What InstaCal costs, exactly
- Price
- $9.99 once on the Mac App Store — a one-time purchase, not a subscription.
- Tiers
- There is no Pro tier and no in-app purchase. One price buys every feature, including the ones added later.
- Account
- None. InstaCal has no sign-up, no login of ours, and no profile.
- Updates
- Included. New features go to everyone who owns the app.
- Refunds
- Purchases go through Apple, so refunds are handled by Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com.
- Family Sharing
- Handled by the Mac App Store, like any paid Mac app.
- Privacy
- InstaCal is sandboxed by the Mac App Store and contains no analytics and no tracking. Account tokens stay in your Keychain and events sync directly between your Mac and your calendar provider — there is no server of ours in between.
Nothing about InstaCal costs money every month.
Subscriptions exist for a reason. That reason mostly doesn't apply here.
There is no server
Your events sync directly between your Mac and your calendar provider. Nothing routes through infrastructure of ours, because there isn't any.
There is no account system
No sign-ups to store, no passwords to reset, no support burden that scales with users — so no recurring cost to fund.
There is nothing to monetise
No ads, no analytics, no data. The purchase is the entire business model, which is the version of that sentence you want to hear.
It's one platform
Mac only, deliberately. A single native app is a fraction of the ongoing cost of a suite across five platforms.
The honest caveat
A one-time price means the app has to keep earning new customers to fund its own development. That is a real constraint and it shapes what InstaCal will ever be: a focused Mac menu bar app that gets steadily better, not a suite that sprawls across every platform.
If what you need is a calendar service — shared scheduling links, availability pages, a web app — a subscription product is the right tool and you should buy one. InstaCal is for the other case.
Questions about pricing
How much does InstaCal cost?
Is there a Pro version or an in-app purchase?
Do I have to create an account?
Are updates free?
How do I get a refund?
Does InstaCal collect any data?
One payment. Every feature. No account.
$9.99 once on the Mac App Store.
$9.99 once on the Mac App Store. No subscription, no account, no ads.
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