Schedly vs Sidekick Scheduling

Schedly is an appointment scheduling platform for individuals, teams, and service businesses. Customers can book through online pages and forms, including a form embedded on a website. The service can send reminders by email, SMS, or WhatsApp, and collect payment when an appointment is booked. For teams, it supports staff calendars, workflows, round-robin meetings, and routing logic. Calendar connections include Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, and Apple Calendar; Google Calendar and Outlook support two-way sync. Other listed integrations include Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, HubSpot, Salesforce, Zapier, and Mailchimp. Schedly is available on Android, iOS, web, through an API, and as a Chrome extension. Its mobile app can manage bookings, staff schedules, availability, customer details, and payments. The free plan costs nothing and allows unlimited bookings, but is limited to one seat, service or event type, location, and calendar connection. Pro costs $7.50 a month and adds unlimited services, locations, and calendar connections, plus team management and API access. Enterprise pricing is custom.

Sidekick Scheduling helps coordinate meetings through scheduling pages, email requests, and calendar automation. It finds meeting times that work for Sidekick users and can send meeting requests to non-users for confirmation. Forwarding a meeting request email starts a process that checks availability, coordinates with the guest, and can book an available time. Sidekick can also create calendar events, send invitations, and send reminders before meetings. Personal and team scheduling pages let hosts set availability, meeting permissions, and preferences; guests can choose among in-person, video, or phone options when offered. Team Pages require a Superhero subscription, though invited team members can join for free by syncing their calendars. The free Hero plan includes one connected source and three scheduling pages, while scheduled meetings, groups, and contacts are unlimited. Superhero costs $5 a month and includes unlimited sources and calendars, unlimited scheduling pages, and Team Pages. Listed integrations include Gmail, Google Calendar, Outlook, Outlook Calendar, Thunderbird, Google Meet, Zoom, Teams, and Office 365. Sidekick is available on Android, iOS, and the web.