Side Calendar 2.4.0 - now free to download, undo for every change, drag-to-reschedule day view

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Undo, ⌘Z, 20 steps

I deleted the wrong event once and that was that. It was gone, and I got to reconstruct it from memory and an email thread. That's the whole reason this release exists, and it's been the most requested feature by a distance.

Now delete, duplicate, move, drag and tick-off are all reversible, 20 steps back. Every change shows a small banner telling you what it did with an Undo button attached, so duplicating an event or shifting it to another calendar no longer happens silently.

Two details:

Undo checks before it acts. If the event changed on your iPhone or in Calendar.app since you made the edit, it stops and tells you instead of quietly stomping the newer version.

It can't undo deleting a single occurrence of a repeating event. EventKit gives no way to put one back. The app tells you that up front rather than pretending it worked.

The app is free now

The most common request I got, by a distance, was for a trial. Second most common was some version of "I'm a student, $4.99 is a real decision for an app I can't try first." Fair. But a trial on a fully local app is a bad deal for everyone. It's a timer that resets when you reinstall, and it means the app you like turns itself off in two weeks.

So instead of a trial, the free tier is permanent. Viewing your calendar is free forever. Paying once unlocks changing it.

Day view you can drag on

Hit the shortcut and a panel slides out of the side of the screen with your day laid out by time, not as a list. You can see where the gaps are. Drag on empty space to create an event, drag an event to move it, drag its edge to resize. Right-click for edit, duplicate, duration, hide or delete. Move your pointer away and it slides back, or pin it to keep it open.

Reminders are first-class here too: tick them off from anywhere, or drag one onto the timeline to give it a time. It stays a reminder and syncs straight back to Apple Reminders.

A serious fix worth calling out

Editing a single occurrence of a repeating event, just this Tuesday's stand-up, could rewrite the whole series. A weekly event could turn daily, lose its end date, and stop appearing on the days it should. That's fixed. If you're already on 2.3 and you use repeating events, that's the real reason to update.

Comparison:

Menu bar calendars are a crowded shelf and most of these are good. What's notably different about Side Calendar:

Itsycal: the free open source standard, and excellent at what it does. It gives you a month grid and a list of what's coming up. What it doesn't give you is a time grid, so you can't see the shape of your day or drag something to 4pm.
Dato: closest in spirit, a genuinely well-made menu bar calendar with time zones and meeting join buttons. Same difference though: month view plus event list, rather than a day you can drag on.
MeetingBar: free and focused on one job, getting you into your next call. If that's all you need, use it. Side Calendar is trying to be the place you also make changes.
Fantastical: a more powerful application than mine and I won't pretend otherwise. Natural language parsing, proper week view, cross-platform sync. It's also a subscription and a full window you switch to. If you want a calendar app, buy Fantastical. Side Calendar is for when you don't want to open a calendar app.
Calendar 366: much broader feature set, more configuration, more surface. Side Calendar is deliberately smaller and does less.

Pricing: Free to download, $4.99 one-time for Pro

Free features:

Agenda and day views, week numbers, month picker with busy-day dots
Calendar colours, panel tint, auto-hide, pin
Keyboard shortcuts, arrow key navigation
Attendee lists and RSVP status, Join buttons for Zoom, Teams, Meet and Webex
Ticking reminders off. That one's a write, and I left it free anyway,

because an app that won't let you check a box feels stingy
Opening the editor to see how it works

Pro features:

Creating events and reminders
Saving edits to titles, times, notes and links
Dragging to move, reschedule and resize
Duplicating and deleting
Undo

One-time purchase, no subscription, no renewal, no account. The app is entirely local, EventKit on your Mac and nothing else, so there's no server of mine for a subscription to fund.

Link: App Store Link

Note: Side Calendar used to be a paid app. If you bought it before today, you have Pro for life, including everything I add from here, with nothing more to pay. It should just work when you open the app. If it somehow asks you to buy, hit Restore Purchases, and if that still doesn't sort it, comment here and I'll fix it personally.

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