BusyCal: Calendar & Tasks 4+
To Do. Planner. Schedule
Busy Apps FZE
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- $19.99
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Description
BusyCal is a powerful, flexible calendar app for managing busy schedules, events and tasks.
BusyCal's unique features include natural language input, customizable calendar views, an integrated to do list, meeting scheduling, travel time, maps integration, tags, alarms, search, weather, moons, birthdays, anniversaries, graphics and more.
BusyCal provides reliable support for iCloud, Google Calendar, Google Tasks, Exchange / Microsoft Outlook, Office 365, Todoist and other CalDAV servers, enabling you to sync and share calendars with other Mac and iOS devices running BusyCal or the built-in Calendar app.
BusyCal for iOS is a full-featured mobile companion to BusyCal for macOS, the leading calendar solution for macOS that thousands of users have trusted and depended on for years.
CALENDAR VIEWS
• Display your calendar by Month, Week, Day or List.
• Pinch and zoom to control the number of weeks shown per month, and days shown per week.
• Customize the calendar appearance including calendar colors, weather, moons, birthdays, anniversaries, event times, week numbers and more.
CALENDAR SETS
• Manage different, named collections of calendars
• Quickly switch between different Calendar Sets
• Assign different default calendars to different sets
• Create new sets based on existing collections
PASSWORD PROTECTION
• Enhanced privacy with the option to lock all your calendar sets or just the ones you choose
WIDGETS
So. Many. Widgets
• Upcoming
• Event List & Calendar
• Calendar & Heatmap
• Today's Date
• Next two days
• This week
• Next two weeks
EVENTS
• Create events manually or automatically using natural language.
• Choose from a wide range of attributes to display when viewing or editing events including travel time, time zones, attendees, contacts, tags, maps, last edit time, and more.
• Add tags to events to track projects and important events.
TASKS
• Tasks are displayed directly in the calendar and carry-forward until completed.
• Tasks can be undated, or scheduled to occur on a specific date or time.
• Tasks can be scheduled to repeat daily, weekly, monthly, etc.
• Tasks can be sorted and filtered by date, priority, calendar or title.
JOURNALS
• Journal entries you create are displayed directly in the calendar as all-day events
• Journal can be scheduled to repeat daily, weekly, monthly, etc.
TRAVEL TIME, LOCATIONS & MAPS
• Supports Location Services for adding locations to events.
• Supports both Apple Maps and Google Maps for driving directions.
• Travel time allows you to block out time to travel to an appointment.
• Alarms can warn you in advance of travel time when it's time to leave.
PERSONALIZATION
• Display Birthdays and Anniversaries, including birthday age and anniversary number.
• Display a live 10-day weather forecast.
• Display phases of the moon.
• Display graphics created in BusyCal for macOS.
SYNC & SHARE CALENDARS
• Sync and share calendars with iCloud, Google Calendar, Exchange, Outlook, Office 365, Fruux, Yahoo, Kerio, Zimbra, Oracle, OwnCloud, Confluence, macOS Server, SabreDAV and other CalDAV servers.
• Sync with other Mac and iOS devices running BusyCal or the built-in Calendar app.
MORE
• Dark Mode
• Receive Inbox notifications of meetings and changes to events on shared calendars.
• Search your calendar for past and future events and tasks.
• Set default settings for events, tasks and alarms.
What’s New
Version 5.2.11
* [NEW] Alternative Calendar can now be enabled under Settings: Chinese, Hebrew, Islamic, Day of Year, World Season Calendar
* Long-press preview in day / week view now uses the default event duration when creation of New Tasks is disabled for the context menu
* Improved natural language parsing of contacts / attendees
* Improved handling of failures when synchronizing with Microsoft Office via the Graph API
* Ongoing stability and performance enhancements
Recently:
* [NEW] iOS 18 related improvements: Lock Screen / control center widgets for adding new events, tinted widget support and dark mode app icon
* [NEW] Multiple default alarms can be configured in Settings for events
* [NEW] The Go To Date feature now includes a standard date-picker, allowing for easy selection of both past and future years alongside the existing calendar view
* [NEW] "+" button added to the Two day widget
* [NEW] Context menu option for converting Journal entries to Tasks
* [NEW] Accessibility setting to make Today's date more obvious
* [NEW] Accessibility setting to turn off floating month labels when scrolling month view
* [NEW] Travel time displayed in List view
* [NEW] New setting to turn off showing graphic attachments on a given calendar (under Account > Calendar settings)
Ratings and Reviews
Good calendar mostly
Good app, really enjoy BusyCal, though I hate that you have to keep buying it to get the updates on Mac. I think once you buy something it should be yours, including updates. Especially since I am a long time customer. There should be a lifetime option. I probably would have more than paid it by now with the updates I have paid for. The iPad and iphone version are good, just wish they gave larger font options, especially when the device is set for a larger font. So a suggestion is…. large or larger font options…. Please!!
Also, for those of us down under, the dates sometime reset to the dates in America, we are a day ahead here and often I put the day I want in… and it automatically sets it for the day before! Super annoying!!
Built in caldav and shows Tasks
Have own server for info (Nextcloud). Issues with Apple caldav client syncing but Busycal has no problems. Having Tasks display in calendar also a big plus. Not 5 star because too expensive (at least not a subscription) and a bit slow on releasing updates eg no iOS 14 widget yet.
Developer Response ,
Please update to v3.8.2 - widgets are here!
Brilliant app!
So superior to many other calendar apps, and I’ve tested plenty of them. I use it for both personal and business with some rather complicated demands of the app and it’s always flawless. Support is always on hand and quick to respond.
App Privacy
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
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Busy Apps FZE
- Size
- 67.5 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 14.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- Apple Watch
- Requires watchOS 9.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- Copyright © Busy Apps
- Price
- $19.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.