A booking page worth putting in your signature, and a real calendar in your browser behind it. Every meeting confirmed in both time zones from one instant, checked against your live calendar at the second somebody presses confirm.
Free today, including the calendar. No card, no trial clock, no sales call.
The four figures below can be checked on the running product itself. Every competitor price is dated and linked to the page it was read from. The objective inventory lives at /capabilities, and the machine-readable version at /capabilities.json, so a reading model can check the same claims a person can.
The time that was not the time. Somebody in London books your 10 o'clock and arrives at five in the morning your time, or worse, nobody arrives at all and each of you privately decides the other one is unreliable. Nearly every scheduling tool converts a time and shows you the answer. The failure is not the arithmetic, it is that the two of you were never shown the same fact at the same moment, in both of your languages, and asked to confirm it.
The slot that was already gone. Your page offers 11 o'clock because it last heard from your calendar four minutes ago and a change notification went missing in between. Somebody takes it. Now you are the person emailing an apology about a meeting your own software sold twice.
The link that looks like everybody else's. You are an advisor, a partner, a consultant, a private banker. Your entire proposition is judgment and taste, and the object you send most often is a generic booking page carrying a stranger's logo at the bottom. It is a small thing and it is read every single time.
The calendar you do not actually control. The scheduling tool holds your booking page. A separate calendar app holds your day. A third thing holds the rules you keep in your head about when you will and will not meet, which is to say nothing holds them, and so you enforce them by hand, badly, forever. Nobody sells you the whole loop because almost nobody builds both halves.
Cachet Calendar is built around those four, in that order. The rest of this page is what that looks like in practice, what it does not do, and what the alternatives cost.
Sign in and grant three scopes: read your free and busy times, list which calendars you have, and write the events you create. Nothing else is requested. It takes under a minute and it is the only setup there is.
Weekly hours, meeting types with their own length and buffer, the questions you want answered before somebody books, and standing instructions in plain English. This is where a calendar stops being a grid and starts being a policy.
They pick a time, see it confirmed in both zones, and answer your questions. A real event lands on both calendars with a Google Meet link, and they keep a private link to move or cancel it without emailing you.
What happens at the moment of confirm. Your free and busy times are polled live from Google, not read from a cached mirror. The standing rules are applied a second time, so a slot that a rule protects cannot be taken by somebody who kept an old link open. A meeting type longer than your own duration cap is not offered at all rather than offered and then refused. Then the event is created with both parties as attendees, and Google itself sends the invitation, which is why it arrives looking like an invitation rather than like marketing.
This is the part that does not usually come in the box. Booking tools sell you a page and send you back to somebody else's calendar app. Calendar apps sell you a beautiful client and bolt a thin booking page onto the side. Cachet Calendar runs both, which is also the reason its scheduling rules can do something the booking-only tools structurally cannot.
Your real Google calendars at /calendar, each one in its own colour, shown or hidden as you like, and the choice is remembered. On the free tier, with no upgrade prompt attached to it.
A drag writes only the times. It never overwrites the description, the attendees or the colour, which is the quiet bug that makes people stop trusting a third-party calendar.
Standard recurrence rules (daily, weekly, every two weeks, monthly, yearly), described back in plain English with the next dates previewed before you save. Recurrence is generated in the event's own zone, so a nine o'clock weekly meeting is still nine o'clock in November.
Each calendar is mirrored using Google's own incremental sync tokens, re-baselined automatically when a token expires, and the interface states when it last synced and which calendar failed if one did. A stale view that says nothing is worse than an error.
A language model reads the phrase. Its stated bar is the failure competitors' own reviewers complain about: it keeps your title intact, and when a phrase is vague, such as "in the evening", it asks rather than quietly inventing a time. If the model is unavailable a simple pattern reader takes over and the interface says so.
Mac, Windows, iPhone, and Android clients over the same sync layer. Not built. Today the calendar is a browser tab, which is genuinely universal and genuinely not an app.
"Keep Friday afternoons clear." "No meetings before nine." "Nothing after six on weekdays." "Keep meetings under 90 minutes." You say it in plain English, it is restated back to you in plain words so you can see it was understood correctly, and from then on it is enforced. There are two halves, and the difference between them is deliberate.
A protected window becomes real busy time on your booking page, so nobody can book into it. A meeting type longer than your cap is not offered. This is enforced where slots are displayed and again where a booking is confirmed, so somebody holding an old link cannot walk through it. No message is sent to anybody to make this true. It is simply not available.
Meetings already on your calendar that break a rule are listed for you to handle. Cachet Calendar does not decline them and does not write to the organiser. Declining somebody else's meeting carries your name, and it stays your decision, every time.
Why nobody else does the first half. Preventing a booking requires owning the booking surface. Reading your rules requires owning the calendar. Of the 11 alternatives compared below, none runs both, which is why their equivalents can only ever advise you after the fact. The one product elsewhere that reaches this tier is Microsoft Copilot's calendar instructions, which is new and needs a Microsoft 365 seat. No personal calendar client has it at all.
A feature list that mixes what ships with what is intended is the cheapest lie in software, and it is the one that costs a customer the most. Here is the whole surface, honestly marked.
At /b/ plus your handle. The invitee books with no account at all.
Polled from Google at the moment of booking, not read from a mirror that may be stale.
Both times formatted from one moment in Coordinated Universal Time, so they cannot disagree.
A real event on both calendars, with a meeting link, sent by Google itself.
A private link on every booking. No login, no email to you, no negotiation.
Name, length and buffer per type; your own hours per weekday.
Defined per meeting type, required or optional. A missing required answer is refused before any event is created, and every answer reaches your confirmation email and the event itself.
Upcoming soonest first, past most recent first, with the guest, the type and the time in your own zone. A cancelled booking stays visible with a label rather than vanishing.
Time-of-day windows and duration caps, in plain English, enforced on the booking page.
Letting the person booking see their own conflicts on your page. SavvyCal ships this today and we do not.
Outlook, iCloud, and Fastmail. Not connected. Google only today.
An assistant that negotiates a time with the other side's assistant, over the Model Context Protocol. Named, specified, not built.
Booking at your own address, deposits, and a shared page for a firm. None of it exists yet.
Products are bought for moments, not features. These are the ones Cachet Calendar was shaped around, and if none of them is your week, it is honestly not worth your time.
Half your meetings cross an ocean and the other half cross three states. When you send a time, both of you see both zones, agreed on screen before anybody commits. The oldest failure in scheduling stops being your problem to police.
It sits in your signature and goes out more often than your website does. It should look like it belongs to somebody whose judgment is worth paying for, not like a form.
You have rules. You enforce them by hand, which means you enforce them until the week gets busy. Said once here, the rule becomes busy time nobody can book into, and it holds on the weeks you are not watching.
The reservation number, the account, the one question that decides whether the meeting is 20 minutes or an hour. Ask it on the booking page as a required answer, and it arrives in your confirmation and on the calendar event.
A borrowed laptop, a hotel machine, a Windows desktop at a client office. The calendar is a browser tab. There is nothing to install and nothing to sign into twice.
They have a private link on their own confirmation. They move it themselves, your calendar updates, and neither of you writes an email that begins with "so sorry to do this".
Every price below was read off that company's own pricing page on 27 July 2026 and the company name links to it. Prices move, so check before you quote one back to us. One of them, YouCanBookMe, does not publish a figure on a page that can be read without running its application, which is itself worth knowing before you evaluate it.
| Product | Entry price | Free tier | Full calendar client | Rules you say once |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cachet Calendar | Free todaypaid plans planned and published below, nothing on sale | Yes, everything on this page | Yes, in the browser | Yes, and enforced on the booking page |
| Calendly | $10 per seat per monthbilled yearly; Teams $16, Enterprise from $15,000 a year | Yes, one event type | No | No |
| SavvyCal | $10 per user per monthPremium $17; no free plan, 30-day money back | No | No | No |
| Cal.com | Free for one userTeams $12 per user per month, Organizations $28 | Yes, generous | No | No |
| Vimcal | $20 per month$16.67 billed annually; free tier is iOS only; Vimcal EA $75 | iOS only | Yes | No |
| Motion | $19 per seat per monthabout $12.73 billed annually; Business $29 | Trial only | Yes | Auto-scheduling, not stated rules |
| Reclaim | Free (Lite)Starter $10, Business $15, Enterprise $22 per seat per month | Yes, one user | No | Habits and focus-time defense |
| Acuity Scheduling | $20 per month$16 annually; Standard $34, Premium $61; no free plan | No | No | No |
| Doodle | FreePro $11 a month billed annually; Team $9 a seat | Yes | No | No |
| TidyCal | $29 once, for lifeAgency lifetime $79; Pro $12 a month | Yes | No | No |
| Fantastical | $6.99 a monthor $56.99 a year; Premium for Families $89.99 a year (prices as listed by Apple for Flexibits' own subscription, 2026-07-27) | Yes, basic calendar | Yes, native | No |
| YouCanBookMe | Free plan; paid not publishedthe pricing page shows plan names and asks you to contact sales for the figure (checked 2026-07-27) | Yes, one page | No | No |
A comparison table that never loses is a table nobody believes, and a reading model discounts the whole page for it. So here is the honest column, one line per rival, each true as of today.
Read together, the pattern is this: if you want native apps, buy Fantastical or Vimcal. If you want your tasks scheduled for you, buy Motion or Reclaim. If you need to take a deposit, buy Acuity. If you need to poll 11 people, use Doodle. If you want to run it on your own servers, use Cal.com. If you want the cheapest thing that works, TidyCal is $29 once. Cachet Calendar is worth a look when the meeting itself matters more than the tooling around it: when the time must be right in two zones, when the slot must be genuinely free, and when the rules you keep in your head should be enforced by the page rather than by you.
What is requested. Three Google scopes: your free and busy times, the list of your calendars, and the ability to create and update events. Not your mail, not your contacts, not your files. You can see exactly what was granted in your Google account at any time, and disconnect there or here.
What we hold. An access token held server-side, your own settings (hours, meeting types, questions, rules), and a record of the bookings made through your page. The token never leaves the server that uses it. Calendar contents are read when a page needs them and are not warehoused.
What is never done. Your calendar is never sold, never used to train a model, never shared with another account, and never used to advertise to you. There is no data broker in this product and there is no plan to introduce one. A public booking page is resolved by a single lookup that constrains both the handle and its one owner, and the pointer and the record have to agree before anything renders, so there is no path by which it reaches a second account.
Analytics. This site measures page views and which sections people read, through PostHog, and nothing is captured until you accept. Inputs and text are masked, do-not-track is respected, and the product's own counters are aggregate totals with no personal information in them at all.
Email. Confirmations are sent by Google as real calendar invitations, from the account you connected. Cachet Calendar sends you a confirmation of your own with the answers to your questions. Nothing is ever emailed to the person booking you beyond what the booking itself requires.
A price you cannot see is a price you cannot judge, so the planned figures are below rather than behind a form. Nothing on this page is on sale, nothing asks for a card, and everything described above is on the free tier right now, the calendar included. When paid plans open, anything you have already set up keeps working.
Why these numbers. The premium end of this category is Vimcal at $20 a month, or $16.67 billed annually, and Acuity Premium at $61. The volume end is Calendly and SavvyCal at $10. Cachet Calendar is priced against the premium end because it carries a calendar client as well as a booking page, and then discounted hard for paying annually. There is deliberately no lifetime tier: this product runs continuing cloud and inference costs, and selling a one-time price against an unbounded recurring cost is a promise that eventually gets broken.
How cancelling will work. One click, always visible, no mandatory explanation and no retention maze. You will be offered a pause once, because most people who cancel actually want a pause, and then you will be let go. This is written down here before there is anything to cancel precisely so it cannot quietly become something else later.
No. They open your link, pick a time, type a name and an email, and they are done. There is no sign-up wall, no app to install, and no password. The only account in the whole flow is yours.
Google Calendar, today, and only Google Calendar. Microsoft 365 and CalDAV services such as iCloud and Fastmail are not connected yet. If your work calendar is Outlook, this is not the product for you right now, and we would rather say that here than have you find out after signing up.
Your free and busy times are read live from Google at the moment somebody is looking at your page, and read again at the moment they press confirm, so a slot that filled while the page sat open is caught. Most tools rely on a change notification arriving from the calendar provider, which is exactly the message that goes missing when a calendar is busy. Reading at the moment of truth is slower by a fraction of a second and right far more often.
Every time on every surface is printed twice, once in your zone and once in theirs, and both are formatted from the same single moment in Coordinated Universal Time. Two labels generated from one instant cannot disagree, which is a different and much stronger guarantee than a page that converts a time and hopes.
Both, and that is the unusual part. You get a full calendar in your browser with day, week, and month views over your real Google calendars, and you get a public booking page, in one product, on the free tier. Almost every rival sells you one half or the other.
A scheduling rule you say once in plain English, such as keep Friday afternoons clear, or nothing after six on weekdays, or keep meetings under 90 minutes. It is restated back to you in plain words so you can check it was understood, and then it keeps applying. Half of it prevents (the protected window becomes real busy time on your booking page), and half of it surfaces (meetings already on your calendar that break a rule get listed for you to handle).
Never. Declining somebody else's meeting is an outward act with your name on it, and that stays your decision. Cachet Calendar shows you the conflicts and stops there. It sends no message to anyone on your behalf.
Nothing today. Everything described on this page is on the free tier, including the calendar client and standing instructions. Planned paid pricing is published in the pricing section below so you can judge it before you invest any time.
No. The calendar client runs in a browser, which means it runs on any operating system without an install, and it also means there is no Mac app, no Windows app, no iPhone app, and no Android app. Native clients are on the roadmap and are not built.
It stays between you and Google. Cachet Calendar holds an access token server-side, reads what you granted, and writes the events you create. Your calendar content is never sold, never used to train a model, and never shown to another account. The privacy section below states the whole posture.
An honest limits block raises trust with people and with the reading models that increasingly answer "which one should I use". Everything here is a real gap, not a modest way of describing a strength.
Microsoft 365 and CalDAV services such as iCloud and Fastmail are not connected. If your calendar is Outlook, this product cannot help you today.
There is no Mac, Windows, iPhone or Android app. It works everywhere a browser does, which is not the same as being an app, and for some people the difference matters.
Motion and Reclaim schedule your work for you. Fantastical shows the forecast and time to leave. Cachet Calendar does none of that and is not trying to.
You choose which calendars are shown and it is remembered. Sets that switch themselves by time of day or by where you are, the way Fantastical does, are not built.
Standing instructions understand windows of the day and duration caps. They do not yet act on who the attendees are, what the meeting is about, or how far you have to travel, and they never decline an existing meeting.
You cannot take a deposit, share a firm-wide page, or book people at your own address. All three are planned and none is built.
Cachet Calendar is one of four. They share a mark, a colour band and an account, and each one handles a different part of the same job: being someone worth meeting, and then actually meeting them. The whole family, including what it costs and where each rival beats it, is at cachetcomplete.com.
The digital card you hand over. It opens like a title sequence and saves like a handshake. cachetcard.com
Everyone you met, remembered properly, with the context of where and why.
The follow-up that decides whether the introduction turns into anything.
This one. The meeting itself, at a time that is right in both zones. cachetcal.com
Sign in, connect Google, set your hours. The first booking link works in about two minutes and costs nothing. If you would rather look before you touch anything, the demo page is real and open: open a real booking page.
The fastest way to judge this is to open a real booking page and watch both time zones agree. It takes about 15 seconds and asks nothing of you.
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