Picktime vs SimplyMeet.me
An independent, review-free comparison compiled by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Both products are profiled in full, and neither can pay for placement here.
The short answer
Both sides assessedPicktime compared with SimplyMeet.me
SimplyMeet.me adds routing forms, poll meetings, and CalDAV that Picktime lacks, and is the better meeting scheduler. Picktime adds resources, locations, classes, waitlists, and booking approval that SimplyMeet.me lacks, and is the better appointment system. They cost roughly the same. Choose on whether your bookings involve physical constraints or just calendars.
SimplyMeet.me compared with Picktime
Picktime's free plan covers 3 team members, 3 resources, 2 locations, and unlimited appointments, and it models rooms and classes that SimplyMeet.me does not. SimplyMeet.me is a cleaner meeting scheduler with routing forms, polls, and CalDAV. Choose Picktime if physical resources and staff are part of the booking; SimplyMeet.me if the booking is a call.
Choose Picktime if
Very small service businesses, tutors, clinics, studios, libraries, and equipment rental operations that need staff and resource booking together, and cannot or will not pay salon-platform prices for it.
Choose SimplyMeet.me if
Small teams and solo professionals who want routing forms, round-robin, and poll meetings at the cheapest published price in the category, and anyone whose calendar lives on CalDAV, Fastmail, Zoho, or another system mainstream schedulers refuse to connect to.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Picktime | SimplyMeet.me |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Scheduling | Scheduling |
| Starting price | $0 (Free), then around $3 per user per month billed annually (free plan available) | $0 (Free Forever), then $5.99 per user per month billed annually (free plan available) |
| Pricing model | Freemium with per-user pricing on paid tiers, billed annually, and tier limits expressed in team members, resources, locations, and classes rather than in bookings. Appointments are unlimited on every tier. | Freemium per-user subscription with tiers defined by user count and meetings booked per user per month rather than by meeting-type count. Annual billing discounts the monthly rate. |
| Free plan | Free covers 3 team members, 3 resources, 2 locations, 2 classes, and unlimited appointments, with email notifications, the hosted booking page, PayPal payments, 8-plus integrations, and mobile apps. | Free Forever covers 1 user, 3 meeting types, and 50 meetings per month, with scheduling basics, booking pages, reminders, and calendar integrations. |
| Free trial | The free plan serves as the evaluation path; no credit card is required to sign up | 14 days on the paid plans, with a free forever plan available indefinitely |
| Best for | Very small service businesses, tutors, clinics, studios, libraries, and equipment rental operations that need staff and resource booking together, and cannot or will not pay salon-platform prices for it. | Small teams and solo professionals who want routing forms, round-robin, and poll meetings at the cheapest published price in the category, and anyone whose calendar lives on CalDAV, Fastmail, Zoho, or another system mainstream schedulers refuse to connect to. |
| Setup time | An hour or two. Define team members, services, resources, and locations, connect a calendar, and publish the booking page. Resource modelling takes the most thought because it is where the real scheduling logic lives. | Fifteen minutes for a solo user: connect a calendar, define meeting types, share the link. A team with routing forms should budget an hour or two to design the qualifying questions and the routing logic properly. |
| Learning curve | Low. The concepts (staff, services, resources, locations, classes) map directly onto how a small service business already thinks, and there is nothing here that requires training. | Low for basic booking. Routing forms and poll meetings take a little thought because they involve designing a flow rather than filling in a form, but neither is complicated. |
| Platforms | Web application, iOS and Android apps, Hosted booking page, Website embeds | Web application, iOS and Android admin app, Mobile responsive booking pages, Website embeds for WordPress, Shopify, and Wix |
| Compliance | GDPR | GDPR |
| Founded | 2017 | 2021 |
| Headquarters | Austin, Texas, United States | Operated by SimplyBook.me Ltd |
| Ownership | Privately held | Owned by SimplyBook.me Ltd |
Strengths and limitations
Picktime
Strengths
- The only free plan in this batch that models staff, resources, locations, and classes together rather than just booking links.
- Unlimited appointments on every tier including free, so the free plan does not degrade as the business gets busier.
- Resource booking is a first-class concept, which makes Picktime viable for libraries, studios, courts, and equipment rental where staff calendars are irrelevant.
- Round-robin at around $2.25 per user per month on Pro is by a wide margin the cheapest team distribution in the category.
Limitations
- SMS reminders and two-way calendar sync are both absent from the free plan, which are the two things a service business most needs, so the free tier is better for evaluation than for production.
- No point of sale, inventory, commission tracking, or payroll, so a retail-attached business will outgrow it quickly.
- No consumer marketplace, so it brings no new clients; all demand has to be generated by you.
- The integration catalogue is respectable in breadth but shallow in depth; CRM connections do not match the field-mapped native connectors Calendly offers.
SimplyMeet.me
Strengths
- Routing forms and round-robin at $5.99 to $9.99 per user, capabilities Calendly reserves for its $16 Teams plan.
- Poll meetings for finding a time across a group, a Doodle-style workflow most booking-link tools omit entirely.
- CalDAV support inherited from Harmonizely, which is the only realistic option for Fastmail, Zoho, and Nextcloud users in this category.
- Payments brokered through SBpay.me connect your existing Stripe, PayPal, or Square account rather than forcing a new merchant relationship, with no vendor percentage.
Limitations
- Meetings are metered per user per month (50 free, 100 on Standard, 500 on Professional), which is the only volume cap in this batch and a genuine constraint for heavy schedulers.
- User counts are capped per tier at 5 and 30, so growth forces tier jumps rather than incremental seat additions.
- No deep first-party CRM connectors with field mapping; HubSpot and Salesforce logging runs through Zapier.
- The brand is unfamiliar to recipients, and the vendor domain on free and lower tiers means a stranger clicking your link sees a name they do not recognise.
Pricing compared
Picktime
Freemium with per-user pricing on paid tiers, billed annually, and tier limits expressed in team members, resources, locations, and classes rather than in bookings. Appointments are unlimited on every tier.
- Free$0
- StarterAbout $3
- ProAbout $2.25
Nothing else in this category offers staff, resources, locations, and classes on a free plan, and nothing else offers round-robin at around $2.25 per user. Picktime is priced roughly an order of magnitude below the salon platforms and below every meeting-link tool that has team features. The honest counterweight is what the price buys: no point of sale, no inventory, no marketplace, no commission tracking, no payroll, a shallow integration catalogue, and no security attestation. If your booking problem is genuinely a booking problem, and not a whole business operations problem, Picktime solves it for less money than anything else that models resources properly. If your booking problem comes attached to a till and a stock room, the saving is illusory.
SimplyMeet.me
Freemium per-user subscription with tiers defined by user count and meetings booked per user per month rather than by meeting-type count. Annual billing discounts the monthly rate.
- Free Forever$0
- Standard$5.99
- Professional$9.99
- EnterpriseCustom
Feature for dollar, SimplyMeet.me is the strongest value in this batch for teams. Routing forms and round-robin at $5.99 per user is a capability set Calendly charges $16 for, and poll meetings are a Doodle-shaped workflow most competitors do not offer at any price. CalDAV support genuinely has no substitute for anyone outside the Google and Microsoft ecosystems. The two honest caveats are the meeting meter, which is the only per-usage cap of its kind in this batch and which punishes high-volume schedulers, and the absence of deep first-party CRM connectors, which means Zapier is doing work that Calendly does natively. For a small team that books a moderate number of meetings and wants routing, nothing here is cheaper.
Editorial verdict on each
Picktime
Picktime is the best value in this category and one of the least polished products in it, which is not a coincidence. Nothing else gives you staff calendars, bookable rooms and equipment, multiple locations, and classes on a free plan, and nothing else sells round-robin for around $2.25 a user. For a tutor, a small clinic, a library booking study rooms, or a rental business, it does the whole job for less than the price of a sandwich. The limits are real and worth stating plainly: SMS reminders and two-way calendar sync are not free, there is no till, no inventory, no marketplace, no security attestation, and the booking page will never be the reason someone remembers your brand. Buy it when the booking problem is a scheduling problem. When it becomes a business operations problem, move to Vagaro, Fresha, or Square and accept the bill.
Read the full Picktime profileSimplyMeet.me
SimplyMeet.me is the price-to-capability winner among booking links for small teams, and the only sane option for anyone on a CalDAV calendar. Routing forms and round-robin at $5.99 per user undercut Calendly's $16 Teams plan by a factor of nearly three, poll meetings remove the need for a separate Doodle subscription, and payments run through your own Stripe or PayPal account with no vendor cut. The catch is the meeting meter, which is the only usage cap in this batch: 50 a month free and 100 per user on Standard will not survive a busy recruiter. Buy it if you are a small team that needs routing and books a moderate volume. Choose Koalendar instead if you book heavily and want no meter, Calendly if a native Salesforce connector is non-negotiable, and SimplyBook.me from the same vendor if it turns out you actually have staff, rooms, and a service menu.
Read the full SimplyMeet.me profilePicktime profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; SimplyMeet.me last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.