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BusyCal 2024.2.2
BusyCal 2024.2.2 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
- 🆕 Major Feature: Ongoing and upcoming events can now be displayed with a countdown in the menu bar! Customize this feature under Settings > Menu
- 🆕 Current & Upcoming Event Widget: This automatically displays the currently ongoing event as well as the upcoming event
- 🆕 To grab your attention, the alarm window now subtly shakes when a new alarm is displayed. This feature can be configured from Settings > Alarms
- 🆕 End times of events are now displayed in the Alarm Window. This feature can be configured from Settings > Alarms
- 🆕 Hovering the mouse over alarms in the alarm window now displays the time elapsed. This feature can be configured from Settings > Alarms
- 🆕 You can now change the displayed sort order of BusyCal alarms under Settings > Alarms
- 🆕 Advanced Setting: A new setting enables confirmation for any changes made to an event
- 🆕 Accessibility Setting: There is now an option to switch to editing an event immediately after duplication when using a pop-over style editor
- 🆕 Shared calendar settings for Microsoft Office accounts (over the new Graph API)
- 🆕 You can now open your Google Calendar in a browser by ctr-clicking on the primary calendar and selecting "Open in browser..."
- ✨ Improvements to alarm window layout and design
- ✨ To differentiate new alarms from old, the alarm window now displays an animated bell against newly added items
- ✨ The quick entry field now auto-expands vertically instead of overflowing horizontally
- ✨ Smart filter options now includes a filter for: "tag or category" (to include Outlook categories)
- 🔨 Holding down option key and dropping events on the mini-calendar now correctly copies the event instead of moving it
- 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.
BusyCal 2024.2.1
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.
BusyCal 2024.1.2
BusyCal 2024.1.2 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
- 🆕 Directly sync with Apple Calendar in read-only mode. Ideal for users with restricted third-party access to work accounts. New account option under Settings > Accounts > New Account > Apple Calendar
- 🆕 Dates in the Menu app have been redesigned for clearer visibility, making it easier to read the dates
- 🆕 Task list improvements. Task priorities can now be changed directly from the task list by clicking on the new priority drop-down button. Dates / times now display below the title so that more of your titles can show in a single line.
- 🆕 When sorting Task list by date, hovering your mouse over the date sections will display the number of days remaining until that date
- 🆕 Task list now shows indicators for embedded contacts, tags, locations, URLs and attachments. These can be optionally turned off from under Settings > Tasks
- 🆕 Task list can now display both a location name and a preview of notes, directly beneath the task title, for easier access and reference
- 🆕 New accessibility option to disable auto-enabling of calendars after a drag and drop
- 🆕 New option under Todoist Account Settings to hide tasks assigned to others
- 🆕 Now, when you drag and move multiple events, they'll shift based on their original dates. To move them all to the same date instead, hold down the shift key
- 🆕 Quickly respond to multiple meeting invites using the option+click context menu
- ✨ All duplicated events are now automatically selected in the calendar
- ✨ Improved handling of non-standard characters in parsed ics files
- 🔨 Fixed bug where the "Darken text" appearance setting stopped working
- 🔨 Fixed bug where the availability viewer would turn blank after switching to a date that wasn't visible on the main calendar
- 🔨 Fixed a sync issue with Todoist where bogus carriage return \r characters in notes copied from Microsoft To Do would trip the server
- 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 2024.1.2
BusyContacts 2024.1.2 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
- 🆕 New custom relationships added to the related field: father / mother / son / daughter in law, nephew, niece
- ✨ View setting added to disable sorting by phonetic names
- 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 2024.1.1
BusyCal 2024.1.1 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
- 🆕 Multiple default alarms can now be configured in Settings > Alarms
- 🆕 Additional custom sounds under Settings > Alarms
- 🆕 New setting added to use sound preference for all alarms
- 🆕 New setting to configure Floating Time as default under Settings > Time Zones
- 🆕 Custom Font for notes can now be configured under Settings > Appearance > Fonts
- 🆕 Recently added invitees and contacts are now automatically remembered
- 🆕 Natural language support for journal entries. Prefix sentences with: ">", "memo", "log" or "journal"
- 🆕 New up next + calendar widget
- 🆕 Sort Smart Filters alphabetically
- ✨ Colors can now be assigned to read-only events via colored "my tags"
- ✨ "New Calendar Set" menu option added to the File menu
- ✨ New accessibility setting to disable click-and-drag event creation
- ✨ Enhanced natural language date range recognition in Quick Entry
- ✨ Double clicking on the date number in Day View now takes you to Week view
- ✨ 1st of each month now visually stands out
- ✨ Improved sorting of tasks within widgets
- ✨ Improved handling of corrupt .ics files during import
- ✨ Improved text color in dark mode
- ✨ "Reset manual ordering" option added to the context menu for Task calendars (in the left sidebar)
- ✨ Open main calendar from the menu app
- ✨ View settings now automatically sync between devices over iCloud
- ✨ Copying an event with an embedded conference call now copies the meeting link to the clipboard as well
- ✨ "Copy attendees", and "Show only this calendar" options added to event's context menu
- ✨ Go To Date text entry field now automatically picks a future date when year is not specified
- ✨ Google Doc attachments (from Google Calendar) now display the document name where possible
- ✨ Converting an all-day task to a timed task now assigns the default timed-alarm(s) if set
- 🔨 Fixed an issue where opening events from search results would require a double-click
- 🔨 Fixed an issue where banners would appear black when printing on Sonoma
- 🔨 Fixed bug where the menu app's date sections would overlap at times
- 🔨 Fixed bug where the menu app would not show an event if an identical event belonged to a manually hidden calendar
- 🔨 Fixed how snooze alerts are added to recurring events. Snoozes now get added to the snoozed occurrence instead of all occurrences
- 🔨 Fixed bug where assigning a local tag on a meeting would at times present a "Notify Organizer" prompt
- Ongoing stability improvements
- 🔨 Fixed bug where MS Teams meetings created in Google Calendar would incorrectly get identified as Google Meets
- 🔨 Enabling "Ignore attachments" on an Exchange calendar now works as expected
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 2024.1.1
BusyContacts 2024.1.1 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
- 🔨 Fixed an issue where the font name in print settings would not restore
- 🔨 Fixed an issue with social media links on Sonoma
- 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 2023.4.4
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.