Menu bar calendar for Mac

Today's date and your next meeting in the menu bar, a month view and agenda one click away, and calendar events you can add and edit without opening Calendar. Works on macOS 14 Sonoma and later.

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Pay once
Two Macs
No subscription

Edit events in place
Next meeting in the menu bar
Time zones
macOS 14 and later
No account
One-time purchase

Add and edit

Add and edit events from the menu bar calendar

Type “Lunch with Sam tomorrow 1pm 45m /Work” and watch it parse as you type. Click any event to change its time, calendar, alert, location, notes or URL in place. Delete this or all future occurrences, and undo.

How editing works

Next meeting

Your next meeting in the menu bar, with a countdown

The menu bar reads “Standup in 12m”, hides when nothing is coming for a few hours, and ⌘J joins Zoom, Teams, Meet, Webex and the rest, with Outlook Safe Links unwrapped.

Set up the countdown

Time zones

Time zones in the menu bar and in the calendar

A second clock in your menu bar pattern, and a world-clock strip under the grid you can scrub to see everyone's hour at once.

See the strip

macOS 14 and later

A menu bar calendar for macOS 14 Sonoma and later

Every feature on Sonoma, Sequoia, Tahoe and Golden Gate. The alternatives have moved on: Itsycal's current build needs macOS 27 and Dato's needs 26 (checked 6 November 2026).

Menu bar calendars on Sonoma

Everything else you expect

The table stakes of a good menu bar calendar, done cleanly.

Reminders in the agenda

See, tick off and add reminders beside your events.

Events that refresh by themselves

Changed in another app? It updates at once.

ISO and locale week numbers

Press W. ISO or your region's rule.

A crisp date icon

Optional month and weekday, three styles.

Your own clock pattern

Any date or time format, with a live preview.

Keyboard first

Arrows and vim keys, Space for today.

Light, dark and Reduce Motion

Follows your Mac, honours accessibility.

Settings you can export

One file carries every setting to your other Mac.

See every feature

Three steps, no setup

Download and open it

Drag Blipcal to Applications and open it. It lives in the menu bar, with no Dock icon.

Allow calendar access

Say yes when macOS asks, and the calendars your Mac already has appear.

Press ⌃⇧C

Or click the date in the menu bar. 14 days free, every feature, no card.

How Blipcal compares

Next to the three menu bar calendars people ask about most. Every competitor fact is dated and sourced; the full table is on the compare page.

	Blipcal	Itsycal	Dato	Dot
Edit events in place	Yes	No	No	Yes
Quick add in plain English	Yes	No	Partial	Yes
Next event in the menu bar	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Time zones	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Reminders on macOS 14 to 26	Yes	No	Partial	Yes
Minimum macOS	14	27	26	13
Price	$19 once	Free	$18 once	$14.99 once

Itsycal is the current 0.28.0 build, which needs macOS 27; its 0.15.15 build for macOS 11 to 26 no longer gets features and has no reminders. Dato's current build needs macOS 26, and its quick add reads only the date and time from a typed title, in English. Competitor details checked 6 November 2026 on each vendor's site; confirm before relying on them.

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Pay once. Keep the grid for ever.

$19

once, no subscription

Macs per license

14 days

free trial, every feature

Free

month grid after the trial

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Frequently asked questions

Does Blipcal work with Google Calendar and Outlook?

Yes. Blipcal shows every calendar your Mac already has, so Google, Outlook, Exchange, iCloud and CalDAV accounts added in System Settings under Internet Accounts all appear. There is nothing to sign in to in the app itself. How calendar access works.

Can I edit events, or only add them?

Edit everything in place. Click an event to change its title, time, calendar, alert, location, notes or URL, delete this or all future occurrences, and undo. Attendee lists show, but changing attendees is still done in Calendar.

Which macOS versions does it run on?

macOS 14 Sonoma and later, with every feature, on Macs with Apple silicon. That covers Sonoma, Sequoia, Tahoe and Golden Gate. Intel Macs are not supported.

Is it a subscription?

No. Blipcal is $19 once for two Macs, with one year of free updates. After that year the version you have keeps working for as long as you like. See pricing.

What happens after the 14-day trial?

The month grid, today's date in the menu bar and keyboard navigation keep working free, for ever. Events, the agenda, editing, quick entry, the menu bar text and countdown, time zones and reminders ask for a license.

Does it replace the system clock?

It can. Write your own date and time pattern for the menu bar, hide the system clock in Control Centre settings, or keep the clock and have Blipcal beside it with just the date icon. The pattern reference.

Is my calendar data sent anywhere?

No. Your calendars and reminders stay on your Mac. The only thing that talks to our server is the license check when you activate. Read the privacy policy.

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.

Download the free trial See pricing

macOS 14 or later
Apple silicon
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