SideSchedule - Sidebar Calendar
A calendar sidebar your windows can’t cover
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SideSchedule reserves a strip of your Mac screen the way the Dock does, so no window covers your calendar. Meeting notes save as Markdown files, and one click joins Meetings and also can fire automations when events start and end. 14 days free, then a one-time purchase.
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PH · launched Nov 2, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 64%)
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Productivity
- Calendar
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Partial Calendar integration, Markdown notes, and automations are straightforward with EventKit and Swift, but reserving a strip of the macOS screen like the Dock is a system-level window-management problem that needs AppKit expertise and careful handling of display changes.
What it would actually take: A real build would be a native macOS app in Swift using AppKit for a reserved-edge panel, EventKit for calendar access, and a scheduler for event-start and end triggers. The hard part is making the reserved screen area coexist with other windows and multi-monitor setups without breaking system behavior, which needs macOS platform expertise. Notarization and distribution also add friction.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 493 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #240 of 494 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 333 days after the earliest competitor.
- Side Calendar for Windows · ph · 2026-10-21 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- popCalendar · ph · 2026-10-21 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- MacOS Neat Menubar Calendar · ph · 2026-10-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- sidelet · ph · 2026-10-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Cupola · ph · 2026-10-04 · 63 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Calerto for Mac · ph · 2026-09-12 · 124 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- MeetKeeper · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Sidewise · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
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