How to Add Calendar to macOS Menu Bar

In this article we will show you how to Add Calendar to macOS Menu Bar. It can be helpful to have the date and time in your menu bar. What if you could get a little bit more? You might be working on a project and need to know at a look what week it is. Or maybe you want to see what you have planned for the day without having to open the Calendar app.

If you like to stay on top of things, you need to know the time and date. But you can use your Mac instead of counting on a watch or desk calendar. There are ways to get this information built into macOS, but there are also third-party apps that can add to or completely replace the Apple experience.

But when we look at the good side, we see that all these add-ons make the menu bar look messy. Once you add the date and time style to the menu bar in macOS, you can choose to View as Analog or View as Digital, Show Seconds, Show Flash timer separators, and more. All versions of Mac can use these tips.

How to Add Calendar to macOS Menu Bar

Put a calendar in your Menu Bar so you don’t have to open Calendar.app or Google schedule every time you want to look at a schedule or see what events are coming up (or make new ones). If you want to know more information about this Visit Official Apple Support site.

1. The App is Itsycal, and it’s fantastic. Download the zip file, extract Itsycal.app and drag/drop it to your Applications folder to install. Launch it from there.
2. Click OK to grant Itsycal access to your Calendar.app.
3. You’ll see a new icon in your Menu Bar, simply a number (today’s date).
4. Like the built-in Apple Menu items, you can move Itsycal by holding down the Apple Key (⌘) and then click-and-drag to where you’d like it.
5. Now click the icon itself, and you’ll see this months calendar. Setting up Itsycal takes no time at all – click the Options button.
6. Select Preferences… from the drop-down menu.
7. From here you can choose which calendars you want to appear in Itsycal.
8. Place a check in the box next to each calendar you want displayed, and a check in the box labeled Launch at login.
9. Now when you return to Itsycal, it will have ‘dots’ below each day on the calendar that has one or more events planned. Hover your cursor over a date that has an event, and it will display the event details.
10. You can even have Itsycal list the next X days worth of events right below the calendar. Simply return to the Preferences.
11. Creating new Events can be accomplished quite easily from within Itsycal – click the “plus sign” ( + ) from the bottom right corner. Enter in the information about your new event, select the calendar you want it listed on (assuming you have more than one) and then click Save Event.
12. You can also customize the look and feel of the app – return to the Preferences and select the Appearance tab. Review the options and make any changes you see fit.

You can change the menu bar clock in the top right corner of your Mac so that it shows more than just the current time. Adding the current date is one of the most useful things you can do. This is especially helpful in OS X, where you have to click on the clock to pull down the menu to see the date and day of the week if you don’t always have the Calendar app open.