BusyCal is an award-winning desktop calendar that combines personal productivity features for individuals with powerful calendar sharing capabilities for families and workgroups. Its unique features include a non-modal Info Panel for easier data entry; To Dos that display in the calendar and auto-forward until completed; repeating To Dos; customizable calendar views including a List view and scrolling Month and Week views; adjustable font styles and sizes, live weather feeds, moon phases, graphics, sticky notes and more. And when you first launch BusyCal, all of your iCal data is instantly imported. BusyCal automatically syncs with iCal, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and other apps and devices that sync with MobileMe or Sync Services. If you later decide to switch back to iCal, all of your calendar data will be current.
BusyCal allows families and workgroups to share calendars with MobileMe, Google Calendar, iCal Server, and other CalDAV Servers. You can even share calendars with other BusyCal users on a local area network without the need of a server. And BusyCal syncs with iCal, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and other apps and devices that sync with MobileMe or Sync Services.
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:
Version 2022.2.2:
- So. Many. New. Widgets. Explore the many widgets now supported under Notification Center (macOS 11 Big Sur and above only).
- Additional options under the Do Not Disturb drop-down
- When duplicating (Option+dragging) events, selection is now retained for newly pasted events
- Hidden, but visible, events now show with a dotted outline and a dimmed background color
- New keyboard shortcut (CMD+Option+’) to Insert Date and Time at the top of the notes
- Improvements to Todoist integration
- Improved support for handling WebDAV subscriptions that contain multiple calendars
- Improvements to handling of duplicate meeting invites across various shared calendars
- Improvements to time-of-day detection when entering dates
- Improved handling of Posteo accounts
- Improved handling of safari URL, pasted from Mail, into the attendees field
- Added workaround for an issue where ‘paste’ would fail to work when authenticating an Office 365 account
- Improved calendar info sheet layout to fit smaller screens
- Pasting into the attendees field (using the context menu) now properly parses mailto: links
- Fixed bug where hidden events related meta-data would not sync properly for CalDAV accounts
- Fixed issue where an account may remain offline after the mac wakes up
- Fixed bug where creating events on a CalDAV account would at times mark the event as ‘Free’ (i.e. not busy) by default
- Fixed an issue where a future dated task would not open from search due to a narrow set of applied filters
- Fixed a localization issue under Edit Menu > End Dates
- Fixed an issue where sometimes, a read-only calendar on Google would not show the correct indicator
- Fixed bug where a completed task would not immediately show in week view at times
- Fixed issue where duplicating a task as an event would fail to pick the default event calendar
- Ongoing stability improvements
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