Local & offline first
Your events and tasks live in the system Calendar and Reminders through Apple's EventKit — and, if you use iCloud, in your own iCloud account. LiLi Cal runs no servers that store your data.
Free on the Mac App Store — paid later
LiLi Cal. Your whole day, one click away.
Calendar, tasks, Pomodoro, countdowns, and public holidays for 150+ countries — all from your Mac's menu bar. Two-way sync with Apple's Calendar and Reminders, no account, and nothing tracked.
Get it on the App StoreFree · macOS 14.0+macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon & Intel
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Core
Everything a menu-bar calendar should do
Your real events and tasks, holidays from anywhere, and focus — all from the menu bar, without stealing your attention or asking for a new account.
Your events and reminders — not a new silo
LiLi Cal reads and writes your real system Calendar and Reminders through Apple's EventKit. There's no third-party account and no separate database — so everything already syncs across your devices through iCloud.
- Two-way sync with Calendar and Reminders
- No new account; multi-device sync via iCloud, for free
- Choose exactly which system calendars appear in the panel
Tasks and focus in the same panel
A dedicated Tasks tab groups everything by Overdue, Today, Upcoming, and No date. Add inline with a keystroke, set a reminder time, and start a Pomodoro on any task — all without leaving the menu bar.
- Inline add — type a title, press Return
- Grouped by overdue / today / upcoming / no date
- Start a 🍅 Pomodoro focused on the task at hand
Holidays that fit your region
Subscribe to public holidays for ~150 countries from the free Nager.Date service, or add any iCal / webcal link — each with its own color. China's statutory holidays with make-up days (调休) and Hong Kong's are built in, so the China region is covered out of the box.
- ~150 countries and regions, no API key required
- Any iCal / webcal link, each with a custom color
- China + Hong Kong holidays (with 调休) built in
A month view worth looking at
Scroll through a clean month grid with your events and holidays at a glance. And when you want them, every day carries its Chinese lunar date, the 24 solar terms, and traditional festivals — layered in, never in the way.
- Smooth scrolling month view with event and holiday dots
- Chinese lunar date, solar terms, and festivals, when you want them
- Tap a day for its details, events, and tasks
Keyboard-first
Fast from the menu bar, faster from the keyboard
A panel you can drive entirely from the keyboard, and a menu-bar app that stays out of your way.
Stays out of your way
A menu-bar app with no Dock icon. The panel opens under the status item, and clicking away or pressing Esc dismisses it — never stealing focus.
Built for the keyboard
Cycle Calendar / Agenda / Tasks with Tab, jump months, add tasks, and set reminders without reaching for the mouse.
Standout
And a few things a basic calendar can't
LiLi Cal is more than a date grid — it's a command center for holidays, meetings, and focus, right in the menu bar.
Subscribe to holidays anywhere
Add any country or region — LiLi Cal pulls ~150 countries from the free Nager.Date service, and it takes any iCal / webcal link too. Give each source its own color; a day with holidays in several regions shows several colored dots. (Mainland China and Hong Kong are built in.)
- ~150 countries and regions, no API key required
- Any iCal / webcal link — Google, government, company
- A custom color per source, side-by-side on the same day
Meeting alerts that get you in the room
LiLi Cal recognizes meeting links in your events and can take over the pre-meeting notification, with a one-click join and a lead time you set. Never dig a Zoom link out of your calendar again.
- Detects meeting links in event notes and locations
- Pre-meeting notification with a one-click join
- Set your own lead time, or hand it back to the system
A pre-meeting notification with a Join button appearing ahead of a video call eventDemo image / GIF
Pomodoro focus, tied to your tasks
Start a Pomodoro from any task, watch the countdown in the menu bar, and let breaks flow automatically. When a session ends you can complete the task or roll straight into the next tomato.
- Focus a Pomodoro on a specific task
- Live countdown right in the menu bar
- Automatic work / break cycling with gentle nudges
Days — the dates you keep counting
A birthday, a wedding anniversary, a passport expiry, day 56 of a 90-day probation. The Days tab keeps every one of those numbers current: five ready-made types, yearly repeats, reminders ahead of time, and a countdown widget for your desktop.
- Countdown / Birthday / Anniversary / Elapsed / Range
- Ages, Nth years, and range progress worked out for you
- A desktop countdown widget in three sizes
Make the panel yours
Eight preset accent colors plus a full custom picker recolor today's highlight, the selection ring, and event dots. Independent sliders resize the calendar's width and height, and you decide what the menu-bar title shows.
- 8 preset themes + a custom color picker
- Resize the calendar area with width / height sliders
- Choose the menu-bar title: date, weekday, lunar day
Privacy & security
Your calendar stays yours
LiLi Cal is local-first by design. It works through Apple's own frameworks and your iCloud — no third-party account, no analytics, no tracking.
No account, no tracking
There's no LiLi Cal login and no third-party sign-in. The app ships with no analytics, telemetry, advertising, or tracking of any kind.
You grant access, explicitly
Calendar and Reminders access is requested through macOS the first time you use it, and you can revoke it in System Settings at any time. The App Store build is sandboxed.
Holiday data, fetched not harvested
Public-holiday feeds (holiday-cn, Nager.Date, and any iCal links you add) are read over HTTPS to show dates. Nothing about you is sent along with those requests.
Customize
Make it yours
Tune appearance, the menu-bar title, notifications, holiday sources, and what shows up in the panel to fit how you work.
- Light, dark, or system appearance
- 8 preset accent colors + a custom color picker
- Independent width / height sliders for the calendar area
- Menu-bar title: date, weekday, and lunar day, your way
- Show or hide the lunar calendar (with solar terms & festivals)
- Pick exactly which system calendars appear in the panel
- Add holidays for any country/region or any iCal / webcal link
- Per-source holiday colors, shown as side-by-side dots
- Pre-meeting notifications with one-click join and a custom lead time
- Launch at login and run without a Dock icon
Use cases
For the way you actually plan
Professionals & teams
Keep meetings and deadlines in view, add them the moment they come up, and plan around the holidays that affect your week.
People across regions
Subscribe to holidays for every country you work with — each with its own color, so overlapping calendars stay readable at a glance.
Traditions & the Chinese calendar
Keep birthdays and festivals in view — and if you follow the Chinese calendar, the lunar date, 节气, and festivals are right there too.
Focus seekers
Turn a task into a Pomodoro, watch the timer in the menu bar, and let work-and-break cycles keep you moving.
Pricing
Free today. Yours for good.
LiLi Cal is free to download while it is in early access. It will become a paid app later — and every download made while it is free stays yours, updates included. New users will pay; you will not.
LiLi Cal
A calendar and tasks companion for your Mac menu bar.
FreeEarly access
macOS 14.0+
- Calendar & Reminders sync
- Tasks
- Holiday subscriptions
- Pomodoro
- Countdowns & anniversaries
- Themes & appearance
Made for macOS · Local-first
FAQ
Common questions
Everything you might want to know before you download.
What is LiLi Cal?
LiLi Cal is a menu-bar calendar and tasks app for Mac. It syncs two-way with the system Calendar and Reminders, subscribes to holidays worldwide, and includes tasks and a Pomodoro timer. It also has deep, built-in support for the Chinese lunar calendar and China/Hong Kong holidays.
Which Macs does LiLi Cal support?
LiLi Cal runs on macOS 14 Sonoma and later, on both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs, as a single universal build.
Is LiLi Cal free?
It is free to download today, with no ads and no in-app purchase. LiLi Cal is in early access and is planned to become a paid app on the Mac App Store later. Anyone who downloads it while it is free keeps it, future updates included.
What happens when it becomes a paid app?
Only new users pay. If you downloaded LiLi Cal while it was free, it stays in your Apple ID's purchase history and keeps updating at no charge — there is no code to redeem and no account to create. If you are ever asked to pay for it on a Mac you own, email hello@kopit.app and we will sort it out.
Does it sync with Apple Calendar and Reminders?
Yes, two-way. LiLi Cal reads and writes your real system Calendar and Reminders through Apple's EventKit, so there's no separate database and everything already syncs across your devices through iCloud.
Can I add holidays for other countries?
Yes. Add any of ~150 countries and regions from the free Nager.Date service (no API key), or paste any iCal / webcal link. Each source gets its own color, and multiple regions on the same day show as side-by-side dots.
Holiday subscriptionsIs my data private?
Yes. Your events and tasks stay in the system Calendar and Reminders — and, with iCloud, in your own iCloud account. There's no LiLi Cal account, no analytics, and no tracking. Holiday feeds are fetched over HTTPS to show dates, with nothing about you attached.
Does it include a Pomodoro timer?
Yes. Start a Pomodoro on any task, watch the countdown in the menu bar, and let work-and-break cycles run automatically.
PomodoroCan it count down to birthdays and anniversaries?
Yes. The Days tab handles countdowns, birthdays, anniversaries, elapsed-day streaks, and date ranges with a progress bar. Entries can repeat yearly on the Gregorian or the Chinese lunar calendar, remind you days ahead, and appear in a desktop widget.
Countdowns & anniversariesDoes it show the Chinese lunar calendar and solar terms?
Yes. Every day can show its lunar date, and the 24 solar terms and traditional festivals appear on the calendar. If you don't need it, hide the lunar layer for a plain Gregorian view.
Lunar calendarDoes it handle China's make-up workdays (调休)?
Yes. For the China region, LiLi Cal uses the open holiday-cn dataset, so days off are marked 休 and make-up workdays are marked 班 — the detail international calendars get wrong. It updates incrementally online as new years are published.
Statutory holidays & 调休Are Hong Kong holidays included?
Yes, Hong Kong public holidays are built in. You can also add Macau, Taiwan, or any other region as a subscription.
Free now — paid later
Your calendar, right in the menu bar
Events, tasks, meetings, and focus — with holidays from anywhere and the Chinese calendar built in. Native to your Mac, and free while LiLi Cal is in early access: download it now and it is yours.