Doodle’s free plan in 2026, explained.

One group poll, one booking page, one 1:1 and basic sign-up sheets: that’s the list on Doodle’s pricing page. Its help center fills in the rest. A free poll takes up to 10 time slots, and Pro raises that to 1,000.

Ads come with it. Doodle lists “No ads for organizers or participants” as a paid feature, so on Free the people answering see them too.

Some settings are on Pro only: a deadline after which nobody can vote, automatic reminders for people who haven’t answered, adding or removing participants, and hiding participants’ details. Sending the invite by email from Doodle is on Pro as well. On Free you copy the link and send it yourself.

To make a poll, yes. Doodle lets you start setting one up without signing in, then asks you to sign up before you can finish. Its help center puts it plainly: completing an event “now requires the creation of a free or paid account.”

To answer, no. People you invite don’t need an account, but they type a name and an email before their vote is saved. If you’d rather nobody hands over an email, that’s worth knowing before you send the link.

Doodle may delete a free user’s poll once it counts as inactive: 30 days after the last date in the poll, or 30 days after it was last opened, whichever comes later. Opening it resets the clock. A deleted poll can’t be recovered.

Pro polls are kept while the subscription lasts. If Pro ends, the free rule applies to them again.

In June 2025 Doodle said it was pausing its mobile app on the App Store and Google Play, to build a new one from scratch. An app already on a phone keeps working, without support. Doodle’s page about the change, updated September 23, 2026, still points people to doodle.com in a phone or computer browser, where it can be saved to the home screen, and gives no date for the new app.

• Rallly is free and open source, with no ads, and nobody needs an account to make a poll or to vote. Picking the final date works on every plan. 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.
• Crab Fit is free and open source too. It shows a heat map of when everyone is free, which suits finding a time of day more than choosing between dates. Events are deleted after three months without activity.

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.

It picks days and date ranges, like a whole weekend, not hours, so for a meeting time Doodle or Crab Fit fits better. For a trip or a weekend away, once a date wins, Trip Split can start the trip with the dates and the people who said Yes or Maybe.