Blipcal features
A complete menu bar calendar for Mac: month view, agenda, events you can add and edit in place, a next-meeting countdown, world clocks and reminders.
Blipcal is a menu bar calendar for macOS 14 and later. It shows today's date and your next event in the menu bar, opens a month grid and agenda with one click or ⌃⇧C, and lets you add, edit and delete events without opening Calendar.
Everything in one panel
One click on the date, or ⌃⇧C from any app, and the month, your agenda and your time zones are there.
Add and edit calendar events in place
Create with ⌘N or a double-click on a day: title, calendar, times, all-day, repeat, alert, location, URL and notes, or switch the form to a reminder. Click any existing event to change the same things, delete this or all future occurrences, and undo.
Honest note: attendee lists show in the detail popover, but macOS does not let a third-party app change them, so inviting people is still done in Calendar.
Natural-language event entry with a live preview
Type it the way you would say it. The chips under the field show what was understood before anything is saved.
Day, time, length, calendar, place and alert, read as you type. The dim chips are the defaults from Settings; “/Work” picks a calendar, and “alert 10m” sets the alert. Every word it knows.
Join the next meeting from the menu bar calendar
⌘J joins the first live meeting and closes the panel. Copy the link from the event's popover.
- Zoom
- Teams
- Google Meet
- Webex
- Chime
- Jitsi
- FaceTime
- Slack huddles
- Whereby
- Around
- Discord
Outlook Safe Links are unwrapped, so a wrapped Teams link opens as Teams.
A second clock and a world-clock strip
Add up to eight zones. One can sit in the menu bar after your clock; all of them line up in a strip under the grid, and the slider moves every clock together.
Reminders in the agenda
See, tick off and add reminders beside your events, with an Overdue section at the top of today. Reminders access is asked for separately, and everything else works without it.
On macOS 14 and later. Itsycal's reminders exist only on its macOS 27 build (0.28.0, checked 6 November 2026).
Always current
Events refresh as soon as they change in any app, and a deleted event disappears at once.
Hands on the keys
Appearance and settings
Five tabs: General, Calendars, Appearance, Menu bar and License.
Light, dark or system
Plus an accent colour and three panel sizes.
The month, your way
First weekday, shaded days, event dots, week numbers, six to ten rows.
ISO or locale week numbers
ISO 8601 when the week starts on Monday, your region's rule otherwise.
Export and import settings
Every setting except your license, as one file.
Signed updates
Checks once a day, asks before installing, launch at login if you like.
blipcal://date/2026-12-24A URL scheme
Open any date from a script or a shortcut.
Calendars and reminders read through Apple’s EventKit, on your MacUpdates delivered by Sparkle
Not in 1.0
So the comparison pages can be trusted, here is what the first release leaves out.
Not yet
- A week view (planned for 1.1), a three-month view and events that span days in the grid.
- Fullscreen or floating meeting alerts.
- Event search, widgets and Shortcuts actions.
- Intel Macs. Apple silicon only.
Features FAQ
Does it need an account?
Can I use it without calendar access?
Does it work with Exchange and Google?
Can I hide the system clock?
Can I keep Blipcal and Itsycal both installed?
Try Blipcal free for 14 days
Today's date and your next meeting in the menu bar, a month grid and agenda one click away, and events you can add and edit in place. Pay once if you keep it.
- macOS 14 or later
- Apple silicon
- 14-day free trial