Easyappointments vs OpenTable
Easyappointments and OpenTable are both booking and scheduling software. Easyappointments is open source under GPL-3.0, with 4.5k GitHub stars. OpenTable is a commercial product from Booking Holdings.
Which to pick
- Pick Easyappointments when
- A small service business wants online booking on its own PHP hosting without subscription fees.
- Pick OpenTable when
- A restaurant in a market where diners book through OpenTable wants that reservation demand.
Side by side
A self-hosted appointment booking app where customers book services with staff, with Google Calendar sync, notifications and a REST API.
Restaurant reservation system and diner network with table management, guest profiles and bookings from the OpenTable app.
Mostly one maintainer, and payment collection is not built in.
Per-cover fees for network bookings add up, and OpenTable keeps the diner relationship.
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 Booking Holdings
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
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.