Appointlet vs SimplyBook.me Comparison 2026
Appointlet is a booking page for one person: free forever, no cap on meetings, with Premium at $9 a member a month adding reminders and branding. SimplyBook.me is built for a business with staff: providers, rooms and services on one calendar, counted in bookings a month rather than seats, free for 50 bookings and one provider, then $11.90 for 100. The question is whether one calendar is being booked, or several.
Booking pages with no cap on the free plan
Booking for a business with staff
At a glance
- Appointlet starts cheaper, at $9.
- Both have a genuinely free tier.
Side by side
Appointlet | SimplyBook.me | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $9 | From $11.90 |
| Pricing model | Free plan, paid tiers | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial (they differ) | None | 14 days |
Appointlet
Booking pages with no cap on the free plan
Appointlet puts a booking page in front of your calendar and gets out of the way. The free plan books unlimited meetings, which is rarer than it sounds among scheduling tools that count them. Paying buys reminders, custom branding and the integrations, and it is charged per member rather than per booking.
Our note
Appointlet is the answer when the only thing you need is a link that books a meeting. It has been quietly doing that for years and costs nothing, which is worth more than the features it lacks.
SimplyBook.me
Booking for a business with staff
SimplyBook.me is built for the appointment business rather than the meeting: several providers, a service list, deposits taken at the point of booking, and an app for the client. Its plans are counted in bookings a month instead of seats. That is the right unit for a studio with four staff and the wrong one for a consultant taking four calls a week.
Our note
Why people weigh these two
- SimplyBook.me instead of Appointlet
- SimplyBook.me from $12 with a free tier handles booking for a business with staff, where Appointlet books one person's calendar.
- Appointlet instead of SimplyBook.me
- Appointlet puts no cap on its free plan at all, simpler than SimplyBook.me's bookings-per-month allowance, then adds features at $9.
Which one should you pick
Pick Appointlet if you are the only person on the calendar and do not want a bill for booking meetings. The free plan books an unlimited number of them with no card and no expiry, and Premium at $9 a member a month only adds reminders, branding and integrations on top of that, never a booking cap.
Pick SimplyBook.me if the business has staff, rooms or services to book against, since Appointlet has no way to represent any of that. Free covers 50 bookings a month for one provider; the $11.90 tier raises that to 100 bookings and five providers, but watch which optional features, like payments or a branded app, are switched on, since those are what a plan actually meters.
Common questions
- Can Appointlet handle a team with several staff members, like SimplyBook.me?
- It charges per member and several people can use it, but it has no concept of providers, rooms or services on one shared page the way SimplyBook.me does. A studio or clinic with several bookable staff is what SimplyBook.me's plans are built to count.
- Which free plan is more useful?
- It depends what you need. Appointlet's free plan books unlimited meetings with no cap at all, for one calendar. SimplyBook.me's free plan caps out at 50 bookings a month and one provider, but includes a provider and service structure Appointlet does not have.
- Does either charge based on how many meetings get booked?
- SimplyBook.me does; its plans are counted in bookings a month, from 50 free up to 2,000 on its top tier. Appointlet charges per member instead and never caps the number of meetings, on the free plan or on Premium at $9 a month.
- Can SimplyBook.me take a deposit when someone books?
- Yes, and further than Appointlet goes: SimplyBook.me takes deposits and payments at the point of booking as a core feature. Appointlet stays out of payments entirely, and points anybody who needs that at Calendly or SavvyCal instead.
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