BusyCal 2021.4.3 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

• 🆕 Specify a custom work week under Preferences > General. Days not part of the work week will appear shaded.
• 🆕 Option to show an alternative calendar in month view, under General Preferences: Chinese, Hebrew, Islamic
• 🆕 Option to display a third timezone in Day / Week views under Preferences > Advanced
• 🆕 Join conference call button now appears within the menu app listing for events with conference calls
• 🆕 Join conference call button now appears in day and week view
• 🆕 Webex (by Cisco) integration. You can now add a Webex account to add conference calls to events with a single click.
• 🆕 Menu bar icon display options from under Preferences > General, including a new colored menu bar icon
• 🆕 Menu app surfaces the next upcoming conference call to appear near the top, along with a quick join button
• 🆕 Menu app now displays an optional count-down for upcoming conference calls
• 🆕 Holidays now show in calendar / tag color when preference is set to show events in color
• 🆕 New edit menu options to duplicate an event as a task and vice versa
• 🆕 The context (right-click) menu for selected events and tasks now lets you batch assign / remove "My Tags" separately
• 🆕 Print option added to show a custom footer text in printouts
• 🆕 Ability to show print date for Day View
• Improvements to conference call detection
• Improvements to all-day event layout
• Improvements to multi-day events. Start and end times are now displayed on the calendar
• Improvements to day / week view layout
• Improved weather icon / temperature layout for month view
• Improved automatic removal of invalid characters during sync
• Improvements to timezone picker / city searches. Support for Baker Island (GMT -12) added.
• Improved contact searching when entering a location
• Improved handling of failures during sync with Reminders
• Improved support for Confluence CalDAV server
• "1 week before" added to the alarm pre-presets
• Up / down arrows in month view now advance to the previous / next week
• When dragging tasks from OmniFocus to create events, BusyCal now applies the duration (if any) to the event too
• Today indicator in calendar is now consistent with other Today markers / buttons
• Right-clicking in Day / Week view to create a new Event now picks the correct time. 'Default Time' is used if the time picked is before preferred time.
• Switched to a new weather service as Dark Sky is ending 3rd party developer support soon
• Visual tweaks and improvements
• Performance improvements
• Fixed bug where dragging and dropping multiple .ics files would result in importing only the first one on Big Sur and above
• Fixed bug where Task list would appear clipped in Print View
• Fixed bug where all-day events would at times appear overlapped in week view
• Fixed bug where Day view would not show graphics / weather correctly
• Fixed bug where a failure during a batch drag and drop of events between calendars would prevent some events from moving correctly
• Fixed bug where the menu app after a reboot would at times incorrect show events from all calendars, including unchecked / hidden
• Fixed bug where the menu app would show events for accounts that have been disabled
• Fixed bug where the menu app would show events for accounts that have been marked as excluded
• Fixed bug where menu app would not dim past events if preference was enabled
• Fixed bug where the mini calendar in the left panel would highlight the wrong week day at times
• Fixed bug where advancing a day in week view would not work if weekends were hidden and the day to advance to was a weekend
• 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.