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Appointment scheduling: what 10 tools cost

Letting a customer pick a time and book it without an email exchange. Every price is the plan a buyer actually lands on to get this capability — not the headline figure on the pricing page, and not the free tier that leaves it out.

10 tools, 16 plans pricedfrom $9.995 more with no published priceread 2026-09-27

Online Booking Calendar Koalendar Clients book appointments directly into your calendar with automatic confirmation. $9.99/mo Pro (monthly billing) Details → Calendar Sync Koalendar Synchronization with Google Calendar and Outlook to prevent double-bookings. $9.99/mo Pro (monthly billing) Details → Reminders & Automation Koalendar Automated email and SMS reminders, cancellation policies, and follow-ups. $9.99/mo Pro (monthly billing) Details → Online Booking Page Setmore Customer-facing scheduling page showing a business's service menu, staff availability, and reviews for 24/7 self-booking — lets clients book, reschedule, or cancel appointments themselves without calling or emailing staff. $12/mo Pro Details → Calendar Sync Setmore Two-way sync between bookings and the staff member's own calendar. $12/mo Pro Details → Appointment Scheduling & Booking Software Acuity Scheduling Online booking and appointment management for service professionals $15/mo Standard Details → Smart Scheduling Reclaim.ai AI-powered calendar assistant that automatically schedules focus time and meetings $18/mo Business Details → Focus Time Blocking Reclaim.ai Automatic blocking of time for deep work and task completion $18/mo Business Details → Habit Tracking Reclaim.ai Track and maintain personal goals and habits within calendar $18/mo Business Details → Motion AI Calendar AI work-management platform that auto-schedules tasks around deadlines and dependencies — timeblocks a unified calendar across Google, Outlook, and iCloud, builds full project plans from a text description, and turns meeting notes into action items. $19/mo Monthly subscriptionPer-user monthly AI subscription Details → Team Scheduling Calendly Round-robin and collective booking that shares one link across a team and routes each request to whoever is actually free. $20/mo Teams Details → Online Booking System SimplyBook.me Client-facing appointment scheduler bookable through a hosted booking site, the business's own website, a client app, Booking.page, or an Instagram profile — supports 24/7 self-scheduling across whichever channel a client prefers. $29.90/mo Standard (monthly billing) Details → Automated Reminders & Deposits SimplyBook.me Automated appointment reminders and status updates sent via WhatsApp, SMS, or email to staff and clients when bookings are made, changed, or canceled, with optional prepaid deposits — built to cut no-shows and last-minute cancellations. $29.90/mo Standard (monthly billing) Details → Drip Content Delivery SendOwl Scheduled content release feature that lets creators drip-feed digital files, videos, or course modules to buyers over a chosen timeline instead of granting access all at once — used to pace multi-lesson courses and membership content. $39/mo Launch Details → LLC Formation Doola Guided US LLC incorporation and setup $49/mo FormationOne-time formation Details → Calendar & Live Events Skool Shared community calendar for scheduling and running live sessions — calls, workshops, coaching — that members RSVP to and join from inside the group, keeping live programming attached to the community feed rather than a separate tool. $99/mo Pro Details →

This page compares what each tool does and what it costs. It does not name a winner: picking one honestly needs a researched verdict for every option, and the corpus does not carry those yet — so nothing here is ranked by anything but price.

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