The 5 Best Calendar Apps for Mac to Manage Your Work

Looking for a Mac calendar app that goes beyond the features offered by iCal? These five apps, that work with Mac OS X or later, have all the essential calendar features plus added functionality including the ability to add tasks, to-do lists, weather updates, and customization options that will give you just the experience you want.

1.Fantastical 2

This full-featured app will help you keep track of all the things you need to accomplish in a day. You can easily import calendars from Google, Microsoft Exchange, Yahoo, and other CalDAV accounts to make Fantastical 2 your one-stop view for all events in your life. Once calendars are loaded, you can create sets of calendars to see the information you want, and add reminders using natural language. You can even program calendar sets to appear by location, so that when you’re home, you only see the calendars related to your personal life.

Other helpful features of Fantastical 2 include the widget and Mini Window. The widget supports extensions so you can add other important daily information, like weather, to your daily calendar. The Mini Window lives in your menu bar and is easily editable for quick updates - a helpful tool for those viewing their calendar on desktop.

The latest version of Fantastical 2.2 is available for $49.99. You may also purchase the Fantastical 2 calendar app for iPad, iPhone, and Apple Watch separately, and your calendars will sync across devices.

Features:

• Works with iCloud, Exchange, and Google
• Multiple calendar views, with light or dark themes
• 一个dd events and reminders using natural language
• Included widget shows everything happening in a day
• 一个bility to add other extensions to the widget such as weather
• Links to Google Hangouts
• Maps displayed for locations
• 一个dd event notes and URLs
• Search for events
• 一个vailable in English, French, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese

2.BusyCal2

BusyCal2 looks a lot like iCal, but is more powerful. Like the other calendar software for Mac in this roundup, BusyCal2 syncs with Google, iCloud, iOS, and other CalDAV accounts. It includes all the typical calendar views (day, week, month, and year), and also adds a List view. You can decide the number of weeks you want to show in a month view, or number of days in a week view. BusyCal2 includes several other calendar capabilities, such as adding weather and moon phases, to-dos (with or without a date), and sticky notes.

BusyCal2 is also highly customizable. You can change colors and fonts for specific calendars and types of to-dos and even add Emojis to specific days. Additionally, you can create calendar groups and turn groups on or off to show or hide calendar activity. If you don’t want to keep the app open on your screen, there’s a menu bar app so you can see your day at a glance. The app costs $49.99, but you can try it free for 30 days.

Features:

• Syncs with iCloud, Google, Yahoo, and other CalDAV services
• See events and to-dos in the calendar view
• Create calendar groups
• Change number of weeks shown in a month or days in a week
• Change fonts and colors and add Emojis
• 创建便签
• 一个dd to-dos with or without a date
• Menu bar app option

3.Microsoft Outlook

The calendar feature is an element of the email app in Microsoft Outlook and is geared toward business users. Many of the features in the app are designed to help you schedule meetings based on the availability of other team members. With this app you can view group schedules and side-by-side calendars, send out meeting invites, and create all-day events. The calendar overlay feature allows you to view your personal schedule and work appointments in one view. The app is part of Microsoft Outlook for Mac and costs $109.99.

Features:

• View availability of other team members
• Organize meetings
• Send calendars through email
• Publish calendars to Microsoft Office.com
• Link to calendars on Microsoft SharePoint sites
• Change calendar settings and colors

4.SmartDay

This calendar app doubles as a task manager. You can change due dates by dragging and dropping tasks onto specific days; uncompleted tasks will automatically be moved to the next day. The auto-schedule feature allows you to place tasks into a timeline so you can easily view deadlines and identify how many tasks you can complete in a day or week. Use SmartDay as an organizational tool by attaching notes and documents to events, and even include checklists within your notes. For example, you can add a grocery list to a scheduled shopping event.

The calendar app runs on a Mac, but iOS and other device versions are available, as well as a web-based option. Try the SmartDay Mac OS X app for $29.99, iPhone and iPad app for $9.99 each, or the web version for free.

Features:

• Synchronize events and tasks with iCal
• Search events
• Drag and drop events
• Create tasks and to-dos
• 一个pply tags
• 一个dd detailed notes to any item
• Create checklists on any Note
• 一个utomatically schedule tasks
• Connects with Google Calendars

5.Rainlendar

Rainlendar is a highly customizable calendar app that lives on your desktop and includes a variety of ‘skins’. Create an event, task list, or alarm and then choose a single skin or mix skin template to create the exact view to fit your needs. Rainlendar is the most customizable of the calendar apps listed here, and that is the product’s strength. Rainlendar offers many of the basic calendar features along with the ability to create a to-do list and pop-up reminders and view multiple calendars in a single view. There is a Lite version, which is free, and a more robust app that costs €9.95 (about $11) available on the Rainlendar site.

Features:

• Customize the view with skins
• Subscribe to online calendars
• Keep events and tasks in separate lists
• Integrates with Outlook or Google