BusyCal 3.9.0 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

• NEW: Do Not Disturb mode is here! In a meeting? Want to postpone seeing alarms for another 30 minutes? With a single click you can now toggle DND on / off with your preferred interval.
• NEW: Under Alarm Preferences, you can now set a different default sound for To Dos
• NEW: Notification Center alerts now display more options for Snooze on a long-click
• NEW: "Select All" now works in day / week / month view by selecting all events / to dos for the selected day
• NEW: Support for "5th" weekday of the month when setting up recurrences
• NEW: Improved BusyCal alarms to display clickable URL links from events, when available
• NEW: Showing multi-day events as banners based on their duration is now a configurable option under Preferences > Appearance
• NEW: Multi-day events can be configured to only show as banners in the all-day section of day and week views
• NEW: Unwanted Calendars can now be hidden / unhidden. Right-click on a calendar -> Hide.
• You can now change Free / Busy status on invited meeting events (where applicable)
• Updated BusyCal Alarm window design and layout for better space utilization for displaying alarm details
• Clicking on the "Snooze" for Notification Center alerts will now pick the default snooze interval specified in preferences
• Improved drawing by using best-fit for weather / moon / graphic symbols in month view
• Improved natural language date range parsing
• Menu bar quick entry now retains entered text when switching between apps
• Ongoing stability and performance improvements

How to install the update

The update is free for all BusyCal 3 customers and is available now.

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

BusyCal 3.8.41 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 handling of broken subscriptions from Calendar Labs
• Fixed Open Xchange related internal sync errors when updating an event
• Fixed weekend shading at times appearing incorrectly in dark mode
• Ongoing stability and performance improvements

How to install the update

The update is free for all BusyCal 3 customers and is available now.

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

BusyCal 3.8.4 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

• NEW: You can now selectively hide events (Edit > Hide) to clear unwanted events from shared calendars or subscriptions
• NEW: Travel time can now be set for meeting invites on supported CalDAV servers
• Fixed excessive CPU usage reported under certain circumstances
• Fixed visual glitch when double-clicking on a date in year view
• Ongoing stability and performance improvements

How to install the update

The update is free for all BusyCal 3 customers and is available now.

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

BusyCal 3.8.3 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

• NEW: Extra presets added to the alarm drop-down menu
• NEW: Appearance setting to always show month separation in month view
• NEW: Month separation automatically gets highlighted as you scroll between months
• NEW: Dock badge count can be turned off from preferences
• NEW: Privacy setting for events can now be changed to "Confidential" to hide events on shared calendars, on supported CalDAV servers (NextCloud / ownCloud etc)
• Due time property is now hidden for to-dos syncing via Microsoft Exchange, as this isn't officially supported
• Timezone property is now hidden for to-dos syncing via Reminders, as this isn't officially supported
• Fixed a bug that would cause the cursor to jump to the last line in the notes section in case the event got updated during background sync
• Fixed a bug where the Todo list would filter out completed todos based on their completion dates when "In Calendar Range" filtering was set along with "Show completed to-dos on their due dates" in preferences
• Fixed a bug where certain emojis would get stripped out when syncing with Outlook / Exchange
• Improved handling of failures due to poor network connections
• Improved handling of duplicate events in WebDAV subscriptions
• Improved auto detection of Exchange web services when connecting to a self-hosted Microsoft Exchange account
• Ongoing stability and performance improvements

How to install the update

The update is free for all BusyCal 3 customers and is available now.

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

BusyContacts 1.4.4 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

• Significant sync speed improvements for Google Contacts
• Fixed drag and drop to Apple Mail. It now correctly attaches a vCard. To copy just the contents, select a contact, CMD+C to copy and paste into Mail.
• Improved search to work with partial keywords
• Improved auto detection of Exchange web services when connecting to a self-hosted Microsoft Exchange account
• 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.
• Mac App Store customers can update from the Updates tab on the Mac App Store.
• New users can download the BusyContacts 30-Day Trial.

BusyContacts 1.4.3 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

• Improved background sync speed when used with multiple accounts
• When editing a contact's picture, you can now use an attached Camera to take a picture
• Large contact photos are now automatically compressed for CardDAV servers that have internal limits on photo dimensions
• Fixed a bug with smart filters on custom labels
• Workaround for bug where Google Contacts would frequently update the modification date for a card that hasn't in fact changed
• 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.
• Mac App Store customers can update from the Updates tab on the Mac App Store.
• New users can download the BusyContacts 30-Day Trial.

BusyCal 3.8.0 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 manually.

Release Notes

• NEW: Reminders sync is here 🎉 You can sync directly with Reminders.app by adding a new "Apple Reminders" account from BusyCal > Preferences > Accounts > [+]
• New menu shortcut to quickly include / exclude events from all calendars from a specific account (right-click on account name in left panel)
• Improved search to support partial text matches
• Improved support for Open-Xchange CalDAV server
• Improved performance of background sync
• Improved sync performance of WebDAV subscriptions
• Improved performance of displaying calendar events in BusyContacts for selected contacts
• Improved overall responsiveness of the app with multiple accounts and dozens of calendars in each
• Improved handling of malformed attributes in Notes
• Improved handling of malformed iCalendar data containing third-party meta-data
• "Confirm changes on shared calendars", when checked under Preferences, now also applies to calendars you own but have shared with others
• Identical, duplicate alerts are now ignored when syncing from a CalDAV source
• Fixed a bug where the exchange public calendar browser would appear shrunk
• Fixed GTB timezone mapping for Exchange sync to use Europe/Bucharest instead of Europe/Istanbul
• Fixed a bug where the alarm popup would not display the default alarm time correctly after switching the app's timezone
• Fixed birthdays and anniversaries appearing twice at times
• Fixed weather to update displayed temperatures when switching between celcius and fahrenheit
• Fixed an issue with List view printing where at times certain date ranges wouldn't show up in print
• Fixed an glitch where the info panel would shrink in size at times
• Ongoing stability and performance improvements

How to install the update

The update is free for all BusyCal 3 customers and is available now.

• Direct customers can update by selecting Check for Updates from the BusyCal menu.
• Mac App Store customers will automatically be notified when the update is available on the Mac App Store.
• New users can download the BusyCal 30-Day Trial.

If you're interested in trying out the latest features, improvements and bugfixes in BusyCal or BusyContacts on macOS, simply follow these steps:

1. Download the latest direct copies of BusyCal or BusyContacts from our website.

2. Launch the app and open Preferences.

3. Click on the Updates tab.

4. Click on the "including beta" checkbox.

5. Now click on the BusyCal or BusyContacts menu option (in the top menu bar) and select "Check for Updates..."

When a new stable update is released, you will automatically be informed via the in-app update mechanism.

BusyCal 3.7.3 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

• Improved recovery handling of network failures for Google Calendar
• Duplicate alarms in an event are now ignored, and only one reminder is displayed
• Inbox notifications no longer synthesize when manually importing .ics meeting replies or cancellations
• Dismissal of snooze alarms now get acknowledged if BusyCal is running in the dock
• BusyContacts is no longer automatically launched for Birthday-sync if it's not already running
• Improved selection color for Dark appearance when accent color is blue
• Addresses an issue related to dragging tasks from OmniFocus where the title would get set as Untitled
• Ongoing stability improvements

How to install the update

The update is free for all BusyCal 3 customers and is available now.

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

BusyCal 3.7.2 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

• NEW: The "Group entries by Calendar" appearance option can now be combined with a new option: "before sorting by time"
• NEW: Advanced preference to enable the ability to show meeting invites for proxies (shared calendars with read & write) in the Inbox.
• Improved conflict resolution for changes made to events on an Exchange account
• Performance improvements
• Fixes an issue where ctrl-clicking a Todo would incorrectly enter it into edit mode
• Fixes a crash when adding locations via Quick Entry
• Fixes a Catalina issue where emailing meetings as .ics attachments wouldn't work
• Ongoing stability improvements

How to install the update

The update is free for all BusyCal 3 customers and is available now.

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