Craft a creative calendar with one of these software programs for the Mac. Use templates and design wizards to design and print all kinds of calendars for personal, school or business use. Most of the software packages contain large clip art and royalty-free image libraries. With most, you can import your own photos to personalize your calendar. Check out the available design software options.

Printmaster Platinum

PrintMaster Platinum bills itself as “the ultimate design toolkit” for creating photo greeting cards, family newsletters, scrapbook pages, calendars and much more. The software comes with more than 10,000 royalty-free images, improved text features that allow text to flow from one text box to another and to flow around images and clipart.

  • Lots of graphics and layouts for calendars.

  • Good selection of editing tools.

  • Affordable.

  • Can’t export or import text from other programs.

  • Not as sophisticated as some other graphic design programs.

The software ships with more than 4,700 professionally designed templates—including calendar templates. PrintMaster Platinum has a dedicated Calendar Tool you can use to add images to appointments. Monthly and yearly calendar templates are included.

Apple Pages

Pages, the word processor and page layout program that ships with every new Mac, is sleek software that integrates with Photos to give you plenty of calendar possibilities. Pages don’t ship with a calendar template, but you can use it to make a calendar in a couple of ways:

  • Works directly with Photos so you can create calendars from your own shots.

  • Can import many Word templates and text.

  • No premade calendar template.

  • Can be slow, even on current computers.

  • Use the Table button to set up a calendar grid that is seven columns wide and then input the dates and other information manually.Download a Calendar template. Pages open .doc files, so most Word templates open in the software.

The Print Shop for Mac

Broderbund’s newest version of The Print Shop for Mac is easy-to-use software that ships with calendar templates ready for your project. The software package comes with more than 160,000 clip art graphics for every occasion you can think of. It also includes more than 10,000 royalty-free images for home and business projects.

  • Lots of ready-to-use calendar templates.

  • Huge selection of art.

  • Distortion-free resizing of images can be difficult.

  • Graphics tend to be rather dated.

Use the dynamic headline creation tools to personalize your calendar. When you’re done, you can move on to one of the many other projects you can create with this software.

Broderbund Calendar Creator

Broderbund’s Calendar Creator is packed full of calendar designs and templates. With more than 200,000 images and backgrounds, the software makes it easy to design an eye-catching and useful calendar. If you prefer, import your personal photos, then edit, move and resize them. 

  • Lots of template options.

  • Easy to install.

  • Templates are not free.

  • Can be slow and buggy.

Calendar Creator tools adjust photo brightness, rotate and mirror images, and add borders, shadows, and shapes to your calendar design.

It’s easy to set up daily, monthly, weekly and yearly calendars right on your Mac.

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