BusyContacts 2022.3.1 has been released and is available for download. We stagger our roll-outs, so in case you don't see one available within the app, feel free to download the latest trial version.

Release Notes

• 🆕 Major visual refresh with clean, lean look
• 🆕 New and improved address book panel. All address books under an account can now be temporarily disabled by turning on Exclusion mode.
• 🆕 Pinned (i.e. flagged) contacts are now grouped in Card View and appear sorted above other contacts. This behavior can be turned off from Preferences > Views
• 🆕 New and improved smart filter selector
• 🆕 New floating smart filter panel
• 🆕 New app icon
• 🆕 Improved contact list in Card View
• 🆕 Contact counts now show against each contact section
• 🆕 Contact photos in contact list can be turned off optionally from Preferences > Views
• 🆕 New notes indicator displays against contacts with notes. Can be turned off optionally from Preferences > Views
• ✨ Colored contact names can be turned on / off from Preferences > Views
• ✨ Tweets timeline now supports dark mode
• Fixed mail plugin compatibility errors for affected users
• Fixes hang when loading contacts with a lot of mail activity
• Hiding the left panel no longer automatically selects "All Tags"
• Ongoing stability improvements

How to install the update

The update is free for all BusyContacts customers with a valid license and is available now.

• Direct customers can update by selecting Check for Updates from the BusyContacts menu.
• New users can download the BusyContacts 30-Day Trial.

In case your license has expired, you can extend your license from here to receive an additional 18 months of updates.

Previous Releases

If your license does not cover this update or you'd like to downgrade to a previous version, please click here.

BusyCal 2022.3.1 has been released and is available for download. We stagger our roll-outs, so in case you don't see one available within the app, feel free to download the latest trial version.

Release Notes

• 🆕 Events can now be assigned a color via a new drop-down option (using the Info Panel). BusyCal automatically keeps this setting in-sync with the already supported Colored Tags feature.
• 🆕 Event colors from Google Calendar now sync directly with BusyCal
• 🆕 Read-only events, such as holidays, can now also be assigned a color. BusyCal manages this by adding a colored tag to "My Tags".
• 🆕 "Time To Event" count-down added to the Info Panel. You no longer have to decipher start dates and times. This count-down is context aware and works with both events and tasks. It automatically takes travel-time into account where available.
• 🆕 Automatic Tagging is here. You can now create rules to automatically assign specific tags to incoming items during sync. See Preferences > Accounts > Automation. Combine this with colored-tags and smart filters to create powerful workflows.
• 🆕 Push Sync support for Google Calendars (where available)
• 🆕 Smart filters now support adding filters on: start time, end time and due time. You can now filter to show only the events that start within the next 30 minutes, for example.
• 🆕 Spotting "Today" feels like Finding Waldo? Not anymore. BusyCal now highlights the current day when needed. This can be turned on permanently from under Preferences > Appearance > Accessibility.
• 🆕 You can now set a default priority for new tasks. See Preferences > Tasks.
• 🆕 Support for Time Sensitive notifications when using Notification Center alarms
• 🆕 Ability to snooze events and mark tasks as completed when using Notification Center alarms
• 🆕 New badge count options under Preferences > General > Dock badge count
• 🆕 Events marked as "Free" appear with a dashed color band in day / week view
• ✨ Today's date now momentarily highlights after opening the app
• ✨ Improved handling of large-sized custom fonts
• ✨ Dates with overflowing events no longer disrupt month view scrolling. Hold down the Option key or select the date to scroll within a day instead.
• ✨ Availability viewer no longer hides when losing focus
• Fixed bug where after moving an event, the popover would at times only display the notes section
• Fixed bug where the cursor would jump to the starting position in the notes section, at times, when editing a recurring item
• Fixed bug where the info panel would at times lose keyboard focus immediately after creating a new task
• Ongoing stability improvements

How to install the update

The update is free for all BusyCal customers and is available now.

• Direct customers can update by selecting Check for Updates from the BusyCal menu.
• New users can download the BusyCal 30-Day Trial.

In case your license has expired, you can renew your license from here.

BusyCal 2022.2.3 has been released and is available for download. We stagger our roll-outs, so in case you don't see one available within the app, feel free to download the latest trial version.

Release Notes

• 🆕 Smart filters now support 'does not contain' for title, notes, tags, attendees and so on.
• 🆕 Entering a hex color code in the tags field automatically turns it into a colored tag. You can also use common color name such as Red, Blue, Green, Yellow and Brown.
• 🆕 List view now supports preset filters for listing 25, 50 and 100 years of events. The custom filter now supports 200+ years (in days).
• ✨ After deleting an event, the next event below / above is now automatically selected in calendar view
• Fixed bug where clicking multiple checkboxes rapidly one after another, in the calendar view, would at times result in marking the same task done twice
• Fixed bug where contacts marked as 'company' were not fetched from Apple Contacts when entering attendees
• Fixed bug where setting up a smart filter on >= Medium Priority would match tasks with No Priority
• Fixed bug where a floating task would show its due time in red (as overdue) in the info panel for certain timezones
• Clicking on google meets conference calls from the menu app now correctly passes the "authUser" parameter to the browser
• macOS 13 (Ventura) Beta compatibility
• Ongoing stability improvements

How to install the update

The update is free for all BusyCal customers and is available now.

• Direct customers can update by selecting Check for Updates from the BusyCal menu.
• New users can download the BusyCal 30-Day Trial.

In case your license has expired, you can renew your license from here.

BusyContacts 1.6.7 has been released and is available for download. We stagger our roll-outs, so in case you don't see one available within the app, feel free to download the latest trial version.

Release Notes

• Compatibility support for macOS 12.4
• New advanced option added to Account preferences to enable syncing of tags as CardDAV "categories" for servers that do not support contact groups natively.
• Ongoing stability improvements

How to install the update

The update is free for all BusyContacts customers and is available now.

• Direct customers can update by selecting Check for Updates from the BusyContacts menu.
• New users can download the BusyContacts 30-Day Trial.

In case your license has expired, you can renew your license from here.

BusyCal 2022.2.2 has been released and is available for download. We stagger our roll-outs, so in case you don't see one available within the app, feel free to download the latest trial version.

Release Notes

• 🆕 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

How to install the update

The update is free for all BusyCal customers and is available now.

• Direct customers can update by selecting Check for Updates from the BusyCal menu.
• New users can download the BusyCal 30-Day Trial.

In case your license has expired, you can renew your license from here.

BusyContacts 1.6.6 has been released and is available for download. We stagger our roll-outs, so in case you don't see one available within the app, feel free to download the latest trial version.

Release Notes

• Added mail plugin support for macOS 12.4 Beta
• Fixed bug where edits to phone numbers would not stick on more recent versions of macOS 12
• Ongoing stability improvements

How to install the update

The update is free for all BusyContacts customers and is available now.

• Direct customers can update by selecting Check for Updates from the BusyContacts menu.
• New users can download the BusyContacts 30-Day Trial.

In case your license has expired, you can renew your license from here.

BusyCal 2022.1.4 has been released and is available for download. We stagger our roll-outs, so in case you don't see one available within the app, feel free to download the latest trial version.

Release Notes

• 🆕 Quick Multi-Selection: Hold down Shift and click+drag to draw a selection box around events in Month, Week and Day view
• 🆕 Shift+Click selection like Finder. Select an event, shift+click another event; BusyCal selects all events in between.
• 🆕 Todoist now supported. Add your Todoist account and manage all your tasks and calendars using BusyCal
• Improved handling of Zoho calendar connectivity
• Fixed handling of bogus duration entries in events from Zimbra CalDAV server
• Fixed bug where new events would appear as Busy when "Events affect availability" has been unchecked for the calendar
• Ongoing stability improvements

How to install the update

The update is free for all BusyCal customers and is available now.

• Direct customers can update by selecting Check for Updates from the BusyCal menu.
• New users can download the BusyCal 30-Day Trial.

In case your license has expired, you can renew your license from here.

BusyContacts 1.6.5 has been released and is available for download. We stagger our roll-outs, so in case you don't see one available within the app, feel free to download the latest trial version.

Release Notes

• Improved support for 3rd party CardDAV servers
• Added mail plugin support for macOS 12.3
• Certain large emails with attachments are now skipped when loading the Mail timeline to improve performance
• Fixed bug where editing a tag name would get interrupted at times due to an ongoing background sync
• Ongoing stability improvements

How to install the update

The update is free for all BusyContacts customers and is available now.

• Direct customers can update by selecting Check for Updates from the BusyContacts menu.
• New users can download the BusyContacts 30-Day Trial.

In case your license has expired, you can renew your license from here.

BusyCal 2022.1.3 has been released and is available for download. We stagger our roll-outs, so in case you don't see one available within the app, feel free to download the latest trial version.

Release Notes

• Improvements to time parsing when entering start times
• When opening Google Meets conference links, BusyCal now appends the email address to the link. This prevents the browser from trying to use a different account if you have multiple
• Fixed bug where weather would not show for some people
• Fixed bug where auto-alarm was created for all-day events on Exchange when the preference was turned off
• Fixed bug where creating new events using the menu app would default to using the current date when not specified
• Fixes date time insertion in notes where the cursor would move after insertion
• Added failsafe for when the database may become inaccessible due to an external script
• Performance improvements
• Ongoing stability improvements

How to install the update

The update is free for all BusyCal customers and is available now.

• Direct customers can update by selecting Check for Updates from the BusyCal menu.
• New users can download the BusyCal 30-Day Trial.

In case your license has expired, you can renew your license from here.

BusyCal 2022.1.1 has been released and is available for download. We stagger our roll-outs, so in case you don't see one available within the app, feel free to download the latest trial version.

Release Notes

• 🆕 Google Meets one-click integration. You can now add a Google Meets conference call to any event. Only works for Google Calendar accounts. NOTE: After installing this update, you would need to allow sync to complete once before you're able to use this option.
• 🆕 Goto Meeting one-click integration. You can now add a GoTo (LogMeIn) conference call to any event.
• 🆕 Several improvements to the mini-month view. New display modes (under Preferences > Appearance > More): Heat-map, Dots or Banners. Move mouse over to see events on that day. Drag and drop selected events to quickly batch defer. Double-click on a date to create a new event.
• 🆕 Calendar displayed in the Menu app can now be display in various styles (under Preferences > Menu)
• 🆕 You can now batch assign default alarms, or remove existing alarms from selected events using the new Edit > Alarms menu (or from the right-click context menu)
• 🆕 Task counts now show on headings in the Task List
• Search results now include individual recurrences of past events. BusyCal would previously place a limit on the number of occurrences shown based on an internal time-span.
• Multiple timezone support re-enabled for Google accounts after Google confirmed a fix
• Added support for iCloud's CalDAV servers in China
• Fixed menu app not showing weather icons
• Fixed an issue where warnings related to obtaining location (for weather) would show up repeatedly at times
• Fixed bug where menu app would not immediately refresh at times
• Fixed bug where picking an attendee at times from the search results window would result in ignoring the selection
• Fixed bug where manually importing an .ics reply from Exchange, where the title of the event has been modified, would result in an import error
• Fixed MS Teams conference call detection in notes
• Fixed bug where right-clicking in week view would at times select the previous date
• Ongoing stability improvements

How to install the update

The update is free for all BusyCal customers and is available now.

• Direct customers can update by selecting Check for Updates from the BusyCal menu.
• New users can download the BusyCal 30-Day Trial.

In case your license has expired, you can renew your license from here.