6 best free When2meet and Doodle alternatives (2026)

Short answer: to see when a group's free hours overlap with nobody signing up, use Crab Fit or LettuceMeet, or WhenMost if you also want whole-day polls and a saved group for next time. To let people vote on a shortlist of dates, use Rallly, or Framadate if you would rather use a service run by a non-profit. To email invitations to a formal group of up to 20 guests, use WhenAvailable.

All six have a free option, and none of them makes people create an account to reply. Every detail below comes from each tool's own website or help pages, checked in September 2026. Where a tool's site does not say, the table says "Not stated" rather than guessing. Only choosing between the two big names? Read When2meet vs Doodle.

What to look for

• Free plan limits. Some free plans cap guests or time slots, or delete polls after a while.
• No account to reply. Every sign-up step costs you answers.
• Per-person time zones. Everyone should see the options in their own local time.
• Whole-day polls. For a trip or a reunion, people should be able to pick days without marking hours.
• No ads. You are asking your group for a favour, so the page they land on should be clean.

The comparison table

"Not stated" means the tool's own site does not say either way.

The six alternatives

Rallly

Best for: voting on a shortlist of dates or times, including all-day options.

Rallly is open source. You can create a poll and vote on one without signing up, each participant sees times in their own time zone, and Rallly says it does not show ads.

Watch out for: on the free plan, a poll is deleted once all its dates have passed and there has been no activity for 30 days. Picking a final date, email invites and duplicating a poll need Rallly Pro, from $4.67 per seat a month billed yearly.

Sources: rallly.co, Rallly pricing, creating a Rallly poll. Checked September 2026.

Crab Fit

Best for: a quick heat map of when everyone is free, from a free, open-source tool.

People add their availability with a name and an optional password that only applies to that event, and each person can set their own time zone.

Watch out for: the create form asks for a time range as well as dates, so people always mark hours, and events are deleted after 3 months of inactivity. Its site does not say whether it shows ads.

Sources: crab.fit (the create form and event page), Crab Fit privacy policy. Checked September 2026.

LettuceMeet

Best for: marking times with your own calendar in view.

The site calls itself 100% free with no account required. People can continue as a guest, times are shown in each person's local time, and you can connect a Google or Outlook calendar to see your own events while you fill in the grid.

Watch out for: only registered users can edit a meeting, the create form asks for a range of hours, and its pages load Google's AdSense ad code.

Source: lettucemeet.com (site text and page code). Checked September 2026.

Framadate

Best for: a free, ad-free date poll with no registration, run by the French non-profit Framasoft.

Framadate runs on Pollaris, free software under the GNU AGPL licence. A date poll can offer dates or time slots.

Watch out for: the current version is labelled Framadate BETA, and the old version stopped taking new polls in April 2026. Polls last 180 days by default, and its pages do not say how time zones are handled.

Sources: framadate.org, Framadate BETA. Checked September 2026.

WhenAvailable

Best for: a polished poll with email invitations and extra questions, for up to 20 guests on the free plan.

Guests vote without signing in and can switch between their own time zone and the poll's. Options can be dates without times, and the site says it is completely ad-free.

Watch out for: the organiser has to sign in to save and manage polls. The free plan allows 20 guests per poll and one saved guest group, and reminders need OneTime Premium ($14 for one poll) or Premium ($49 a year).

Sources: whenavailable.com, WhenAvailable time zones, adding dates and times, guest groups. Checked September 2026.

WhenMost

This is our own tool, so weigh this entry accordingly. Every claim here matches our About page.

Best for: groups that meet again and again, whole-day polls, and groups spread across time zones.

Nobody needs an account and there are no ads. Everyone marks and reads times in their own time zone, the best times name who is missing, and you can save the group to poll the same people next time. A poll offers up to 10 days, with slots from 15 minutes to whole days.

Watch out for: WhenMost sends no automatic reminders to participants, has no Discord or Slack bot, and does not sync with Google or Outlook calendars.

Source: About WhenMost. Checked September 2026.

For reference: When2meet and Doodle's free plan

For the full head-to-head, read When2meet vs Doodle. In short:

When2meet

Watch out for: its create form asks for a range of hours, and for days-of-the-week polls it expects everyone to be in one time zone. It has no calendar export, no reminders and no way to reuse a group.

Sources: the when2meet.com create form, checked September 2026. Calendar, reminder and group details come from our When2meet vs Doodle comparison, checked August 2026.

Doodle's free plan

Watch out for: creating a poll needs a free or paid Doodle account, although people can reply with a name and email. The free plan allows one group poll per account and 10 time slots per poll, shows ads to organisers and participants, and keeps deadlines and automatic reminders for paid plans. It does offer an All-day option, and it adjusts times to each participant's time zone.

Sources: Doodle help center on free vs Professional, creating a group poll, the account needed to create a poll and automatic reminders. Checked September 2026.

The bottom line

For a one-off, any grid above that needs no account will do. For a group that meets again and again, pick one that remembers the group and shows who is still missing, so the weekly scramble becomes one link and a clear answer.

Ready to try it? Create a poll in about ten seconds. Only need a date, not a time? See When2meet for days.