For Mac · iPhone, iPad & Apple Watch included
One keystroke and your whole schedule is there — month, agenda, reminders, invitations — then it's gone before the rest of your Mac notices. Apple, Google, and Microsoft calendars, one impossibly quick Mac app.
Need the big picture? Open the full Mac calendar — Day, Week, Month, Quarter, Year and List. Leave the Mac? Your iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch apps are already yours.
One $19.99 purchase gets the whole InstaCal family. No separate mobile unlock, no Pro tier, no subscription, and no InstaCal account to create.
One box. Type anything.
A few letters finds an event. A sentence creates one. “Move gym to Friday” edits it, with a preview before anything changes.
…press return. That's the whole workflow.
Create events and reminders, or move, cancel and rename what is already there. On supported Macs, iPhones and iPads running version 26 or later, Apple Intelligence can add on-device context; InstaCal's built-in parser works without it. Quick Add is localized across 12 languages.
The Agenda
Keep scrolling up to 400 days ahead or back through 24 months of history. Anything that needs an answer gets answered in place.
Put event times above the title, below it, or in a leading column — whichever scans fastest for you.
See schedule conflicts immediately. Direct Google and Microsoft accounts can reply with a comment, change the answer until the meeting ends, or reply silently; Apple invitations open in Calendar.
Due reminders sit right in your day, priority marks and all. Click the circle to complete.
Event details open beside the panel, never over it. Long notes expand with a click.
The Calendar Window
Press ⌘0 and InstaCal opens a real Mac window — Day, Week, Month, Quarter, Year and List, with the agenda alongside it and an event inspector that edits in place. Same app, same purchase. The screen below is captured from the actual app with sample calendar data.
Day through List are ⌘1–⌘6. Drag the pane dividers to resize; ⌃⌘S and ⌃⌘I hide the sidebar and the details pane.
Month is one continuous run of weeks, Quarter thirteen with the month boundaries ruled as seams, Year a run of month rows four across — and Week slides sideways through two to seven days at a time, three by default.
Set the column beside the grid to your agenda, a scrolling run of months, the calendar list, both together — or nothing, and the toolbar moves up beside the month title.
Drag events to reschedule them, or pull the resize handles in 15-minute steps in Day and Week.
Select an event and the details pane is the editor — title, times, location with a map, alerts, notes. Every change saves itself. No Edit button, no Save.
Type “next Tuesday” or “two weeks from now,” or skim a continuous month list with event marks.
Forecasts fill the days your source covers; principal moon phases are calculated locally on your Mac.
Date, start, end, title, location, calendar and a Join button — show the ones you want, drag them to any width.
Ten Designs · 22 Home Screen Layouts
Every image below is captured from InstaCal’s real iOS WidgetKit picker. See every Small, Medium and Large Home Screen layout for Next Event, Now + Next, Days Ahead, Week Map, Reminders, Today, Month, Up Next + Calendar, Countdowns and Action Center.
Month and Week Map preserve spanning events as real bars; Reminders stay actionable; Countdowns keep calendar-linked and standalone dates visible.
Included with the Mac app
InstaCal is a full native calendar on iPhone and iPad, with the next thing that matters on Apple Watch. The iPhone and iPad apps are not limited companions; Watch is built for a two-second glance. You bought InstaCal; every app is yours.
Apple Watch
See the day briefing, follow a live event countdown, and put InstaCal in your complications or Smart Stack.
Pinch the grid to fit two weeks on screen or six, show work days only so Monday to Friday get the full width, and open on the current week or the top of the month. The week strip swipes on for ever, two to seven days at a time.
The agenda, calendar and inspector adapt into two or three panes instead of stretching a phone layout across the screen — with search and quick add in the sidebar, filters, a + for events and reminders, and a long press on any empty hour to open the full editor.
Home Screen widgets cover Next Event, Agenda, Month, Up Next + Calendar and Day Briefing. The Lock Screen gets glanceable widgets and optional Live Activities; Quick Add can be a control.
Add, move, cancel and rename in natural language — and search from the same field. Siri and Shortcuts can add or change an event, get the next event, or open InstaCal.
Full editors, invitations, Apple Reminders and Todoist tasks side by side — tick one off in a widget and it completes in Todoist — plus meeting Join buttons, weather, moon phases and a second time zone.
See measured travel time and a leave-by time in event details, with optional time-to-leave alerts and departure-aware Live Activities.
The Mac app leads. iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch are included — fully native and fully InstaCal.
Weather
Planning Saturday means checking Saturday's weather — so it's right there in the day header: conditions, high, and low. No detour to a weather app.
Apple Weather or The Weather Company — pick in Settings, or turn it off entirely.
Far-off headers add “· in 7 days,” so distance reads at a glance too.
Meetings
InstaCal finds the call link wherever it is buried — URL field, location, notes — and turns it into a Join button in the agenda row, event details and notification. It stays available until the meeting ends.
Or make the meeting yourself: connect Zoom once and the event editor mints a Zoom meeting on any calendar — not only the ones whose provider offers Meet or Teams. It belongs to the event, so it travels with it between calendars and goes away when the event does.
Starts in 5 minutes · Zoom
Same event, three exits: the row, the flyout, the notification.
Calendar Sets
Name a group of calendars and switch the whole panel from the footer. On the clock, “Work” hides the family noise; at 6 PM, “Personal” hides the standups. Try it — click a set.
Add the account here, not in System Settings. iCloud, Fastmail, Yahoo and Fruux arrive with their server address already filled in and a link to where that provider issues an app-specific password; Google and Microsoft sign in through your browser; anything else standards-based goes in under CalDAV, and a webcal, .ics or HTTPS feed subscribes with an optional password and a re-check interval you choose. Tokens and app passwords stay in your Keychain.
Then browsing is instant, years deep: about six years of your calendar is mirrored on the Mac and only changes are synced, so a month in 2024 or 2029 paints the moment you arrive — on a plane as readily as at your desk.
Appearance
Settings show a live preview while the panel stays open, so you're never guessing. Accent color, panel background and size, day-header band and text colors, event indicator styles — all yours.
Choose the balance of titles, times and density that makes your day easiest to scan.
Drag the panel to the width and height you want; both stick. Week numbers and a second time zone are a toggle away.
Built for the Keyboard
Global hotkeys open the panel, start a new event, or jump to reminders from any app. When the panel closes, you're back exactly where you were.
Plan the Week
Save a workspace, find an open meeting and protect private time across accounts — all without publishing your calendar to us.
An overlap names the other event, the exact minutes in dispute and draws both on one timeline. Click it for an open time to move to, a shorter version, or Busy turned off. An event only outside your working hours reads as a note, not an alarm.
Before an edit, reschedule, move or delete reaches the people on an event, InstaCal asks whether to email them — the same Send / Don't Send choice Google Calendar offers.
Reuse only the event or reminder fields you choose, under a separate template name.
Share proposed open times as text, an image, PDF or calendar file.
Mirror selected commitments as generic Busy blocks on another calendar without copying details.
View, add, download, share and remove files on supported calendars.
Connect Calendar Sets to Apple Focus and restore the previous selection when the Focus ends.
Import and export ICS, preview duplicates and print the visible schedule.
The new searchable User Guide documents InstaCal across Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.
InstaCal is native Swift — no web wrapper — and contains zero analytics and zero tracking. Account tokens and app-specific passwords live in Apple’s Keychain, natural-language parsing happens on-device, and calendar data moves directly between your device and the providers you connect. InstaCal has no account system or calendar server of its own; optional weather uses the source you choose. Bringing InstaCal to work? The Security & Trust page lists every network connection and shows your IT team how to verify it.
The Rest of It
All of it included. There is no “Pro” tier — this is the whole app.
Duration chips, repeat rules, availability, multiple alerts and Maps location autocomplete — plus attendee invites for direct Google and Microsoft calendars.
Due dates, priority, list, notes — even location-based geofence alerts. Connect Todoist and its tasks sit in the same lists and days.
Join calls, snooze or complete reminders, and get directions. Direct Google and Microsoft accounts can answer invitations from the banner too.
On directly connected Google and Microsoft calendars, say why you're declining — or reply silently and skip the email entirely.
Star where new events land, or name another calendar in Quick Add. On supported Macs, iPhones and iPads, Apple Intelligence can infer more from context.
Override any calendar's color locally — even ones an admin controls.
Edit, duplicate, turn an event into a reminder, reschedule, move calendars, mark busy or free, join, share, or delete.
See another zone alongside yours — for teams that live nine hours apart.
InstaCal and its natural-language entry are available in English plus 11 translated locales.
Request a Feature lives in Settings: a type, a one-line summary, details and an optional screenshot, straight to the people who build InstaCal. No mail client, no account.
Pricing
Not $4.99/month. Not $39/year. Not “free with Pro features”.
That's the entire business model. No subscription, no InstaCal account to create, no upsells, no AI credits. One App Store purchase unlocks InstaCal on Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.
Questions
Yes. Pay $19.99 once on the App Store and InstaCal is yours on Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. There is no subscription, mobile add-on, Pro tier, account, or in-app purchase.
The Mac app requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later. iPhone and iPad require iOS or iPadOS 18 or later, and the included Apple Watch app requires watchOS 11 or later.
No. They are full native calendar apps with Agenda, Day, Week, Month, Quarter and Year views, full event and reminder editors, invitations, quick add and edit, weather, meetings, widgets and more. iPad expands into a two- or three-pane workspace; Apple Watch focuses on Now, Next and Later.
Yes, and you add them here rather than in System Settings first. Google and Microsoft sign in through your browser; iCloud, Fastmail, Yahoo and Fruux arrive with their server address filled in and a link to where that provider issues an app-specific password; anything else standards-based goes in under CalDAV. A webcal, .ics or HTTPS feed subscribes with an optional password and a re-check interval you choose. Your events remain with those providers.
No — that is just the fastest way in. Press ⌘0 for a full window with Day, Week, Month, Quarter, Year and List views and an event inspector that edits in place. The sidebar beside the grid is yours to set: your agenda, a scrolling run of months, the calendar list, both together, or nothing at all.
On supported Macs, iPhones and iPads, Apple Intelligence adds more on-device context to natural-language entry, including better calendar inference. InstaCal's own Quick Add parser works without it in 12 languages. Search and English Quick Edit commands stay available from the same field.
Your calendars stay in sync through Apple, Google or Microsoft. InstaCal does not create its own account or preferences cloud, so appearance and device-specific settings are configured on each device.
There are no analytics, tracking SDKs, or InstaCal account. Tokens stay in Apple’s Keychain, parsing happens on-device, and calendar data moves directly between your device and the provider you connect. Optional weather uses the source you choose.