Best European Appointment Scheduling Software

Looking for a European alternative to Calendly, Acuity or Mindbody? These European booking platforms keep calendar and customer data under EU or Swiss jurisdiction — and several do considerably more than hand out a booking link. Led by Doctolib from France.

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15 European Scheduling Platforms

Doctolib

Europe's healthcare booking platform

#1 of 15 in this category
France Per practitioner, per month
Patient bookingPractice managementVideo consultations

Doodle

The Swiss meeting poll, plus proper booking pages

#2 of 15 in this category
Switzerland Free tier + per user, per month
Group poll schedulingBooking pagesNo account needed to respond

TIMIFY

Multi-location appointment booking for enterprises

#3 of 15 in this category
Germany Free tier + per resource, per month
Multi-location bookingResource managementEnterprise controls

SimplyBook.me

Booking site, payments and memberships in one

#4 of 15 in this category
Cyprus Free tier + per booking volume
Booking website includedPayments & membershipsWide industry coverage

Shore

Booking, till and customer marketing for local businesses

#5 of 15 in this category
Germany Per location, per month
Built for salons and studiosPOS and payments includedCustomer marketing

Calenso

Swiss-hosted booking for advisory businesses

#6 of 15 in this category
Switzerland Per user, per month
Swiss hostingSmart action & lead captureMulti-location

Eversports

Class booking and membership billing for studios

#7 of 15 in this category
Austria Per studio, per month
Classes, courses and membershipsMarketplace with its own demandRecurring billing

meetergo

German Calendly alternative with lead routing

#8 of 15 in this category
Germany Free tier + per user, per month
GDPR-first schedulingLead routingVideo meeting built in

SuperSaaS

Amsterdam scheduling tool priced by appointment volume rather than seats, hosted in the EU/EEA.

#9 of 15 in this category
Netherlands Free tier (50 bookings) + usage-based plans from $9/month by appointment volume
Usage-based pricing, unlimited staff and schedulesCalendar sync with Google, Outlook and iCloudData processed in the Netherlands and EU/EEA

Bookwhen

Oxford booking platform for classes, courses and events, ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus certified.

#10 of 15 in this category
United Kingdom Free plan (50 bookings/month) / Lite €12, Standard €19, Plus €39 per month; Enterprise on request
Class, course and event scheduling with waitlistsMemberships and vouchers on Standard and upISO 27001:2022 and Cyber Essentials Plus certified

cituro

Augsburg appointment booking software with a REST API and SSO on the higher, more configurable tiers.

#11 of 15 in this category
Germany Basic €17, Standard €25, Professional €34, Premium €47 per month (15% off annual); Enterprise on request
Calendar sync and online paymentsREST API and webhooks from ProfessionalSSO and SCIM provisioning on Enterprise

Planity

Paris salon-booking marketplace connecting consumers with hairdressers, barbers and spas across France.

#12 of 15 in this category
France Subscription for salon and beauty professionals; pricing available on demo request
Consumer marketplace drives new bookingsSalon software: calendar, POS and remindersLargest booking network in French hairdressing

Terminland

Wiesbaden booking system priced per feature, from a single calendar to enterprise SSO and a Voice API.

#13 of 15 in this category
Germany Easy from €14.90, Profi from €29.90, Enterprise from €59.90 per month, excl. VAT, per calendar
Modular add-ons: SMS, video, payments, SSOResource and partner-company bookingVoice-API for voicebot appointment booking

Salonkee

Luxembourg salon-booking marketplace and software, active across Luxembourg, France, Belgium and Germany.

#14 of 15 in this category
Luxembourg Start package from €49/month; Plus and Business packages priced on request
Consumer marketplace plus salon softwarePoint of sale and inventory from PlusWebsite builder and caller-ID add-ons

Bokadirekt

Stockholm beauty and wellness booking marketplace that ranks salons in its search by subscription tier.

#15 of 15 in this category
Sweden Free plan / Mini from 295 SEK, Plus from 395 SEK, Premium from 695 SEK per month (1 user)
Consumer marketplace with tiered search rankingSMS and email marketing toolsCard payment terminal integration

Key takeaways

  • Doctolib ranks #1 among the European scheduling platforms in this directory, because Doctolib is not a booking link but a network: patients already have accounts and search there, so joining makes a practice findable rather than merely bookable.
  • Scheduling metadata is the disclosure — a booking with an oncology clinic, a recruitment agency or a divorce lawyer reveals the sensitive fact without a single note attached to it.
  • The category covers three different jobs: finding a time across organisations (Doodle), taking bookings from customers (Doctolib, TIMIFY, SimplyBook.me, Calenso) and handing out a personal booking link (meetergo).
  • Twelve of the fifteen scheduling platforms in this directory are established inside the EU, across France, Germany, Cyprus, Austria, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Sweden. Doodle and Calenso are Swiss, outside the EU but under an adequacy decision, and Bookwhen is British, outside the EU under its own post-Brexit adequacy decision.
  • Several of these do considerably more than scheduling: payments and memberships at SimplyBook.me, patient records at Doctolib, multi-location resource management at TIMIFY.

European appointment scheduling software lets customers, patients or colleagues book time online, built by companies established in Europe or Switzerland, where the booking record — which quietly reveals who met whom and why — stays under EU or Swiss data protection rather than under US legislation.

European appointment scheduling software compared

European appointment scheduling software tools compared on position, country, entry price and best use
PositionToolEstablishedEntry priceBest for
#1 Doctolib France Per practitioner, per month Practices and clinics booking patients
#2 Doodle Switzerland Free tier + per user, per month Scheduling across organisations where nobody shares a calendar
#3 TIMIFY Germany Free tier + per resource, per month Retailers, banks and chains booking across many branches
#4 SimplyBook.me Cyprus Free tier + per booking volume Salons, studios, clinics and small service businesses
#5 Shore Germany Per location, per month Salons, studios and practices running on walk-ins and regulars
#6 Calenso Switzerland Per user, per month Banks, insurers and advisers who need Swiss or EU hosting
#7 Eversports Austria Per studio, per month Yoga, fitness and sports studios selling classes and memberships
#8 meetergo Germany Free tier / From €10/month Sales and consulting teams wanting a GDPR-first booking link
#9 SuperSaaS Netherlands Free plan (50 future appointments) / paid plans from $9 to $180 per month by appointment volume, no per-seat fees Businesses that want to pay for usage, not seats
#10 Bookwhen United Kingdom Free plan (50 bookings/month) / Lite €12, Standard €19, Plus €39 per month (or billed annually); Enterprise on request Classes, courses and events with waitlists
#11 cituro Germany Basic €17, Standard €25, Professional €34, Premium €47 per month (15% off billed annually); Enterprise on request German SMBs that want a configurable booking API
#12 Planity France Subscription for salon and beauty professionals; pricing available on demo request Hairdressers, barbers and beauty salons in France
#13 Terminland Germany Easy from €14.90/month, Profi from €29.90/month, Enterprise from €59.90/month, excl. VAT, per calendar (extra calendars and add-ons priced separately) Enterprises that want to pay only for the features they use
#14 Salonkee Luxembourg Start package from €49/month; Plus and Business packages priced on request Salons in Luxembourg, France, Belgium and Germany
#15 Bokadirekt Sweden Free plan / Mini from 295 SEK, Plus from 395 SEK, Premium from 695 SEK per month for 1 user, scaling with team size Beauty and wellness businesses in Sweden

Every European appointment scheduling software tool reviewed

#1 Doctolib

Paris, France Per practitioner, per month Demo on request

Best for: Practices and clinics booking patients

  • Operating company. Doctolib
  • Jurisdiction. EU (France)
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Zocdoc, Mindbody, Calendly for clinics

Doctolib is the booking platform European healthcare actually runs on, with tens of millions of patients across France, Germany and Italy. It combines patient-facing appointment booking with the practice management around it: schedules, reminders, records and video consultations.

The network is the advantage, and it is not replicable by a general scheduling tool. Patients already have accounts and already search there, so a practice joining becomes findable rather than merely bookable — a completely different value proposition from putting a booking link on a website.

Doctolib is headquartered in Paris and hosts health data with certified health data hosting providers in Europe. Appointment data in healthcare is special category data under the GDPR — the fact of the appointment can reveal the condition — so the hosting regime is a legal requirement rather than a marketing point.

What Doctolib does well

  • Patients already search and book there
  • Practice management alongside booking
  • Automated reminders that cut no-shows
  • Video consultations included
  • Certified health data hosting
  • French company, EU jurisdiction

Where Doctolib falls short

  • Healthcare only — not a general scheduling tool
  • Network value depends on your country
  • Per-practitioner pricing
  • Platform dependence once patients book through it

Standout feature. A patient network rather than a booking link — the practice becomes findable, not just bookable.

#2 Doodle

Zurich, Switzerland Free tier + per user, per month Demo on request

Best for: Scheduling across organisations where nobody shares a calendar

  • Operating company. Doodle
  • Jurisdiction. Switzerland (adequacy decision, outside the EEA)
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Calendly, When2meet, Microsoft FindTime

Doodle is the Swiss scheduling service that made the meeting poll a verb. Its modern product also covers one-to-one booking pages and sign-up sheets, but the group poll remains what it is uniquely good at.

It solves the case Calendly does not: finding a time for six people from four organisations, none of whom share a calendar system, several of whom will not create an account. Respondents simply click, which is why it survived two decades of better-funded competition.

Doodle is based in Zurich. Switzerland sits outside the EU but holds an adequacy decision, and Swiss data protection law is frequently regarded as stricter than the GDPR. There is a free tier with ads, and paid plans that remove them and add booking pages, branding and calendar integrations.

What Doodle does well

  • Group polls across organisations
  • Respondents need no account
  • Booking pages and sign-up sheets too
  • Calendar sync with Google, Microsoft and iCloud
  • Swiss data protection under EU adequacy
  • Free tier available

Where Doodle falls short

  • Free tier carries ads
  • Booking pages less deep than dedicated tools
  • No payments or resource management
  • Swiss rather than intra-EEA processing

Standout feature. Six people, four organisations, no shared calendar — the one case booking links cannot solve.

#3 TIMIFY

Munich, Germany Free tier + per resource, per month Demo on request

Best for: Retailers, banks and chains booking across many branches

  • Operating company. TIMIFY
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Germany)
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Calendly, Mindbody, Microsoft Bookings

TIMIFY is a Munich scheduling platform aimed at organisations with many locations and many bookable resources: bank branches, retail chains, dealerships, service networks. It handles the case where a booking needs a person, a room and a piece of equipment to line up.

That is a genuinely different product from a personal booking page. Central control over services, opening hours and rules across hundreds of branches, while local staff still manage their own diaries, is an enterprise problem that link-in-your-signature tools do not attempt.

TIMIFY is headquartered in Munich with German hosting, covering multi-location and multi-resource booking, service and staff management, customer records, automated reminders, an embeddable widget and enterprise controls over permissions, branding and reporting. There is a free tier for a single calendar.

What TIMIFY does well

  • Multi-location and multi-resource booking
  • Central rules with local diary control
  • Embeddable booking widget
  • Enterprise permissions and reporting
  • German company and hosting
  • Free tier for a single calendar

Where TIMIFY falls short

  • More platform than a solo professional needs
  • Per-resource pricing scales with locations
  • Enterprise plans quoted individually
  • Setup effort for complex resource rules

Standout feature. A booking that reserves the person, the room and the equipment together, across every branch.

#4 SimplyBook.me

Limassol, Cyprus Free tier + per booking volume Demo on request

Best for: Salons, studios, clinics and small service businesses

  • Operating company. SimplyBook.me
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Cyprus)
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Mindbody, Acuity Scheduling, Booksy

SimplyBook.me is a European booking platform for service businesses that gives each customer a full booking website rather than only a scheduling widget, with payments, memberships and packages built in.

For a small service business without a website worth the name, it is the whole online presence: a bookable page, deposits taken at booking, class packages and memberships, and reminders — replacing a stack of separate subscriptions with one.

SimplyBook.me operates from Limassol, Cyprus, inside the EU. Booking records for a clinic or therapy practice can reveal health information by implication, which makes the hosting jurisdiction a real question even at this size. Pricing is by booking volume rather than per seat, which suits businesses with many part-time staff.

What SimplyBook.me does well

  • Full booking website, not just a widget
  • Payments, deposits and memberships included
  • Class and group bookings
  • Priced by bookings rather than seats
  • Cyprus-based, inside the EU
  • Free tier with a monthly allowance

Where SimplyBook.me falls short

  • Interface dense with options
  • Volume-based pricing needs watching
  • Less enterprise control than TIMIFY
  • Feature add-ons can accumulate

Standout feature. A whole bookable web presence with payments and memberships, for businesses that have no website.

#5 Shore

Munich, Germany Per location, per month Demo on request

Best for: Salons, studios and practices running on walk-ins and regulars

  • Operating company. Shore
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Germany)
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Mindbody, Square Appointments, Booksy

Shore is a Munich platform for appointment-based local businesses — hairdressers, beauty and tattoo studios, physiotherapists — combining online booking with a point of sale and the customer marketing that fills quiet hours.

The till is the part a generic scheduling tool does not have. When the booking, the payment and the customer record are one system, no-show fees, prepayments, package deals and loyalty offers all work off real transaction history rather than off a calendar entry. Bookings come in through a website, Google, Instagram and a customer app, with reminders and campaigns automated on top.

Shore GmbH is based in Munich with German hosting. A booking record for a physiotherapist or a clinic touches health information, which makes where the customer database sits a legal question rather than a preference.

What Shore does well

  • Point of sale and card payments in the same system
  • Bookings from website, Google, Instagram and an app
  • Customer records with full visit history
  • Automated reminders, newsletters and campaigns
  • Munich company, German hosting

Where Shore falls short

  • Priced per location rather than per user
  • Payment hardware and processing cost extra
  • Aimed at local businesses, not at office scheduling
  • More product than a practice that only needs a booking link

Standout feature. Booking, till and customer history on one record, which is what makes the marketing work.

#6 Calenso

Frauenfeld, Switzerland Per user, per month Demo on request

Best for: Banks, insurers and advisers who need Swiss or EU hosting

  • Operating company. Calenso
  • Jurisdiction. Switzerland (adequacy decision, outside the EEA)
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Calendly, Microsoft Bookings, Acuity Scheduling

Calenso is a Swiss appointment booking platform aimed at advisory businesses — banks, insurers, energy providers, agencies — where the appointment is a sales conversation and the booking flow is part of the funnel.

It is built around the advisory appointment rather than the calendar invite: routing a prospect to the right adviser by topic, location and language, capturing context before the meeting, and keeping the whole flow on Swiss or European hosting for regulated customers.

Calenso is based in Frauenfeld, Switzerland, with Swiss and EU hosting options and multi-location team management. For Swiss financial services in particular, data residency is a supervisory requirement rather than a marketing line.

What Calenso does well

  • Adviser routing by skill, location and language
  • Swiss and EU hosting options
  • Lead capture built into the booking flow
  • Multi-location team management
  • Video meeting integration

Where Calenso falls short

  • Smaller vendor than the market leaders
  • Advisory focus narrows general use
  • Swiss rather than intra-EEA processing
  • Enterprise routing in higher tiers

Standout feature. Routing a prospect to the right adviser, with data residency a regulator will accept.

#7 Eversports

Vienna, Austria Per studio, per month Demo on request

Best for: Yoga, fitness and sports studios selling classes and memberships

  • Operating company. Eversports
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Austria)
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Mindbody, Glofox, Wellhub

Eversports is a Vienna platform for studios that sell classes rather than appointments: yoga, pilates, fitness and racquet sports, where the unit is a timetable slot with a capacity and a membership behind it.

The marketplace brings its own customers. Eversports runs a consumer booking portal alongside the studio software, so a new studio appears in front of people already searching for a class in their city — demand a standalone scheduling tool cannot generate. Behind it sit memberships and class packs with recurring billing, waiting lists, court booking for racquet sports and staff planning.

Eversports GmbH is based in Vienna with European hosting, and the marketplace is concentrated in German-speaking and Benelux markets — which is also where the demand it channels comes from, and the main thing to check before choosing it.

What Eversports does well

  • Consumer marketplace that sends bookings to the studio
  • Memberships and class packs with recurring billing
  • Waiting lists and capacity handled properly
  • Court and resource booking for racquet sports
  • Vienna company, European hosting

Where Eversports falls short

  • Marketplace reach is concentrated in DACH and Benelux
  • Payment processing priced on transactions
  • Class model, so a poor fit for one-to-one appointments
  • Less useful outside its strong markets

Standout feature. A booking marketplace behind the software, so it fills classes as well as schedules them.

#8 meetergo

Frankfurt, Germany Founded 2020 Free tier / From €10/month Demo on request

Best for: Sales and consulting teams wanting a GDPR-first booking link

  • Operating company. meetergo GmbH
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Germany)
  • Where the data sits. Germany (Frankfurt)
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Calendly, Zoom, Microsoft Bookings, Doodle

meetergo is the closest German like-for-like replacement for a personal Calendly link: a booking page you share, synced to your calendar, with video meetings and lead routing around it.

Where it differs is the starting assumption. It is built GDPR-first rather than localised into compliance afterwards, which for a German company sharing a booking link with prospects removes a data protection conversation that otherwise recurs with every enterprise customer.

meetergo is based in Germany and appears here cross-listed from Video Conferencing, where its page lives. Lead routing sends inbound prospects to the right person automatically, which is the feature that separates it from a plain scheduling link.

What meetergo does well

  • Direct like-for-like Calendly replacement
  • GDPR-first rather than localised
  • Lead routing to the right person
  • Video meetings built in
  • German company
  • Free tier available

Where meetergo falls short

  • Narrower than the resource-booking platforms
  • No payments or memberships
  • Smaller integration ecosystem
  • Primarily German market

Standout feature. A booking link a German enterprise buyer will accept without a data protection review.

#9 SuperSaaS

Amsterdam, Netherlands Founded 2007 Free plan (50 future appointments) / paid plans from $9 to $180 per month by appointment volume, no per-seat fees Free plan, no credit card required

Best for: Businesses that want to pay for usage, not seats

  • Operating company. SuperSaaS B.V.
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Netherlands)
  • Where the data sits. Netherlands and elsewhere in the EU/EEA
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Calendly, Doodle, Setmore

SuperSaaS breaks from every pricing model elsewhere in this category. Instead of a per-user or per-location fee, it charges by the number of future appointments on the books, with unlimited staff and schedules included at every tier. For a business with many part-time or volunteer staff — a clinic rota, a community centre, a tutoring collective — that removes the seat-counting exercise that TIMIFY or Shore pricing requires.

The free plan covers 50 future appointments with no credit card, which makes it a genuine way to test the product with real bookings rather than a time-boxed trial. Paid plans then scale from a few dollars to $180 a month purely on booking volume, still with every feature and every staff member included.

SuperSaaS BV is based in Amsterdam, founded in 2007, and states that personal data is processed on servers in the Netherlands and elsewhere in the EU or EEA. It is a plainer product than the salon-specific or resource-heavy tools in this category, without payments, memberships or a consumer marketplace, but the pricing logic is the clearest reason to shortlist it.

What SuperSaaS does well

  • Usage-based pricing rather than per-seat
  • Unlimited staff and schedules on every plan
  • Free plan usable with real bookings, no card
  • Calendar sync with Google, Outlook and iCloud
  • Dutch company, EU/EEA data processing

Where SuperSaaS falls short

  • No payments, memberships or marketplace
  • Interface plainer than the salon-focused tools
  • No published security certification
  • Pricing in dollars, not euros

Standout feature. The only tool in this category priced by how many appointments you actually book, not by how many people can log in.

#10 Bookwhen

Oxford, United Kingdom Free plan (50 bookings/month) / Lite €12, Standard €19, Plus €39 per month (or billed annually); Enterprise on request 2-week free trial, no credit card

Best for: Classes, courses and events with waitlists

  • Operating company. Bookwhen Ltd
  • Jurisdiction. United Kingdom (adequacy decision, outside the EEA)
  • Independent checks. ISO 27001:2022, Cyber Essentials Plus (stated by Bookwhen)
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Eventbrite, Acuity Scheduling, Mindbody

Bookwhen is built for sessions rather than one-to-one appointments: a yoga course, a workshop series, a webinar, a multi-date event, each with a capacity and a waiting list behind it. That puts it closer to Eversports than to a personal booking link, but without Eversports' consumer marketplace — Bookwhen expects you to bring your own audience through your website, social or Zoom link.

The free plan covers 50 bookings a month on one page, and paid plans from €12 add more team members, booking pages, memberships, reminders and vouchers as the volume grows. A two-week trial with no credit card lets a course provider test a real term's worth of sign-ups before committing.

Bookwhen Ltd is based in Oxford, England, and is the only tool in this category to publish its own security certifications: ISO 27001:2022 and Cyber Essentials Plus, both independently verifiable. As a UK company it sits outside the EU under the adequacy decision, alongside Doodle and Calenso from Switzerland, rather than inside it.

What Bookwhen does well

  • Purpose-built for classes, courses and multi-date events
  • Waitlists, memberships and vouchers included
  • ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus certified
  • Two-week trial, no credit card
  • Transparent tiered pricing from €12/month

Where Bookwhen falls short

  • No consumer marketplace to bring new customers
  • UK jurisdiction, outside the EU
  • Free plan capped at one booking page
  • Less suited to single one-off appointments

Standout feature. The only certified-security option here, and the one built around a session with a capacity rather than a single slot.

#11 cituro

Augsburg, Germany Basic €17, Standard €25, Professional €34, Premium €47 per month (15% off billed annually); Enterprise on request 14-day free trial, no credit card

Best for: German SMBs that want a configurable booking API

  • Operating company. cituro GmbH
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Germany)
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Calendly, Shore, SimplyBook.me

cituro covers the same ground as Shore for German local businesses — online booking, calendar sync, reminders — but leans toward configurability rather than point-of-sale and marketing. From the Professional tier it adds webhooks and API access, and Enterprise adds single sign-on and SCIM provisioning, which puts it closer to an integration platform than a walk-in salon tool.

Pricing is published in full and rises in even steps: €17, €25, €34 and €47 a month, with a further 15% off on an annual plan, and Enterprise quoted separately. A 14-day free trial needs no card. Each calendar covers one bookable resource, so the real cost for a multi-practitioner business scales with headcount much like TIMIFY's per-resource model, just at a smaller scale.

cituro GmbH is registered in Augsburg, Germany (Amtsgericht Augsburg, HRB 36662). Next to Shore's till-and-marketing focus and Terminland's add-on menu, cituro's pitch is the plainest of the three German entrants here: a booking calendar with an API, priced predictably.

What cituro does well

  • Published, predictable pricing across four tiers
  • REST API and webhooks from Professional
  • SSO and SCIM provisioning on Enterprise
  • 14-day free trial, no credit card
  • German company and market focus

Where cituro falls short

  • No point of sale or marketing tools like Shore
  • Per-resource pricing scales with practitioners
  • No published certification or residency statement
  • Enterprise pricing not published

Standout feature. A German booking calendar that reads as an API-first product rather than a salon till.

#12 Planity

Paris, France Founded 2016 Subscription for salon and beauty professionals; pricing available on demo request Demo on request

Best for: Hairdressers, barbers and beauty salons in France

  • Operating company. Planity SAS
  • Jurisdiction. EU (France)
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Treatwell, Fresha, Mindbody

Planity plays the same role for French hairdressing and beauty that Doctolib plays for French healthcare: a consumer-facing network where clients already search and book, so a salon joining becomes findable rather than merely bookable. That is a materially different proposition from SimplyBook.me or Eversports, which sell software but bring no built-in demand of their own.

Behind the marketplace sits ordinary salon software — calendar, online booking, client files, reminders — but the marketplace reach is the reason salons pay for it. Planity's own pricing is not published; access is arranged through a demo, which is less transparent than cituro's or Bookwhen's published tiers.

Planity SAS is registered in Paris, created in 2016 according to the French official business register, and operates mainly in France with a smaller presence in Belgium and Germany. It is the closest thing in this category to a second Doctolib-style network, just for a different kind of appointment.

What Planity does well

  • Consumer marketplace brings salons new bookings
  • Ordinary salon software included: calendar, files, reminders
  • Largest hairdressing booking network in France
  • French company, officially registered in Paris
  • Free for clients to search and book

Where Planity falls short

  • Pricing not published; requires a demo
  • Marketplace reach concentrated in France
  • Beauty and hairdressing only, not general appointments
  • Smaller footprint outside its home market

Standout feature. A patient-network model applied to hairdressing: the salon becomes findable to people already searching, not just bookable.

#13 Terminland

Wiesbaden, Germany Easy from €14.90/month, Profi from €29.90/month, Enterprise from €59.90/month, excl. VAT, per calendar (extra calendars and add-ons priced separately) Free trial available (Easy and Profi plans)

Best for: Enterprises that want to pay only for the features they use

  • Operating company. Terminland GmbH
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Germany)
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Calendly, Microsoft Bookings, Acuity Scheduling

Terminland prices almost everything as an add-on: video meetings, calendar sync, online payments, multilingual booking, resource management, single sign-on and a REST API each carry their own line item on top of a base plan. That is unusual next to TIMIFY's or Calenso's quoted enterprise pricing — Terminland publishes every figure, so a buyer can see exactly what a fully-loaded enterprise setup costs before ever requesting a demo.

The three base tiers — Easy from €14.90, Profi from €29.90, Enterprise from €59.90 a month, excluding VAT — each include one calendar, with additional calendars priced separately and most add-ons bundled free at Enterprise level. A Voice-API for voicebot bookings is a feature none of the other German entrants here offer.

Terminland GmbH is registered in Wiesbaden, Germany (Amtsgericht Wiesbaden, HRB 30709). Next to cituro's flat tiers and Shore's till-first bundle, Terminland is the modular option: cheaper to start, but the total climbs quickly once SSO, payments and multilingual booking are added one at a time.

What Terminland does well

  • Every price published, down to individual add-ons
  • Voice-API for voicebot appointment booking
  • SSO via Microsoft Entra ID at Enterprise
  • Resource and partner-company booking
  • Free trial on Easy and Profi plans

Where Terminland falls short

  • Add-ons accumulate quickly on lower tiers
  • Extra calendars priced per resource
  • Less polished marketing than Shore or cituro
  • No published residency or certification statement

Standout feature. The only scheduling platform here that itemises every add-on's price instead of folding it into a plan or a quote.

#14 Salonkee

Luxembourg, Luxembourg Start package from €49/month; Plus and Business packages priced on request

Best for: Salons in Luxembourg, France, Belgium and Germany

  • Operating company. Salonkee S.A.
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Luxembourg)
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Treatwell, Fresha, Planity

Salonkee is a second salon-booking marketplace next to Planity, based across the border in Luxembourg rather than Paris, and reaching into Belgium and Germany as well as France. The Start package at €49 a month covers a booking calendar, a website, online booking and a waiting list; a Plus package layers on point of sale and inventory, and a Business package adds marketing and staff-access controls.

That published Start price is more transparent than Planity's demo-only pricing, though Plus and Business remain quoted on request. A separate payments module adds card terminals, cancellation and no-show policies, and online gift card and subscription sales for salons that want to take money through the same system.

Salonkee S.A. is registered in Luxembourg (RCS B207855), which makes it the only entrant here from a jurisdiction otherwise absent in this category. Against Planity's larger French network, Salonkee's case is regional reach across four countries rather than depth in any one of them.

What Salonkee does well

  • Start package price published upfront
  • Consumer marketplace across four countries
  • Point of sale and inventory from Plus
  • Website builder and caller-ID add-ons
  • Luxembourg company, EU jurisdiction

Where Salonkee falls short

  • Plus and Business pricing on request
  • Smaller marketplace reach than Planity in France
  • Payments handled as a separate add-on module
  • Beauty and hairdressing focus, not general appointments

Standout feature. The only Luxembourg-based entrant, spanning a smaller but genuinely cross-border salon marketplace.

#15 Bokadirekt

Stockholm, Sweden Free plan / Mini from 295 SEK, Plus from 395 SEK, Premium from 695 SEK per month for 1 user, scaling with team size

Best for: Beauty and wellness businesses in Sweden

  • Operating company. Bokadirekt i Stockholm AB
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Sweden)
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Treatwell, Fresha, Booksy

Bokadirekt is the Nordic counterpart to Planity and Salonkee: a consumer marketplace for salons, barbers and wellness businesses, with the software behind it bundled into the same subscription. Where it differs sharply is the pricing mechanic — the plan a salon buys sets its visibility in Bokadirekt's own search results, from limited placement on Mini to top-of-list priority on Premium.

Prices are published and scale with team size: Mini from 295 SEK a month, Plus from 395 SEK, Premium from 695 SEK, each for a single user, with a free plan for a bare digital calendar and no public listing. SMS and email marketing, review responses and a card payment terminal integration are folded into the higher tiers.

Bokadirekt i Stockholm AB is registered in Stockholm, Sweden, and is the first tool in this entire category from a Nordic jurisdiction. Buying visibility by subscription tier is a more direct trade than Planity's or Salonkee's flatter marketplace model, and worth weighing against it before assuming more expensive automatically means more customers.

What Bokadirekt does well

  • Consumer marketplace with search ranking by tier
  • Published pricing that scales with team size
  • SMS, email marketing and review tools included
  • Card payment terminal integration
  • First Nordic-jurisdiction entrant in this category

Where Bokadirekt falls short

  • Search ranking tied directly to subscription tier
  • Marketplace reach concentrated in Sweden
  • Prices in SEK, not euros
  • Beauty and wellness focus, not general appointments

Standout feature. Visibility in its own marketplace is sold by subscription tier — the clearest pay-for-placement model in this category.

Why does booking data need protecting?

Because the metadata is the disclosure. The content of an appointment may be nothing more than a name and a time, but the fact of a booking with an oncology clinic, a fertility service, a recruitment agency or a divorce lawyer reveals the sensitive thing without anything else being recorded.

In healthcare this is explicit: appointment data is special category data under the GDPR, and in France it brings certified health data hosting into scope. Elsewhere it is quieter but not different in kind — a scheduling platform holds a map of who meets whom, how often, and about what.

That is why this category belongs under a jurisdiction with recourse. A European or Swiss provider processes it under the GDPR or Swiss law with a company you can write to; a US booking tool holds the same map under US legislation.

Which of the three jobs are you actually buying for?

Finding a time across organisations is the Doodle case: six people from four companies, no shared calendar, several who will not create an account. A booking link cannot solve this, which is why the poll survived two decades of better-funded competition.

Taking bookings from customers is a different product. It needs services and durations, staff and resources, payments or deposits, reminders that reduce no-shows, and often a bookable page for businesses without a real website. TIMIFY, SimplyBook.me, Calenso and Doctolib all live here.

Handing out a personal booking link — the classic Calendly use — is the narrowest job, and meetergo is the closest European like-for-like replacement.

Buying a tool built for one of these to do another is the most common mistake in the category, and it usually surfaces about a month in.

What should you check before choosing?

Two-way calendar sync with whatever you actually run — Google, Microsoft 365, iCloud — including how it handles a busy block created outside the tool. One-way sync produces double bookings, which destroys trust in the system faster than any missing feature.

Reminder handling, because no-shows are the measurable return on this category. Check whether SMS is included or billed separately, how far in advance reminders go, and whether customers can reschedule from the reminder rather than by phoning.

Then resources: if a booking needs a person, a room and a piece of equipment to line up, most tools cannot express it. TIMIFY can, which is why it appears in banks and dealerships rather than in inboxes.

And payments, if you take deposits or sell packages. SimplyBook.me includes payments, memberships and gift cards; adding that to a scheduling tool that lacks it means a second subscription and a reconciliation problem.

How we selected and ranked these 15 tools

Every tool on this page is in the European Purpose directory, which means the operating company is established in Europe and we have verified that from the company register or the vendor's own legal notice rather than from a marketing page. Tools headquartered outside Europe are not eligible, however good they are.

  1. Feature verification (weight: 40%). We check each capability against the vendor's own documentation and product pages, and record what the tool does rather than what the category is assumed to include.
  2. Ease of adoption (weight: 30%). Integrations, published API access, trial availability and how much configuration stands between signing and a usable result.
  3. Value and transparency (weight: 30%). Published pricing counts in a vendor's favour; quote-only pricing is recorded as quote-only rather than estimated. We weigh what a buyer gets for the entry price, not the headline feature count.
  4. Editorial review. Three people touch every page: one writes it, a second edits it, and a third checks the compliance and pricing claims against the vendor's documentation. The three weights above decide the order; a position is a ranking against the other European tools in this category, not an absolute score.

Vendor-reported outcomes — ROI figures, margin uplift, time saved — are labelled as vendor claims wherever they appear on this page. We have not audited them, and neither has anyone else who quotes them. Read our full editorial process for how pages are re-verified.

Frequently asked questions

It depends what you book. meetergo is the closest like-for-like German replacement for a personal booking link. Doodle from Zurich is unmatched for finding a time across organisations where nobody shares a calendar. TIMIFY is the pick for multi-location businesses, and Doctolib if you are a healthcare practice.

Doctolib, without much competition in France, Germany and Italy. Patients already have accounts and search there, so joining makes a practice findable rather than merely bookable — and health appointment data is special category data under the GDPR, which brings certified health data hosting into scope rather than ordinary cloud hosting.

No, though the poll remains what it is uniquely good at. Doodle now offers one-to-one booking pages, sign-up sheets and calendar sync as well. The poll survives because it solves a case the booking-link tools cannot: several people from several organisations, no shared calendar, and respondents who will not create an account to answer.

Twelve of the fifteen platforms here are established inside the EU — in France, Germany, Cyprus, Austria, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Sweden — with the GDPR applying directly. Doodle and Calenso are Swiss, outside the EU but covered by an adequacy decision, and Bookwhen is British, outside the EU under its own post-Brexit adequacy decision.

TIMIFY. It is built for organisations where a booking has to line up a person, a room and a piece of equipment across many branches — banks, retail chains, dealerships, service networks — with central control over services and rules while local staff still manage their own diaries. That is a different product from a personal booking page.

SimplyBook.me includes payments, deposits, memberships, packages and gift cards as part of the platform, which for a salon or studio replaces a stack of subscriptions. Doctolib handles the healthcare billing context. For the others, payment usually means an integration, so confirm it covers the methods your customers use before assuming it.

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