New for Mac

Your school day,
in the menu bar.

Calico is a clear glass panel at the edge of your screen: your schedule, assignments, grades, mail, homework and tests, one glance away. Press the cat and it fades in. Press it again and it’s gone.

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Free · macOS 13 or later · Apple silicon

This is the real app’s interface, running here with pretend school data. Try it: drag panels with the pencil, press ⌘K, ask it something.

Everything a school day throws at you, in one quiet panel: always a keystroke away, never in your Dock.

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Dock icons
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Open it
⌥Space

Liquid Glass

Clear, all the way through.

On macOS 26 and later, Calico is made of the system’s own Liquid Glass, in its clear variant: you see your desktop through it, softly blurred, with a thin edge of light. Turn the glass up and it becomes a tint you can read from across the room.

The real material

Not a blurry rectangle. Calico asks macOS for its glass, so the panel looks and behaves like the rest of the system.

Motion with weight

Every move is a spring, the way iOS does it: a small overshoot, a quick settle, and never a stop that feels abrupt.

Above everything

Keep it on top of your windows, or even over full-screen apps on every desktop. Or turn that off, and press the cat to bring it forward.

Panels

Everything from School, and more.

Canvas, Genesis and Gmail, in panels you arrange yourself. Press the pencil: everything wobbles, and you drag, resize, put away or bring back whatever you like.

Right now

Your period, your room, and the countdown to the bell.

Assignments

Canvas, counting down, with a quick hand-in.

Homework

Your own, with due dates and a reminder for each.

Important dates

Tests, quizzes and exams, marked and remembered.

School mail

Gmail, sorted into Academic, Clubs, Sports and Events.

  • Grades
  • GPA
  • Tardies
  • Club meetings
  • Week ahead
  • Tasks
  • Weather
  • Focus timer
  • Notes

Search or Ask

Ask anything. Mostly, it already knows.

Press ⌥ Space from anywhere to open the AI assistant. Questions about your day (what’s due, your GPA, your next class, a test coming up) are answered at once, on your Mac. Everything else goes to a free AI that streams its answer back.

  • Answer gives just the answer.
  • Explain gives one short paragraph.
  • Write gives full paragraphs.
Search or Ask

    Calico is thinking…

    Calico may be inaccurate.

    Reminders

    A nudge before it matters.

    Canvas assignments, club meetings, your own homework, tests and quizzes: Calico sends a notification at the right moment, once. Add a test and you hear about it two evenings before, the evening before, and that morning. Add homework due tomorrow at 8 and it doesn’t buzz you the second you type it.

    Set up

    One button. One minute.

    1. 1

      Sign in to everything

      Press one button. A real sign-in window opens for Gmail, then Canvas, then Genesis, and closes by itself the moment you’re in. Calico never sees a password.

    2. 2

      Turn on Ask

      One Google sign-in to Groq, and Calico makes a free key for you. Skip it and set it up later if you like.

    3. 3

      Press the cat

      It lives in your menu bar. Press it to fade the panel in or out. ⌥ Space opens the assistant from anywhere.

    Privacy

    Yours stays yours.

    School data stays on your Mac

    Grades, assignments and mail are read on your Mac, shown on your Mac, and never sent to Calico’s server or anyone else’s.

    Your settings follow you

    Panel layout, tasks, notes, homework and dates are saved to Calico’s own backend on Cloudflare, so a new Mac gets them back with a recovery key. No password, no email.

    AI only when you ask

    A question you send to the assistant goes to Groq as text. Nothing from Canvas, Genesis or Gmail is ever included. Your key stays in your Mac’s Keychain.

    Calico for Mac

    Free. Made for Apple silicon Macs.

    Download for Mac

    macOS 13 or later · the clear Liquid Glass look needs macOS 26

    First time opening it

    Calico isn’t signed with an Apple Developer ID yet, so macOS will ask before it opens. Drag Calico to Applications, then right-click it and choose Open (once). If macOS still stops it, open System Settings → Privacy & Security and press Open Anyway.

    Questions

    Does Calico see my passwords?

    No. Signing in happens in your school’s own sign-in pages (and Google’s), in a window Calico opens. Calico only notices that you’re signed in, then closes the window.

    Do I have to sign in to all three?

    Yes: Gmail, Canvas and Genesis are what the panels are made of, so setup asks for all three. Ask (the AI) is the one thing you can set up later.

    Does it work with my school?

    It starts set up for Northern Valley, and you can type your own Canvas and Genesis addresses in setup. Canvas works anywhere Canvas does. Genesis pages differ a little by district, so some panels may need a tweak.

    Will it show over full-screen apps?

    With “Above everything” turned on, yes: Calico floats over full-screen apps on every desktop. It can’t go over the lock screen or a game that takes over your display.

    Where is my data?

    School data is on your Mac. Calico’s own data (layout, tasks, homework, notes) is on Cloudflare, on the developer’s account, and you can delete it any time in Settings.

    Is it official?

    No. Calico is an independent app. It isn’t made by, or affiliated with, Apple, Instructure, Genesis Education, Google or Groq.

    Tell us what to build.

    A bug, a missing panel, a school that doesn’t work: write it here.