over the internet.
- Share calendars with others, with password-protection and SSL encryption.
- iCal compatible
What's new in version 2026.4.5
- Refined menus and controls in preparation for touch on MacBook Pro.
- New Smart Filter rules for event and task durations.
- New "ends with" matching for titles in Smart Filters.
- New "Current Time" option for the default start time of new events.
- New option to choose separate themes for macOS Light and Dark modes.
- New sidebar command to move selected calendars into a new group.
- New option to include all-day events in the Today’s Remaining Items badge.
- New Alarm Window shortcuts: Command-J to join meetings and Command-E to open events.
- New alarm time previews when hovering over an alarm’s info icon in the Info Panel.
- New option to hide weather temperatures while keeping forecast icons.
- New taller Agenda widget shows more of your schedule on macOS 27.
- Added support for new Canadian Microsoft time zones in events, recurring meetings and alerts.
- Improved Find & Replace and Find Duplicates for repeating events and individually edited occurrences.
- Improved custom alarm editing with date and time pickers and natural-language input.
- Improved reliability of CalDAV sync when uploads are interrupted.
- Improved meeting-link recognition, including links pasted without https://
- Improved search matching for straight and curly quotes, hyphens and dashes.
- Improved Canadian time-zone support for Microsoft calendar events, recurrence, and alarms.
- Fixed calendar refreshes and time-blocking updates being missed after sync save errors.
- Fixed alarm presets allowing identical alerts to be added twice.
- Fixed duplicate events when importing edited recurring events from Apple Calendar.
- Fixed missing details and recurrence errors when importing meeting invitations into Microsoft 365.
- Fixed time-zone handling for recurring all-day Microsoft 365 events and edited occurrences.
- Fixed Google calendar metadata refresh after resubscribing to a calendar.
- Fixed overdue tasks failing to carry forward at midnight.
- Fixed Todoist reminder times around daylight-saving changes.
- Fixed Floating and UTC choices in the Set and Move to Time Zone menus.
- Fixed duplicate alarm preset choices and improved alarm text readability.
- Fixed event icons and task checkboxes ignoring the calendar-only color settin.
BusyCal for Mac
$49.99
In English
Version 2026.4.5
What users say about BusyCal
Value: 3.0
Fine app if you're rich. They've changed from a purchase to a subscription approach, which just increases the price further over their previous method (which ensured you had to upgrade every couple of macOS versions anyway, and they didn't have upgrade discounts). While it's been great having an app that integrates Outlook and Google calendars, I'm just moving back to viewing Google in the browser because of the costs for this.
Other user ratings:
Ease of use | 4.0
Features | 5.0
Reliability | 4.0
Customer support | 1.0
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User Ratings
May 24, 2026
Version: 2026.2.3
I fully understand the needs and wants of developers to generate income. But I reverted back to the MacOS calendar, because the cost of BusyCal with its 18 month licenses is not justifiable by the features and the link to BusyContracts.
Jul 2, 2024
Version: 2024.1.2
Works fine. I bought it mainly because it looks better that Apple's calendar. Now the upgrade costs are too high and frequent for me. A regular + pro licences could have done it for me, not shelling out ~$30 quite often.
Feb 26, 2023
Version: 2023.1.5
Great app but it constantly quits. I'm just going to use Calendar 366 (less features) but more reliable.
Feb 5, 2023
Version: 2023.1.2
Still using version 3.12 and very happy with it. However with new subscription thing I will not upgrade. When 3.12 stops working I wll switch unless pricing is fixed. For non-business personnal use it is great but way too costly (a restricted version could be interesting, too).
Jan 26, 2023
Version: 2023.1.1
Has some great features but constantly crashes.
