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BusyCal 2023.4.4
BusyCal 2023.4.4 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 directly.
Release Notes
- 🆕 Quick Entry enhancements with Natural Language Input now supported for Spanish, Italian, and Dutch
- 🆕 Sort tasks by modification or creation dates
- 🆕 Context menu option added to the calendar source list for applying an alphabetical sort to calendars
- 🆕 "Show only these calendars" context menu option added to calendar groups
- 🆕 "My Status" can now be changed for Google meetings you're an organizer of
- ✨ Improved sync with custom CalDAV servers that incorrectly advertise some supported features
- ✨ Improvements to natural language input
- 🔨 Fixed bug where travel time reporting would not stop at times or would remind for an event that hasn't yet started
- Ongoing stability improvements
How to install the update
The update is free for all BusyCal customers with a valid license 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.
- Mac App Store users can download the update directly from the store page once it's been reviewed and approved by Apple
- Setapp users can launch the Setapp app and select Check for Updates from the Setapp menu
In case you own a direct, perpetual copy and 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 2023.4.3
BusyCal 2023.4.3 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 directly.
Release Notes
- 🔨 Fixes a background crash when syncing with some 3rd party WebDAV services
- 🔨 Fixed bug where the menu app would show an overlay at times
- Ongoing stability improvements
How to install the update
The update is free for all BusyCal customers with a valid license 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.
- Mac App Store users can download the update directly from the store page once it's been reviewed and approved by Apple
- Setapp users can launch the Setapp app and select Check for Updates from the Setapp menu
In case you own a direct, perpetual copy and 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 2023.4.2
BusyCal 2023.4.2 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 directly.
Release Notes
- ✨ Improved handling of missing fonts when handling notes containing rich-text
- ✨ Improved handling of notification dismissals when using Notification Center alerts on Sonoma
- ✨ Improved handling of NTLM authentication requests, specifically when connecting to Amazon.com from an external network
- ✨ "Unsubscribe" option added to context menu for shared LAN services
- ✨ Performance improvements to widgets
- 🔨 Fixed bug where navigation buttons would cause a hang in Year view on Sonoma
- 🔨 Fixed bug where the minutes field in the classic start time date picker would not work as expected on Sonoma
- Ongoing stability improvements
How to install the update
The update is free for all BusyCal customers with a valid license 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.
- Mac App Store users can download the update directly from the store page once it's been reviewed and approved by Apple
- Setapp users can launch the Setapp app and select Check for Updates from the Setapp menu
In case you own a direct, perpetual copy and 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.
BusyContacts 2023.3.1
BusyContacts 2023.3.1 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 directly.
Release Notes
- 🆕 You can now batch assign an existing Company to multiple contacts using the Edit menu
- macOS Sonoma compatibility
- Improved sorting for Swedish
- 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.
- Mac App Store users can download the update directly from the store page once it's been reviewed and approved by Apple
- Setapp users can launch the Setapp app and select Check for Updates from the Setapp menu
In case you own a direct, perpetual copy and 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 2023.3.3
BusyCal 2023.3.3 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 directly.
Release Notes
- 🆕 Interactive "Tasks" widget on macOS Sonoma
- ✨ Improvements to date labels in List View
- Ongoing stability improvements
How to install the update
The update is free for all BusyCal customers with a valid license 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.
- Mac App Store users can download the update directly from the store page once it's been reviewed and approved by Apple
- Setapp users can launch the Setapp app and select Check for Updates from the Setapp menu
In case you own a direct, perpetual copy and 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 2023.3.2
BusyCal 2023.3.2 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 directly.
Release Notes
- 🆕 Visible number of hours can now be configured for Day and Week views separately
- ✨ Improvements to Natural Language parsing
- ✨ Improved support for syncing with Reminders in macOS Sonoma (14.0)
- Ongoing stability improvements
How to install the update
The update is free for all BusyCal customers with a valid license 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.
- Mac App Store users can download the update directly from the store page once it's been reviewed and approved by Apple
- Setapp users can launch the Setapp app and select Check for Updates from the Setapp menu
In case you own a direct, perpetual copy and 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 2023.3.1
BusyCal 2023.3.1 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 directly.
Release Notes
- 🆕 Quick Entry now supports specifying more than one alarm. For example: 'Dentist at 15:30 Monday alarm 15m, 10m, 5m'
- 🆕 Duration of event is now displayed as part of 'Time to Event' in the Info Panel
- 🆕 Additional date insertion options under the Edit menu > Insert Date & Time
- 🆕 Option added to Calendar settings to hide graphic / attachment previews from events in day / week / month views
- 🆕 Overdue tasks are now always displayed in the Task List
- ✨ Improvements to Natural Language parsing
- ✨ When joining a MS Teams conference call, Teams.app now launches immediately
- ✨ Improved support for macOS Sonoma (14.0)
- Ongoing stability improvements
How to install the update
The update is free for all BusyCal customers with a valid license 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.
- Mac App Store users can download the update directly from the store page once it's been reviewed and approved by Apple
- Setapp users can launch the Setapp app and select Check for Updates from the Setapp menu
In case you own a direct, perpetual copy and 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 2023.2.3
BusyCal 2023.2.3 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 directly.
Release Notes
- 🆕 Google Calendar users can now make modifications to meeting inviations
- 🆕 "Copy to Calendar" added to the context menu for selected events
- 🆕 "Paste as Task" added to the edit menu. Copy multi-line text from elsewhere and paste as separate tasks within BusyCal.
- ✨ Journal entries now appear consistently across the app, and distinctly different from regular events
- Ongoing stability improvements
How to install the update
The update is free for all BusyCal customers with a valid license 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.
- Mac App Store users can download the update directly from the store page once it's been reviewed and approved by Apple
- Setapp users can launch the Setapp app and select Check for Updates from the Setapp menu
In case you own a direct, perpetual copy and 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.
BusyContacts 2023.2.1
BusyContacts 2023.2.1 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 directly.
Release Notes
- 🆕 Workaround added for when related contacts go missing / have their internal identifiers changed. BusyContacts now automatically resolves severed links (only works for newly edited relationships).
- Fixed bug where clicking on a related company contact would not open the parent card
- 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.
- Mac App Store users can download the update directly from the store page once it's been reviewed and approved by Apple
- Setapp users can launch the Setapp app and select Check for Updates from the Setapp menu
In case you own a direct, perpetual copy and 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 2023.2.2
BusyCal 2023.2.2 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 directly.
Release Notes
- 🆕 "Propose new time" option added for meeting invites received on Google Calendar
- 🆕 Sticky notes now take the color of their calendar
- 🆕 You can now set a specific browser to use when opening conference call links (Settings > Advanced > Other)
- 🆕 Start / end dates can now be modified using the context menu for selected events
- 🆕 Free / Busy status can now be modified using the context menu for selected events
- 🆕 Free / Busy status can now be assigned to individual occurrences of a recurring event
- 🆕 Tags can now be assigned to individual occurrences of a recurring event
- 🆕 The BusyCal Alarm window improvements
- ✨ Improvements to Push sync for Exchange / Office 365 accounts
- ✨ Support for confidential events on NextCloud
- ✨ Alarm window restores its previous position on screen after a reboot
- ✨ Improvements to Google Meets integration for Google Accounts
- Ongoing stability improvements
How to install the update
The update is free for all BusyCal customers with a valid license 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.
- Mac App Store users can download the update directly from the store page once it's been reviewed and approved by Apple
- Setapp users can launch the Setapp app and select Check for Updates from the Setapp menu
In case you own a direct, perpetual copy and 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.