TidyCal

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   You sign up, connect a calendar (Google, Microsoft, or Apple; one readable calendar on Free, ten on Individual, twenty-five on Agency and Pro, with one writable calendar for confirmed bookings), and create booking types. Each booking type carries its own duration, availability, intake questions, location, and price.

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   Booking types come in more shapes than most competitors offer: single appointments, group sessions with multiple slots for classes, packages that sell several sessions at once, recurring appointments, and Stripe-backed subscriptions that bill on a schedule. Discount codes apply at checkout, and a digital storefront can attach a PDF, course, or template as a paid add-on to any booking.

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   Payments go through Stripe or PayPal and are available on every plan including Free. Cancellation and no-show controls let you decide whether clients may cancel and whether they are charged a fee for doing so, reschedule restrictions govern how close to the appointment a client can move it, and manual approval can hold bookings for review before they hit the calendar.

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   Higher tiers add the operational layer: automatic Zoom, Google Meet, and Teams link generation, custom confirmation and reminder emails, CC addresses, booking caps by day or week or month, CSV export of booker data, Google Analytics and Tag Manager tracking on booking pages, and API access. Agency adds round-robin and collective meetings with a dedicated team page plus SMS reminders for US and Canadian numbers, and Pro removes TidyCal branding completely.

A free forever plan, two one-time lifetime licenses sold through AppSumo, and one optional monthly or annual subscription for branding removal and priority support. There is no per-seat pricing.

Value assessment: On price per capability TidyCal is the outlier in the category and it is not close: $29 once buys a paid booking page with packages, subscriptions, a storefront, analytics, and API access that competitors charge $10 to $17 per seat per month for. The honest framing is that TidyCal is cheap because it stops short of everything a growing company eventually needs, namely CRM sync, lead routing, SSO, compliance, and a mobile app. For a one-person service business the value is close to unbeatable. For a company that expects to hire a sales team, the $29 is real but the ceiling arrives quickly.

Setup time

Under fifteen minutes to a live paid booking page: connect a calendar, create a booking type, connect Stripe or PayPal. Configuring packages, subscriptions, and a storefront adds an hour.

Learning curve

Very low. The interface is deliberately plain and the settings are shallow, which is the point; there is no data model to design and no automation builder to learn.

Onboarding

Entirely self-serve. Lifetime licenses are redeemed through AppSumo and activated on the account; there is no sales process, no implementation service, and no onboarding call outside Pro's priority support.

Migration notes

No importer from Calendly or other tools, so booking types, availability, and intake questions are recreated by hand, which is quick for a solo user with a handful of link types. Payment history and past bookings do not migrate; existing published links must be updated wherever you have shared them.

Platforms

Web appHosted booking pagesREST API (paid tiers)

API

API endpoints for custom applications and integrations are available from the Individual Lifetime tier upward. There is no component library, no embeddable SDK, and no self-hosting option.

Compliance

GDPR (privacy policy and terms published by Sumo Group, Inc.)No SOC 2, HIPAA, or ISO 27001 certification advertised on public pages

Data residency

Not published.

SSO

Not offered. Sign-up and sign-in run through email or Google.

Security notes

Calendar access runs over OAuth to Google, Microsoft, and Apple, and payments are handled by Stripe and PayPal rather than by TidyCal directly. Buyers with formal security review requirements will find little published documentation to work from.

Channels

Email and help center supportPriority support on the Pro plan

Documentation

Help center covering setup, booking types, payments, and integrations.

Community

Large AppSumo review community around the lifetime deal, which is a useful and unusually candid source of user feedback; no dedicated official forum.

Founded

2021

Headquarters

Austin, Texas, United States

Ownership

Owned by Sumo Group, Inc., the privately held operator of AppSumo

Employees

Not disclosed for TidyCal specifically; Sumo Group operates AppSumo with a headcount in the low hundreds

Funding

No outside funding reported for TidyCal; it is a product of Sumo Group, Inc., which is privately held and best known for the AppSumo marketplace.

TidyCal is the best value in scheduling and it is not particularly close, provided you fit the profile: one person, or a small agency, selling time for money. The free plan already does paid bookings, packages, and subscriptions, and $29 once unlocks nearly everything else worth having. The reason it is cheap is legible in the feature table, though. There is no CRM sync, no lead routing, no SSO, no compliance story, and no mobile app, so a company that hires a sales team will outgrow it inside a year. Buy it as a transaction tool for a service business, not as the scheduling layer for a company you intend to scale.

Written by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Awards, when shown, are judged against the published criteria in our methodology.