In the Calendar app on your Mac, select a calendar in the On My Mac section of the calendar list. If you don’t see the calendar list on the left, choose View Show Calendar List. If you don’t see an On My Mac section in the calendar list, your calendars are in an account (such as iCloud). Subscribe to a calendar. In the Calendar app on your Mac, choose File New Calendar Subscription. Enter the calendar’s web address, then click Subscribe. Enter a name for the calendar in the Name field, then click the adjacent pop-up menu and choose a color. Click the Location pop-up menu, then.
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by Kate Eby on Jun 17, 2016
Success relies on organization, and a calendar is one way that helps many people stay on track, meet deadlines, and organize their events. Apple’s built-in calendar app, iCal, is a go-to for scheduling - you can invite other attendees to events, link to maps, set notifications, and add events using natural language (if you type, “meeting with Joe at 2 pm Friday” and iCal will auto-create the calendarized entry).
However, greater functionality is required for scheduling many projects and events. Perhaps you need to access calendar information on multiple devices that aren’t all Apple products. Maybe you want to keep an editable to-do list inside your calendar app. There’s also the possibility that you just want an alternative to what comes standard on a Mac. Below you’ll find a roundup of the top calendar apps for Mac, as well as iCal add-ons so you can manage your schedule your way.
However, greater functionality is required for scheduling many projects and events. Perhaps you need to access calendar information on multiple devices that aren’t all Apple products. Maybe you want to keep an editable to-do list inside your calendar app. There’s also the possibility that you just want an alternative to what comes standard on a Mac. Below you’ll find a roundup of the top calendar apps for Mac, as well as iCal add-ons so you can manage your schedule your way.
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Top 5 Calendar Apps for Mac That Will Keep You Organized
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
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.
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:
Features:
- Works with iCloud, Exchange, and Google
- Multiple calendar views, with light or dark themes
- Add events and reminders using natural language
- Included widget shows everything happening in a day
- Ability to add other extensions to the widget such as weather
- Links to Google Hangouts
- Maps displayed for locations
- Add event notes and URLs
- Search for events
- Available 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:
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
- Create Sticky Notes
- Add 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:
Features:
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- 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:
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
- Apply tags
- Add detailed notes to any item
- Create checklists on any Note
- Automatically 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
Use iCal the Way You Want with Calendar Software for Mac
Enhance the familiar iCal functions with software add-ons that allow you to display appointments on the desktop, customize the look of the calendar, incorporate weather updates, and provide a way to enter events quickly. We’ve rounded up calendar add-ons for iCal that will change the way you view appointments.
Blotter
Blotter
Blotter integrates with iCal and copies your schedule to your desktop, so you don’t need to open iCal to view it. You choose which events from iCal to display on Blotter, and you can also quickly add events or create reminders from the desktop view. However, you can’t edit existing appointments from the app. You can download the Blotter app from the Mac App store for $9.99.
Features:
- See iCal appointments on your desktop
- Add new events or reminders
- View the next seven days (regardless of the day of the week)
- Customize display
Calendar 2
This customizable menu bar app displays information beyond calendar events on your desktop. With this calendar app add-on, you can also see the weather for the next 15 days, as well as Facebook events and birthdays. Customize the look of the app with one of 20 available themes, or set a background using your favorite picture. The Calendar 2 app is free, but more advanced features are available as in-app purchases.
Features:
- Customize the look with one of 20 themes
- View weather details
- See upcoming iCal appointments at a glance
- View Facebook events and birthdays
QuickCal
Use QuickCal to quickly add events to your iCal. The app uses natural language and auto-complete for fast input, and will send alerts for schedule conflicts. Along with iCal, the app can integrate with Google Calendar and BusyCal. You can try the app free for 14 days or purchase it for $2.99.
Features:
Features:
- Quickly enter appointments and reminders
- Uses natural language and auto-complete
- Detects appointment conflicts
TimeWorks
TimeWorks displays all of your iCal appointments simultaneously on your desktop in an easy-to-read visual. iCal events appear on your desktop in chronological order (moving left to right), and a vertical yellow line on the screen tracks progress as events pass. You can choose to display events from a single day or a longer period. TimeWorks’ Exposé setting brings all the events displayed on the desktop in front of all currently open windows. Instead of having to minimize windows to see what’s happening next, hit F9 and you’ll see them immediately. It’s a helpful feature for those who often have multiple windows open while they work. TimeWorks is available for $9.99.
Features:
Features:
- View upcoming events in chronological order on your desktop
- Use the Exposé feature to bring all events to the front of your screen
DateLine
DateLine copies your calendar events and tasks from iCal to your desktop, and offers additional customization features such as color, font, size, themes, and transparency. You can view up to 69 days at once in a calendar dateline. The DateLine app costs $4.99.
Features:
Features:
- Customizable by color, font, size, and transparency
- Lock the DateLine placement on the desktop
- View events and tasks on your desktop
Want a Calendar for Mac that Does So Much More?
Smartsheet, a spreadsheet-inspired work management tool, features a powerful calendar designed to help you track tasks, reminders, and events. You can overlay key dates from Smartsheet on iCal or Google Calendar, and also import Google Calendar events straight to Smartsheet.
Easily switch between calendar views (like week or month) and keep your calendar organized by customizing events with colors and fonts. Add, edit, or delete events directly within the calendar, or switch to grid or Gantt views to see additional event details. Share your Smartsheet calendar with anyone to edit or simply view the calendar. And, with Smartsheet’s mobile app for Android and iOS, you can access your calendar from anywhere, on any device.
See how easy it can be to manage your events and schedules with a calendar in Smartsheet. Try Smartsheet for free for 30 days.
If you found this post helpful, visit our Resources page to learn more about managing your work on a Mac.
The 5 Best Calendar Apps for Mac to Manage Your Work
iCal, also known as iCalendar, is a standard Internet calendar format that allows users to create and share electronic calendars between computers and devices. iCal is a calendar management application that runs on the Mac OS X operating system. iCal is your choice if you want someone to help you manage life and time more intelligently. This application provides a variety of tools to help you track your itineraries, appointments, birthdays, to-do lists, and other important events.
Syncing iCal with iPhone allows multiple users to share the real-time changes on both iCal and iPhone and could avoid some unnecessary information gap, especially some important events and plans. Furthermore, in some business occasions, this could remind colleagues of the changes and updates of the meetings and so on.
Part 1: How to Sync iCal with iPhone?
In this part, I am going to show three methods for you to sync iCal with iPhone. Check them out below.
Method 1. Sync iCal with iPhone via iTunes
Step 1. Connect iPhone via USB with Your Computer
Get your USB cable that comes with your iPhone and make a physical link between computer and iPhone.
Step 2. Open your iTunes
After you open the iTunes, you should see your iPhone's name under the 'Devices' tab from the menu. Just click on your iPhone icon.
Step 3. Use the Info tab and sync Calendars
When you click on your iPhone's name, just click on 'Info' and next step is to tap on 'Sync Calendars with'. You can choose to sync all your calendars or sync just one specific calendar----iCal. And then click 'Sync' button. Then, you can see the detailed information of iCal on your iPhone immediately.
Method 2. Sync iCal with iPhone via iCloud
In order to sync iCal with iPhone via iCloud successfully, you must make sure that iCloud is configured on both your iPhone and Mac. You can utilize your iCloud account in order to automatically sync your calendars across multiple computers or devices, including your iPhone. When you are sharing the same iCloud account, you can sync iCal with iPhone immediately. This method includes two parts.
First part: Sign in to iCloud on your iCal on Mac
1. Launch Calendar on Mac, click 'Calendar' on the top left, and click on 'Preferences'.
2. On Preferences setting panel, click 'Accounts' and choose iCloud as the Account Type and then click 'Continue'.
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3. Input your Apple ID and Password, and click 'Sign In'.
4. After signing in, your iCloud calendar events are now seen in your iCal. Just click 'Refresh Calendars'.
Second part: Sign in to iCloud on your iPhone
1. Click 'Settings' on your iPhone and choose iCloud.
2. Input Apple ID and Password to sign in iCloud.
3. After signing in, you will see a list of applications. Select 'Calendars' and choose 'Merge' when it shows 'You calendars will be merged with iCloud'. Later, your iCal calendar events are now viewable on your iPhone's calendar under the same iCloud account.
Method 3. Sync iCal with iPhone via Google Calendar
The third method for syncing iCal with iPhone is via Google Calendar. Like method 2, I also divide this method into two parts. First, you need to sync Google Calendar with iCal. Second, sync Google Calendar with iPhone.
First part: Sync Google Calendar with iCal
1. Launch Calendar on Mac, click 'Calendar' on the top left, and click on 'Preferences'.
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2. On Preferences setting panel, click 'Accounts' and choose Google as the Account Type and then click 'Continue'.
3. Enter your Google credentials and then click on 'Next' button to create Google Account.
4. Later, refresh calendars and then the iCal details will be showed in Google calendar.
Second part: Sync Google Calendar with iPhone
1. Tap Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars on iPhone.
2. Choose Add Account > Google.
3. Enter your Google account.
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4. Tap Calendars to ON. Now tap on 'Save' from top right corner. Your Google Calendar will be synced with your iPhone and you will see all the contents on Google Calendar. Since iCal's detailed information have been also synced with Google Calendar, you will see all the contents on iCal on your iPhone as well.
Part 2: How to Fix if iCal Not Syncing with iPhone?
During the process of syncing iCal with iPhone, we might encounter many situaions where iCal won't sync with iPhone. Here I am going to show you how to fix if iCal not syncing with iPhone.
Situation 1: Incorrect date and time settings
Check all your settings to be set up right, including date and time. It is a common issue to get errors if the date and the time aren't properly set.
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Situation 2: iPhone without internet connection
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Make sure you have an internet connection so that your calendars and events will update on your device.
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Situation 3: iPhone running on an old iOS version
You need to have at least iOS 5 in order to use the Calendar. Download a newer version if you still get errors.
Besides, there are several golden rules while fixing the issue. Such as, reopen the iCal, restart iPhone and update iOS version. Then you will sync the iCal with iPhone easily.