The date your Mac refuses to show you.

macOS never puts the year in the menu bar, and clicking its clock opens Notification Centre instead of a calendar. Datesy fixes both. The clock above is the real thing, running in this page.

Download for macOS

Free macOS 14 or later 496 KB Apple silicon and Intel

Datesy.zip Release notes

Everything it does, and nothing it doesn't.

Datesy reads your calendars through EventKit, so every account already set up in Calendar.app shows up with no configuration: iCloud, Google, Exchange, Proton over CalDAV. It asks for one permission, ever, and that same permission is what lets you add an event without leaving the menu bar.

What it shows

One click, and the whole day is in front of you.

  • A month grid that holds stillalways six rows, so the popover never changes height between months
  • Up Nextyour next events with live labels, from Now and in 40m to Tomorrow
  • World clocksanalog faces that go dark at night, for up to six cities
  • Countdownspinned dates, and once a date passes it steps behind a disclosure instead of lingering
  • Sunrise, sunset, daylightfrom the NOAA solar equations, computed on your Mac with no network and no location prompt

What you can change

Sensible toggles, not a format-string manual.

  • The clock itselfweekday, year, seconds, 12 or 24 hour, and text or numeric dates, all previewed live as you toggle
  • Which calendars countevery calendar listed under its account, each one switchable, and switching one off hides it everywhere in Datesy without touching Calendar.app
  • Where you arethe home city for sun times follows your system time zone as you travel, or you pin one of 134 cities yourself
  • Settings that stay out of the waysix sections that collapse and remember, so the menu grows without becoming a wall
  • Light and darkfollows the system appearance, including the calendar colours, which get nudged into a readable range either way

Download and install.

One zip, no installer, no account, no update service phoning home.

Download Datesy 0.2.0 zip, 496 KB, macOS 14 or later
  • One permission, ever: Calendars. No account, no analytics, no network calls. Sun times are solved with arithmetic, not an API.
  • A menu bar app with no dock icon and no background service.
  1. Download and unzip. Safari unzips it for you; anywhere else, double-click the zip.
  2. Drag Datesy to Applications. That is the whole install.
  3. Let macOS through on first launch. This build is signed but not yet notarised, so Gatekeeper stops it once. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll to the note about Datesy and choose Open Anyway. Once only.
  4. Shrink the system clock. Datesy is your clock now, so set the built-in one to analog in Control Centre → Clock. macOS cannot hide it entirely.

Latest release.

Every version, with what actually changed in it, lives on the version history page.

0.2.0
18 August 2026
Current
  • Add events from the popoverclick any day for a card of what is on it and a quick-add form
  • The month grid stopped jumpingsix rows always, and a six-row month no longer overlaps the section below it
  • Sunrise and sunset are correct nowrewritten on the full NOAA equations, and shown in the home city's own time zone rather than the device's
  • Per-calendar visibilityevery calendar listed under its account, each switchable