Focus Time Scheduling
Block deep work without breaking your week.
Fast, Native, Beautiful. Built for keyboard-driven workflows. Finally, Google Calendar feels at home on your Mac.
367+ Mac users are already signed up. Be first. Shape the product.

Block deep work without breaking your week.
Type like you talk. Hora handles the rest.

Stay on top of your day without losing focus.
Jump views, add events, and find dates without leaving the keyboard.
367+
Mac users are already testing hora on TestFlight
Finally an app that does not ship a whole browser alongside it.
Ivor
@ivorisnoobOpens instantly. Scrolls smoothly. No Electron, no web views — just native SwiftUI.
Week and month views with drag-and-drop, timeline resize, and fast search across all calendars.
See what's coming up from the menu bar and join it in one click. No app switching.
Multiple accounts, color-coded calendars, and native Meet, Zoom, and Teams links.
Familiar Google Calendar-style shortcuts. Stay in flow without reaching for the mouse.
A direct connection between your Mac and Google. No servers, no tracking, no middleware.
Real-time sync with Google Calendar.
Create & join Zoom meetings with one click.
Create & join Microsoft Teams meetings with one click. Coming soon.
Quick Add, Focus Time Scheduling, and TL;DR meeting summaries on your machine.
I've been using calendar apps for years, and they always felt off.
Too simple. Too complex. Too slow.
So I started building my own.
hora is a native macOS calendar designed to feel right.

Maciej
Founder & Developer
Pick a one-time purchase or a lower annual plan. Both include Family Sharing. TestFlight access stays free during beta.
Shared across macOS and iOS/iPad apps (coming soon).
At launch: $49.90 one-time or $29.99/year. Family Sharing included.
Compare against Fantastical in detail →One-time
$49.90 one-time
Subscription
$29.99 / year
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Price
hora CalendarBest for Mac
$49.90 lifetime or $29.99/year
Native, Google-focused, Family Sharing included.
Fantastical
$57–$84/year
Broader suite, higher annual cost for Google-only use.
Notion Calendar
Free
Good free option, but web-tech based and less native.
Beta access
Be first to try every update.
Your feedback drives the roadmap.
Special pricing for early supporters.
Final QA sprint, performance tuning, stability checks.
Quick-add with Natural Language, Focus Time Planning, quality of life improvements powered by on-device ML.
A native companion app for iPhone and iPad. Same SwiftUI foundation, designed for touch.
Gmail context for meetings, contact enrichment, and deeper Google ecosystem integration.
Short answers to the things people ask before joining the beta.

2026-05-14
I spent a month hand-writing Google Calendar API code before switching to Google's Swift package. I would not do it again, but it was worth it.

2026-05-13
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2026-05-08
How hora replaced ad-hoc tints with OKLCH-derived palettes and APCA-clamped contrast — 132 hue/mode/state combinations, all readable on Mac and iOS.