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1. 3.5Latest
   August 24, 2026 MaciOS

   Week on Week, and paging on iPad

   A new Week on Week view lines the same weekday up across seven weeks on the Mac, Week and Day page under a swipe on iPad, and Google and Outlook sync now rides out a rate limit instead of failing on first touch.

   The filter you are in, named where the calendars areMac

   Every Smart Filter waits in the panel's calendars popover, and the one that is on is marked. A filter bundles a search, a set of calendars, rules and a view into something you can return to: a rule can require a word or exclude one, match the hour an event starts or the day of the week, and the rules combine with All or Any.

   The same filters sit in the View menu with a shortcut key of your own, so a workspace is one keystroke away, and Clear Smart Filter puts the panel back the way it was.

   

   Seven of the same weekday, side by sideMac

   Week on Week lines up one weekday from seven weeks in a row, so the shape of the weeks ahead stands out at a glance. Every column is the same day of the week, the all-day strip and weather ride along with each one, and the day you are on is marked in the header.

   Switch it on under Settings ▸ Appearance ▸ Calendar, then choose it from the view switcher. The arrow buttons or a swipe slide the whole row a week at a time.

   

   This event, or all future onesMac

   Editing one occurrence of a repeating Google or Outlook event now asks which occurrences you mean. Save on a series event offers This Event Only or All Future right in the editor, and the same question reaches deleting, rescheduling and a drag in the grid — the choice Apple calendars have always had.

   Guests hear about what changed, and replying to one occurrence of a repeating invitation answers for the whole series.

   

   Plus 23 smaller changes — fixes, tidy-ups and one-line wins that didn't need a paragraph. See every line →

   Everything in this release

   • Countdowns keep the dates that matter in sight. Add any calendar event, or a date that lives nowhere else, and watch it from the desktop, a widget or the menu bar itself. One set on a repeating event follows the series, so a birthday or a weekly review rolls forward on its ownMac
   • Ten widgets, each configured on its own — agenda, month, next event, now and next, week map, days ahead, countdowns and reminders, every one with its own calendar set, theme, text size, privacy and weather. And they act without opening the app: flip through months, page a busy day in place, look ahead a week at a time, and check off a reminder right on the widgetMac
   • Invitations keep asking until you answer. A bell holds every unanswered one, including those on a calendar you have hidden, and you reply with Accept, Maybe or Decline from the agenda row, from a right-click on the calendar, or from the invitation itself. A meeting you have not answered is drawn as unanswered rather than settled, and one you declined stops taking up your dayMac
   • Repeating events on Google and Outlook calendars now ask the question Apple's have always had: change this event only, or all future events? Editing, deleting, rescheduling and dragging in the grid all offer the choice, guests hear about what changed, and replying to one occurrence of a repeating invitation answers for the whole seriesMac
   • Plan around what is already there. Availability Sharing turns your open times into text, images, PDFs or calendar files without publishing your calendar. Conflict Blocking mirrors private events onto another calendar as generic Busy blocks, details left behind. Schedule warnings flag overlaps, travel pressure and short breaks as notifications before the crunch rather than after itMac
   • Smart Filters turn a search, a set of calendars, rules and view settings into a workspace you can return to. A rule can require a word or exclude one, match the hour an event starts or the day of the week, and your filters wait in the View menu with a shortcut key of your own. Calendar Sets can follow your Focus modes, and quiet hours hold back every kind of interruption until the window closesMac
   • A new Week on Week view lines up the same weekday from seven weeks side by side — every Monday in a row — so the shape of the weeks ahead stands out at a glance. Switch it on in Settings, then slide the row a week at a time with a swipe or the arrow buttonsMac
   • The menu bar panel is yours to arrange. Drag its toolbar buttons into the order you want, hide the ones you never press, and put an Up Next bubble above them naming what is next and how long you haveMac
   • VoiceOver reads the calendar rather than its pieces. Every agenda row, month chip, time-grid block and list row is one spoken sentence with its controls on the actions rotor, around seventy icon-only buttons gained real names, and Reduce Motion is honoured throughoutMac
   • Google and Outlook sync stands sturdier: a rate limit or server hiccup retries itself with the service's own back-off, Teams meetings keep their join links through an edit, other guests' replies survive yours, and an account's calendars are read in full however many there areMac
   • Calendars come in and out freely: import and export .ics files with a duplicate preview before anything is written, print what you are looking at, open and add event attachments, and keep Google and Outlook colours, categories, privacy and guest permissions intactMac
   • Apple Watch becomes a place to act. Eleven complications — Now & Next, Up Next, Day Timeline, Leave By, Tasks Due, Today's Load, Date & Next, Countdowns, Join Next, Conflict Check and Open Window — sit on your watch face and in the Smart Stack, and each one knows when it matters: Join Next rises before a video call, Leave By around the time you need to move, Tasks Due when something is overdueiOS
   • Answer an invitation from your wrist without opening anything. An unanswered invitation carries Accept and Decline on the tile itself, and a reminder checks off from Tasks Due in placeiOS
   • Every face placement can have its own job — its own calendar set, events or reminders, look-ahead and privacy level — so a work face and a weekend face show different schedules without touching the calendars on your phoneiOS
   • A conflict tells you what it costs. An overlapping event now gets a card of its own naming the other event and how long they collide for, the exact minutes in dispute, and a timeline drawing both events on one axis with the disputed stretch marked. Tap it for the ways out — an open time to move to, shortening it, marking it free — and set a calendar you can see but cannot act on to stay out of conflict checking entirely, under Settings ▸ Alerts ▸ Schedule WarningsiOS
   • Smart Filters narrow every view, not just the agenda. Rules can match a title, location, notes or attendee — or exclude them — and narrow by start time, by weekday, by all-day or timed, busy or free, recurring or not. Combine them with All Rules or Any Rule, and let a filter switch you to the view that suits itiOS
   • A new Week on Week view lines the same weekday up across seven weeks, so you can see at a glance which Mondays are already spoken for. Switch it on in Settings ▸ Gestures & NavigationiOS
   • The compact view switcher scrubs: press it, slide up, and the views rise above your finger, naming where you are going as you pass over them. Lift to land there, or slide back to take it backiOS
   • Editing or deleting one occurrence of a repeating Google or Outlook event now asks whether you mean this event or all future ones — the same question Apple calendars have always answered, and it reaches the editor, the event card, the agenda swipe, the month view and a drag in the Day and Week grids. Replying to one occurrence of a repeating meeting answers for the seriesiOS
   • The agenda's day header stays pinned as you scroll, and reads Up Next while you are resting on your next event — folding away the meetings already behind you, and moving on to tomorrow once today is genuinely spentiOS
   • The agenda opens on today and stays there while the app loads, instead of drifting days ahead as late content arrives above itiOS
   • Google and Outlook sync rides out a rate limit instead of failing on first touch, reads an account's calendars in full, and stops a Teams meeting's join link from being lost to an unrelated edit. Apple calendars stay complete when you page years ahead, and editing one occurrence of an old repeating series touches the occurrence you actually pickediOS
   • On iPad, Week and Day page under a swipe, Quarter draws its months as cards that survive a rotation, and a View menu puts Day through Year on ⌘1–⌘5 with Agenda on ⌘6iOS
2. 3.4
   August 21, 2026 MaciOS

   Plan the week, privately

   Reusable calendar workspaces, conflict-free meeting suggestions and cross-calendar Busy blocks come to InstaCal.

   Your place in the List, reflected everywhereMac

   Scroll the full-window List and both calendars move with the events in view. The mini calendar, selected day and main month heading stay together while earlier and later ranges load, so the date in the chrome never drifts away from the rows beneath it.

   Month names turn like a vertical dial: a quick flick gets a tight transition, a slower scroll has a little more room to settle, and every title stays whole. At compact window widths, controls reflow and event details undock before either pane gets squeezed.

   

   Every button, where your thumb expects itiOS

   Choose Reorder, then drag any iPhone command onto another to swap their places. Add Event, Search, Notifications, Filters, Settings, Today, Reminders and Countdowns can move around the fixed month title and view switcher, with a shell preview showing exactly where each button will land. Done applies the arrangement; Cancel leaves the live bars untouched.

   Countdowns stays out of the standard layout until there is something active to follow, but an explicit custom placement keeps it visible. Choose the compact view switcher on the same screen and Reminders and Countdowns stay in its menu without hiding the other commands you placed there. The arrangement follows you to other iPhones when Appearance & Layout sync is on; Reset restores both the standard command order and expanded switcher.

   

   Browse the calendar without leaving the widgetiOS

   Up Next + Calendar browses entirely in place by default. Use the arrows to move through complete calendar months, tap any date, and the agenda beside it immediately becomes that day's events and reminders without leaving the widget. Turn off Interactive Calendar for a placement when you prefer date taps to open InstaCal instead.

   The capture is the live result after selecting July 15: the month title, boxed selection and adjacent Wednesday, July 15 agenda all agree, with the navigation arrows ready for another month. Taps now hand state directly to the next render, so the widget no longer flashes an old page while it catches up.

   

   Your calendar, as a workspaceMac

   Smart Filters save more than a search. Pick the calendars you want, add rules for the events that matter, choose a view, and save the whole arrangement as a workspace you can return to.

   Calendar ordering now carries through the rest of InstaCal too. When events begin together, the order you chose decides how they appear in the panel, calendar window and widgets.

   

   Find the time that actually worksMac

   Find a Time checks the calendars in front of you and offers open meeting slots. Working hours and conflict warnings keep suggestions inside the day you meant to work, while travel estimates account for the journey when a meeting has somewhere to be.

   Templates take the repetition out of setting the meeting up again: save only the event or reminder fields you want to reuse, under a name that makes sense later.

   

   Choose the warnings that matterMaciOS

   Schedule warnings are four independent choices. Keep event overlaps and travel pressure visible without being told about short breaks or plans outside working hours—or choose any other combination that fits how you use your calendar.

   Event-overlap and travel-time warnings start on. Short-break and outside-working-hours warnings stay off until you ask for them, and travel pressure appears only when Show Travel Time is enabled.

   

   Share busy, not privateMac

   Conflict Blocking keeps one calendar unavailable when another is busy without copying the private event. The destination gets only a generic Busy block; titles, locations, notes, guests, links, attachments and alerts stay where they belong.

   The same release brings attachments and richer provider details to supported Google and Outlook events, plus Calendar Sets that can follow Apple Focus modes and restore your previous selection when the Focus ends.

   

   The dates that matter, already on your calendariOS

   Choose Add to Countdowns on any event, or add a date of your own. A calendar-linked countdown keeps the event's name, time and calendar color, and opens that exact event when you tap it. A standalone date — a birthday, a trip, a launch — lives nowhere else and takes an optional time, a yearly repeat, a symbol and a color.

   Widgets scale with the space you give them: one big date at small, three at medium, five at large and nine at extra large, plus inline, circular and rectangular versions for the Lock Screen. Each Countdowns widget can watch its own date, so two widgets need not show the same thing.

   

   The same important dates, ready on your MacMac

   Settings ▸ Countdowns keeps the dates you care about in one place. Add any calendar event from its actions menu, or create a date that lives nowhere else. Event-backed rows carry their source calendar; standalone dates stay directly editable.

   Desktop widgets show one big date or up to nine, and each one can watch its own date. Yearly dates advance to the next occurrence on their own, and a countdown whose event goes missing says so plainly and keeps its last known date rather than pretending.

   

   Countdowns on your wristiOS

   Apple Watch gets the full list, a detail view for every date, and a complication of its own. The featured date leads, and a linked countdown opens the calendar event behind it.

   Countdowns arrive alongside a broader Watch release: Conflict Check, Join Next and Open Window complications; editing, moving, rescheduling, answering and snoozing from the wrist; Month and 3-Day views; and honest queued status when your iPhone is out of range.

   

   The next date that matters, in the menu barMac

   Your featured countdown can sit in the menu bar, beside the date and your next event. Show it with its title or as a compact value, and give Countdowns a keyboard shortcut so the list opens from anywhere.

   Everything shares one length budget, so adding a countdown never crowds out the date or the event you are about to walk into.

   

   Already on your calendarMac

   From Calendar turns any upcoming event into a countdown without hunting for it in the month grid. A birthday, a trip, a launch, a review — pick it from the list and it keeps the event's name, date, calendar and colour.

   Countdowns on repeating events now follow the series rather than expiring after one occurrence, so a birthday or a weekly review rolls forward on its own. Name a countdown after a birthday or anniversary and a yearly repeat is suggested for you, and the symbol is chosen from the name — in every language InstaCal speaks.

   

   Already on your iPhoneiOS

   From Calendar puts the same upcoming-event chooser on iPhone. Pick a birthday, meeting, trip or launch from the list and InstaCal carries its name, date and source calendar into Countdowns.

   Repeating events keep following the series instead of expiring after one occurrence, and tapping a linked countdown opens the calendar event behind it.

   

   Every widget, its own wayMaciOS

   Two copies of the same widget no longer have to agree. Each one carries its own Calendar Set, theme, font size, privacy mode, weather visibility and layout, so a widget on your desk can show full details while one on a shared screen shows busy time only.

   Themes follow the system or lock to Light, Dark or a color of your choosing. And with iCloud settings sync, the countdowns, templates, appearance and planning defaults behind them stay consistent across your devices — with no InstaCal account, and three switches you can turn off individually.

   

   Plus 20 smaller changes — fixes, tidy-ups and one-line wins that didn't need a paragraph. See every line →

   Everything in this release

   • Countdowns keep the dates that matter in sight. Add any calendar event, or a date that lives nowhere else, and watch it from the desktop, a widget or the menu bar itself. One set on a repeating event follows the series, so a birthday or a weekly review rolls forward on its ownMac
   • Ten widgets, each configured on its own — agenda, month, next event, now and next, week map, days ahead, countdowns and reminders, every one with its own calendar set, theme, text size, privacy and weather. And they act without opening the app: flip through months, page a busy day in place, look ahead a week at a time, and check off a reminder right on the widgetMac
   • Invitations keep asking until you answer. A bell holds every unanswered one, including those on a calendar you have hidden, and you reply with Accept, Maybe or Decline from the agenda row, from a right-click on the calendar, or from the invitation itself. A meeting you have not answered is drawn as unanswered rather than settled, and one you declined stops taking up your dayMac
   • Plan around what is already there. Availability Sharing turns your open times into text, images, PDFs or calendar files without publishing your calendar. Conflict Blocking mirrors private events onto another calendar as generic Busy blocks, details left behind. Schedule warnings flag overlaps, travel pressure and short breaks as notifications before the crunch rather than after itMac
   • Smart Filters turn a search, a set of calendars, rules and view settings into a workspace you can return to. Calendar Sets can follow your Focus modes and restore the previous selection when the Focus ends, and quiet hours hold back every kind of interruption until the window closesMac
   • The menu bar panel is yours to arrange. Drag its toolbar buttons into the order you want, hide the ones you never press, and put an Up Next bubble above them naming what is next and how long you haveMac
   • VoiceOver reads the calendar rather than its pieces. Every agenda row, month chip, time-grid block and list row is one spoken sentence with its controls on the actions rotor, around seventy icon-only buttons gained real names, and Reduce Motion is honoured throughoutMac
   • Calendars come in and out freely: import and export .ics files with a duplicate preview before anything is written, print what you are looking at, open and add event attachments, and keep Google and Outlook colours, categories, privacy and guest permissions intactMac
   • Countdowns keep the dates that matter in sight. Add any calendar event, or a date that lives nowhere else, and watch it from the Home Screen, the Lock Screen, iPad and Apple Watch. One set on a repeating event follows the series, so a birthday or a weekly review rolls forward on its owniOS
   • Twelve widgets, each configured on its own — agenda, month, next event, now and next, week map, days ahead, countdowns and reminders, every one with its own calendar set, theme, text size, privacy and weather, and text that follows your device's own Text Size. The calendars are interactive: Month pages between months, Today pages between days, Days Ahead and Week Map page ahead, a crowded day pages in place through "+N events", and a reminder ticks off right on the widget. Countdown to Next and Remaining Today join Week Map, Action Center and Next Event on the Lock Screen, and Action Center puts Add, Search, Today, Join and Directions one tap awayiOS
   • Apple Watch becomes a place to act, not only to look. Edit, move, reschedule, answer and snooze from the wrist with honest queued status when the iPhone is away, eleven complications, and Wrist Notifications that can follow your FocusiOS
   • Both bars are yours to arrange. Every position is shown — empty ones included — so a button is moved rather than traded, either side can hold it, and the view switcher is six spots you rearrange or fold into one compact button. Press and hold that button to jump somewhere and back. Anything you would rather not see goes into the switcher's menu or Hidden ItemsiOS
   • The phone taps back. Completing a reminder, saving an event, crossing a day as the agenda scrolls, crossing a month in the grid, every button on the bars — each has its own weight, the press-and-hold jump taps hardest of all, and Settings ▸ Display ▸ Gestures & Navigation sets how hard it all lands: Off, Subtle or Standard, and picking a level plays itiOS
   • VoiceOver reads the calendar, not its pieces. An agenda row, a month chip or a time-grid block is one spoken element with its controls on the actions rotor, navigation carries the VoiceOver cursor with it, a completed reminder, a sent RSVP and a refresh are announced, Reduce Motion is honored throughout, and the widgets, the Live Activity and the Watch speak what they showiOS
   • Invitations keep asking until you answer. A bell holds every unanswered one, including those on a calendar you have hidden and those that arrived on another of your own accounts, and an invitation you haven't answered looks like one — a washed fill under a dashed edge on the phone, the widgets and the Watch, still counting as busy. You reply right from the agenda row, an hour tile or a month chip, a meeting you declined stops taking up your day anywhere — Up Next, Siri and the Watch included — and a Declined tab keeps every decline reversible, even one made on another deviceiOS
   • Calendar Sets are built and kept on the phone. The filter's own checklist saves as a set, a set can be renamed or rewired in place, a whole account leaves the agenda in one tap, and a set can follow a Focus — filtering the moment the Focus starts, whether the app is open or not, with a switch to see everything for the rest of that FocusiOS
   • Plan around what is already there. Schedule warnings flag overlaps, travel pressure and short breaks before the crunch, the Watch's Conflict Check and Open Window faces name the next collision and the free stretch big enough to use, and Conflict Blocking mirrors busy time onto another calendar without publishing what it isiOS
   • Picking a date is one flick. Months run continuously with every day carrying its event dots, the date and time work as one control, and an event can move to another calendar on Google and Microsoft accounts as well as Apple onesiOS
   • Multi-day events stay present on every day they occupy, all-day events wear solid calendar colours with contrast-aware text, and Join recognizes more than thirty meeting services in links, locations and notesiOS
   • Your settings follow your devices through iCloud, with no InstaCal account — and nothing about you is collected, stored or analyzed by usiOS
3. 3.3
   August 6, 2026 MaciOS

   Widgets, and video meetings end to end

   Native Mac widgets for Next Event, Agenda, Month and Up Next — and video links you can add while creating an event, not just open afterwards.

   Widgets come to the desktop. Next Event, Agenda, Month and Up Next, each taking a theme of its own. Up Next carries tomorrow and its forecast; reminders can be ticked off and restored without opening the app; and tapping an event or a day opens the matching place in InstaCal rather than just launching it.

   Reminders finally behave the way they read. One due on a day with no time of day can alert, with its own settings for which day and what time. Ticking one off leaves it in the list struck through, instead of vanishing the evidence that you did it.

   And a second time zone sits beside each event time, for the calls that cross one.

   Right now, then whatiOS

   Now + Next keeps the current commitment, the open window after it and what follows in one glance. Days Ahead carries events, reminders, weather and conflict warnings forward; Week Map turns busy time and open gaps into a shape you can read before opening the app.

   Focused Reminders complete tasks directly from the Home Screen, while expanded small-through-extra-large layouts make the same intelligence useful on iPhone and iPad.

   

   The right next action, on your wristiOS

   Apple Watch now moves from knowing to doing. Right Now, Today, Tasks and Week Pulse lead with the schedule context that matters, then surface Join, Directions, Complete, Snooze, RSVP or Quick Add when that is the useful next move.

   Seven focused complications, a seven-day cache and an offline action queue keep the experience useful away from the phone without pretending stale information is current.

   

   Video meetings, end to endMac

   InstaCal could already open a video link — now it can create one. Add a Google Meet or Teams call while you make or edit an event, then open it from the event's video card with one Join button and the shareable address directly beneath it.

   

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   Everything in this release

   • Native Mac widgets bring Next Event, Agenda, Month, and Up Next to the desktop. Up Next carries tomorrow and its forecast, reminders can be ticked off and restored without opening the app, and tapping an event or a day opens the matching place in InstaCal. Each widget takes a Theme of its own: System, Light, or DarkMac
   • Video meetings, end to end. Add a Google Meet or Teams link while you create or edit an event, and open one from a card headed by the provider's real name — Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Webex — with the Join button and a shareable address inside itMac
   • A second time zone sits beside each event time, for the calls that cross oneMac
   • Reminders behave the way they read. A reminder due on a day with no time of day can finally alert, with its own settings for which day and what time. Ticking one off leaves it in the list, struck through, instead of making it disappearMac
   • Quick Add reads a day of the month on its own: "the 17th" is a date, while "5th Avenue" stays an addressMac
   • New Google and Microsoft events appear the moment they save, and a calendar InstaCal cannot reach now says so instead of quietly using a different oneMac
   • Weather symbols keep clouds legible while preserving each condition's color, and Classic Color is the default icon styleMac
   • Quick Add understands reminders and noon in every supported languageiOS
   • The Up Next widgets fit more all-day events, follow your calendar order and keep today legible in dark modeiOS
   • Alert lead times include 10 minutes, 2 hours and 1 day, with advance alerts for reminders tooiOS
   • Calendar order controls exact-time ties and every all-day or multi-day lane across the app and widgetsiOS
   • A second time zone stays compact on the same day and adds a date only when the event crosses into another dayiOS
   • Named places such as a gym or restaurant gain maps, directions and travel estimates, while room names leave no empty map behindiOS
   • Event details give RSVP comments more room and lead the schedule with a compact countdown bandiOS
   • Widgets refresh after background calendar changes, and edited Google or Outlook alerts follow the new time immediatelyiOS
   • Phone Month and Week views use clearer titles, labels and sliding transitionsiOS
   • Smart Filters turn searches, calendars, rules and view settings into reusable workspacesiOS
   • Working hours, conflict warnings and Find a Time make it easier to place meetings without collisionsiOS
   • Time-sensitive event, reminder and departure alerts receive the same urgent treatment as Apple’s calendar appsiOS
   • Templates can reuse only the event or reminder fields you choose, under a separate template nameiOS
   • Due reminders stay useful in widgets until completed, while date-only reminders read as AnytimeiOS
   • Event attachments can be viewed, added, downloaded, shared and removed on supported calendarsiOS
   • Google and Outlook events preserve provider details such as colors, categories, privacy, guest permissions and attendee rolesiOS
   • Calendar Sets can follow Apple Focus modes and restore the previous selection when the Focus endsiOS
   • Import and export `.ics` calendars, print visible events and preview duplicate imports before writing anythingiOS
   • Availability Sharing turns proposed open times into text, images, PDFs or calendar files without publishing your calendariOS
   • Time Insights privately reviews meeting load, focus time, after-hours work and recurring-meeting cost on-deviceiOS
   • Conflict Blocking mirrors selected private events as generic Busy blocks on another calendar without copying their detailsiOS
   • Now + Next, Days Ahead, Week Map and focused Reminders widgets reveal current commitments, open time, conflicts and actionable tasks across every useful sizeiOS
   • Apple Watch puts Right Now, Today, Tasks, Week Pulse and the best next action on the wrist, backed by seven focused complications and reliable offline deliveryiOS
   • Long notes keep event details compact, and completed widget reminders retire cleanly after their undo windowiOS
   • Month widgets use their full canvas, while Up Next + Calendar gains per-widget privacy and weather controlsiOS
   • Wrist Control tunes calendar, working-hours, travel and confirmation behavior from the iPhoneiOS
   • Task Lanes keep the right reminders close, with useful grouping, filtering and sorting on the wristiOS
   • Time Shift and Quick Add review changes before saving, warn about conflicts and offer confirmed UndoiOS
4. 3.2
   July 26, 2026 Mac

   Eleven more languages, and drag to retime

   InstaCal speaks eleven more languages including Quick Add, events move by dragging them in the grid, and a new Quarter view shows three months at once.

   A big release, and an unusually wide one — it touches the language you use the app in, the way you move an event, and how much of the year you can see at once.

   Eleven more languages — German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Korean and both Chinese scripts. Not just the interface: Quick Add reads dates and times in each of them, which is the part that is actually hard and the part that makes the app usable rather than merely translated.

   Events move by dragging them. Pick one up in the Week or Day grid and drop it where it belongs, in quarter-hour steps, with the new times reading out as you drag. Right-click any event anywhere — the agenda, a month cell, the hour grid, the list — and get the full menu: Edit, Duplicate, Reschedule, Move to Calendar, Join Video Call, Get Directions, Share, Delete.

   Quick Add takes commands now, not just new events: "move gym to 7pm", "cancel dinner friday", with a preview of exactly what Return will do before you press it.

   A new Quarter view shows three months at once, and Year was reworked with larger day cells and event indicators you can render as dots, bars, or a timeline that draws each day's shape by duration.

   Underneath all of it, InstaCal is markedly faster — changing a setting no longer stalls the menu bar, and Month and Year stay smooth with a large calendar loaded.

   

   Quick Add fills in the detailsMac

   Quick Add understands the date and time inside an ordinary sentence and shows the complete event before you save it. In this release that parser learned every newly supported language, and the same field also learned commands such as “move gym to 7pm” and “cancel dinner friday.”

   

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   Everything in this release

   • InstaCal now speaks eleven more languages — German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Korean, and both Chinese scripts — and Quick Add reads dates and times in each of them
   • A new Quarter view shows three months at once, and Year is reworked with larger day cells and event indicators on every day — show them as Dots, Bars, a Timeline that draws each day's shape by duration, or not at all
   • Move and retime events by dragging them straight in the Week and Day grids, in quarter-hour steps, with the new times reading out as you drag
   • Right-click any event, anywhere — the agenda, a month cell, the hour grid, the list — for a full menu: Edit, Duplicate, Reschedule, Move to Calendar, Join Video Call, Get Directions, Share, Delete
   • Quick Add takes commands — "move gym to 7pm", "cancel dinner friday" — and previews exactly what Return will do, while a one-line Day Briefing sits above your agenda
   • New widgets: a month grid that draws true spanning bars, a Day Briefing, Up Next, and a Next Event widget that tells you when to leave
   • Invitations arrive as cards carrying the organizer's photo, with labelled Accept, Maybe, and Decline — and a Replied tab lets you change your answer any time before the meeting
   • Go to Date comes to the Mac: type "next friday" or "sep 8", or scroll one continuous list of months
   • InstaCal is markedly faster — changing a setting no longer stalls the menu bar, and Month and Year stay smooth with a large calendar loaded
   • The Alarms window now mirrors only the alerts stored on your events and reminders, with separate, optional InstaCal-only alerts for the ones that carry none
   • All-day events now carry their own alerts — a birthday, a holiday, a trip with an alert set in its calendar now reaches the Alarms window, and all-day events with no alert of their own can take one at a day and time you choose

   

5. 3.1
   July 25, 2026 Mac

   Year view, and shortcuts for everything

   All twelve months at a glance, and a keyboard shortcut you choose for every menu command and calendar view.

   Year view lays out all twelve months at once — the view you want in December when someone asks about March.

   

   Your keys, your shortcutsMac

   Every menu command and calendar view takes a shortcut key you choose, including new ones for the sidebar and the event details pane. A menu bar app lives or dies on how fast you can get in and out of it.

   

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   Everything in this release

   • Year view lays out all twelve months at a glance
   • Every menu command and calendar view takes a shortcut key you choose
   • New shortcuts open and close the sidebar and event details

   

6. 3.0.1
   July 21, 2026 Mac

   Invitations

   Invite people by typing a name, see conflicts before you reply, and answer Yes, Maybe or No without leaving the panel.

   Invitations became a two-way thing. Start typing a name or an email and pick from your contacts, photo and all — inviting someone is now a few keystrokes rather than a trip to another app.

   Coming the other way, an invitation tells you what it collides with before you answer it, which is the question you actually have, and you reply Yes, Maybe or No right there in the panel. Pending invitations and active alerts now share one bell instead of competing for your attention.

   One quiet fix worth the release on its own: a meeting synced from two accounts appears once, not twice.

   

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   Everything in this release

   • Invite people in a flash — start typing a name or email and pick from your contacts, photo and all
   • Invitations flag conflicts with your existing events before you reply
   • Reply to invitations with Yes, Maybe, or No right from the panel
   • Pending invitations and active alerts share a single bell
   • The same meeting synced from two accounts now appears only once

   

7. 3.0.0
   July 4, 2026 Mac

   InstaCal 3

   A rebuilt menu bar calendar: new design throughout, plain-English event entry, one-click joining for every meeting service, and your next event counting down in the menu bar.

   Version 3 is not an update to InstaCal so much as a second one.

   The whole app was redrawn. Full Dark Mode, themes, a panel you can resize — and a proper calendar window behind it with Day, Week, Month and List views, which the menu bar alone could never give you.

   The two additions that change the daily rhythm are smaller than that. Type what you mean — "Lunch with Sam Friday 1pm" — and watch the event assemble in a live preview before you commit it. And one-click Join for Zoom, Google Meet, Teams and twenty-odd other services, so the thirty seconds you spend hunting for the link in a calendar note stop happening.

   Your next event and a live countdown sit in the menu bar, and Calendar Sets let you swap between groups of calendars in a click — work in the morning, everything at the weekend.

   

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   Everything in this release

   InstaCal 3.0 is a complete rewrite — a new, faster InstaCal built from the ground up for modern Macs.

   Your accounts and settings carry over automatically.

   • All-new design with full Dark Mode, themes, and a resizable panel
   • Type events in plain English — “Lunch with Sam Friday 1pm” — with a live preview
   • One-click Join for Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, and 20+ meeting services
   • Your next event and a live countdown in the menu bar
   • Calendar Sets — switch between groups of calendars in one click
   • Full calendar window with Day, Week, Month, and List views
   • Search, week numbers, custom colors, and keyboard shortcuts throughout
   • Faster sync for Google and Microsoft 365, native on Apple Silicon

   

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