TidyCal
Budget booking links for solo professionals: lifetime plans, unlimited bookings.
About
TidyCal is an AppSumo Original (built by AppSumo's own team, launched 2021) aimed squarely at freelancers, coaches, and consultants who want Calendly-style booking without the recurring bill. You get unlimited booking types, unlimited bookings, group bookings, paid bookings via Stripe and PayPal, auto-generated Zoom/Google Meet/Teams links, date polls, and embeddable booking widgets.
Pricing is the story: a free plan covers unlimited bookings on one calendar connection, while the lifetime plans sold through AppSumo — Individual at $29 one-time and Agency at $79 one-time — include all future updates (Individual: 10 calendar connections; Agency: 25 connections, unlimited team seats, round-robin, team pages). A newer Pro subscription at $12/month or $99/year removes TidyCal branding entirely and adds a custom domain and unlimited connections. Reviewers consistently flag two gaps: no mobile app and no native CRM integrations (Zapier fills the gap). All performance and user-count claims (200,000+ users, 3.7M+ bookings) are provider-claimed; no independent audit or published benchmarks found.
Honest limits: branding lingers on lower tiers; advanced team features like round-robin are Agency-only; availability-setting UX is occasionally confusing per user reviews.
What it can do
- Unlimited booking types and bookings
- Paid bookings via Stripe and PayPal
- Auto-generated Zoom/Google Meet/Teams links
- Group bookings and date polls
- Custom emails and email reminders
- Embeddable booking widgets
- Agency tier: round-robin, team pages, unlimited seats
- API access on paid plans
Setup
Sign up free, connect Google/Outlook/Apple calendar, create booking types, share your link.
Prerequisites
A calendar account to connect; an AppSumo account for the lifetime plans.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 7/10
Scored 7/10 (VERIFIED tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: AppSumo Original with active 2026 development (package selling, recurring billing, Agency tier added in 2026 per third-party reviews); official site verified live; ~876 AppSumo reviews at 4.38/5 per independent roundups. Strengths: unlimited bookings, aggressive pricing, actively maintained. Docked for: (1) closed-source with small team; (2) user counts and booking totals are provider-claimed; (3) no mobile app, no native CRM integrations. License: proprietary SaaS.
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 7.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 8.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 3.0/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 7.0/10
- · AppSumo Original, launched 2021; actively maintained with 2026 feature additions.
- · User totals provider-claimed; no independent audit found.
Sources
Every fact above was checked against these sources. Where a claim comes from the provider and couldn't be independently verified, the text says so.