Easyappointments vs Eventbrite
Easyappointments and Eventbrite are both booking and scheduling software. Easyappointments is open source under GPL-3.0, with 4.5k GitHub stars. Eventbrite is a commercial product from Eventbrite, Inc.
Which to pick
- Pick Easyappointments when
- A small service business wants online booking on its own PHP hosting without subscription fees.
- Pick Eventbrite when
- You run public events and want ticketing plus exposure to people browsing Eventbrite for things to do.
Side by side
A self-hosted appointment booking app where customers book services with staff, with Google Calendar sync, notifications and a REST API.
Event ticketing and registration with event pages, payments, check-in app and an event discovery marketplace.
Mostly one maintainer, and payment collection is not built in.
Per-ticket fees are relatively high and organiser-side fees have risen.
Production-ready (both)
Self-hosted server
Cloud service and mobile app
PHP, CodeIgniter and MySQL
Not published
Open source, GPL-3.0 (strong copyleft)
Closed source, sold by Eventbrite, Inc.
Use inside your business is unrestricted, but anything you distribute that includes it must be released under the same license.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
4.5k GitHub stars
2.1k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
Established: started 12 years ago, latest release 1.6.1.
Not known
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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.