Scheduling & forms

What is the best free scheduling app? Cal.com is free for one person with unlimited event types, calendars and bookings, and it lets you take payments through Stripe, PayPal or Cal Pay on the free plan.

Cal.com scores 4.7 on Trustpilot from 427 reviews, where reviewers often praise fast support, 4.8 on Product Hunt from 86, 5.0 on Google Play from 266 and 4.6 on the UK App Store from 14. It has apps for iPhone, Android, Mac, Windows, Linux and browsers. The free plan allows only templated workflows, so custom reminders need Teams, and texts to UK numbers use paid credits charged at Twilio's rate plus an 80% fee, while US and Canada texts are free on Teams.

Which booking app is cheapest for teams? Cal.com Teams costs $12 per user a month on yearly billing, against Howie's $25 a month shared by unlimited teammates.

Cal.com Teams costs $16 per user a month, or $12 billed yearly, with shared availability, round-robin scheduling and a 14-day free trial; Organizations costs $37, or $28 billed yearly, adding sub-teams, routing and a company subdomain. Seats are billed on the month's peak team size rather than the end count. Howie's Team plan starts at $25 a month per workspace for 1,250 credits, with unlimited teammates, so a larger team can work out cheaper there, although Howie doesn't say how many credits a meeting uses.

What is the best free form builder? Fillout's free plan allows unlimited forms and seats and 1,000 responses a month, with payments, scheduling, PDF generation and workflows included.

Fillout scores 5.0 on Product Hunt from 13 reviews, where reviewers praise its Airtable and Notion integrations, 4.6 on G2 from 28, 4.0 on Capterra from 4 and 3.5 on Trustpilot from 48. Forms keep collecting responses after the monthly quota is reached. Its paid plans add responses and features: - Starter: $19 a month, or $15 billed yearly, for 2,000 responses and every question type - Pro: $49 a month, or $40 billed yearly, for 5,000 responses and no Fillout branding - Business: $89 a month, or $75 billed yearly, for unlimited responses, a custom domain and partial submissions - Team bundle: $300 a month, or $250 billed yearly, adding Zite apps and EU hosting of responses

Every plan includes unlimited seats, so one Pro plan covers a whole team.

Can an AI assistant book meetings for you? Howie does: you copy it into an email, SMS or iMessage thread and it books the meeting and manages your Google Calendar.

Howie applies written preferences such as follow-up timing and limits on back-to-back meetings, and a custom assistant name and domain email costs $20 a month. New workspaces get $25 of free credits, enough for a month on the lowest tier. It works only with Gmail and Google Calendar, with no Outlook or Microsoft 365 support. Its maker shows SOC 2 Type II and CASA badges, and no ratings could be found yet on the main review sites. Its terms rule out refunds for fees already paid.

How do you pay less for scheduling and form software? Free plans cover a lot here, and yearly billing saves 25% on Cal.com and 20% on Fillout.

Fillout gives startups with fewer than 10 staff 50% off any paid plan for a year, and non-profits, students and educational institutions can apply for a discount. Cal.com lets open source projects apply for sponsorship, and its free code lives on as Cal.diy under the MIT licence for self-hosting. Howie bills monthly only with no stated yearly or student discount. All three price in US dollars and none mention VAT on their pricing pages.