General Bots Calendar vs SkedPal

General Bots Calendar is a self-hosted team calendar for scheduling events, reminders and tasks. Users can request meetings, calls or reminders in natural language; invitations are sent automatically, and an availability endpoint can suggest open booking slots. The calendar has day, week, month and agenda views, mini-calendar navigation and keyboard shortcuts. It supports all-day and recurring events, personal reminders with lead time, and multiple calendars. Tasks with due dates appear alongside events, and completing a task updates its status on the calendar. REST endpoints cover event creation, reading, updating and deletion, plus free/busy checks. Calendar sync includes CalDAV servers. The calendar runs on customer-owned infrastructure and keeps data on the customer’s hardware; the full source is available under AGPLv3. Deployment is described as a self-contained Docker setup on a VM or bare metal. The Self-Hosted plan costs nothing, with unlimited users and operations and no per-user licensing fees.

SkedPal turns a to-do list into a time-blocked schedule shaped by priorities, available time, and calendar events. Its planning tools include an Outline for organizing tasks, a Board for prioritizing them, and a Calendar for placing work at preferred times. A Status Tracker follows current activity while the schedule adapts to changes. Calendar sync supports Google, Office 365, and iCloud; Core allows one account, while Pro allows unlimited accounts. Asana task titles, descriptions, and due dates sync both ways, although schedules made in SkedPal do not sync with Asana. Zapier connects it with apps such as Google Sheets, Slack, Trello, and Airtable. Users can email tasks to a dedicated address, but attachments larger than 2 MB are not received. Planning is mainly done in the web app; mobile apps are available for iOS and Android, and Status Tracker desktop apps are available for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Core costs $9.95 a month billed annually; Pro costs $14.95 a month billed annually. There is a 14-day trial and no free plan.