Doodle Alternatives

Rallly does one job, the job Doodle was famous for: you propose a few dates, share a link, and people tick the slots that work. Participants vote without creating an account, and each one sees the options in their own time zone. The free Hobby plan keeps up to 3 polls open at once with unlimited participants, and a poll is deleted once all its dates are more than 30 days past and nobody has voted, commented or edited it for 30 days. Pro costs $6 per seat per month billed yearly, or $10 on monthly billing, and removes the limits: unlimited open polls, polls kept indefinitely, email invites, team collaboration, custom branding, API and webhooks.

How the price reads against Doodle: Doodle's free plan allows one group poll in total, Rallly's allows three running at the same time, and Rallly shows no ads on either plan. Rallly is open source under the GNU AGPL v3 licence and can run on your own server with Docker, which matters to schools, associations and IT teams that cannot send attendee names to a third party. The limit is scope: Rallly itself says not to use it for one-on-one booking pages. Two details from its pricing page: Pro is sold at an early adopter rate that Rallly says will increase, and subscribing locks the rate in; and there is no discount for schools or non-profits, which are pointed to the free plan. Tip: close a poll as soon as you pick the date, since the free plan counts open polls, not polls created, and export the results to CSV (free) before an old poll is deleted.

zcal covers both halves of what Doodle sells: meeting polls for groups and booking links for one-on-one meetings. Its free plan is unusually wide. It includes unlimited links, unlimited calendar accounts, meeting polls, group events, automated email reminders, custom questions, Stripe payments, Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams, Zapier, website embedding, and it states "No ads ever". Pro costs $7 per user per month billed annually, or $10.50 on monthly billing, with a 14-day free trial; Business adds custom domains and unlimited teams at $12 per user per month billed annually ($18 monthly). Pro is for teams and brands: round robin and collective events, removing zcal branding, SMS reminders, follow-up emails, and no zcal commission on payments.

How the price reads against Doodle: what Doodle keeps for paid seats (unlimited polls, reminders, Zapier, no ads) sits in zcal's free plan, and the first paid tier is below Doodle Team's $16 per seat per month on yearly billing. Three catches sit in the comparison table and the FAQ: the free plan takes a 3% fee on Stripe payments, which Pro removes, so a coach who sells $1,000 of sessions a month pays $30 a month to stay free, more than four Pro seats on annual billing; group events are capped at 5 people per time slot on Free; and zcal does not refund paid plans, so the 14-day trial is your only safety net. Tip: use one zcal poll for the group meeting and send the resulting slot as a one-off booking link, so the event lands in every calendar with the video link.

SavvyCal is a paid scheduler built for people whose time is booked by others. Both plans include unlimited scheduling links, unlimited meeting polls for group times and unlimited calendar connections across Google, Microsoft, iCloud and Fastmail, all checked for conflicts. Its signature feature is that the person booking can overlay their own calendar on your availability, so they pick a slot without switching tabs, and you can rank your availability to steer people toward the times you prefer. Basic costs $10 per user per month billed annually, or $12 per user billed monthly. Premium costs $17 per user per month billed annually, or $20 billed monthly, and adds your own domain, branding and Stripe payments before the meeting is confirmed.

How the price reads against Doodle: SavvyCal Basic, billed yearly, sits below Doodle Team's $16 per seat on the same billing, with polls included. You can set up an account for free, but you pay before you share your links, with a 30-day money-back guarantee as the safety net. Students, educators and non-profits save 25% on top of annual billing. Tip: turn on ranked availability for external calls and keep your best focus hours as "less preferred" rather than blocked.

Calendly is the booking-link standard many people compare Doodle to. Its free plan is always free, with one event type and one calendar connection. Standard costs $10 per seat per month and Teams $16 per seat per month, both billed yearly, and Enterprise starts at $15k a year from 50 seats. The feature list includes meeting polls and one-off meetings, multi-person meeting types for group or collective formats, a mobile app and a browser extension. Calendly also sells add-ons: adding Notetaker and Callie, its AI email assistant, turns Standard into Standard Plus at $18 per seat per month billed yearly, against $10 without them.

How the price reads against Doodle: Calendly Teams and Doodle Team are both listed at $16 per seat per month on yearly billing, so the choice is about workflow, not cost. Calendly is built around a person or a team being booked by clients and prospects, with routing and integrations; Doodle and Rallly are built around a group voting on a date. If your Doodle use is mostly internal group polls, Calendly is more tool than you need. If you already pay for Calendly and wonder what else fits, our Calendly alternatives guide compares the booking tools, and our Calendly Zapier integration guide shows how to send bookings to your other apps. Tip: the free plan's single event type fills up fast, so name it generically ("30-minute call") and adjust the duration per invite.

Zoho Bookings is an appointment scheduler for businesses rather than a poll. It has a forever free plan for solo users who need the fundamentals, then Basic at $6 per user per month billed annually, or $8 on monthly billing, and Premium at $9 per user per month billed annually, or $12 monthly. Local taxes are added on top. Both plans include one-on-one and collective bookings and round robin distribution; group and recurring bookings need Premium, and resource bookings are a Premium add-on bought separately. Every booking page converts time zone and language to the visitor's location. Basic is limited to 1 workspace; Premium includes 3, with more as add-ons, for organisations with several locations or departments that also need online payments and integrations.

How the price reads against Doodle: Zoho Bookings Premium on yearly billing is cheaper per user than Doodle Team, and it adds routing forms, a customer portal, SMS workflows and payment providers to what Basic does. The trade-off is the voting grid that makes Doodle quick for a group of friends or a committee: Zoho Bookings is built around booking, so keep a poll tool for that. Tip: if your company already pays for Zoho One, you already have Zoho Bookings Premium, so do not buy it separately.

Framadate is a free date and decision poll run by Framasoft, a French non-profit association funded by donations. The service is free, with no ads and no click traps, and the software behind it, Pollaris, is published under the GNU AGPL v3 licence, so its code can be inspected. A poll lasts 180 days by default; after it expires you have two months to extend it before it is deleted for good. Framadate also lets you run classic polls (choices that are not dates), which helps when a committee votes on a venue or a menu as well as a date.

How the price reads against Doodle: there is no paid plan at all, so the comparison is with Doodle Free, and Framadate wins on ads and on the number of polls. It is built for the poll alone: calendar sync, video links and booking pages are what the other tools on this list add, and the service itself announces a redesign of its interface. Its strength is trust: Framasoft is funded at 94% by donations and publishes the terms and the charter under which it hosts your polls. Tip: keep the admin link (the one ending in /admin), since it is the only way to extend a poll before it expires; if you lose it, you can get it back with the email address linked to the poll.

SimplyMeet.me is a scheduling tool that lists poll meetings next to group bookings, routing forms, buffer times, payments and a cancellation and reschedule policy. Its free-forever plan is for one user, with 3 meeting types, 50 meetings a month and one external calendar plus the internal calendar. Standard costs $5.99 per user per month on annual billing, for up to 5 users, unlimited meeting types, 100 meetings per user per month and 4 external calendars. Professional costs $9.99 per user per month on annual billing, for up to 30 users, 500 meetings per user per month and 7 external calendars. Paid plans start with a 7-day free trial, and annual billing saves 15% against monthly. Read the comparison table before you sign up free: poll meetings, group bookings, reminders and payments start with Standard, and routing forms with Professional. The tool is powered by SimplyBook.me, the booking software company.

How the price reads against Doodle: Standard is the cheapest paid seat in this list on yearly billing, but its caps are real. A user who books more than 100 meetings a month must move to Professional, and the Standard plan stops at 5 users. Tip: count your busiest month, not your average one, before you choose between Standard and Professional.