The 9 Best Calendly Alternatives of 2026, Compared

Quick answer: Calendly's free plan gives you one event type and one calendar, and Standard costs $10 a seat a month billed yearly. Our top pick is CalendarBridge, which we make (see the disclosure in its section): its booking pages check Google, Microsoft, iCloud and CalDAV calendars and take Stripe payments from $4 a month billed yearly, but it has no free plan. If you want to pay nothing, Cal.com has the best free plan here. If you already live in Google Calendar, its built-in appointment schedules may be all you need.

A booking link does one job: it shows people when you're free and lets them grab a slot without a dozen emails. Almost every tool here does that well. Where they differ is what the free plan leaves out, how many of your calendars they check before offering a time, whether you can charge for the meeting, and what a team costs once every host needs a seat. If you'd rather CC an assistant on an email thread than send a link, that's a different category, and our AI email scheduling assistants roundup covers it.

First, what Calendly costs

Calendly is the baseline everyone here is priced against, so it helps to know exactly what you're leaving. The free plan is real but narrow: one event type, one calendar connection and one-on-one meetings only. Zapier's October 2026 roundup of meeting schedulers still calls Calendly "the best all-around option because it's a trusted platform, the user experience is polished," and its iPhone app holds 4.8 out of 5 from more than 55,000 ratings. If it works for you and the price doesn't sting, there's no reason to move.

The price climbs quickly once you need more than one meeting type. Standard is $10 per seat a month billed yearly ($12 monthly) and adds unlimited event types, multiple calendars, reminders and Stripe or PayPal payments. Round robin, routing and Salesforce need Teams at $16 per seat billed yearly ($20 monthly). Calendly's AI assistant Callie and its Notetaker are add-on tiers: Standard Plus is $18 per seat billed yearly ($24 monthly) and Teams Plus is $24 ($32 monthly), both English only. Enterprise starts at $15k a year with a 50-seat minimum. Apple users should also know that Calendly stopped accepting new iCloud calendar connections on August 20, 2024; existing connections still work.

How they compare

1. CalendarBridge: Best for people with more than one calendar (made by us)

• Developer: Cal Bridge Inc (Miami, FL)
• Calendars: Google, Microsoft 365, Outlook.com, iCloud, CalDAV (Fastmail, Nextcloud and others), GCC High
• Booking pages: up to 10 per user on every plan
• App Store: 4.6/5 (7 ratings)

CalendarBridge started in 2020 as a calendar sync service, and its booking pages are built on that. Each page reads free and busy times from a booking calendar plus up to 4 extra calendars by default, and when you also sync calendars through CalendarBridge, a page can account for up to 6 calendars on Basic or 20 on Premium. That matters if your week is split across a work Microsoft 365 account, a client's Google Workspace and a personal iCloud calendar: Calendly no longer accepts new iCloud connections, and Google's free tool checks only Google. Pages get custom questions, buffers, lead times, a logo or headshot, and Zoom, Teams or Meet links.

The September 2026 update added the features that put it in Calendly's lane: one link for several hosts (everyone together, first available by priority, or round robin), Stripe payments you can require before a booking confirms, and automated reminder and follow-up emails. Every plan, including the $4 a month Basic (billed yearly, or $5 monthly), includes 10 booking pages and paid bookings, which on Calendly needs the $10 Standard seat. Premium, at $8 a month billed yearly or $10 monthly, adds 20 sync connections and the email AI assistant we covered in our scheduling assistants roundup. The trade-offs are in the box above: no free tier, a short reminder sequence, no CRM hooks, and your own domain only through a redirect or an embed.

Video: How to Create a Scheduling Link That Checks Multiple Calendars by CalendarBridge

2. Cal.com: Best free Calendly alternative

• Developer: Cal.com, Inc.
• Free plan: 1 user, unlimited event types and calendars
• App Store: 4.8/5 (197 ratings)
• iOS app released: 2026

Cal.com's free plan is what Calendly's would look like if it weren't designed to upsell you. One user gets unlimited event types and calendar connections, email and SMS notifications, Stripe and PayPal payments, two-way Salesforce and HubSpot sync, more than 100 app integrations, and a one-click import of your Calendly event types. Zapier names it the pick for "maximum flexibility" and points out that the free plan's bi-directional HubSpot sync and SMS notifications don't cost "a dime." It also has newer extras, such as workflows that place AI phone calls to remind people about appointments.

Teams cost $12 per user a month billed yearly (Zapier lists $16 for monthly billing) and add round robin, collective events, routing forms, analytics and the option to remove Cal.com branding, which free pages carry. Organizations, at $28 per user billed yearly, adds SSO and sub-teams. Zapier's main complaint is that "you can't customize the booking pages very much." Cal.com built its name on being open source; Zapier notes the self-hostable code now lives on as Cal.diy, without team features.

Video tutorial: Cal.com Tutorial | How to Use Cal.com for Scheduling (Demo 2025) by The Social Guide

3. Google Calendar appointment schedules: Best if you already use Google Calendar

• Developer: Google LLC
• Free with: any personal Google account (one booking page)
• Set up on: a computer only, not the phone apps

You may already have a booking page. Any Google account can create an appointment schedule in Google Calendar on the web: pick a duration and hours, add buffers and a daily cap, and share the link. Bookings land straight on your calendar, and Zapier's comparison with Calendly says it's "free for anyone with a Google account" and suits people with straightforward needs who already live in Google's apps. Zapier also likes that you see your bookings and remaining availability in the same calendar you already use.

The free version is deliberately thin. Personal accounts and Workspace Business Starter get a single booking page, with no automatic reminders and no checking of other calendars. Multiple pages, reminders (up to 5, with fixed wording) and multi-calendar checks need a paid Google plan such as Google AI Pro at $19.99 a month. Stripe payments and up to 20 co-hosts need Workspace Business Standard ($14 per user a month with a one-year commitment) or higher, per Zapier. It only checks calendars inside your Google account, so a separate Outlook or iCloud calendar won't count, and by default people can't book less than 4 hours ahead.

Video tutorial: How to use Google's Appointment Schedule - Tutorial for Beginners by Simpletivity

4. zcal: Best free plan for solo users who want polish

• Free plan: unlimited links and calendar accounts
• Calendars: Google, Outlook, Apple
• Platform: Web

zcal says "99% of zcal's features are Free Forever," and the list backs it up: unlimited booking links, unlimited calendar accounts including Apple Calendar, meeting polls, email reminders, group events, custom questions, Stripe payments, Zapier and website embedding. Its pages can carry a cover photo and a welcome video, which makes them look more personal than most free booking pages. Zapier names it the best free meeting scheduler and calls its invitee booking page "top-notch, really intuitive."

Zapier's criticism is that it "lacks advanced features, especially around sales automation," and that the setup side has a few navigation quirks. Teams, round robin, text reminders, follow-up emails and branding removal need Pro at $7 per user a month billed yearly ($10.50 monthly), and Pro also drops the commission zcal takes on Stripe payments on the free plan. Custom domains need Business at $12 billed yearly. We found no iPhone app.

Video overview: Zcal Booking Software Overview: How the Free Plan Works by SaaS Master

5. SavvyCal: Best for group polls plus booking links

• Calendars and links: unlimited on both paid plans
• Guarantee: 30-day money back
• Platform: Web

SavvyCal is the pick when the hard part is getting five people to agree on a time. Its meeting polls let you highlight the slots you're free, and invitees can overlay their own calendar on the poll so they can see conflicts before they vote, which Zapier calls unique. When the votes are in, one click sends the invites. Paid plans add regular booking links with unlimited calendars, collective, round robin and group modes, reminders and workflows, CRM and Zapier integrations, and "time defense" settings such as frequency limits and ranked availability.

The free plan covers polls only, so a normal Calendly-style booking link means paying. Basic is $10 per user a month billed yearly ($12 monthly). Paid bookings, custom domains, delegating to an assistant and removing SavvyCal branding need Premium at $17 billed yearly ($20 monthly), which makes it the priciest way on this list to take payments for a meeting. We found no iPhone app.

Video comparison: Best Scheduling Software 2026? Calendly vs Cal.com vs TidyCal vs SavvyCal vs Chili Piper by Efficient App (Alex & Andra)

6. Microsoft Bookings: Best for Microsoft 365 businesses

• Developer: Microsoft Corporation
• Included in: Microsoft 365 Business Basic, Standard and Premium, enterprise, education and Teams Essentials plans
• Works in: web (book.ms), Outlook and Teams

If your company already pays for Microsoft 365, Bookings is likely included and costs nothing extra. Personal Bookings gives each person their own booking page with meeting types, much like a Calendly link, and Shared Bookings lets a team publish one page with services, staff and business hours, so a customer can book whoever is free. Online meetings get a Teams link automatically, and Bookings is available inside Outlook and Teams, so nobody has to learn a separate app.

The cheapest way in is Microsoft 365 Business Basic at $7 per user a month paid yearly, which also includes custom business email, Teams and the web and mobile Office apps. The catch is that it lives entirely inside Microsoft's world. Microsoft's docs say Bookings data is stored in Exchange Online and list only business, enterprise, education and government plans, so personal Microsoft 365 subscribers and Outlook.com users can't use it, and nothing in its documentation covers checking a Google or iCloud calendar. Shared booking pages are stored as Exchange shared mailboxes, so they belong to your organization's Microsoft 365 setup rather than to one person.

Video tutorial: How to Make Personal Microsoft Bookings Page by Kevin Stratvert

7. Zoho Bookings: Best budget pick for small teams

• Developer: Zoho Corporation
• Calendar sync: Zoho, Google, Microsoft 365, Outlook.com
• App Store: 4.1/5 (72 ratings)
• iOS app released: 2018

Zoho Bookings undercuts Calendly's team pricing while covering most of the same ground. Every paid seat gets round robin with four distribution methods (load-balancing, priority, round robin and a default), collective bookings with several hosts, group sessions for classes, recurring appointments, routing forms that send people to the right page, a customer portal, and SMS and WhatsApp reminders through connected providers. It syncs with Zoho CRM and Bigin, and Zoho One customers get the Premium plan included.

The free plan is for one user, with two-way calendar sync and email reminders. Basic costs $6 per user a month billed yearly ($8 monthly) and is limited to one workspace. Premium, at $9 billed yearly ($12 monthly), is the tier Zoho pitches for online payments and integrations and includes 3 workspaces. Booking rooms or equipment is a paid add-on. It doesn't list Apple's iCloud calendar, and its iPhone app rates 4.1 from only 72 ratings, the weakest score on this list.

Video tutorial: How to set up Zoho Bookings: A beginners guide by Relevate

8. Acuity Scheduling: Best for client-facing service businesses

• Developer: Squarespace, Inc.
• Payments: Stripe, Square, PayPal, Venmo
• App Store: 4.8/5 (30,140 ratings)
• iOS app released: 2017

Calendly is built for meetings, while Acuity is built for appointments: a massage, a tutoring session, a tax consult. Every plan includes custom intake forms for collecting client details and signed terms, payments through Stripe, Square, PayPal or Venmo, and email reminders. From Standard up you can sell packages and memberships, sell gift certificates, run a waitlist for full slots, and send text reminders. Squarespace owns it, and the admin iPhone app holds 4.8 out of 5 from more than 30,000 ratings.

There's no free plan, only a 7-day trial without a card. Starter is $16 a month billed yearly ($20 monthly) for one calendar, meaning one staff member or location. Standard, with up to 6 calendars and the package and text-reminder features most service businesses want, is $27 billed yearly ($34 monthly). Premium, at $49 yearly ($61 monthly), adds a HIPAA business associate agreement, custom CSS and an option to hide Acuity's logo. For simple sales calls it's more than you need.

Video tutorial: Acuity Scheduling Beginner Guide - Online Booking Tutorial by Simpletivity

9. TidyCal: Best one-time purchase

• Developer: Sumo Group, Inc. (the company behind AppSumo)
• Payments: Stripe or PayPal
• Platform: Web

TidyCal is the escape hatch for people tired of subscriptions. The free plan already includes unlimited bookings and booking types, paid bookings, and recurring and package sessions. The Individual Lifetime deal costs $29 once through AppSumo and adds automatic Zoom, Meet and Teams links, group bookings, custom emails and up to 10 calendar connections. The $79 Agency Lifetime deal adds round robin, collective meetings, a team page and 10 text reminders a month in the US and Canada.

The limits are in the details. The free plan connects only one calendar and doesn't create video links. Free and lifetime plans take a 1% platform fee on payments, on top of Stripe's own fees, and keep some TidyCal branding. Removing both, plus a custom domain and unlimited calendars, means the Pro subscription at $99 a year ($8.25 a month) or $12 monthly, which undoes the point of buying once. We found no iPhone app.

Video review: TidyCal Review: This Booking Tool is a Perfect Calendly Alternative by LearnWire

Also worth a look

• Reclaim (free; Starter $10/user/mo billed yearly): an AI calendar from Dropbox whose booking links carry priorities, so an urgent meeting can bump lower-priority events. Zapier picks it for priority-based scheduling; the free plan has 1 scheduling link.
• Zeeg (free; Professional $10/user/mo billed yearly): Zapier's pick for a customizable link-in-bio page that gathers all your booking links. The free plan allows 2 active scheduling pages.
• YouCanBook.me (free; Individual $7.20/mo billed yearly, $9 monthly): a booking page tool with a free plan for 1 page and 1 calendar, and up to 6 calendars on Professional ($10.40 billed yearly).
• Vimcal ($25/mo billed yearly, $35 monthly): a fast calendar app for executives with unlimited personal booking links and polls built in. The free version is iPhone only.

How we picked

We ranked these from desk research, not hands-on use. We read each vendor's live pricing page on October 11, 2026 (switching the monthly and yearly toggles where prices load in the browser), checked help documentation for calendar support and plan limits, pulled App Store ratings from Apple's own data, and leaned on Zapier's October 2026 roundup of meeting schedulers and its Calendly versus Google Calendar comparison for outside opinions. CalendarBridge is our own product, so we held it to the same sources as everyone else, listed its weaknesses in a box at the top of its section, and pointed to free alternatives.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best free alternative to Calendly?

Cal.com, for most people. Its free plan gives one user unlimited event types and calendar connections, Stripe and PayPal payments and SMS notifications, all of which Calendly keeps behind its $10 Standard seat. zcal is a close second with unlimited links and calendars and nicer-looking pages. If you only need one booking page on a Google calendar, Google Calendar's appointment schedules are free with any Google account.

How much does Calendly cost in 2026?

Calendly's free plan covers one event type and one calendar. Standard is $10 per seat a month billed yearly or $12 monthly, Teams is $16 billed yearly or $20 monthly, and the Standard Plus and Teams Plus tiers that add Callie and Notetaker cost $18 and $24 billed yearly. Enterprise starts at $15k a year for at least 50 seats.

Does Google Calendar have a Calendly-like booking page?

Yes. Appointment schedules let any Google account publish one booking page from Google Calendar on the web. Multiple pages, email reminders and checking more than one calendar need a paid Google plan, and payments and co-hosts need Workspace Business Standard or higher. It only checks calendars inside your Google account.

Can Calendly check my iCloud calendar?

Not if you're connecting it now. Calendly stopped accepting new iCloud calendar connections on August 20, 2024, though older connections still work. CalendarBridge, zcal, TidyCal and YouCanBook.me all list Apple or iCloud calendar support.

Which Calendly alternative is cheapest for a team?

Zoho Bookings, at $6 per user a month billed yearly, is the cheapest here with round robin and routing forms. zcal Pro adds round robin for $7 billed yearly. If your company already pays for Microsoft 365, Microsoft Bookings costs nothing extra.

The bottom line

Stay on Calendly if one event type is enough or your team already depends on its routing. If your availability lives in more than one calendar, CalendarBridge (ours, with no free plan) is the cheapest paid option that checks them all. If you want to pay nothing, start with Cal.com, and if one Google calendar is your whole world, try Google's appointment schedules first. Once the meetings are booked, our AI meeting assistants roundup covers tools that take the notes.

Disclosure: CalendarBridge is made by the people who run A Walking City, and we ranked it first; its section lists its weak spots. None of the other links in this post are affiliate links, we don't earn a commission from any of the other tools, and nobody paid to be included. Prices are what each vendor's pricing page listed on October 11, 2026, and they change.