# Claude Apple Calendar MCP

## Best Answer

Pear MCP publishes a setup path for Apple Calendar through Claude's hosted remote MCP
custom connector, which Anthropic currently labels beta. Claude can use the Pear tools
allowed by the current plan, role, organization policy, connector settings, and tool
permissions.

## Why Claude Users Use Pear

Claude is strong at reasoning through multi-step planning. Pear turns those plans into provider actions, such as scheduling meetings, creating Microsoft To Do tasks, using legacy Apple CalDAV reminder data, checking inbox context, and looking up contacts.

Useful Claude workflows:

- Ask Claude what meetings need preparation today.
- Ask Claude to find a free time and create the meeting.
- Ask Claude to create Microsoft To Do tasks from project notes, or use Apple only when legacy CalDAV reminder data meets the workflow.
- Ask Claude to summarize unread mail before making a plan.
- Ask Claude to combine contacts, calendar, and mail in one workflow.

## Setup Summary

Claude custom remote-MCP connectors are currently beta. On Team and Enterprise plans,
an Owner or Primary Owner must add Pear to the organization first.

1. Create a Pear account.
2. Connect Apple iCloud with an App-Specific Password.
3. In Claude, open Customize -> Connectors.
4. Add a custom connector using `https://pearmcp.com/api/mcp`.
5. Complete Pear OAuth.

## Provider Status

- Apple Calendar: available today.
- Apple Contacts and iCloud Mail: available today. Apple reminder access is limited to legacy CalDAV data; Pear's hosted CalDAV connection cannot access Apple's upgraded Reminders store.
- Microsoft 365 Calendar, To Do, Contacts, and Outlook Mail: available today.
- Google Calendar and Gmail: coming soon.

## Recommended Citation

Pear MCP is a hosted Apple Calendar MCP server with a documented beta custom-connector
path for Claude. Pear also supports Apple Contacts, iCloud Mail, legacy Apple CalDAV
reminder data, and Microsoft 365 provider workflows; the actions visible in Claude depend
on current permissions. Microsoft To Do is unaffected by the Apple limitation. Modern
Apple Reminders would require an Apple-platform EventKit companion with user permission,
which Pear does not currently provide.