BusyCal: Calendar & Reminders for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By bsdjunkie

  Favorite calendar app for Windows

  I really like BusyCal! Especially the drop-down interface for the menu bar. It’s very handy to see a concise graphical representation of the month and the upcoming events and meetings. My favorite part is the graphical design of the app. It looks really nice. I was for a time torn between BusyCal and Fantasitcal, however I am glad I decided to stay with BusyCal. I do use Fantastical on my iOS devices, however. I do like those apps. They just seem to quickly grow old since I feel like I am looking at the same thing every day whereas with BusiCal - it seems to be changing and changeable. Like life. I also broke down and bought BusyContacts. Although I do like that app, I would never be happy until I had both apps paired together. Maybe you will like it as much as I do?

  
  
• By The Logic Stick

  This is the calendar for the visually inclined

  Oh, goodness, so much happiness to find a calendar that makes for a very visual experience. Want to see scroilling weeks instead of one month at a time? No problem! Want a handy pop up to tell you what month you're in while scrolling? Also, no problem! So many thoughtful little gems make this a great experience. It also is made for those who have to juggle calendars from several sources, including google. This app understands that if a calendar is *shared* with you, you will probably want to *see* it as part of your list. This is the only app I could find that accomplished that without jumping through hoops or trudging through pages of settings. Brava!

  
  
• By mmmmisha

  So much better than Microsoft's Calendar

  I've been using the BusyMac suite of BusyCal and BusyContacts for years now and feel they deserve an upate. These programs work seamlessly with iCloud and offer features that simply don't exist in Microsoft's native apps. (I'm not sure why BusyContacts isn't coming up on the App Store but I highly recommend it as a basic CRM app.) In addition to these being well-developed apps, I want to mention the excellent tech support offered by the developer. I usually get a response by email within 24 hours and they have never failed to figure out the problem and provide a solution on the rare occasions when I've had an issue. 5 stars all the way!

  
  
• By SMaclean

  It’s OK. But it’s missing a few things

  It comes to Fantastical and BusyCal. Fantastical has all the better integration with other apps on IOS and Windows, Busycal has the more open and complete presentation, specially on week and month views. Fantastical works, Busycal sort of works. Busycal IOS is missing some very important items like custom repet events (how can you be a business calendar and not have those?, While Busycal for Windows has almost everything…. So I feel liuke I have tomake events and function on fantastical but then I like the views of Busycal better…..but that’s two apps that combined cost 100 bucks.

  
  
• By ajmack87

  Saves Me From Myself

  My job involves a lot of deep work. Often I'll be so locked into the task I'm working on that hours will go by without me checking my mail or calendar. I also have multiple screens, and the web-based cal apps and the Microsoft cal app all only show notifications in the top right corner of the screen. These notifications are remarkably easy for me to miss, and therefore they make it too easy for me to miss the start of an imminent meeting, which I was previously doing often. Not a great look for me. Busy Cal's pop-up meeting alert panel saves me. I set it to pop up and remain on top of all my other windows until I dismiss it, and to pop up both in advance of and right as a meeting starts, so that I'm prepared for the upcoming meeting too. I never fail to notice it - so finally I'm no longer showing up late for meetings on account of not failing to notice my meeting alerts.

  
  

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