BusyCal Downloads & RevenueBusyCal: Calendar & Tasks · App Store
BusyCal: Calendar & Tasks is #21 in Productivity Paid in United States and charting in 25 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 9 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperBusy Apps FZE
CategoryProductivity
Price9.99 USD
Released
Rating★ 4.7 (4.5k)
Version6.8.2
Age rating4+
First seen by us
24 Sep 2026
24 Sep 2026Installs (est.)500k+ worldwide
BusyCal: Calendar & Tasks update history & changes
Last change · 32 events since 21 Jun 2016Full timeline ↓📈Entered the top 10📦Updated to version 6.8.2📈Entered the top 10📦Updated to version 6.8.1✏️New iPad screenshots✏️New screenshots🆕First spotted by AppInsider🆕Released on the App Store
Full timeline · 32 events
- 📈BusyCal: Calendar & Tasks entered the top 10Top Paid · Productivity · TH
- ✏️BusyCal: Calendar & Tasks: app got bigger128 MB → 141 MB (+10%)
- 📦BusyCal: Calendar & Tasks updated to version 6.8.2· [NEW] Added support for joining Feishu and DingTalk meetings
· Improved recognition of supported meeting links pasted without https://
· Improved Day and Week layouts to keep event titles, Join buttons, times, and controls clear
· Improved search matching for straight and curly quotes, hyphens, and dashes
· Improved Canadian time-zone support for Microsoft calendar events, recurrence, and alarms
· Improved sync reliability when saving changes or recovering from interrupted CalDAV uploads
· Fixed duplicate events when importing edited recurring events from Apple Calendar
· Fixed missing details and recurrence errors when importing meeting invitations into Microsoft 365
· Fixed time-zone handling for recurring all-day Microsoft 365 events and edited occurrences
· Fixed Google calendar metadata refresh after resubscribing to a calendar
· Fixed unnecessary repeat sign-in prompts after a CalDAV connection recovers
· Fixed overdue tasks failing to carry forward at midnight
· Fixed Todoist reminder times around daylight-saving changes
· Fixed time-blocking prompts for recurring events on read-only calendars
· Ongoing stability and performance enhancements… more - 📈BusyCal: Calendar & Tasks entered the top 10Top Paid · Productivity · AE
- 📦BusyCal: Calendar & Tasks updated to version 6.8.1· Improved calendar selection for Siri and Shortcuts
· Improved meeting availability checks for all-day events and when rescheduling meetings
· Several improvements to the Edit screen
· Fixed default calendars and start times not being applied correctly to new events and tasks
· Fixed new events being saved to default calendars on disabled accounts
· Fixed new all-day events incorrectly defaulting to Busy
· Fixed custom alert times changing when reopening the alert editor or crossing daylight saving changes
· Fixed the Done button returning to the wrong screen in custom alarm settings
· Fixed Day view failing to scroll to the current time when opening BusyCal
· Fixed incorrect Chinese lunar month and day labels
· Fixed Google sync repeatedly failing after cancelled or rejected event updates
· Fixed creating Microsoft 365 calendars and syncing calendar names, colors and Microsoft To Do list names
· Fixed repeated CalDAV password prompts and misleading event errors after sign-in failures
· Fixed missing shared group calendars on DAViCal servers
· Ongoing stability and performance enhancements… more - 📈BusyCal: Calendar & Tasks entered the top 10Top Paid · Productivity · PL
- ✏️BusyCal: Calendar & Tasks: new iPad screenshots· MX
- ✏️BusyCal: Calendar & Tasks: new screenshots6 screenshots (was 6) · MX
- 📈BusyCal: Calendar & Tasks entered the top 10Top Paid · Productivity · ID
- 📈BusyCal: Calendar & Tasks entered the top 10Top Paid · Productivity · PH
- ✏️BusyCal: Calendar & Tasks: new iPad screenshots· JP
- ✏️BusyCal: Calendar & Tasks: new screenshots6 screenshots (was 6) · JP
- ✏️BusyCal: Calendar & Tasks: new iPad screenshots· CN
- ✏️BusyCal: Calendar & Tasks: new screenshots6 screenshots (was 6) · CN
- ✏️BusyCal: Calendar & Tasks: new iPad screenshots· 25 countries
- ✏️BusyCal: Calendar & Tasks: new screenshots6 screenshots (was 6) · 26 countries
- ✏️BusyCal: Calendar & Tasks: new iPad screenshots· ID
- ✏️BusyCal: Calendar & Tasks: new screenshots6 screenshots (was 6) · ID
- 📦BusyCal: Calendar & Tasks updated to version 6.8.0· [NEW] Added iPhone Duo support
· Improved Outlook and Microsoft 365 sync for recurring events, custom time zones and calendar moves
· Improved Exchange meeting replies when moving meetings between calendars
· Improved recovery from Google Calendar usage limits
· Improved sync reliability for shared CalDAV calendars and large Stalwart calendars
· Improved performance when reordering tasks
· Restored Calendar Set automatic activation settings for time, weekday and location
· Fixed the keyboard’s Done button when editing event titles
· Fixed recurring events disappearing after certain Microsoft 365 sync errors
· Fixed Zoom links disappearing from Google Calendar event locations
· Ongoing stability and performance enhancements… more - 📈BusyCal: Calendar & Tasks entered the top 10Top Paid · Productivity · MY
- 📈BusyCal: Calendar & Tasks entered the top 10Top Paid · Productivity · MX
- 📈BusyCal: Calendar & Tasks entered the top 10 in 2 chartsTop Paid · Productivity · FR · Top Paid · Productivity · KR
- 📦BusyCal: Calendar & Tasks updated to version 6.7.7· [NEW] Added Year as a preferred view for Calendar Sets on iPad
· Improved Siri support for managing events and tasks
· Improved search field placement in time zone and account-sharing settings
· Improved natural language entry for floating events and recurring schedules across time zones
· Improved Outlook sync for recurring events with custom time zones
· Improved CalDAV sync reliability, including initial syncing with shared DAViCal calendars
· Improved meeting invitation and reply handling for Outlook and CalDAV accounts
· Improved Todoist reminder syncing after task edits
· Fixed Day and Week views shifting to another position after saving an event
· Fixed recurring task details switching to the next occurrence immediately after completion
· Fixed Apple Calendar and Reminders accounts sometimes being unavailable to connect
· Fixed linked contact names not following the expected name order
· Fixed dragging individual recurring occurrences between all-day and timed sections
· Fixed Google sync getting stuck after rejected event privacy changes
· Fixed duplicate events when reimporting calendar files and improved handling of recurring-event changes
· Fixed Korean lunar birthdays imported from Apple Contacts
· Corrected date handling when using alternative system calendars
· Ongoing stability and performance enhancements… more - 📈BusyCal: Calendar & Tasks entered the top 10Top Paid · Productivity · GB
- 📈BusyCal: Calendar & Tasks entered the top 10Top Paid · Productivity · ES
- 📈BusyCal: Calendar & Tasks entered the top 10 in 4 chartsTop Paid · Productivity · AU · Top Paid · Productivity · BR · Top Paid · Productivity · DE · Top Paid · Productivity · SA
- 📈BusyCal: Calendar & Tasks entered the top 10Top Paid · Productivity · IN
- 📈BusyCal: Calendar & Tasks entered the top 10 in 2 chartsTop Paid · Productivity · NL · Top Paid · Productivity · SE
- 📦BusyCal: Calendar & Tasks updated to version 6.7.6· [NEW] New support for pasting multiple email addresses when adding attendees
· [NEW] New 30-minute snooze option for event and task notifications
· Improved recurring time blocks across time zone and daylight saving changes
· Improved Outlook syncing for events using certain custom time zones
· Improved syncing with SOGo and shared DAViCal calendars
· Improved Apple Watch syncing and background stability
· Improved error messages for Microsoft sign-in and CalDAV sync failures
· Fixed time blocking of recurring events to offer a choice between one occurrence and the entire series
· Fixed resizing of floating events in Day and Week views
· Fixed incorrect dimming of floating and all-day events in different time zones
· Fixed an extra day being highlighted when editing all-day events
· Fixed week numbers overlapping dates in Month view in some locales
· Fixed duplicate recurring tasks when syncing with Outlook
· Fixed syncing of edits and deletions to individual occurrences in Outlook
· Fixed duplicate subscribed calendars showing up for certain WebDAV subscriptions
· Ongoing stability and performance enhancements… more - 🆕BusyCal: Calendar & Tasks first spotted by AppInsider#24 in Top Paid · Productivity · United Kingdom
- 📦BusyCal: Calendar & Tasks version 6.7.5No release notes
- 🆕BusyCal: Calendar & Tasks released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
4.7 ★
4.5k ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#21
Productivity PaidMeasured
New ratings a week
15
▼ -30% vs the 2 weeks before
Measured
BusyCal: Calendar & Tasks at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-08. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
BusyCal is a premium, one-time-purchase calendar and task management app for iOS that integrates with major account types to offer advanced scheduling features like natural language input, customizable views, and deep sync capabilities for busy professionals. The app maintains strong visibility in the paid productivity charts across Europe and Asia, ranking as high as #6 in Spain and #8 in Thailand, while holding steady positions in key markets like the US (#21) and Germany (#17).
Similar apps: Fantastical, Calendar by Readdle, Microsoft Outlook
BusyCal: Calendar & Tasks on the App Store
App details
App ID
1035689743
Publisher
Busy Apps FZE
On the store since
Jun 2016
10 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 18.0+
iPhone XS and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad · Watch
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
11
NL EN FR DE IT JA KO PT RU ZH ES
Size
141 MB
Also listed in
Business
BusyCal: Calendar & Tasks downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where BusyCal: Calendar & Tasks's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| United States | ProductivityPaid | #21 |
 Germany | ProductivityPaid | #8 |
 Japan | ProductivityPaid | #18 |
 Spain | ProductivityPaid | #6 |
| United Kingdom | ProductivityPaid | #25 |
 France | ProductivityPaid | #17 |
 Netherlands | ProductivityPaid | #11 |
 Thailand | ProductivityPaid | #8 |
 Australia | ProductivityPaid | #36 |
 Canada | ProductivityPaid | #45 |
 South Korea | ProductivityPaid | #78 |
 India | ProductivityPaid | #86 |
 Brazil | ProductivityPaid | #113 |
 Russia | ProductivityPaid | #107 |
 Poland | ProductivityPaid | #63 |
 Indonesia | ProductivityPaid | #109 |
 Taiwan | ProductivityPaid | #115 |
 Mexico | ProductivityPaid | #155 |
 United Arab Emirates | ProductivityPaid | #102 |
 Sweden | ProductivityPaid | #90 |
 Philippines | ProductivityPaid | #83 |
 Vietnam | ProductivityPaid | #93 |
 Argentina | ProductivityPaid | #103 |
 South Africa | ProductivityPaid | #91 |
 Malaysia | ProductivityPaid | #120 |
Apps near BusyCal: Calendar & Tasks on the chart
Productivity Paid, around #21.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.7 ★
4.5k ratings
Measured
Ratings
4.5k
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
15
▼ -30% vs the 2 weeks before
Written reviews a week
under 1
US App Store
Lifetime rating
4.6★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Review momentum
64/100
faster than 84% of Productivity apps
New ratings by country (3)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 8.8 | 70% | ▼ -24% |
| Germany | 2.5 | 20% | steady |
| Netherlands | 1.2 | 10% | – |
App Store ratings in the countries we track, 4-week average.
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about BusyCal: Calendar & Tasks
From the 56 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users highly value the app's one-time payment model, deep customization, and cross-platform sync capabilities. However, recent updates have caused significant instability, including crashes, data loss, and synchronization errors that frustrate long-term users.
Mostly positive (80% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for its features and content, and being useful. The main complaints are about crashes and bugs, and recent updates.
What people like
- Features & content: “There's a ton of features”
- Useful: “Works great as advertised!”
- Price & subscription: “They don't pay me to say this”
- Updates: “BusyCal iOS fails to launch after iOS update”
Common complaints
- Crashes & bugs: “The devs updated this app 5 times in the last *week*, now it crashes on launch and is effectively unusable”
- Updates: “All Data Lost After 18.7 Update”
- Features & content: “Moving to app that has these features”
- Connection & sync: “Issues with Reminders synchronization”
About BusyCal: Calendar & Tasks
BusyCal is a calendar and task planner built for busy schedules. It connects to every account you already use, shows your events and tasks side by side, and bends to the way you work: pinch to see more days or weeks, type events the way you would say them, and keep everything in sync with BusyCal for Mac.
One-time purchase. No subscription.
YOUR CALENDAR, YOUR WAY
• Day, Week, Month, Year and List views, plus a dedicated Task list
• Pinch to zoom: 2 to 14 days per week and 2 to 8 weeks per month, with separate portrait and landscape layouts
• Customize colors, text size, weekend shading, week numbers and working hours, or show a Chinese, Hebrew, Islamic or Japanese calendar alongside
• Year view as a wall planner or heat map, with Highlights that reveal your busiest months, top calendars and meeting stats
TYPE IT THE WAY YOU WOULD SAY IT
• Type "Lunch with Sam next Tuesday at noon" or "Standup every weekday at 9:30" and BusyCal fills in the date, time and repeat as you type
• Understands alarms, time zones, calendars (/work) and links, in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, Korean and Simplified Chinese
TASKS IN YOUR CALENDAR
• Dated, timed and undated tasks appear right in your calendar and carry forward until done
• Priorities, repeats, and a Task list you can sort by due date, priority, calendar, tag or by hand
• Works with Apple Reminders, iCloud, Google Tasks, Todoist and Fastmail
EVERY ACCOUNT, ONE APP
• iCloud, Google Calendar, Microsoft 365, Outlook.com, Exchange, Yahoo, Fastmail, Fruux and any CalDAV server, plus WebDAV subscriptions for holidays and sports
• Push updates where your server supports them, and accounts you add once are offered to your other devices
• Syncs with BusyCal for Mac, Apple Calendar and any other app on the same accounts
MEETINGS AND INVITES
• Invite attendees, and accept, decline or reply Maybe straight from the Inbox
• Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Webex and GoTo links become one-tap join buttons, and you can create Zoom and Teams meetings from inside the app
• Block time on a second calendar in a couple of taps, with or without the details
WIDGETS, WATCH, SIRI AND SHORTCUTS
• Home Screen widgets for what is next, your agenda, the week, two weeks, three weeks, and tasks you can complete from the widget
• Lock Screen widgets and Control Center buttons for new events and tasks
• Apple Watch app with calendar, today, up next and tasks views, plus complications for your watch face
• Siri: "Add lunch with Sam tomorrow at noon", "What's coming up", "When am I free"
• Shortcuts actions to find, create, move, defer and complete items, and a Focus filter that switches calendar sets
TRAVEL TIME, MAPS AND TIME ZONES
• Add travel time to an event and get a leave-now alert based on real driving or walking time
• Maps inside event details, with directions in Apple Maps, Google Maps, Waze, Citymapper or TomTom GO
• Favorite time zones, and events that start and end in different zones
TAG
One-time purchase. No subscription.
YOUR CALENDAR, YOUR WAY
• Day, Week, Month, Year and List views, plus a dedicated Task list
• Pinch to zoom: 2 to 14 days per week and 2 to 8 weeks per month, with separate portrait and landscape layouts
• Customize colors, text size, weekend shading, week numbers and working hours, or show a Chinese, Hebrew, Islamic or Japanese calendar alongside
• Year view as a wall planner or heat map, with Highlights that reveal your busiest months, top calendars and meeting stats
TYPE IT THE WAY YOU WOULD SAY IT
• Type "Lunch with Sam next Tuesday at noon" or "Standup every weekday at 9:30" and BusyCal fills in the date, time and repeat as you type
• Understands alarms, time zones, calendars (/work) and links, in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, Korean and Simplified Chinese
TASKS IN YOUR CALENDAR
• Dated, timed and undated tasks appear right in your calendar and carry forward until done
• Priorities, repeats, and a Task list you can sort by due date, priority, calendar, tag or by hand
• Works with Apple Reminders, iCloud, Google Tasks, Todoist and Fastmail
EVERY ACCOUNT, ONE APP
• iCloud, Google Calendar, Microsoft 365, Outlook.com, Exchange, Yahoo, Fastmail, Fruux and any CalDAV server, plus WebDAV subscriptions for holidays and sports
• Push updates where your server supports them, and accounts you add once are offered to your other devices
• Syncs with BusyCal for Mac, Apple Calendar and any other app on the same accounts
MEETINGS AND INVITES
• Invite attendees, and accept, decline or reply Maybe straight from the Inbox
• Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Webex and GoTo links become one-tap join buttons, and you can create Zoom and Teams meetings from inside the app
• Block time on a second calendar in a couple of taps, with or without the details
WIDGETS, WATCH, SIRI AND SHORTCUTS
• Home Screen widgets for what is next, your agenda, the week, two weeks, three weeks, and tasks you can complete from the widget
• Lock Screen widgets and Control Center buttons for new events and tasks
• Apple Watch app with calendar, today, up next and tasks views, plus complications for your watch face
• Siri: "Add lunch with Sam tomorrow at noon", "What's coming up", "When am I free"
• Shortcuts actions to find, create, move, defer and complete items, and a Focus filter that switches calendar sets
TRAVEL TIME, MAPS AND TIME ZONES
• Add travel time to an event and get a leave-now alert based on real driving or walking time
• Maps inside event details, with directions in Apple Maps, Google Maps, Waze, Citymapper or TomTom GO
• Favorite time zones, and events that start and end in different zones
TAG
Latest updates
6.8.2
· [NEW] Added support for joining Feishu and DingTalk meetings
· Improved recognition of supported meeting links pasted without https://
· Improved Day and Week layouts to keep event titles, Join buttons, times, and controls clear
· Improved search matching for straight and curly quotes, hyphens, and dashes
· Improved Canadian time-zone support for Microsoft calendar events, recurrence, and alarms
· Improved sync reliability when saving changes or recovering from interrupted CalDAV uploads
· Fixed duplicate events when importing edited recurring events from Apple Calendar
· Fixed missing details and recurrence errors when importing meeting invitations into Microsoft 365
· Fixed time-zone handling for recurring all-day Microsoft 365 events and edited occurrences
· Fixed Google calendar metadata refresh after resubscribing to a calendar
· Fixed unnecessary repeat sign-in prompts after a CalDAV connection recovers
· Fixed overdue tasks failing to carry forward at midnight
· Fixed Todoist reminder times around daylight-saving changes
· Fixed time-blocking prompts for recurring events on read-only calendars
· Ongoing stability and performance enhancements
6.8.1
· Improved calendar selection for Siri and Shortcuts
· Improved meeting availability checks for all-day events and when rescheduling meetings
· Several improvements to the Edit screen
· Fixed default calendars and start times not being applied correctly to new events and tasks
· Fixed new events being saved to default calendars on disabled accounts
· Fixed new all-day events incorrectly defaulting to Busy
· Fixed custom alert times changing when reopening the alert editor or crossing daylight saving changes
· Fixed the Done button returning to the wrong screen in custom alarm settings
· Fixed Day view failing to scroll to the current time when opening BusyCal
· Fixed incorrect Chinese lunar month and day labels
· Fixed Google sync repeatedly failing after cancelled or rejected event updates
· Fixed creating Microsoft 365 calendars and syncing calendar names, colors and Microsoft To Do list names
· Fixed repeated CalDAV password prompts and misleading event errors after sign-in failures
· Fixed missing shared group calendars on DAViCal servers
· Ongoing stability and performance enhancements
6.8.0
· [NEW] Added iPhone Duo support
· Improved Outlook and Microsoft 365 sync for recurring events, custom time zones and calendar moves
· Improved Exchange meeting replies when moving meetings between calendars
· Improved recovery from Google Calendar usage limits
· Improved sync reliability for shared CalDAV calendars and large Stalwart calendars
· Improved performance when reordering tasks
· Restored Calendar Set automatic activation settings for time, weekday and location
· Fixed the keyboard’s Done button when editing event titles
· Fixed recurring events disappearing after certain Microsoft 365 sync errors
· Fixed Zoom links disappearing from Google Calendar event locations
· Ongoing stability and performance enhancements
Store changes
What BusyCal: Calendar & Tasks changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
App got bigger
128 MB → 141 MB (+10%)
New iPad screenshots
New screenshots
6 screenshots (was 6)
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