About zcal
zcal is a commercial scheduling service that lets people publish booking pages styled to match their brand. The vendor highlights custom fonts, colors and media for booking forms, plus unlimited links and unlimited calendars on a free plan.
It presents itself as a modern, free alternative to Calendly. For teams, it supports collective scheduling, where several people co-host a meeting and only times that work for everyone are offered, and round-robin scheduling, which spreads meetings evenly among team members. Event polls help groups agree on a time, and a pricing page describes the paid options.
zcal is hosted, proprietary software and cannot be self-hosted. It suits freelancers, small teams and growing companies that want attractive, branded booking pages without paying for the basics, with a pricing page for the paid options.
Key features
- Brandable booking forms with custom fonts and colors
- Unlimited links and calendars on the free plan
- Collective scheduling across team members
- Round-robin meeting distribution
- Event polls for groups
Good fit for
- →Freelancers wanting branded booking pages
- →Teams distributing inbound meetings evenly
- →Groups finding a meeting time by poll
- Tags
- scheduling
- booking-pages
- round-robin
- event-polls
- free-tier
- calendly-alternative
zcal: questions and answers
- What is zcal used for?
- zcal is a scheduling tool with brandable booking pages, round-robin and collective scheduling, event polls and a free tier with unlimited links. It is a good fit for freelancers wanting branded booking pages, teams distributing inbound meetings evenly and groups finding a meeting time by poll.
- Is zcal free?
- Yes. zcal has a free plan.
- Is zcal open source?
- No. zcal is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. Open-source alternatives to zcal include Someday, Cal.diy and Rallly.
- What are some alternatives to zcal?
- zcal competes with Calendly, SavvyCal and TidyCal. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source zcal alternatives.
Open-source alternatives to zcal
See allSomeday
Scheduling
Free to host calendar availability picker - open-source cal.com / calendly alternative bui
MITvs Calendly★ 1.1k
Cal.diy
Scheduling
Scheduling infrastructure for absolutely everyone.
MITvs Calendly★ 49k
Rallly
Scheduling
Rallly is an open-source scheduling and collaboration tool designed to make organizing eve
AGPL-3.0vs Doodle★ 5.3k
Easy!Appointments
Scheduling
:date: Easy!Appointments - Self Hosted Appointment Scheduler
GPL-3.0vs Calendly★ 4.4k
Thunderbird Appointment
Scheduling
Invite others to grab times on your calendar. Choose a date. Make appointments as easy as
MPL-2.0vs Calendly★ 553
Pretalx
Scheduling
Conference planning tool: CfP, scheduling, speaker management
OSSvs Cvent★ 946
SaaS alternatives to zcal
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Calendly
Scheduling
Calendly is a meeting scheduling tool that lets people book time from shared availability, now adding AI notetaking, contacts and payments around meetings.
SaaS
SavvyCal
Scheduling
Scheduling links that overlay the invitee's calendar to make picking a time easier
SaaS
TidyCal
Scheduling
Low-cost booking page tool sold with a one-time lifetime price
SaaS
YouCanBookMe
Scheduling
Booking pages that sync with Google and Microsoft calendars
SaaS
Koalendar
Scheduling
Free booking page tool with team scheduling and calendar sync
SaaS
OnceHub
Scheduling
Scheduling and lead routing platform for sales and support teams
SaaS

