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BusyCal

96%

2041 ratings

Alex

Mar 2, 2026

App version: 2026.1.2

Powerful app. I use it every day because I like it *enough*. The two areas it needs to improve most are (1) speed and stability and (2) Calendar Sets (to quickly show/hide lots of calendars at once) Update: Yep, they have Calendar Sets. But they also have a discoverability problem. I never expected calendar sets to be hidden until Filters. Now that I’m using them, I’m realizing that the core problem is that BusyCal halts every time I show a hidden calendar while it processes data (1). When using Calendar sets, this means that I have to wait multiple *minutes* for each change—and I can’t interact at all with the application while waiting. I often get an Application Unresponsive warning from macOS. This is way too slow for a production applicaiton. Update: I’m getting tired of how buggy and slow this app is. It constantly feels out of date with my Google Calendar, and I frequently need to leave it for calendar.google.com to schedule appointments with colleagues anyway.

Olaf

Feb 4, 2026

App version: 2026.1.1

sehr guter Kalender, harmonisiert gut

Sabrina

Jan 31, 2026

App version: 2026.1.1

One of the best apps in Setapp, I love it! Keep up the good work guys. But I’m missing the iOS app in Setapp :( that would be perfect.

Nicolas Quiroz

Jan 15, 2026

App version: 2025.4.4

Missing features to make it more keyboard friendly specially the tasks part

Zia Waseer

Nov 25, 2025

App version: 2025.4.1

Looks good

Patrick

Oct 27, 2025

App version: 2025.4.1

really love this app, have tried dozens of calendar apps over the years and all of them are missing one thing or another, i run multiple calendars , Google, Microsoft etc. keep up the good work guys…

Toomas Särev

Oct 20, 2025

App version: 2025.3.2

Great bundle with BusyContacts. That’s my main calendar app pulling together Google, iCloud and Exhange calendars.

Joseph Darnell

Feb 25, 2026

App version: 2026.1.2

My go-to calendaring app, love it. It’s difficult to find the sweet spot in usability and features but BusyCal does it for me.

Felipe Neffa

Feb 2, 2026

App version: 2026.1.1

Love the app and how it allows me to manage different gmail accounts in it, including changing a invite from one to another. The only thing missing is having the iOS version within the Setapp

冷传剑

Jan 30, 2026

App version: 2026.1.1

小组件无法显示widget broken

Response from Developer

Jan 30, 2026

Try restarting the mac, if that doesn't help please contact us: [email protected]

Tony

Jan 13, 2026

App version: 2025.4.4

Busy indeed. Screen too cluttered. Would like to streamline and how simpler interface.

Neil MK

Nov 25, 2025

App version: 2025.4.1

An amazingly flexible calendar designed for maximum productivity. The developers of this app seemed to have thought of everything and then some.

Josh Fields

Oct 21, 2025

App version: 2025.3.2

Excellent. The calendar app to beat, and I’ve tried most of them! Finally something that isn’t filled with bugs or pieces of UX that make no sense.

Jonathan Bowen

Oct 6, 2025

App version: 2025.3.2

I’m pleasantly surprised.

Marie-Claude

Feb 10, 2026

App version: 2026.1.1

Great app to seel all my work in one view

Melvin Dubnick

Feb 2, 2026

App version: 2026.1.1

I am switching from fantastical as money saving move and used both during transition. Putting aesthetics aside, it is a good replacement.

Howard

Jan 19, 2026

App version: 2026.1.1

Great addition to my workflow. After switching from Fantastical, this is the next best thing.

Brandon

Dec 4, 2025

App version: 2025.4.2

BusyCal get so many advanced things RIGHT, and so many basic things HORRIBLY WRONG! The bugs are both mind-bogglingly careless & yet long-lasting. BusyCal annoyingly opens itself EVERY TIME an alarm dialog appears. This is horrible UX. The alarm dialog should be a part of the helper app that runs in the menu bar, and there should be no need for the full app to open. Also, the menu bar app should make it SUPER easy to open the full app, without having to drill all the way down to a specific meeting. Why can't we just click on the calendar in the helper? But the absolutely worst problem with BusyCal is that the calender displayed in the menubar DOES NOT UPDATE until you open the main app. This is an atrocity of the highest magnitude possible for a calendar app. THE CALENDAR COMPLETELY FAILS TO ALERT YOU WHEN YOU HAVE AN ALARM! This MASSIVE BUG must be fixed before any of BusyCal's features will matter. If the MOST BASIC feature of a calendar fails, none of the others matter.

Response from Developer

Feb 15, 2026

Thanks for the feedback - this wasn't about being basic, it required a major architecture change the app was built around, effectively took ~6-12 months of work to 'fix' this. That's been now done :) Version 2026.1.2 should be out today.

冷传剑

Oct 28, 2025

App version: 2025.4.1

when you click ‘add’in 3-day weidge on Mac,it will do nothing and then the add button in Mac app windows will lose its fuction,you have to kill the app and relaunch to solve it; icloud account has reminders and so ‘reminder’ itself does,i dont understand it.

Response from Developer

Oct 28, 2025

If you are seeing iCloud and Reminders both show the same Task Lists that means you have not upgraded Reminders which would remove these from iCloud. Please google for "Reminders app upgrade". For any other issue, please contact us so we can assist: [email protected]

Jesse Starr

Oct 20, 2025

App version: 2025.3.2

This is an EXCELLENT calendar and task app. Easy to use, super powerful, hasn’t had any issues with syncing. Highly recommend it.