u/codeonholiday

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Hey r/MacOSApps — I built Meetly, a tiny native menu bar app that fires a fullscreen reminder you actually can't miss, right before a meeting. Just shipped 1.3 and it's the biggest update yet.

What's new in 1.3

• Apple Reminders support. Meetly now watches the Reminders lists you pick (not just calendars). A task with a due date fires the same fullscreen overlay at the due time. This came directly from user feedback — turns out a lot of people keep time-based tasks in Reminders, not Calendar.
• New "Reminders" tab + renamed the old "Reminders" tab to "Alerts". Small thing, but the old naming confused people into thinking the app already supported Reminders tasks.
• Per-list rules (show overlay / play sound / sound repeat) for Reminders lists, mirroring the per-calendar rules. Sync via iCloud.
• Date-only tasks ("15 July", no time) now default to 9 AM and stay in the menu bar all day, instead of firing at midnight.
• General tab health check now shows Reminders access + monitored lists.

What it does (the one-sentence pitch) Calendar notifications are easy to swipe away in deep work. Meetly takes over your screen for a few seconds before a meeting — title, join link, countdown, Join/Snooze/Dismiss. Detects overlapping meetings and groups them. Auto-extracts Zoom/Meet/Teams links from event notes.

Honest details

• Free forever for single-Mac use (monitors 1 calendar). No subscription.
• Pro is a one-time $3.99 (launch price) — unlocks unlimited calendars, Apple Reminders, iCloud sync across Macs, per-calendar rules, hide-during-screen-share, quiet hours. Pay once, own it.
• Native Swift/AppKit, ~8 MB, lives in the menu bar. No backend server — your data stays on your Mac / your iCloud.
• Requires macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later.

Links

• Landing page: https://codeonholiday.com/meetly
• Direct download: https://github.com/codeonholiday/codeonholiday/releases/latest/download/meetly-latest.zip

Happy to answer questions or take feature requests. If you try it and something feels off, tell me — that's how Reminders support happened.

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Hey 👋

I'm a freelancer juggling multiple client calendars, and I kept missing meetings. Not because I forgot — macOS notifications are easy to swipe away, and once I'm in flow state, that little banner might as well not exist. One missed client call last month cost me a contract, so I finally built something.

Meetly is a native macOS menu bar app that fires a fullscreen, unmissable reminder a couple minutes before each meeting — with a one-click Join button for Zoom/Meet/Teams links.

What it does:

• 📅 Reads any calendar macOS Calendar shows (Google, iCloud, Outlook, Exchange)
• 🔔 Fullscreen overlay before meetings — you literally cannot ignore it
• 📍 Menu bar shows "now" + upcoming meetings
• ⏰ Snooze, quick-join, quiet hours
• ☁️ iCloud sync across Macs (Pro)
• 🖥️ Private overlay while screen sharing (so reminders don't leak into your client demos) (Pro)

It's native Swift/SwiftUI, not Electron — so it sips battery and opens instantly.

Pricing: Free forever for one calendar. Pro is $9.99 normally, but I just launched so it's $3.99 one-time (launch price). No subscription, pay once own it. If you want to try it:

👉 https://codeonholiday.com/meetly/

Just comment, I will send you the LIFETIME code.