Cal.com is a product designed to make it easier for people to meet. We simplify appointment booking by eliminating miscommunication at its source. When you use Cal.com to schedule a meeting, everyone is in the loop and has the same information. All parties will know where the meeting is happening, when it's happening, and if there are any cancellations or rescheduling, all attendees will be updated.
Empowering users and building community
Cal.com is also an open-source calendar scheduling infrastructure solution. This means our software is built by people who believe that transparency is important. Cal.com focuses on empowering users by offering multiple modes of customization and building a dynamic community where everyone can have a voice.
Being open-source means that our product is capable of scaling and growing both exponentially and organically. Independent community members can fork our project on GitHub to create their own unique products and also contribute their innovations back to the source.
Customization made easy: Cal.com's built-in app store
As part of making customization accessible, Cal.com comes with a built-in app store. This developer-friendly repository lets users simply and efficiently add the integrations they need. This means that account holders can easily extend their calendar scheduling environment's capabilities.
If you visit our app store, you'll probably notice that integrations are organized based on category. This means that all your analytics apps are in one area, and all your conferencing apps are in another. This type of organization makes it easy for users to find what they're looking for. However, we made a choice to prioritize ease of navigation over granular information. This might lead some to assume that since we don't have an open-source category in our app store, there are no apps with open-source components. This couldn't be farther from the truth. That's why in this article we're going to cover three apps that are part of open-source products that you can find within the our app store. So without further ado, let's get started.
1. Jitsi Video
Jitsi is a teleconferencing solution used by companies like Comcast, 8x8, and Brave. You can self-host your own instance of Jitsi, or you can have them power the conferencing platform for you via a hosted plan.
Jitsi's hosted plans come with a variety of options. They have a free tier that works for organizations, groups, and teams with 25 monthly users or less. Jitsi scales amazingly, and their paid tiers can handle the needs of businesses that have 3,000+ active users a month.
If you'd like to learn more about Jitsi, please visit their website, or check it out in our app store. Jitsi is a great product for any team or individual that's looking for an open-source teleconferencing option.
2. Element Call
Element Call is an open-source communication platform that provides everything from text-based messaging to voice and video conferencing. The product is based on Matrix, a decentralized and federated protocol built to facilitate secure communication across different platforms and services.
All communication that passes through Element Call is secured with end-to-end encryption. This helps ensure that your information remains private and cannot be accessed by unauthorized third parties.
Element Call can be used within your web browser, as a desktop application, and on mobile devices. If you'd like to learn more about Element Call, you can check it out in our App Store or read the blog post we published about it a couple of months back.
3. Matomo
Matomo is a Google Analytics alternative that offers both free and paid options. Matomo is used by numerous organizations. Matomo offers both free and paid analytics options. The free option is open source; however, it does require some technical knowledge. This is because Matomo's free version requires that the organization or individual using it hosts and manages their instance of the product on their own servers.
For anyone who's already wearing multiple hats and doesn't want to juggle anymore, Matomo does have a paid plan that includes hosting. This means that you don't have to invest in your own server, and you can leave most of the techy stuff to them. Matomo's paid plan starts at $29 per month. Matomo is a great Google Analytics option for anyone who values privacy. When you use Matomo, you own 100% of your own data, and privacy protection means the product can be configured to be GDPR, HIPAA, CCPA, LGPD, and PECR compliant.
Thank you for taking the time to read this article. I hope that it's given you some ideas about the type of open-source integrations you can add to your Cal.com account. If you'd like to learn more about our app store, please check out the apps category of our blog. We update this section frequently whenever new integrations are added. As always, thanks for reading, and happy scheduling!
