OpenTable vs Rallly
OpenTable and Rallly are both booking and scheduling software. OpenTable is a commercial product from Booking Holdings. Rallly is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 5.3k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick OpenTable when
- A restaurant in a market where diners book through OpenTable wants that reservation demand.
- Pick Rallly when
- You often coordinate meetings or events with people outside your organisation and want an ad-free Doodle replacement.
Side by side
Restaurant reservation system and diner network with table management, guest profiles and bookings from the OpenTable app.
A meeting poll tool, like Doodle, where people vote on proposed dates and times without creating accounts.
Per-cover fees for network bookings add up, and OpenTable keeps the diner relationship.
Some features are reserved for the paid hosted plan, and the app is AGPL licensed.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service and mobile app
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Not published
TypeScript, Next.js, Prisma and PostgreSQL
Closed source, sold by Booking Holdings
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
1k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
5.3k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 11 years ago, latest release untagged-6490d7892bf741592dba.
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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.