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Doodle

Group polls that find a time across many busy calendars

4.0Freemium / from ~$6.95/user/moBest for Board, LPAC and multi-party meeting coordination
Scheduling Group Polls Meetings

Overview

Doodle, the Zurich-born scheduling service founded in 2007, popularized the group availability poll: propose slots, let everyone vote, and lock the winner. Alongside polls it now offers booking pages, one-to-one links and sign-up sheets. It remains the pragmatic pick for the scheduling problem VCs actually dread — herding a board, an LPAC or a syndicate of busy people into one meeting without a fifteen-email reply-all thread.

Key features

  • Group polls to converge on a meeting time
  • Booking pages and 1:1 scheduling links
  • Sign-up sheets for office hours and events
  • Calendar sync with conflict detection
  • Automatic reminders to non-responders

Pros

  • Still the simplest tool for many-person scheduling
  • Participants need no account to vote
  • Cheap relative to full scheduling suites

Cons

  • Free tier is ad-supported and dated-feeling
  • Booking-link features trail Calendly and Cal.com

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