About Cal.com

Cal.com is a calendar scheduling product that prioritizes security, privacy, flexibility, and customization. As the world's leading open-source scheduling infrastructure solution, Cal.com practices what it preaches. This means that the product is user-friendly and packed full of innovative features designed to help organizations and individuals alike save time. In addition, Cal.com offers no-code modular customization and has a built-in app store. On top of all of this, Cal.com also comes with data encryption and enterprise-level security compliance certifications.

About YouCanBook.Me

YouCanBook.Me is a robust online meeting and scheduling solution used by companies like Techstars, Randstad, UserTesting, and Shopify. The platform has 100 million users across over 90 countries and is available in 40 languages.

Shared features

Cal.com and YouCanBook.Me are both products devoted to helping people save time by eliminating scheduling inefficiencies. This gets rid of the guesswork that’s historically part of meeting coordination. Instead, Cal.com and YouCanBook.Me users can share a booking link and let the software take care of the rest. Both products offer a free tier and are multilingual.

Other shared features include:

• One-on-one meetings

• QR code generation

• SOC2 and ISO 27001 security

• Payment integration for monetizing meetings

• API access and webhooks

• Customizable email notifications

• Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams video conferencing

• Shareable booking pages and Zapier integration

• The ability to sync meetings to your calendar

• The ability to connect calendars like Google, iCloud, and Microsoft

Similar to Cal.com, YouCanBook.Me also offers a free plan that lets prospective users get a feel for the ecosystem without having to make a financial commitment.

Main differences

The biggest difference between Cal.com and YouCanBook.Me is one of customization, security, and value. Cal.com simply offers access to more resources at a better price compared to YouCanBook.Me.

YouCanBook.Me users miss out on:

• Free & unlimited calendar connections for all account types

• Unlimited integrations and analytic options for all account types

• Unlimited booking pages for all account types

• Group bookings for all account types

• Enterprise-level ready scheduling solution that offers HIPAA compliance

• A product capable of scaling with your growth that can even power a time-based marketplace

In addition, Cal.com is also open-source, developer-friendly, and comes with a longevity guarantee. This means that we've taken steps to ensure that our core product will always exist and be available to those who need it.

When to choose Cal.com?

Cal.com is perfect for those who value customization, flexibility, and security.

Cal.com's free plan is powerful enough to meet the needs of everyday users, freelancers, sole proprietors, and students. In addition, the scalable nature of the product means that it grows with your business needs.

All Cal.com accounts come with:

• Unlimited active events

• Unlimited active meeting types

• Unlimited calendar connections

• Unlimited booking pages

• Month, week, and day view displays

• Easy embeds, including inline and pop-up

• Monetization options and the ability to use held payments

• No-code integrations like Zapier via the Cal.com app store

• Access to cool merch when they sign up for our marketing newsletter

Upgrading to a team plan supercharges your scheduling experience by adding:

• Round-robin booking capabilities

• Collective events with pre-designated hosts

• Team pages and white-labeling options

• Managed booking templates

• Advanced routing forms

• And much more

Cal.com even has options that allow organizations to use the service to build time-based marketplaces. This means that users can use Cal.com to build:

• A ride-sharing service like Uber

• A delivery service like DoorDash

• A mental health platform like BetterHelp

• A practical skills-matching marketplace like TaskRabbit

The best deal

It's important to remember that while YouCanBook.Me does offer a wide range of features, including calendar scheduling capabilities, it's not an open-source scheduling infrastructure platform, and it hasn't been built to accommodate rapid large-scale growth.

This means that using YouCanBook.Me limits the resources that you and your organization have access to.

This is why Cal.com is the best choice for anyone who's looking for a product that can be customized based on evolving business needs.