BusyCal 2024.2.1 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

• 🆕 New Office 365 Account Type: Enhanced syncing with Microsoft Graph APIs now available (as public beta). Migrate to this improved connection under Preferences > Accounts for better performance with Outlook. Note: Microsoft has announced that Legacy Exchange Web Services support will be discontinued soon.
• 🆕 Personal Outlook now supported over Microsoft Graph. Available under Settings > Accounts.
• 🆕 Improved push sync support for Office 365 accounts
• 🆕 Support for What 3 Words location names (W3W). BusyCal now automatically converts a W3W location into a GPS coordinate when entered into the location field.
• 🆕 "Repeat summary" added as a new column type for List View. Displays a description for recurring events.
• 🆕 Custom time zone names (under Settings > Time Zones), when available, are displayed in the time zone picker and on the main time zone switcher
• 🆕 The time zone sort order can be switched between sorting by GMT offsets and time zone names under Settings > Time Zones
• 🆕 New property added to the smart filter list: calendar name
• 🆕 You can now batch select events and change their "Repeat" setting (or remove existing setting) from the context menu
• 🆕 Ctrl-click context menu on a calendar date now displays a count-down (or count-up) to date
• 🆕 Appearance setting to use only the calendar color, ignoring inidividually assigned tag and label colors
• 🆕 You can now toggle the sorting order of search results between ascending and descending
• ✨ Improved syncing with Apple Reminders
• ✨ Improved syncing with Apple Calendar
• ✨ Improved Quick Add natural language detection for German
• ✨ Snooze alarms are now added as local "my alerts" to events, eliminating chances of sync rejection by some CalDAV servers
• 🔨 Fixed bug where the context menu option to remove all alarms would display a repeated prompt and erroneously duplicate recurring events
• Ongoing stability and performance related 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.