BusyCal: Calendar & Tasks

BusyCal is a powerful, flexible calendar app for managing busy schedules, events and to dos.

Category	Price	Seller	Device
Productivity	$9.99	Busy Apps FZE	iPhone, iPad, iPod

BusyCal's unique features include customizable calendar views, integrated to dos, meeting scheduling, travel time, maps integration, natural language input, tags, alarms, search, weather, moons, birthdays, anniversaries, graphics and more.

BusyCal provides reliable support for iCloud, Google Calendar, Exchange, Office 365, and other CalDAV servers, enabling you to sync and share calendars with other Macs and iOS devices running BusyCal or the built-in Calendar app.

BusyCal for iOS is a full-featured mobile companion to BusyCal for Mac, the leading calendar solution for Mac OS X 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.

Events

• Create events manually or automatically using natural language.
• Choose from a wid 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.

To Dos

• To Dos are displayed directly in the calendar and carry-forward until completed.
• To Dos can be undated, or scheduled to occur on a specific date or time.
• To Dos can be scheduled to repeat daily, weekly, monthly, etc.
• To Dos can be sorted and filtered by date, priority, calendar or title.

Travel Time, Locations and 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 Mac.

Sync and Share calendars

• Sync and share calendars with iCloud, Google Calendar, Exchange, Office 365, Fruux, Yahoo, Kerio, Zimbra, OS X Server, SabreDAV and other CalDAV servers.
• Sync with other Macs and iOS devices running BusyCal or the built-in Calendar app.

More

• Receive Inbox notifications of meetings and changes to events on shared calendars.
• Search your calendar for past and future events and to dos.
• Set default settings for events, to dos and alarms.

Reviews

Revising from 5 Stars to 3
mjord

11-20-19: Overall I like the app and have continued to use it on iPad and iPhone, and on the Mac. The most frustrating thing I’ve experienced is its failure to sync, which means you have to re-enter your app-specific passcode. This has happened on and off a dozen times or so over the past two years. Three stars for the inconvenience.

Add haptic/ 3D Touch Actions and Widget
Mr Noteman

Delightful Cal.. just missing 3D Touch actions and Screen Widget! But Why?!

Busy cal
travelingjohn

Good app, however frustrating to make new appointments. Address always tries to insist tying in google or apple maps I also hate setting up the time with sliders or having to press more and then get there etc...

Great app but why no colored labels in the iPhone app?
2brainsmom

I both use the desktop version and the app. Great products. I use them everyday for work, home, personal, etc. The only feature I’d like to see in the app that exists in the desktop version is the labels for the To Dos. I don’t know why but you can add colored labels on the desktop app but not the iPhone app. Why? Please add the labels in the iPhone app and it will be a 5 star.

Okay calendar interface
aqua123321

I like some of the features like pinch to widen the week, but there are some strangely missing features like being able to easily change the duration of an event by simply resizing it from the calendar view... instead you have to click into the item first and select duration then you’re taken to a special resizing mode. In the native calendar app you just press on any event for a second and you can resize it.

Disappointing
vinceeeeej

I connected a google account, but it doesn't sync without logging in again. It's quite an inconvenience.

Full featured calendar
greysave

I am able to serve out zoom meetings from my phone with ease. My only gripe is there is no widget on the dashboard. Right now I use fantastical for the widget to get a quick glance and busy cal for editing and managing events.

Very disappointed
the toxmeister

I have been using BusyCal for Mac for years and I am a satisfied customer. I recently purchased BusyCal for iOS to see if it could replace Fantastical. So far it works well on my iPad but it is a bust on my iPhone running the latest iOS 11. On the iPhone it cannot add events. Half the time when I press + to add an event, nothing happens. When the new event screen does open, I enter the event info and when I press Done, nothing happens. The app just stalls. Also, you can't open an event to look at. You can select an existing event (obviously creatd in another calendar app) until the cows come home and the app just sits there and does nothing. I have restarted the phone to no avail. Something is seriously wrong here and needs to be fixed. Update Jan 3, 2020. Had been working wel for a while but now BusyCal on iOS and Mac is choking on my exchange calendar. It absolutely refuses to update. So again it is unusable for me. The built-in calendar app is limited but at least it works.

Needs the promised feature updates
Alscwh

I’ve used BusyCal macOS for 3 years with Calendars 5 on iOS. I’ve wanted, but waited, on buying BusyCal iOS for the feature updates they’ve promised they’re “working on” on their blog. They’ve been working on them for way too long. The app needs the feature updates, dark mode. I now have the companion app to the macOS on my phone, and it’s much better than Calendars 5, but still use Calendars 5 due to stagnant feature set. This app should be 5 stars, not 4, but they’re *still* working on it. Edit: I’m not sure what all this rah-rah cheerleading is all about for 3.5.6 re: fetch/sync, nor Reminders sync. I have this version and I can wait 30+ min without sync. At this point, either take a bat to the ‘sync group’ to get some functional code or add a spinning sync now arrows icon, with sync code to the front . . . this saves your users the 3 clicks of: sprocket, sync, done. Reminders sync: as one who downgraded from Catalina until Apple gets it right (sorry, Steve) this gives me no benefit, only duplicates. Regarding common market features, dark mode: the sense is you’re holding off for major versioning (4) to release those features to get $. If this turns out to be the case . . . that will be a costly stain.