Blipcal help
Setup and how-to guides for your Mac menu bar calendar: calendar access, licenses, the menu bar pattern and keyboard shortcuts.
Getting started
Getting started with Blipcal
Install the menu bar calendar, grant calendar access, learn the shortcut and add your first event.
Read guideCalendar and Reminders access
Grant Blipcal access to your calendars and reminders in System Settings, and bring Google, Exchange or iCloud calendars to your Mac.
Read guideOpening Blipcal the first time
Get past the first-open security prompt for the menu bar calendar with Open Anyway, or a right-click on macOS 14, until Blipcal is notarized.
Read guideLicense
Reference
Menu bar pattern reference
Write your own date, time, week number and next-event text for the Mac menu bar with Unicode date pattern letters and Blipcal's tokens.
Read guideKeyboard shortcuts
Drive the Mac menu bar calendar from the keyboard: open it, move by day, week or month, jump to today, add and join.
Read guideTry 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