When2meet
when2meet.com
Paint your free hours on a grid and watch the group overlap darken
doodle.com
Propose several times and let a group tick the ones that work for them.
Doodle is the original group poll: you list candidate slots, everyone ticks what suits them, and the winning column becomes obvious without a reply-all thread. It survives because it asks nothing of participants — no account, no app, one visit each. The free version is ad-supported and pushes hard toward the paid calendar-connected booking pages.
Questions
A genuinely usable free tier with paid plans for volume or team features. The free tier is ad-supported, and calendar sync and branding are reserved for paid plans.
Yes. Doodle sends your input to its own servers to process it. That is fine for public material; for anything containing personal data, use one of the on-device tools instead.
The free tier is ad-supported, and calendar sync and branding are reserved for paid plans.
Alternatives
Same category or same task, ordered by how closely they overlap.
when2meet.com
Paint your free hours on a grid and watch the group overlap darken
cal.com
Open-source scheduling links you can run on your own server
calendly.com
Send a link and let people book a slot your calendar says is free
easyretro.io
Runs a retro as a board of cards people add, vote on and group
mentimeter.com
Live polls and word clouds that build on screen as people answer
mural.co
A shared canvas of sticky notes for running a workshop remotely