Launching today
hora Calendar
Google calendar built for the Mac
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Google calendar built for the Mac
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hora Calendar is a native Mac app for Google Calendar. See your next meeting in the menu bar, join Meet, Zoom, and Teams in one click, create events fast, schedule focus time, and sync directly with Google without proxying calendar data through hora servers.
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@curiouskitty Good question, and honestly one I think about a lot.
My bar for AI in a calendar is simple: it has to reduce the number of taps or decisions, not add a new surface to manage. If an AI feature requires me to review, confirm, or fix its output more than once a week, it failed.
On privacy: anything that touches event content, titles, or attendees stays on-device. Apple Intelligence is the right tool for that, because it runs locally and I don't have to build a backend that sees your calendar data. That's not a philosophical stance, it's a product constraint I locked in early.
hora has no backend. It connects directly to Google Calendar API and that's it.
The three features on the roadmap reflect that:
Quick add via natural language: on-device, processes text locally before sending a structured request to Google Calendar API. No content leaves your Mac except the final event payload.
Focus time planning: reads your existing calendar locally, suggests blocks. No server involved.
TL;DR meeting summaries: this one I'm still figuring out. Summaries require reading event descriptions and potentially linked docs. I'll likely keep it opt-in and on-device only, which limits what it can do, but that's the right tradeoff.
How I'll measure success: time from "I need to block time" to "done". If it's not faster than typing, it ships as an experiment, not a feature. I'm tracking session length and interaction counts in TestFlight already, so I'll have a baseline. Obviously Apple yesterday showed us some new things, so it'll help a lot, but it'll be invisible for the user as something that works "just fine" not is another AI hype tool, that after a while feels redundant.
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Hey Product Hunt! 👋
hora Calendar is a fast, native Mac app for people who live in Google Calendar but don’t want to keep a web app open all day.
I built it because Google Calendar is great, but on macOS it still feels like something you visit in a browser instead of something that belongs on your desktop. I wanted my next meeting in the menu bar, one-click meeting joins, quick event creation, focus time scheduling, and a calendar that feels native to the Mac.
hora is built with SwiftUI + AppKit, supports multiple Google accounts, Meet/Zoom/Teams links, natural language quick add, themes, and direct Google API sync. Calendar data syncs directly between your Mac and Google. hora does not proxy or store your calendar data on its own servers.
I’d love feedback from calendar-heavy Mac users, especially around workflows that still pull you back into the browser.
@szamski congrats on the launch Maciej. What would you say is the biggest friction remover in hora?
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@zolani_matebese Thanks 🙏 Honestly the one-click join for Meet, Zoom and Teams. hora pulls the join link straight from the calendar event, so no more digging through the event or hunting across apps when you're already late. Close second is ability to create those nasty calls directly in the App.
Love the one-click join for Meet, Zoom, and Teams—it’s amazing how much friction that removes from busy days.
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@a_petukhov Thanks! That was exactly the friction I wanted gone. Jumping between the calendar and three different apps to find the right link was driving me nuts, so hora pulls the join link straight from the event and puts it one click away. Really glad it lands 🙏
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As someone who spends a lot of time in Google Calendar, I can definitely relate to the feeling of constantly jumping back to a browser tab just to check what's next.
I really like the focus on keeping everything native to the Mac. Features like the menu bar view, quick event creation, and one-click meeting joins sound like small things that can make a big difference throughout the day.
Also great to see the privacy-focused approach with direct Google sync and no extra storage of calendar data.
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@gabriella_anjani That browser tab thing is exactly what broke my flow every day. The menu bar widget came from that frustration directly - one glance, next meeting, join button. No switching.
Glad the privacy angle lands. It's not marketing, it's just how the architecture works. No backend means nothing to store. After I developed my skills more and understood how stuff works not only looks I was astonished that we are giving so much of our data not only to the big players such Google, but also others totally for free, or sometimes we are even paying for this :)
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Nice work! Direct Google API sync without proxying data to your servers is a strong privacy stance.
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@marianna_tymchuk Thanks. It's also just the simpler architecture - fewer moving parts, fewer things that can break.