8 best Doodle alternatives in 2026 (free and paid)

Most people looking for a Doodle alternative are not unhappy with the product. They are reacting to where the free line moved. Doodle's own pricing page now lists the free plan as one group poll, one booking page, one 1:1, basic sign-up sheets and one calendar connection, with ads that your participants see and removing them being a Pro feature.

What exactly are you replacing?

Doodle is three products in one subscription, and most people only use one of them. Sort yourself before picking a replacement, because the right answer differs completely.

• Group polls. Many people converge on one time. This is what most Doodle users actually use it for.
• Booking pages. You publish availability, others claim a slot. Calendly and Cal.com own this job.
• Sign-up sheets. Volunteer shifts, parent-teacher slots, lab times. Fewer tools cover this.

Which Doodle alternative is best?

1. 1

   Meetly

   free group polls with real calendar import

   Best for

   Replacing Doodle's group polls when the free tier cap or the ads were the problem.

   Price

   Free, uncapped, no ads

   • Unlimited polls and participants at no cost
   • No ads shown to anyone, ever
   • Every participant can import Google, Outlook, Apple or any .ics calendar, not just the organizer
   • Reminders and non-responder tracking are free, where Doodle puts them behind Pro
   • Finalize sends a calendar invite with an optional Meet, Zoom or Teams link

   • No booking pages
   • No sign-up sheets
   • No custom branding or admin console
   Meetly vs Doodle in detail
2. 2

   Xoyondo

   the closest match for Doodle's breadth, free

   Best for

   Organizers who use Doodle's sign-up sheets and opinion polls, not just scheduling.

   Price

   Free with light ads. Paid tiers remove ads and add design options

   • Date polls, opinion polls and sign-up sheets, the closest structural match to Doodle
   • No account needed, no cap on polls or participants
   • Confidential polls hide participants' answers from each other
   • Message board on each poll keeps discussion in one place

   • Light ads on the free tier, visible to participants
   • No calendar sync on the free poll flow
   • Interface is plainer than Doodle's
   Meetly vs Xoyondo
3. 3

   Rallly

   the open-source Doodle

   Best for

   Teams that need the data on their own infrastructure.

   Price

   Free hosted tier plus paid Pro, or self-host

   • AGPL v3, Docker image, PostgreSQL, genuinely practical to self-host
   • Same yes, no and maybe voting model Doodle users already know
   • No account needed to vote
   • Over ten languages

   • Self-hosting means a server, a database and someone who owns them
   • Google is the only calendar integration on the hosted product
   • No sign-up sheets
   Meetly vs Rallly
4. 4

   LettuceMeet

   free, ad-free, grid-based

   Best for

   Groups who prefer painting a grid to ticking a list of options, all on Google.

   Price

   Free, no ads

   • No paid tier and no advertising
   • Google sign-in overlays your real events behind the grid
   • Strong on mobile

   • Google only, so Outlook and Apple users fill in by hand
   • No reminders, deadlines or invitee tracking
   • No sign-up sheets or booking pages
   Meetly vs LettuceMeet
5. 5

   Timeful (formerly Schej)

   open source with calendar-filled grids

   Best for

   Google-based groups who want an auditable codebase.

   Price

   Free

   • Public source, self-hostable
   • Google Calendar pulled into the grid, so filling in is close to one click
   • Availability groups suit recurring scheduling with the same people

   • Google centric
   • No booking pages or sign-up sheets
   • The schej.it to timeful.app rebrand means older links redirect
   Meetly vs Schej / Timeful
6. 6

   Calendly

   if it was the booking pages you wanted

   Best for

   Replacing Doodle's booking side rather than its polls.

   Price

   Free tier has no meeting polls. Standard 10 dollars per seat monthly, billed annually

   • Far deeper booking product than Doodle's
   • Round robin and routing forms on team tiers
   • No ads on any tier

   • Meeting polls are paid only, absent from the free plan
   • No sign-up sheets
   • Per seat, so a team of coordinators adds up
   Doodle vs Calendly
7. 7

   Cal.com

   open-source booking platform

   Best for

   Teams replacing Doodle's booking pages who also want to self-host.

   Price

   Free for one user. Teams 12 dollars per user monthly, billed annually

   • Open source and self-hostable
   • Free forever for a single user with unlimited event types
   • Over 100 app integrations, embeddable in your own product

   • Not built around group consensus polls
   • No sign-up sheets
   • More platform than most Doodle refugees need
   Meetly vs Cal.com
8. 8

   Outlook Scheduling Poll

   already in your Outlook, if you qualify

   Best for

   Microsoft 365 organizations that would rather not adopt anything new.

   Price

   Included with eligible Microsoft 365 plans

   • Nothing to buy or adopt
   • Reads real attendee free/busy inside your tenant
   • Can auto-book once consensus is reached

   • Needs an eligible work or school account, and admins can disable it
   • Free/busy reading stops at the tenant boundary
   • No sign-up sheets or booking pages
   Meetly vs Outlook Scheduling Poll

Is Doodle still worth paying for?

For some people, straightforwardly yes. If you run booking pages, group polls and sign-up sheets for an organization, Doodle is the only tool on this list that covers all three under one bill, and the Team tier's admin console, roles, co-hosting and custom branding have no free equivalent.

If you run four group polls a year for a club, a committee or a family, 132 dollars a year is a lot for that, and the free alternatives above cover the job without showing your invitees advertising.