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I recently switched from Windows to a Mac and one of the first things I noticed was the lack of calendar in the menu bar. While there are plenty of full-fledged Calendar apps for Mac, I wanted a simple and easy app that sits on the Menu bar. Let’s check those out.
A calendar is an important utility app that every OS should have and macOS does have a pretty good Calendar app that syncs with your iCloud account. However, you can’t actually see the calendar in the menu ba and there is no widget to go with it as well. The apps listed below are built to offer that functionality in mind and have a few other options to enhance the user experience.
Best Calendars Apps
1. iCultus
Let’s start with a simple Calendar app, iCultus is the Calendar that should have been available by default. It sits on the Menu bar at the top and shows you a calendar for the current month when you click the icon.
To be honest that’s all I need for a widget to do and maybe move forward and backward in months to plan any upcoming holidays. While it doesn’t show any events lined up on your iCloud calendar, it gives you a button to launch the Calendar app so that you can take action in the real app. It is also open-source and free if you care about that kind of stuff.
Get iCultus (free)
2. Quick View Calendar
This next app does exactly what iCultus did, so why would you choose this app over the previous one? One word; aesthetics, if you care about consistency and want a Calendar app that matches the overall theme and layout of the OS then this app is perfect.
It has that translucent interface with a dark gray and white color scheme that matches well with the Dark theme on macOS. The icon sits on the Menu bar for quick access and has arrow keys to look up upcoming and past months.
Get Quick View Calendar (free)
3. ItsyCal
Okay, we’ve got the basics covered so let’s talk about some actual features. ItsyCal is built for easy access but also offers some functionality that you would want from a Calendar app. You can customize the app to your preferences, for example, you can set the theme to match the system, highlight a day of the week, get upcoming events notification in the widget itself, and the ability to create events and appointments.
The app can also automatically launch itself at the restart, unlike the above two apps which mean I don’t have to restart the app every time the Mac reboots.
The app syncs everything to the iCloud so whatever you have planned would show up on the widget. I like ItsyCal because of two features; pinning the widget to keep it on the top, and real-time Date and Month on the Menu bar icon. Also, it’s free.
Get ItsyCal (free)
4. Quick Calendar
We’ve got enough apps covered that sit on the Menu bar so let’s include one that sits in the Notification area. We all check out the notifications area anyway so it would be a good idea to put a small calendar there. Quick Calendar needs to be added manually by going to the edit menu on the bottom of the notifications panel. After you enable it, it will stay in the notifications panel.
Feature-wise, it is as basic as it gets, it only shows the current month and arrow keys to look upcoming and past months. However, if you want to have a quick glance at the Calendar while checking out Notifications, then Quick Calendar is the one.
Get Quick Calendar (free)
5. Next Meeting
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Next Meeting is a little widget that shows you upcoming events on the Menu Bar. Let’s say you plan out your week in advance and have meetings at different hours, this app would take that info from the iCloud and slap it on the Menu bar so that you can miss it ever. If you click the icon, it shows you upcoming events in the coming days. You can customize which meetings to display and choose between in-progress, today’s meetings, and all-day meetings.
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Get Next Meeting (free)
6. Calendars
Calendars is not like other apps in the list, instead of giving you a simple Calendar Widget on the Menu bar, it gives you full-fledged Calendar with lots of features. For starters, you can set a different picture for every month, just like a real calendar, if that’s not your jam, you can make it subtle and translucent to match the theme of your System.
It syncs with your iCloud, Facebook, and Google Calendar to keep you updated. If that wasn’t enough, you can also enable weather options in this app and you would get a real-time day-wise forecast, right below each day.
Calendars is a free app on the App Store but you can upgrade either with the Subscription($0.99/mo) or one-time license fee ($19.99).
Get Calendars (free)
7. InstaCal
While Calendars app is great for remembering birthdays from Facebook and getting reminders from Google, InstaCal is meant for professionals who use Office 365, Google Calendar, and Outlook. You can integrate, view and respond to invitations right from the Menubar pop up. Along with the menu bar, InstaCal also has a Dock app which lets you use the app to its full potential.
Apart from events, you can also view your reminders within the app and create new ones. The themes can be customized and the app has Touchbar support as well. With all these features combined, you only have to $5 to own this app which in my opinion is pretty good.
Get InstaCal ($4.99)
Best Easy Calendar Apps for Mac
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Well, these were my picks for best easy calendar apps for mac when you want more than what native Calendar app offers. Itsycal, Quick View Calendar, iCultus, are great choices when you just want a quick way to look at the Calendar. Next Meeting serves its own niche where it reminds you of upcoming events, and Calendars let you integrate Facebook and Google Calendar. Instacal is best for people who want a professional Calendar app with integrations for Outlook, Office 365, etc. Which app would you use, let me know in the comments?
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This detailed step-by-step guide will show you how to add icons to the Menu Bar on your Mac that allow you to launch Apps and quickly access files or folders.
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- Head over to the Mac App Store and download and install XMenu. It’s a small App and completely free. Once the installation has completed, the XMenu Help file may open. If it does, just minimize it for now and give it a review later.
- You’ll be prompted to allow XMenu to control your Mac. When the System Preferences open select the small ‘lock’ icon in the bottom left corner so that you can make changes. Once you’ve entered your password, place a check in the box next to XMenu.app
- When XMenu opens for the first time, one or more new icons will appear in your Menu Bar. Click the one that looks like an “A”.
- A list of all your Applications will appear. If you select any of your Apps from this list, they’ll open.
- To further configure XMenu, select the “A” icon again but this time choose XMenu and then Preferences…
- From here you can really customize XMenu. The first section contains all of the items that can be displayed in the Menu Bar. The first is Applications which we’ve already covered, the next is Developer which if enabled will display a menu like the Applications one, except it will only display the Apps listed in /Developer/Applications (which most of us don’t even have or use). The third item is Home, which will display a list of all the files and folders in your /Users/“your-user-name” folder. User Defined is a menu that you can really customize (and we’ll cover it in depth a bit further down) and the last menu is Snippets, which we’ll also cover in detail.
- Place a check in the Documents box.
- A new icon will appear in your menu bar – one that looks like two ‘documents’. Give it a click.
- Ta-da – all of the files and folders in your Documents folder are now just two clicks away.
- Return to the XMenu Preferences and this time place a check in the box next to User-Defined
- This time a ‘heart’ icon will appear in your Menu Bar. Don’t bother clicking it yet, there’s nothing there. Let’s fix that.
- Open a Finder window and select Go from the Menu Bar and then Go to Folder… from the drop-down menu.
- Copy and paste the following text into the Go to the folder: field and click the Go button:
~/Library/Application Support/XMenu/Custom
- A new Finder window will open and display the contents (nothing yet) of your XMenu Custom folder.
- Now put some stuff in that Custom folder – a good place to start is with some Alias files.
- After you’ve placed at least one alias or file into the Custom folder, click the new ‘heart’ icon in your Menu Bar to access them.
- Once again open the Preferences and this time place a check in the box labeled Snippets. Repeat steps #12 and #13 but this time paste in the following line:
~/Library/Application Support/XMenu/Snippets
A Finder window will open to an empty folder named Snippets
- Copy some text files into the Snippets folder.
- From the Menu Bar click the ‘scissors’ icon and you’ll see a list of the text files in your Snippets folder. These behave a bit differently than the other XMenu items – when you select one of the text files its contents will be ‘pasted’ wherever your cursor is (eg. composing an email, editing a document etc).
- Make sure to check out some of the other Preferences for XMenu. They mostly have to do with the interface – you can customize the size of the XMenu icons, whether they have text names next to the icon or just the icon, and more.