Introduction

Calendrop is a macOS menu bar app that keeps your next Google Calendar meeting in sight and, shortly before it starts, cuts in: it covers every screen until you join the meeting or deliberately dismiss it.

Who it is for

People whose day is split across several Google accounts — a company account, a client’s, a personal one — who sink into focused work and miss the start of meetings because a notification banner is too easy to ignore.

How it works

• The menu bar shows the next meeting and a countdown, such as Weekly sync · in 12m. The menu lists today’s and tomorrow’s meetings, coloured by account. Each one opens a submenu with its time, place, people and description, and actions to join its Meet, Zoom, Teams or Webex link, copy the link, or open the event in Google Calendar.
• The cut-in appears a few minutes before a meeting on every display, above full-screen apps, the Dock and the menu bar. The largest thing on it is the button that joins the meeting. Ending it without joining takes a deliberate press and hold. See The cut-in.
• Every account, one timeline. Meetings from all your Google accounts merge into one list, and an event you were invited to from more than one account appears once.
• Follows your desk. Plugging in or unplugging a display, or changing its resolution, rebuilds the cut-in to cover exactly the screens you have now.
• Credentials stay on the Mac. Your accounts and settings can follow you to your other Macs through iCloud Drive; the sign-in tokens never leave the Keychain of the Mac that signed in.

What it does not do

• Edit, create or respond to calendar events. Calendrop only reads.
• Read calendars other than Google Calendar.
• Run on anything but macOS.
• Notify through Notification Center; the cut-in replaces that.

Requirements

macOS 14 or later on a Mac with Apple silicon, and a Google account with Google Calendar.

Next

1. Install Calendrop.
2. Add your Google accounts and choose their calendars.
3. Read how the cut-in behaves and adjust it in Settings.