The 7 best Doodle alternatives in 2026

Decider is a scheduling poll with no ads. Propose a few times, share one link, and everyone votes Yes, Maybe or No; the leading time is highlighted as the votes come in. Guests never need an account, every time shows in each person's own time zone, and when you lock the time everyone adds it to Google, Apple or Outlook Calendar in one tap, with a Jitsi video link if you want one. The organiser needs a free account. It replaces Doodle's group poll; it has no booking pages or round-robin links, so for those, stay on Doodle or use Calendly.

When2meet asks everyone to paint the hours they are free onto a grid, then shades the overlap. Nobody needs an account, the organiser included, and there is no paid plan: its About page says ads cover the cost of running it. It is the right tool when you have no idea which times could work. On a phone the grid is slow to fill in, and someone still has to pick the time and tell the group.

Rallly is an open-source scheduling poll, licensed under AGPL-3.0, with the same propose-and-vote model: people answer Yes, If need be or No. You can create a poll and vote without an account, it shows no ads, and you can run it on your own server if you want full control of the data. On the free plan, polls are deleted once they go inactive; the paid Pro plan keeps them.

Xoyondo offers date polls alongside opinion polls and sign-up sheets, and nobody needs an account, the organiser included. The free plan has no limit on polls or participants but shows ads; ad-free polls are part of Premium, at €29 a year. It covers more ground than a single-purpose scheduler, which suits groups that run more than date polls.

Calendly is a booking tool first: you publish your free hours and people take a slot. Its Meeting Polls, included on every plan including the free one, cover the group case: you propose times and invitees vote. Choose it when booking links, routing or team scheduling are the real job. The free plan allows one event type and one connected calendar; Standard is $10 per seat a month, billed yearly.

Microsoft's FindTime add-in stopped creating polls in December 2023, and Scheduling Poll, built into Outlook, replaced it. It suggests times from your colleagues' calendars, lets anyone with an email address vote Yes or No on up to 15 options, and books the chosen time straight into Outlook. The organiser needs a Microsoft 365 work or school account, so Scheduling Poll is missing from personal Outlook.com and Gmail accounts.

A form can collect time preferences in a pinch: one checkbox question with each date and time as an option. But the times are plain text, so nobody sees them in their own time zone, nobody can answer Maybe, the results are rows rather than a tally per time, and you still create the event yourself. Google Calendar itself has no poll.

• Best When2meet alternativesSix When2meet alternatives compared on ads, sign-up and what happens after the vote, in a dated table with sources.
• Best Calendly alternativesThe best Calendly alternatives in 2026 for group scheduling, including free tools that need no account for guests.
• Decider vs DoodleHow Decider compares to Doodle as a free, ad-free scheduling poll.
• Decider vs When2meetHow Decider compares to When2meet: vote on clear times instead of painting an availability grid.