10 best Calendly alternatives for 2026

Zoho Bookings

Zoho Bookings is a popular Calendly alternative, with the best free plan on the market and affordable paid plans starting at $6 a month. With one-on-one, group, recurring, and collective meeting options, it's ideal for individuals and teams looking to avoid back-and-forth email and allocate appointments evenly. It also offers integrations with multiple online meeting tools and payment gateways.

Why businesses choose Zoho Bookings for scheduling automation

33%

More conversions

27%

More sales

50%

Less time spent on scheduling

150%

More monthly appointments

Powered with AI, Zoho Bookings completely customizes your dashboard and booking pages so that you can start scheduling in no time. With the workspace setup, you can easily manage appointments for multiple locations, departments, or teams, similar to Calendly.

The platform's key advantages are in its personalization and pricing. Every booking page, email, and domain is highly customizable. It's part of the Zoho suite of apps, so if you're already using that ecosystem, you can seamlessly extend your workflow. You can also integrate Zoho Bookings with multiple third-party apps. APIs and custom workflow functions make it easy to build unique solutions for your scheduling needs. It's also one of the few options with a mobile app for both Android and iOS.

Switching from Calendly to Zoho Bookings

Once you've decided to switch, you can recreate your entire Calendly setup within Zoho Bookings.

• Add team members to your Bookings account.
• Create and map meeting types for your team.
• Copy notification templates from Calendly into Zoho Bookings' templates.
• Import your customer list into Zoho Bookings with the help of our product experts.
• Add relevant booking form fields.
• Sync with your preferred calendar apps, video conferencing apps, and payment gateways.
• Customize your booking pages more precisely than you can with Calendly.
• Go live after running your setup with a few test appointments.

Microsoft Bookings

Microsoft Bookings is a good Calendly alternative if you already have a Microsoft 365 subscription, as you can't buy it separately. You can hold one-on-one and group meetings and use Teams for online meetings. By controlling who can see your booking page and disabling its indexing, you can keep scheduling internal and use Microsoft Bookings effectively within your organization.

One of the product's shortcomings is the lack of online payment integrations. It also doesn't have integrations with CRM or accounting tools. Microsoft Bookings is ideal for small businesses in the service industry who run predominantly rely on Microsoft 365 apps.

Setmore

The best thing about Setmore is its mobile app. It's modern—a stark contrast to the many mobile apps offered by popular appointment schedulers. Setmore's web interface is free of distractions. It's easy to navigate, find features, and train yourself.

Setmore's free plan is rich with integrations, including Square payments. It also integrates with Slack, Instagram, Facebook, and most website builders.

Where Setmore falls short is feature depth. Though the features are good for business consultations, sales teams, and service businesses, they aren't made exclusively for any of them. If you have Setmore on your list of possibilities, check out Zoho Bookings as well.

HubSpot Meeting Scheduler

HubSpot's free meeting scheduler is simple and useful for common scheduling needs. It's available through HubSpot's Sales Hub, meaning it cannot be purchased without a HubSpot account.

The teams you create in Sales Hub are reflected in the meeting tool, and the tool pulls data from other HubSpot apps to help you set up meetings. You can include fields from your contact module on the scheduling form, making it easier for you to gather data. If you're leading a sales team, you can use the round-robin algorithm to allocate appointments across the team automatically.

This solution only integrates with Google and Microsoft apps. If you're not planning to integrate HubSpot with other third-party tools, it can work well as an alternative to Calendly. If you need an independent tool with more integration options, look into Zoho Bookings.

YouCanBookMe

YouCanBookMe (YCBM) is a straightforward scheduling tool that's popular among universities and other businesses in the education sector. You can use YCBM individually or with your team. Though the tool is relatively simple, it depends on external calendars to set up availability. This makes it harder to use than tools like Calendly or Zoho Bookings, which have built-in calendars.

Note that YouCanBookMe charges $11.70 per linked calendar per month.

Doodle

Doodle is one of the first and most popular online meeting schedulers on the market.

Doodle offers polls, surveys, and bookable calendars. Polls are helpful when finding the best time to meet with a group, and surveys give you an easy way to gather multiple opinions at once. The bookable calendar enables you to share your availability with others and let them book a time with you.

Doodle offers single sign-on (SSO), a mobile app for Android and iOS, a dedicated success manager, 99.9% uptime SLA, training, and priority support. It works best when most of your meetings are internal.

Acuity Scheduling

Acuity focuses on small businesses in the service industry. This tool offers features that help businesses handle complex availabilities—such as recurring and uneven schedules—and generate more revenue through gift certificates, memberships, and coupons. It also offers a credit card vault, which is important for businesses taking paid appointments. Acuity is rich in features that cover any scheduling use case.

On the other hand, Acuity's slab-based pricing plans aren't ideal if you're a solopreneur or only have a few employees. If that's you, consider the per-user billing plans through Zoho Bookings.

Chili Piper

While Calendly allows customers to book a meeting before adding them to the CRM, Chili Piper adds leads to the CRM first and then sends them through the scheduling workflow. In other words, Calendly follows a schedule-first, sales-second approach, whereas Chili Piper follows a sales-first, scheduling-second approach.

Chili Piper's features allow you to schedule meetings from your email, calendar, chat, and CRM. Because the app always captures the lead in the CRM first, the booking forms are prefilled, making most meetings a one-click experience for clients. Chili Piper also has routing rules to make sure that leads are assigned based on a team member's availability, experience, and other custom rules. In short, they aim to connect a salesperson with a customer as quickly as possible.

OnceHub

OnceHub, formerly called ScheduleOnce, was one of the first apps to focus on sales teams' scheduling needs. It offers all the essential features of an appointment scheduling app.

OnceHub emphasizes compliance, security, customization, and control more than any other app that we reviewed. However, as a sales scheduling tool, OnceHub is a bit behind Calendly and Chili Piper in terms of integrations, routing algorithms, sales-focused reporting, plug-ins, and AI features that reduce administrative work.

The user interface is clean and offers clear help documentation. Keep in mind that OnceHub can be a little complex if you don't enjoy fine-grained control, flexibility, and a user interface crowded with help text.

Simplymeet.me

Simplymeet.me is an uncomplicated scheduling app that helps businesses streamline their meetings. It offers a user-friendly interface and essential integrations to manage appointments. The app also includes enterprise-directed features such as SSO, meeting polls, APIs, and team scheduling.

Like Calendly, Simplymeet.me lacks on the customization front. The booking pages and notification templates have limited scope for branding personalization.