Never miss the start of a meeting
A Calendar bee sits on your desktop and shows in 10m, counting down, when your next meeting starts within 15 minutes. Before it starts, the bee wiggles and plays its sound. Click Join and the call opens.
How it works
- Add the bee. Click the hexagon in the menu bar → Add a Bee → Calendar, Google Calendar or Outlook Calendar.
- Allow access. Calendar and Google Calendar bees read the Mac's Calendar app, so there's no sign-in: just allow Calendars access. Outlook Calendar uses Microsoft's sign-in.
- Choose your reminder. Settings → Behaviour → Calendar reminders: 10 minutes before, 5 minutes before, or Off.
Step by step, with what success looks like: the guide.
What you get
- Join in one click for Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, Webex, GoTo, Whereby, Chime, BlueJeans and Jitsi.
- Day, 2 Days, Month and Agenda views, tucked away until you need them.
- Choose which calendars show in each bee.
- View only: Calendar bees never change your calendars. Adding an event opens Google Calendar, Outlook or the Calendar app.
- Bees can mute themselves during calls (a setting, on to start with).
Good to know. Reminders aren't macOS notifications: they need Waggle running and your Mac awake. All-day events don't count down. Work calendars may need your IT team to approve access first.
Price and requirements
Every bee is free for 14 days on each Mac, with no card and no account. After that, your first bee is free on one Mac. Worker Bees is £12.99 for any 3 bees and Whole Hive is £24.99 for every bee, each on up to 3 Macs. Both are paid once and include 12 months of Updates & Relay, then £9.99 per 12 months if you want it, with no automatic payments. See Pricing.
A Mac with Apple silicon and macOS 14 (Sonoma) or newer.
Questions
Which meetings get a Join button?
Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, Webex, GoTo, Whereby, Chime, BlueJeans and Jitsi meetings. See FAQs.
Why doesn't Google Calendar ask me to sign in?
Calendar and Google Calendar bees read the calendars already on your Mac, in the Calendar app. Add your Google account in System Settings → Internet Accounts.
Can I add or change events?
No, Calendar bees are view only. + opens Google Calendar, Outlook or the Calendar app so you can add the event there.
Is it free?
Every bee is free for 14 days. After that, your first bee is free on one Mac, and a Calendar bee can be that bee.
More bees
Floating WhatsApp · Slack without opening Slack · Gmail notifier · iMessage on a work Mac · Waggle and all-in-one chat apps