Soon Soon is a tiny native macOS menu bar app for Apple Calendar. It shows your next event with a live countdown, keeps today and tomorrow one click away, and opens Apple Calendar when you need the full schedule.

Highlights

• Native macOS menu bar app
• Apple Calendar integration through EventKit
• Live countdown for the next event
• System pull-down menu with today's and tomorrow's events
• Quick action to open Apple Calendar
• Fast refresh from Calendar change notifications plus a 5-second fallback check
• Adaptive source icon included as an Icon Composer .icon document

Requirements

• macOS 26 or newer
• Xcode 26 or newer, or a recent Swift 6-compatible toolchain

Install

Download Soon.dmg from the latest GitHub Release, open it, and drag Soon.app into Applications. On first launch, allow Calendar access.

Run Locally

./script/build_and_run.sh

Build A DMG

./script/package_dmg.sh

This creates dist/Soon-1.5.dmg and dist/Soon.dmg.

Repository Layout

• Sources/CalendarMenu/ Swift app source
• Assets/Soon.icon/ adaptive Icon Composer source icon
• docs/assets/ public brand assets used in the README
• docs/demo/ public screenshot media used in the README
• script/ local build and packaging scripts

Privacy

Soon reads events from Apple Calendar using the system EventKit permission prompt. It does not require an account, server, or cloud sync of its own.

License

Soon is available under the MIT License. See LICENSE.

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