QuickCal

A calendar that lives entirely in the menu bar. Click the icon, see the month, get on with your day. It's the smallest app in the suite and the one I open most.

Part of the Mac suite · in private beta — ask for a build

Apple silicon, macOS 13 or later. Signed and notarized by Apple; the app updates itself.

What it does

• Click for the month. Left-click the menu-bar icon to open the calendar, click again to close it.
• Move around. Arrow buttons step through months; click the month title to snap back to today.
• Click a date to open it in whichever calendar app macOS has registered as your default.
• Locale-aware. The grid follows your system's first day of the week and date formatting.
• Right-click for the rest. A native menu with Show Calendar, Check for Updates and Quit.

What it deliberately doesn't do

No accounts. No events. No analytics. No background sync. No Calendar access, and in fact no macOS permission of any kind — there's no prompt to dismiss on first launch, because there's nothing to ask for.

It makes exactly one network call: the daily update check.