Doodle vs. TidyCal

Doodle

Doodle

67 Reviews and Ratings

TidyCal

TidyCal

13 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Doodle	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	Doodle is appointment scheduling software from the Swiss company of the same name.	$4.49 per month
TidyCal	Score 9.8 out of 10	N/A	A tool to make scheduling the next meeting easier with calendar integrations, booking pages, and customization. Trying to schedule a meeting can lead to the hassle of back-and-forth emailing to find a time that works. (“Next month is a no-go, too. Should we try for 3 p.m. CT after the next solar eclipse?”) Also coordinating between time zones and tracking availability across personal and work calendars can be a challenge. TidyCal is presented as an…	$39 one-time fee per user

Pricing

Doodle

TidyCal

Editions & Modules

Starter: $4.49
per month
Pro: $5.99
per month
Team: $30
per month/starting price
Enterprise: Contact sales team

TidyCal: $39
one-time fee per user
TidyCal Agency Plan: $79
one-time fee per user

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Doodle	TidyCal
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Doodle	TidyCal
Considered Both Products	Doodle Smeetha Singh Project Coordinator Chose Doodle Doodle is the quickest platform for selecting options and copying a link over to share with a team! The user journey is also very simple and even in haste, it is easy to pull up options without being concerned about making errors. Previewing the Doodle is just a click away. Incentivized Helpful? Bob Burleigh President Chose Doodle Actively shopping to replace Doodle Incentivized Helpful? Ty Johnson Project Manager Chose Doodle For me, it is about usability. Doodle continues to be the easiest for me to maneuver and make my own. I have experienced Doodle as more customizable for me. It meets my needs and I can usually ask someone a question and they are already familiar with how to manipulate Doodle as … Incentivized Helpful? Edie Ingram Manager of Training and Organizational Development Chose Doodle Doodle is more customizable and I love the animation aspect. It is missing the engagement piece, but again I am new to it so there may be features in Doodle that I haven't discovered yet. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Doodle Doodle is far superior to Calendly. It's more intuitive, easier to log in and understand the interface, and has a dynamic dashboard where you can do everything yourself and see history. I selected Doodle because it isn't just a chrome extension. It has so much more to it than … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Doodle I have not used another scheduling tool outside of Doodle. Incentivized Helpful? Ty Johnson Education Manager Chose Doodle In comparison to the other tools that are used within our organization, Doodle stacks up to be more user friendly, convenient, faster, easily shareable, you do not need to be in IT in order to use Doodle, and results come right to your email. I will continue to use Doodle to … Incentivized Helpful? NK Nursultan Kalybek Vice President Chose Doodle What we would do before was to create chats with multiple participants, where we would set an agenda and announce there would be a meeting planned, and then proposing time options for that meeting, which would then be confirmed or replaced by other people. Doodle simplifies … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Doodle SurveyMonkey has many more tools available and works great for advanced sign-ups with an element of information collection. Doodle, however, is much better when you're trying to quickly find a common time slot for a meeting, and virtually takes 1 minute to set up and send out to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Doodle Outlook calendar availability is tricky because there can be blocked-off calendar times during which a person may still be available. Doodle allows the user to make the determination of whether they are available to meet. Incentivized Helpful? Casey Herrmann Graduate Admissions Representative Chose Doodle Doodle works better than Microsoft scheduler because you can send to individuals outside of your organization. You do not need an account to respond. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Doodle Doodle is more efficient for getting a quick look at timelines and better identifying days/times to host a meeting or event. However, Outlook is more efficient for a wider range of tasks, such as sending calendar invites and visualizing personal/business dates. Incentivized Helpful? Matthew Gardner Director of Customer Success Chose Doodle We use typeform for more complex uses but Doodle is used internally for submitting meal choices, voting, etc. Typeform is way overkill for that use case. Doodle is integrated into Slack so it makes this super streamlined! Incentivized Helpful? MUKESHI RANI MALIK Assistant Manager Chose Doodle I think Doodle is like Calendly on steroids. I have used Calendly for a pretty long time and I really like it but I feel Doodle's added functionality definitely makes it the more attractive option. Also, their pricing isn't that different so you just get more bang for your buck … Incentivized Helpful? Kinga Odziemek Owner & Creative Director Chose Doodle It is just more user-friendly and it took us less time to onboard each and every one of our employees. It is also light and not really advanced as for usage, very intuitive even for those who never used this kind of software before. And it looks much nicer than the competition! Incentivized Helpful? Emily Keener Instructional Designer & Learning Technologist Chose Doodle Microsoft Scheduling Assistant - works well if users have Microsoft calendars, but also presumes the user has put every event into their calendar - does not give the person a preference in scheduling meetings Incentivized Helpful? Alicia Meyer Resident Director Chose Doodle Doodle allows you to view more options simultaneously than Calendly, but Calendly offers more private interaction. Calendly is helpful for scheduling one on one meetings, but Doodle is much more effective with groups. Incentivized Helpful? Brad Henderson Co-Founder/Chief Janitor Chose Doodle For the same reasons noted previously, Doodle allows for the organizer to ultimately select/accept the time that works for them. Many competitors only allow you to show available times and the appointment goes directly into the organizer's calendar. I typically prefer to have a … Incentivized Helpful? Becca Guler Learning Specialist Chose Doodle I use Sign-Up Genius to list my open appointments and let students sign up for individual spots; I use the anonymous option so that only I can see the name and to others it simply appears as "already filled". Doodle is simpler in some ways that Sign-Up Genius, but Doodle's … Incentivized Helpful? Elaine Foster Customer Success Manager Chose Doodle Doodle is a platform that allows you to see others' availability, while Calendly and YCBM require respondents to actually make a booking at one of the times you offer. Doodle allows more flexibility in that you can see if there are multiple times when multiple people are … Incentivized Helpful? Ramona Burton Director of State and Local Assessment Chose Doodle I personally don't know of any other app that does what Doodle does. Incentivized Helpful?	TidyCal JB Floyd Top rated SEO Agency and Lead Generation Expert President Chose TidyCal Way better and cheaper than calendy Incentivized Helpful? Celeste Ribbins, MA, CDP Founder & Principal Chose TidyCal The functionality is similar. I chose TidyCal for the cost savings. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose TidyCal In google calendar, we can't do advance booking. First, we have to collaborate on confirming a time suitable for everyone before scheduling a meeting this may lead to time waste for all the parties, this problem can be solved with the help of TidyCal resulting in better time … Incentivized Helpful? Jaime Maña Business Developer / Advisor Chose TidyCal Tidycal have the 90% of the features of Calendly but for 29$ it is the best relation price-performance. Tidycal is very simple to set up and use.Very easy integration with zoom/365/google calendar If you need to integrate with PayPal it is easy and no extra cost (We do not use) Incentivized Helpful? KM Kyle Moneypenny IT Director Chose TidyCal TidyCal was a cleaner product and integrated well with our existing Google environment. For certain positions, IT for example, it was a clear choice and users on both ends found it good. Incentivized Helpful? Samira Islam Resmi Assistant Professor Chose TidyCal I can use the free plan, which includes unlimited monthly meetings and appointments. However, I can only link one calendar. The free plan calendar supports Google Calendar and Office 365 Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose TidyCal Because TidyCal has more features, more user friendly and no issues with integration or worries about any errors or overlaps that might occur. On top of that, knowing that more features will come into play in the future, it is truly an amazing application that helps in my line … Incentivized Helpful? BA Brittni Arthur CRM and Systems Consultant Chose TidyCal I did not select TidyCal. Ultimately I selected Appointlet because I found the interface easier to work with. They also had a very generous free program and allowed you to take payments. From what I've seen it doesn't seem like you can easily take payments directly through … Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	Doodle	TidyCal
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (0 ratings)	9.8 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.3 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Doodle	TidyCal
Likelihood to Recommend	Doodle is great when you need to coordinate dates among a group and don't want to send a bunch of group emails or texts. It allows a number of dates to be proposed and the group can easily see those dates that are most preferred. If you need to do something more complex than that it may not be your tool. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Maybe if you are needing a large enterprise solution you may need something else but we have found that it fits all of needs as a 32 people team. It has worked flawlessly since we installed it. I keep focusing on this but it is a 30 min set up and that’s it. JB Floyd Top rated SEO Agency and Lead Generation Expert President Read full review
Pros	Doodle approaches this problem different than most other scheduling platforms I've looked at (and I've looked at most of them). Doodle allows the person who is making their calendar available for scheduling to make the final decision on the meeting in contrast to other platforms that typically do it the other way around. Both can be beneficial depending on preference I love that Doodle allows for proposing multiple times, which is a feature I've yet to find on other scheduling platforms (and I've looked at/tried a lot of them) Doodle makes the scheduling process very simple even for someone who's never used it before Incentivized Brad Henderson Co-Founder/Chief Janitor Read full review	The ability to create multiple booking types and personalize them The integration of Zoom and payment types The ability to create scheduling polls for group meetings Incentivized Celeste Ribbins, MA, CDP Founder & Principal Read full review
Cons	I would appreciate a more intuitive add-on within Google Calendar so we can schedule meetings directly in there. I think missing functionality might be adding sliders, photos, and colors to the polls to make it look really beautiful. I find the options on the poll settings are a bit confusing. It could be elaborated on more or have tooltips to explain the options better. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	There is a learning curve it takes some time for new user to understand the process. UI can be made attractive. Integration with other video conference tools like Amazon's chime Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Easy to use and basically free. Incentivized Matthew Gardner Director of Customer Success Read full review	No answers on this topic
Usability	Very simple journey with the few important questions/fields Incentivized Smeetha Singh Project Coordinator Read full review	Usability is ridiculously easy. JB Floyd Top rated SEO Agency and Lead Generation Expert President Read full review
Support Rating	Doodle has customer service support available as needed, but honestly, it is so easy to use that I have rarely had to seek support. They are always a click away and responsive to resolving any need or to clarify the next best step to using Doodle to meet my needs. Incentivized Ty Johnson Project Manager Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Doodle is more customizable and I love the animation aspect. It is missing the engagement piece, but again I am new to it so there may be features in Doodle that I haven't discovered yet. Incentivized Edie Ingram Manager of Training and Organizational Development Read full review	I can use the free plan, which includes unlimited monthly meetings and appointments. However, I can only link one calendar. The free plan calendar supports Google Calendar and Office 365 calendar integration. The software has been tried and tested by numerous employees from different backgrounds in our organizations. The interface was a hit with the majority of them, and they found it to be incredibly useful. Incentivized Samira Islam Resmi Assistant Professor Read full review
Return on Investment	Doodle saves so much time. Time is valuable, and it cuts the time involved with scheduling in half. Doodle connects our team across campus. Even if we don't see each other, we can still check in and plan a meeting. Doodle doesn't always work well with our campus network, which can be annoying. Incentivized Alicia Meyer Resident Director Read full review	It cut my Scheduling time by at least 50%. It impresses my clients and saves them time. It's the reason some of my clients end up hiring me. Incentivized Tammy Schaefer Owner Read full review
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