BusyCal 2025.4.2 and BusyContacts 2025.4.3

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Originally published at: BusyCal 2025.4.2 and BusyContacts 2025.4.3 - TidBITS

Busy Apps has released BusyCal 2025.4.2 and BusyContacts 2025.4.3 with improvements and bug fixes for the calendar and contact management apps. BusyCal adds a new Snooze Until Start option to alarms when using Notification Center, introduces new keyboard shortcuts that quickly focus on fields like Date and Location for fast editing, improves handling of multi-line locations in events when syncing with Microsoft Graph, updates travel time to validate the starting location when auto-selected from a recent event, improves natural language parsing, sorts overdue tasks by priority in an all-day selection, improves HTML detection in notes, and fixes a bug where the right-click menu wouldn’t appear on toolbar buttons in macOS 26 Tahoe.

BusyContacts adds Department as a print label option, adds a Print Borders option when printing envelopes to toggle address border display, wraps long company names (instead of shrinking) when printing labels, ignores formatting when performing a phone number search (leading zeros and international formats are handled automatically), fixes a bug where dropping a profile image on Microsoft Graph contacts incorrectly showed an attachment error, and resolves an issue where company-marked cards wouldn’t show names when printing labels. ($49.99 new for BusyCal from Busy Apps or the Mac App Store, free update, in Setapp, 77.8 MB, release notes, macOS 11.5+; $49.99 new for BusyContacts from Busy Apps or the Mac App Store, free update, in Setapp, 31.5 MB, release notes, macOS 11.5+)

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I am a long time BusyCal user which was beneficial during my working days & remains so in my retirement. But I have never been satisfied with its upgrade practices which were few and far between in the “classic license” days and is even more galling since the company switched to an 18-month subscription cycle. BusyCal has always been on the pricey side even though there are some free and competitive commercial (Fantastical) competitors.

For example, a few times I have requested that BusyContacts consider releasing a menu bar extension for easy contact access and searches. Every time I receive a reply that is short and to the point: “not interested.” How hard would it be to accomplish? Am I the only BusyCal user who would appreciate the feature?

Ironically, when my preferred shareware option stopped working circa 2017 I adopted Flexbits’ Cardhop Finder Bar menu extension. I purchased a license a few months prior to Flexbits going subscription & when I contacted the company about it, I was told that I can continue to use Cardhop just without future feature updates. So far, so good.