The Modern alternative
Free plan included — go Pro for $8/mo when you need it.
Billing by Paddle, our Merchant of Record · Built to Google API Limited Use rules
Why people switch
You overpay.
Calendly-class tools want $12–16 per person every month — for booking alone.
It's only half the job.
A booking link won't keep your calendars in sync — so that's a second tool, a second bill, or a manual chore.
Syncing means oversharing.
Most ways to keep calendars in sync leak your titles and guests. busyfold syncs only your free/busy — never the details.
Keep Everything*
Every booking feature you rely on is here — reusable links, group sessions, round-robin, the lot. Switching costs you nothing.
Switching from Calendly or cal.com? You keep all of this.
* while busyfold does not support 100% of every competitor's features yet, it does support the vast majority of features most of us need on a daily basis. We're improving busyfold on a daily basis. Please let us know if there are any features you rely on that you don't see here.
app.busyfold.cc/b/mara/intro-call
@mara
Intro call
A quick intro. Busyfold checks your connected calendars, so every time shown is really free.
Select a time
Europe/AthensJune 2026
Wednesday, June 10
One slot, many seats — busyfold counts them and closes the slot the moment it's full.
app.busyfold.cc/b/mara/office-hours
@mara
Open office hours
Group session — up to8 attendees.
Wed, Jun 10 · 10:00 AM
5 seats left3 booked · 5 open
Beyond booking
Private free/busy sync
busyfold mirrors your free/busy across every Google and Microsoft calendar you own — sharing only when you're busy, never what you're doing. The sync tool other booking apps make you buy separately is built in.
AI scheduling that respects privacy
Connect an AI assistant through our OAuth-secured hosted MCP server. Your agent can read your real availability (and only your availability) across multiple calendars, and book, reschedule, or cancel — it never sees a single event detail.
Find 30 minutes with Priya next week and book it.
busyfoldMCP
Booked Wednesday 2:00–2:30 PM and sent the calendar invite. Anything else?
Shown, not claimed
We sync the times you're busy — never the titles, guests, or notes behind them. And we never store your event contents.
Same times, same shape; source titles, guests, and notes are left out of generated blocks.
Your calendar
Standup
09:30
Focus
10:30
Design review
13:00
1:1 — Mara
16:15
What everyone else sees
No titles, no guests, no locations — just an honestunavailable.
The privacy boundary
The same line holds when you hand scheduling to an AI assistant: busyfold answers every request with times — never the contents of your calendar. The split is enforced server-side, on every single call.
Same guarantee as calendar sync: agents get the exact busy/free signal busyfold mirrors — and nothing more.
Future-proof
Just you today? The day you bring in a partner, an assistant, or a second host, every other tool starts charging per head. busyfold doesn't. You add capacity in packs — the people are free.
Do the math
Only the team owner (or admins) need to pay. Team members contribute calendars for free. Expand your team size with $20 packs/2 seats. Pro comes with 2 team slots so you can start free and add capacity as you grow.
Add capacity, not seats.
Same scale, every team size — the striped tail is the money you'd overpay.
Solo freelancer
Keep two calendars private and share one booking link.
Save $7/mo · $100/yr on annualbusyfold $8/mo or $80/yr — 2 months free
Solo freelancer: busyfold $8 per month versus two separate toolsat $15 per month — save $7 per month, about 1.9 times cheaper. busyfold does private sync AND booking — one subscription, not two.
busyfold = Pro + packs: Pro is $8/mo (or $80/yr — 2 months free) and each add-on pack is $20/mo (or $200/yr) — every pack adds 2 more team booking slots (your 6 personal calendars are always included), so team capacity scales as far as you need; collaborators contribute calendars at no extra charge. The per-seat bar bills $16/seat/mo — a real team round-robin tier from the full comparison further down (others run $12–$15/seat), verified June 2026. Bars share one scale; figures are illustrative estimates — check each vendor for current pricing.
No catch
No per-seat fees. The people are free — you only add capacity when you need more contributed calendars.
Pro's $8/mo includes a 2-slot starter team — no add-on required to get started.
Each pack adds 2 more slots — a slot is one contributed calendar. Stack as many as you need.
Invite as many people as you like; only contributed calendars count against your slot total.
Built for teams
Spread bookings across the team — each new booking rotates to the next available host so no one person gets overwhelmed.
Find a time that works for everyone at once — a slot only appears when every required team member is free.
Publish team booking pages under a single shared handle with one name and brand identity visible to invitees.
Let an assistant run booking pages that land on an executive's calendar — the assistant manages the page, the exec hosts the meeting.
No strings attached
Free to start, no card.
Try the whole product before you pay anything.
Never locked in.
Every booking is a real event on your own Google or Microsoft calendar — so your meetings are always right where they belong. Delete your account and data anytime.
Cancel anytime.
No contract. Cancel in a click and you won't be charged again.
Encrypted, private by design.
Calendar tokens are encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM, and we never store your event contents.
A real company behind it.
Built by Mindyield SMPC, with payments handled by Paddle.
Compare
Every feature that matters, side by side.
| Feature | busyfold | Calendly | Cal.com | OneCal | CalendarBridge | Reclaim | NativeGoogle / Outlook |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calendar sync | |||||||
| Sync busy time across calendars (Google ↔ Microsoft) | Free | ||||||
| Private ‘busy’ by default — no event details copied | Free | — | — | Optional | Optional | Optional | Free/busy feed |
| Near-instant updates | — | — | ~12–24h | ||||
| Booking & scheduling | |||||||
| Public booking pages | Free | ||||||
| One-time / single-use links | |||||||
| Round-robin team scheduling (rotate bookings across hosts) | Teams +$16/seat | Teams +$12/seat | Business +$15/seat | ||||
| Collective team scheduling (whole panel on one invite) | Standard +$10/seat | Teams +$12/seat | Starter +$5/seat | Paid +$15/seat | |||
| Group sessions (many invitees in one slot, with a seat cap) | |||||||
| Webhook notifications for booking events | Paid | Paid | |||||
| Scaling a team | |||||||
| Team scheduling pricing | $20 packs | Per seat | Per seat | Per seat | Per seat | ||
| Add 2 more hosts (team slots) | +$20 / pack | +$32 | +$24 | +$30 | |||
| Plans & pricing | |||||||
| Free plan | Sync 2 calendars, 1 booking type | 1 event type | Unlimited (1 user) | Trial only | Trial only | Limited | Built-in |
| Starting price | Pro ($8/mo) | $10 / mo | $12 / mo* | $5 / mo | $5 / mo | $10 / mo | Free |
| Calendars (paid) | 6 calendars + 2 team slots† | 6 | Unlimited | 2 (5 at $10) | 2 (5 at $8) | Unlimited | — |
| Calendar providers | Google, Microsoft | Google, Microsoft | Google, Microsoft, Apple‡ | Google, Microsoft, Apple‡ | Google, Microsoft, Apple‡, ICS | Google, Microsoft | Google, Microsoft |
| Integrations, payments & apps | |||||||
| AI / agent access via MCP server | |||||||
| Accept payments at booking (Stripe / PayPal) | Paid | ||||||
| Native CRM & Zapier app marketplace | Webhooks only | ||||||
| SMS reminders & automated workflows | Paid | ||||||
| Native mobile apps (iOS / Android) | |||||||
Lowest paid tier per user, observed June 2026; some prices assume annual billing (monthly costs more) — always check each vendor’s site.
On team scheduling, the per-seat gap is widest: round-robin and collective booking types are included in Pro at $8 / mo — for up to 2 hosts, then $20 / mo per +2 — with no per-seat fees. Rivals charge per seat for the same — Calendly round-robin needs the Teams plan ($16 / seat / mo on annual billing, $20 monthly), Cal.com needs Teams ($12 / seat / mo), and Reclaim round-robin needs the Business plan (~$15 / seat / mo). A 9-host team runs roughly $108–$144 / mo there, versus $88 / mo on busyfold (Pro + four $20 packs). Calendly’s collective type is one tier down on Standard ($10 / seat); OneCal includes collective on Starter ($5 / seat) but documents no round-robin; Cal.com’s team features are also free if you self-host.
* Cal.com Teams is the entry paid tier; Cal.com is also free to self-host, if you run and maintain the servers yourself, which carries additional costs.
† busyfold Pro is $8 / mo and includes 6 personal calendars plus a 2-slot team space; each add-on pack ($20 / mo) adds 2 more team slots, so team capacity scales as high as your team needs.
‡ Apple / iCloud has no OAuth calendar API, so these tools connect it over CalDAV with an Apple-ID app-specific password — clunkier and slower than Google or Microsoft.
Native (Google / Outlook) means subscribing one calendar to the other with a secret iCal link: free, but one-way, refreshed only every ~12–24 hours, and the events don’t block your availability — so people scheduling with you still see you as free.
§ busyfold’s MCP server (Pro) lets any MCP-compatible AI assistant read your busy/free availability via OAuth 2.1 PKCE. Event details are never exposed. Reclaim.ai has community-built MCP servers but no official one.
¶ Webhook notifications for booking events fire when a meeting is created, rescheduled, or cancelled. Calendly requires a Standard plan or above; Reclaim requires a Business plan or above. Cal.com includes webhooks on all plans, including free.
Zero-code switch
No need to cut over. Keep your current tool running, sync 2 calendars in a few minutes in busyfold, create a booking link, compare them side by side. Free tier, no card, no import to babysit.
Keep your current tool running
No need to cancel anything or cut over first.
Spin up a busyfold link
Sign in with Google, set up a booking page in a few minutes.
Compare them side by side
See which experience works better — then decide.
Pricing
Free covers 2 calendars and 1 booking link — no card needed. Go Pro for $8 a month: more calendars, unlimited booking, and a 2-slot starter team. Add $20 capacity packs when you need more team slots; collaborators who join never pay.
Pay monthly — switch to annual any time and save two months.Annual billing — two months free ($80 instead of $96).
Private calendar sync for 2 calendars and 1 basic booking link. Join a paid team as a collaborator — free.
Get started freeSave $16 a year vs monthly
Booking links, 6 personal calendars, a 2-slot team space, near-instant sync, and full customisation.
Go ProYour calendars
Every Pro subscriber can connect up to 6 personal Google or Microsoft calendars to sync, host booking pages, or provide availability for meeting scheduling.
Your team
Create a team and fill its slots with your own calendars, or invite collaborators to bring theirs under the shared team handle.
Add-on packs
Each pack adds 2 more team slots — your 6 personal calendars stay the same. Packs follow your Pro billing cycle and stack as you grow.
Prices in USD, excluding tax. Applicable VAT or sales tax is calculated at checkout by Paddle, our payment provider and Merchant of Record. Cancel anytime — your account reverts to the Free plan at the end of the billing period.
FAQ
Switching, pricing, and privacy — straight answers before you connect a calendar.
busyfold Free is $0. Pro is $8 a month (or $80 a year). Adding teammates never costs more per person — you add $20 capacity packs for each extra 2 team slots, not a per-head fee for every host. A four-person round-robin that would run $48–64 a month on a per-seat tool costs $8 on busyfold Pro (plus a $20 pack if you need the extra slots).
The core booking features are all there: reusable booking links, one-time links, round-robin, collective scheduling, group sessions, embed on your site, buffers, min notice, daily caps, reschedule and cancel, and Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, or Zoom. On top of that, busyfold keeps your Google and Microsoft calendars privately in sync and lets an AI assistant book for you over a secure MCP server — using only your free/busy, never your event details. The full feature-by-feature comparison is in the table above.
Only when you're busy or free — never the details behind it. busyfold needs calendar access to read your availability, but it reads only free/busy times and does not store event titles, guest lists, notes, or locations. Booking links show invitees only your open slots; destination calendars get a generic busy block, not a copy of your events.
Every booking busyfold creates is a real event on your own Google or Microsoft calendar. If you stop using busyfold, your meetings are already on your calendar exactly where they belong. You can also delete your busyfold account and all associated data at any time.
No. You hold the busyfold Pro subscription. Colleagues you invite join your team for free — they contribute their calendar to a team slot; you provide the slot. If you need more than the 2 starter slots that come with Pro, you add a $20 capacity pack per 2 extra slots. The people are free; only the calendar capacity costs.
Calendars: Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook / Office 365. You can mix both on one account and use them for sync, hosting booking pages, or providing availability. Sign-in is Google-only right now. Conferencing: Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom — one per booking type, created automatically when a meeting is booked.
Yes — there's no contract. Cancel whenever you like and you won't be charged again; your plan stays active until the end of the period you've paid for, then drops to the Free plan. And because you start free, you can try the whole product before paying anything.
On Pro, both Google and Microsoft calendars update almost instantly — push notifications refresh your blocks the moment a calendar changes. The free plan uses scheduled sync for both.
busyfold checks your connected calendars, creates a real event on your Google or Microsoft host calendar — with a Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, or Zoom link if you chose one — and emails the invitee a link to reschedule or cancel without logging in.
No. The MCP server gives AI agents read-only access to your availability — the same free/busy signal as calendar sync. Event titles, attendees, notes, locations, and all other details are never shared with agents. MCP access is available on the Pro plan.
One tool for your whole calendar life. Start free — no card.