SavvyCal is loved for its recipient-friendly calendar overlay. Tymeslot is the open-source, EU-based alternative - with a free plan you can actually share links on, flat pricing, and first-class CalDAV.
Updated September 15, 2026
SavvyCal is a polished, proprietary scheduler best known for its calendar-overlay booking experience - invitees overlay their own calendar on your availability - plus ranked availability and personalised links. It's a great recipient experience aimed at founders, creators and recruiters. Its trade-offs are a free sign-up that can't share your own scheduling links, per-user pricing, US-only hosting, and CalDAV limited to named providers. Tymeslot matches the core scheduling job and adds open-source code, self-hosting, EU hosting, generic CalDAV, flat pricing and a free plan you can actually use.
The differences that tend to matter when you're choosing between them.
Tested on September 15, 2026: we loaded SavvyCal's own demo booking page and a Tymeslot booking page in a fresh browser, without accepting any cookies, and recorded every host contacted. The SavvyCal demo page
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Tymeslot's free plan lets you create and share unlimited booking links. SavvyCal's free tier deliberately can't share your own scheduling links - the core workflow is gated behind a paid seat.
Tymeslot's core is open source under the GNU AGPLv3 and self-hostable end to end. SavvyCal is closed SaaS with no self-hosting option.
Tymeslot syncs two-way with any CalDAV server as a first-class provider. SavvyCal connects iCloud and Fastmail but offers no generic CalDAV for arbitrary servers like Nextcloud or mailbox.org.
Tymeslot is built and hosted in the EU, or self-host it anywhere. SavvyCal is US-hosted with no EU data residency option.
Tymeslot Pro is a flat €9/month. SavvyCal bills per user, so a team pays for every seat.
Tymeslot booking pages load no advertising pixels or third-party analytics: visits are counted by our own self-hosted, cookieless analytics, and connected calendars only ever expose busy/free.
SavvyCal earns its fans with a polished booking experience: invitees overlay their own calendar on your availability, you can rank preferred times, and personalised links feel thoughtful. If that recipient experience is the thing you care about most, SavvyCal is hard to beat.
The trade-offs are practical. The free plan can't share your own scheduling links - so to actually use it the way you'd use Calendly, you need a paid seat - and pricing is per user. It's closed, US-hosted SaaS, so there's no self-hosting and no EU data residency, and CalDAV support is limited to a couple of named providers rather than any server.
Tymeslot is the open alternative: a free plan you can really share links on, flat pricing that doesn't scale by seat, EU hosting (or self-host anywhere), first-class CalDAV and booking pages without third-party trackers. You give up SavvyCal's signature calendar-overlay flourish, but you gain openness, data ownership and a free tier that does the job.
No tool wins for everyone. Here's how they split.
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SavvyCal pricing in USD. Per-user tiers shown at the annual rate; month-to-month is higher. Prices checked on September 15, 2026. Tymeslot prices in EUR; VAT may apply. See SavvyCal's current pricing
For most people, yes - Tymeslot's free plan lets you create and share unlimited booking links, which is the whole point of a scheduler. SavvyCal's free tier deliberately can't share your own links, so you need a paid seat to use it as you'd use Calendly.
SavvyCal's signature feature is letting invitees overlay their own calendar on your availability. Tymeslot doesn't replicate that exact overlay; it focuses on a fast, clean booking flow with two-way calendar sync, automatic video links and reminders. If the overlay is your must-have, SavvyCal does it best.
Tymeslot Pro is a flat €9/month (€90/year) regardless of team size, with a usable free plan and free self-hosting. SavvyCal is billed per user ($10/user/mo Basic, $17/user/mo Premium, billed annually), so cost scales with your team.
Yes - Tymeslot supports generic CalDAV as a first-class provider, so Fastmail, Apple/iCloud, Nextcloud, mailbox.org and other CalDAV servers all get two-way sync. SavvyCal supports a couple of named providers but not arbitrary CalDAV servers.
Yes - Tymeslot's core is open source under the GNU AGPLv3 and self-hostable via Docker, Cloudron or Railway with full feature parity. SavvyCal cannot be self-hosted.
I put out the first version of Tymeslot two days ago. I built it because the scheduling tools I tried were either dated or too heavy to run myself.
Luka Breitig
January 04, 2026 · 3 min read
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