Calendly vs Easyappointments
Calendly and Easyappointments are both booking and scheduling software. Calendly is a commercial product from Calendly. Easyappointments is open source under GPL-3.0, with 4.5k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Calendly when
- Sales, recruiting or consulting staff spend time on back-and-forth emails to book meetings.
- Pick Easyappointments when
- A small service business wants online booking on its own PHP hosting without subscription fees.
Side by side
Meeting scheduling links that check your calendar availability, with round-robin team scheduling, payments, reminders and CRM integration.
A self-hosted appointment booking app where customers book services with staff, with Google Calendar sync, notifications and a REST API.
Team features and integrations need paid seats.
Mostly one maintainer, and payment collection is not built in.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service, mobile app and browser extension
Self-hosted server
Not published
PHP, CodeIgniter and MySQL
Closed source, sold by Calendly
Open source, GPL-3.0 (strong copyleft)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
Use inside your business is unrestricted, but anything you distribute that includes it must be released under the same license.
1k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
4.5k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 12 years ago, latest release 1.6.1.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.