Doodle alternatives in 2026, compared.

Doodle does both, and the two are easy to mix up. A dinner or a trip needs a day that suits everyone: you offer a few dates and people say which they can make. A call needs an hour: people mark their free times on a grid, and the overlap shows. A booking page isn’t a poll at all.

One group poll per account, up to 10 time slots in it, and ads for you and everyone who answers. You need an account to finish making the poll, and the people answering type a name and an email. Pro is $15 a month, or $11 a month billed yearly. Doodle’s free plan, explained has the details.

• Rallly is the closest swap: free, open source, no ads, and no account to make a poll or vote. Options can be whole days or times, and people answer Yes, If need be or No. Free polls are deleted once every date has passed and nothing has happened for 30 days; Pro keeps them, for $10 a month or $72 a year per seat.
• Framadate is run by Framasoft, a French non-profit, and is free with no ads. You make a poll without an account, but with your name and email. Each poll has a closing date, and once it expires you have 2 months to extend it before it’s deleted. You can host its code yourself.
• A group chat poll works for a quick vote. In iMessage a poll holds up to 12 options, anyone can add one, and everyone needs iOS 26, macOS 26 or later to see it or vote. A vote is a tap, so there’s no Maybe. Messenger has polls in group chats too.

• Crab Fit is free and open source. Send the link, and a heat map shows when everyone is free. People give a name and an optional password. Events are deleted after 3 months without activity.
• When2meet collects everyone’s free times too, for specific dates or days of the week, within an hour range you set. It’s free and asks for no contact details, but its About page says ads help cover some of its running costs.
• LettuceMeet still runs. Its site describes it as “100% free, no account required,” and its page loads Google’s ad script.

Mostly for a different job. Calendly is a booking page: people pick an open slot on your calendar, which suits clients booking a call more than friends choosing a weekend. Its free plan has one event type, and every plan, Free included, has meeting polls: you offer up to 40 times and the group votes, which is as close as Calendly comes to Doodle. Standard is $12 a seat a month, or $10 a seat a month billed yearly.

Date Poll is ours, and it isn’t free: it comes with implements, $4.99 a month or $49.99 a year for every tool, with no ads. The people you ask tap their name and answer Yes, Maybe or No for each date, with no account and no email. A poll holds up to 30 dates or date ranges and 100 names, and you can keep 200 polls, which stay on your account. If you stop paying, they stay open to view and export but stop taking answers.

It picks days and date ranges, like a weekend (up to 30 days each), not hours, so for a meeting time Crab Fit, When2meet or Rallly’s time options do more. Rallly does more for free, and it’s open source. Date Poll helps most with a trip: once you pick the date, Trip Split can start the trip with the poll’s name, the dates and the people who said Yes or Maybe, each ticked so you can untick anyone.