10 best meeting scheduling apps of 2023

1. Google Calendar: A free and a simple meeting scheduler

If you have a Google account, you already have a meeting scheduler that’s waiting to be used. Google Calendar is more than just your daily scheduler, it can also help you to schedule meetings and appointments.

While working as a group, Google Calendar makes it easy to share calendars, stay updated on each other's schedules, and set up a meeting time that works best for everyone.

The Find A Time feature of Google Calendar goes a step further by analyzing your team’s calendars and finding a time that best works for everyone. You can do all of these things in a single window, and Google Calendar’s intuitive calendar design makes it a very straightforward process.

Google Calendar also lets you meet with others through an experience similar to many scheduling apps. When using the Google Workspace subscription, your Google Calendar gets an additional feature called appointment slots. You can create multiple appointment slots with a duration of your choice, and your guests can book a meeting with you through a publicly accessible URL. The booked slots will be unavailable to others, and the meeting will automatically find its way into your calendar schedule.

Google Calendar works well for scheduling meetings with friends, family, or colleagues backed by the powerful Google ecosystem. However, when it comes to customer appointments or meetings, it comes with limited meeting customizations and requires you and your guests to have a Google Account to maximize most of its features.

2. Zoho Bookings: A single app for all your scheduling needs

Zoho Bookings is a powerful online meeting scheduler that offers a seamless user interface for easily setting up and booking meetings. With the option to create various meetings, it helps cater to various scheduling needs your business may require— one-on-one meetings, team management with round-robin scheduling, and conducting classes or workshops.

Zoho Bookings stands out by allowing you to customize the booking page guests land on to book a meeting. You can add a background image, choose from various themes and color palettes, add text, upload your logo, and completely customize your booking page to match your brand image.

Managing your team is made easy with Zoho Bookings. You can bring them on board, give them different permissions (like admin, manager, or staff), and assign them to different services.

You can automatically export your booked appointments to your calendar by syncing your calendar apps (Zoho Calendar, Google Calendar, and Outlook Calendar). The two-way sync feature will ensure that your schedules won’t clash by analyzing your calendar and making busy time slots unavailable on your booking page.

Apart from meetings, you can also list out resources for guests to book, like rental equipment or conference halls. And if you want analytics on how your meetings or teams have performed, the reporting features offer a data-backed analysis of your meetings.

3. Doodle: Poll and meet with your guests

Doodle offers a simple and user-friendly way to set up meetings. To avoid back-and-forth conversations, Doodle allows you to create a poll and instantly convert it into a meeting without having to signup. You can also create one-on-one meetings and conduct surveys with your guests.

Doodle helps to save time by finalizing the most voted time slot and converting it into a meeting. The people who took part in the poll will be notified about the meeting through their email, and your calendar will be updated automatically.

The app also allows you to have a booking page for your guests to schedule a meeting. The calendar-like design makes it easier for your guests to choose a date, pick a time, and book a meeting with you in just a few clicks. You can sync your calendar to avoid schedule clashes and customize both your availability and the duration of the meeting.

By linking the meeting to Google Meet or Zoom, you can meet with your guests online from any part of the world. You can also integrate with Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Zapier to effectively automate your meetings.

4. SavvyCal: Meetings made modern

SavvyCal offers an interactive calendar-like scheduling page. Your guests can overlay their calendar with yours to check their schedule and pick a time to meet.

SavvyCal’s simple design allows you to easily set up meetings, sync with multiple calendars (including Google and Outlook calendars). It also integrates with various apps—like Zoom, Google Meet, Zapier, and more—to help automate your meetings.

You can create multi-use meetings, like one-on-one meetings, team meetings, or panel meetings, or a single-use meeting, where the link is archived after a meeting is scheduled. You can also create meetings individually, or combine multiple meetings under a single scheduling page to share with guests.

SavvyCal helps you to be in complete control of your meetings. You can choose to connect different calendars for different meetings, offer multiple meeting duration for guests to choose from, manually approve booked meetings, and decide whether to show all your availability or only your preferred time slots.

The propose a time feature lets you select multiple time slots from a particular meeting type and convert them into text that you can send to your guests. They can then click on a particular time that works for them to be redirected to the scheduling page, and instantly book that slot.

5. Chili Piper: One-stop scheduling solution for your sales team

Chili Piper is a meeting scheduler made specifically for sales teams using Salesforce and HubSpot CRMs. In that way, it's different from the other apps covered so far in that it's created for a very specific audience.

Chili Piper has multiple features that are essential and exclusive to sales teams. For example, Chili Piper adds a lead to the CRM as soon as the lead makes first contact. It also captures and correlates existing data about that lead to make booking a meeting a personalized and swift experience for the lead.

Chili Piper's features allow you to schedule meetings from email, calendar, chat, and CRM. Because the app always captures the lead first in CRM, 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 availability, experience, and other custom rules. In short, they aim to connect a salesperson to customers as fast as possible.

Chili Piper is an app that you should consider if you are in a role directly impacting revenue: sales, marketing, revenue operations, demand generation, or account management. It has various pricing plans and bundles that you can select from, depending on whether you want to use only a part of the product or the entire platform.

6. Calendly: To elegantly meet with your guests

Calendly helps you reduce the time spent setting up meetings and allows guests to meet with you in just a few clicks. The interface is simple, and the booking page comes with an elegant calendar-like design to show your available days. When guests click on a particular date, Calendly will then display your available times for them to schedule a meeting.

To put an end to back-and-forth or any uncertain availability, Calendly lets you suggest multiple times to your guests, so they can pick a time that works for them. You can also run a poll for the date and time of the meeting with your guests and convert the highest voted time slot into a meeting with a single click.

Calendly allows you to manage a team and create different meeting types for your guests to book with them. You can assign one team member to handle a group meeting, let invitees book a meeting with multiple team members, and assign incoming meetings to your team in a round-robin manner.

If you want to save time and automate time-consuming parts of your meetings, then the workflow feature of Calendly can help. You can set up rules and create a workflow around meetings to automate all the manual work before and after the meeting. Email reminders, follow-up emails, thank you emails, sending resources via email, and text notifications are a few examples of processes that can be completely automated.

7. CozyCal: Minimal design for maximum meetings

CozyCal facilitates simple and smooth meeting scheduling through a booking page. Guests can switch between your available meetings, choose a date and time, and then book with you. A minimal design and simple setup process can save time when creating a booking page.

You can create an individual event, a folder to host multiple events to choose from, and a package of both events and folders. The calendar page allows you to track the booked events easily in an agenda-like view.

Some of the popular integrations that you can use are Zoom, Zapier, Stripe, Google Meet, and Google Analytics. CozyCal allows you to sync with your Google Calendar, Outlook Calendar, and iCal, as well as share the URL of the booking page or embed it onto your website.

If team collaboration is a priority, then CozyCal also allows you to easily manage your team members, assign them to different events, and connect their calendars to start meeting with others.

You can offer your guests discounts, subscription packages, and bulk bookings. Easily track the packages, and see a real-time record as your guests' book meetings with the discounts or the subscriptions.

8. HubSpot Meeting scheduler: A simple scheduling app to get started with

HubSpot meeting scheduler is one of the many valuable products under the sales category of HubSpot CRM software. It's a good go-to app if you want to start with a free meetings scheduler that's simple and easy for guests to use.

The free plan lets you use a single pre-fixed meeting template with multiple meeting duration for guests to choose from. However, if you’d like to create multiple one-on-one meetings, group meetings, and round-robin team scheduling, switching to a paid plan is necessary.

The simple booking page design has a calendar layout that shows your available time, which makes it easy for others to swiftly book a slot.

With HubSpot Meeting Scheduler, you can manage your team and add them to the scheduling page when creating a group meeting or setting up round-robin scheduling, and they'll get an email notification when guests book a meeting.

It also lets you easily view the meeting under the contacts timeline of your HubSpot CRM, if you schedule a meeting or get invited for a meeting on Google Calendar or Outlook Calendar. You can connect it to various apps, like Google Meet, Zoom, and Slack, and also sync your Google Calendar, Outlook Calendar, and Office 365 calendars to it.

9. YouCanBook.me: A meeting scheduler for your team

While testing out the other apps, we noticed that most of them allow us to set up the meeting types, customize them, and only then configure them for team management. However, YouCanBook.me focuses first on including your team in the meeting, and then allows you to customize the meeting features.

With YouCanBook.me you can create individual booking pages and create different meetings you want your guests to book for under each booking page. Add team members to the booking pages, assign them different roles, and choose whether guests can pick a team member or should be assigned automatically to a team member on a round-robin basis.

The live preview of the scheduling page on the side helps you to understand how guests will experience your scheduling page while booking and make changes accordingly.

Choose to meet with your guests virtually through Zoom and Google Meet integrations, update new meetings and avoid schedule clashes with Google Calendar and Outlook Calendar syncing, and pair with Zapier to automate meetings by connecting to various other apps.

The scheduling page lists out the meeting types for your guests in a conventional design, and they can book your available time slot from a calendar week view. To start receiving meetings, you can share individual meeting links, embed your booking page onto your website, or share the QR code for the page.

10. ScheduleOnce: A single app for various business meetings

ScheduleOnce is designed to take care of all scheduling needs for an organization or business. It helps to simplify team meetings, sales meetings, and customer meetings under one roof, by creating various meeting types.

With ScheduleOnce, you can create reports on your meetings and gain meaningful insights into their progress. You can analyze the performances individually by generating reports for all meetings types, team members, customers, and based on revenue, as well.

With these categories, you can create multiple meetings scenarios for your prospects, like one-on-one meetings, panel meetings, group meetings, and packages. The booking page has a formal design that's well-suited for businesses. After picking the preferred meeting slot, you can ask guests to fill out a form to collect information about them before the meeting.

You can embed your booking page onto your website as a website button, embedded page, or widget. The Gmail extension lets you copy the booking page links and paste them to your recipient without having to switch tabs. It also integrates with power-packed apps, like Salesforce, Zoom, Google Meet, Paypal, and Zapier.