Choosing between Cal.com and Meetingbird?

About Cal.com

Cal.com is a scheduling tool that prioritizes security, privacy, flexibility, and customization. The product is priced competitively to ensure that businesses of all sizes can take advantage of its seamless integrations, user-friendly interface, and innovative features. Cal.com also offers options that facilitate advanced encryption and HIPAA compliance. This is one of the reasons Cal.com is typically the default choice for anyone who values reliability, efficiency, and innovation.

About Meetingbird

Meetingbird was a standalone calendar scheduling solution that was acquired in 2020 by Front. The product's technology and features now power Front Calendar.

Shared features

Cal.com and Meetingbird are both calendar scheduling solutions that are designed to help users save time by taking the guesswork out of coordinating bookings, cancellations, and rescheduling. Back when Meetingbird existed as a standalone product, it offered a free account that was similar in several ways to Cal.com's free account. This meant there was a point in time when Meetingbird was a viable option for anyone who needed a free scheduling solution that supported unlimited calendars, customizable scheduling, and custom questions.

Main differences

The biggest difference between Cal.com and Meetingbird is that Meetingbird no longer exists as an independent scheduling solution. Anyone who loved the product or wants to try out its scheduling methodology now has to sign up for a Front account, which has a starting price of $19 per month.

It's also important to keep in mind that Front is not a calendar scheduling product, even though it offers booking management as a feature. Front is primarily focused on building a customer service platform.

This means that it has a wide variety of features in addition to calendar scheduling. Having to juggle all of these things naturally reduces the resources, time, and focus that Front can devote to building out its calendar scheduling infrastructure and capabilities.

In contrast, Cal.com lives and breathes time management. As the industry's premier open-source calendar scheduling infrastructure product, Cal.com is committed to ensuring that everyone has access to a robust, secure, and reliable meeting management solution.

When to choose Cal.com?

Cal.com is perfect for those who value customization, flexibility, and security. The product is ISO 27001, SOC2, GDPR, CCPA certified, and comes with options for HIPAA compliance.

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.

Upgrading to a team plan means that users have access to advanced features like round-robin scheduling, 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 the next Uber, DoorDash, or TaskRabbit.

What about Meetingbird?

Meetingbird is unfortunately no longer an account or scheduling choice for most people, as the product no longer exists. However, if you're looking for a multi-pronged customer service platform that has limited calendar scheduling options, then Front is a viable option.

The best deal

Ultimately, when it comes to choosing between Cal.com and Meetingbird, the main question you have to ask yourself is whether you want room for growth.

All of Meetingbird's features, which have since been incorporated into Front Calendar, are available for free to Cal.com users; however, the opposite cannot be said.

Unlike Meetingbird, Cal.com is still independent and it comes with a longevity guarantee. This means you'll never have to worry about losing your favorite scheduling solution as long as it's Cal.com.