CalendarMenu is a Mac OS X menu bar application, which provides a small calendar showing all informations you need to keep track of all upcoming appointments, birthdays and reminders in the blink of an eye.

It deliberately forgoes showing a overly filled calendar containing every single event within one window to keep things clear and orderly. Instead different event types are marked accordingly, for example birthdays or all-day events. A more detailed view with all events of the selected calendars and time period is shown when you click on a calendar day or week number.

All calendar events at a glance

CalendarMenu shows the events of your iCal calendars by differentiating between normal and all-day events as well as events spanning multiple days. Birthdays are being read directly from the OS X Contacts ("Address Book" on OS X Lion) and marked with a red dot. You can alternatively use the iCal birthday calendar to show birthdays, which has to be enabled in both iCal preferences and CalendarMenu calendar selection. Those birthdays are shown as "normal" all-day events using a grey marker. The menu bar icon also notifies of today's events, birthdays and reminders.

Filter events by type and calendar You can also specify which event types you want CalendarMenu to show – for example birthdays, all day events or events spanning multiple days.  These settings are also used by the Status bar icon so you won't ever miss an important appointment! Additionally every single calendar and (on OS X 10.8 and newer) reminder list can be disabled individually to make CalendarMenu only show important events and reminders.

Always up-to-date More informations about your events are available by clicking on a calendar day or week number. These daily/weekly overviews show all events of the respective time period including reminders with a due date set. They use simple markers for alarms and recurring events to keep the list clear. More details are available in a separate detail view by clicking on an event, where you also can mark reminders as (un)finished without leaving CalendarMenu. To always keep your data up-to-date, CalendarMenu can keep iCal running in the background to ensure that all your calendar substriptions are updated regularly according to your iCal settings (disabled by default).

International Calendars CalendarMenu also allows you to use different calendar layouts, irrespective of the currently used system locale. You can choose between US layout (with weeks starting sundays) and ISO-8601 layout (with weeks starting mondays), the method used for calculating week numbers will be chosen accordingly.