9 Best Framadate Alternatives for Free Polls (2026)
Framadate is the poll tool from Framasoft, the French non-profit that runs a whole suite of free alternatives to commercial web services. No tracking, no cookies, no account, no ads, and the source is published so you can self-host. It recently got a visual refresh, so it no longer looks quite as much like a 2011 PHP project.
Two things push people to look elsewhere. Polls expire after 180 days by default, with a two-month grace period before permanent deletion, which makes it unsuitable for anything you need to keep. And like every poll of this generation, participants mark availability from memory rather than from a calendar.
Here are 9 Framadate alternatives.
1. Carly
Carly closes the memory gap. Participants can connect Google Calendar or Outlook, and their busy blocks populate the grid before they touch anything. Only free and busy is shared, so event titles and attendees stay private.
Gray cells are auto-filled from connected calendars. Teal intensity shows group overlap.
Voting needs no account, the poll page has no ads or trackers, and polls do not expire on a 180-day timer. If your group would rather not open a grid, Carly can run the back-and-forth over email and propose times for you. One-on-one scheduling uses free booking pages.
What makes it different from Framadate: Framadate asks every participant to reconstruct their week from memory and then deletes the result after six months. Carly reads real availability, keeps the details private, and holds onto your polls.
Pricing: Free Zapier-style workflows and scheduling; AI agents from $35/month
2. Rallly
The obvious open-source successor. Same vote-on-candidate-times model, considerably better interface, self-hostable, and no expiry clock on hosted polls. Active development, unlike much of this category.
Best for: Framadate users who want the same model with a modern front end.
Pricing: Free (open source)
3. Dudle (now DuD-Poll)
Academic privacy project from TU Dresden, recently renamed from Dudle to DuD-Poll. Goes further than Framadate on the threat model with access controls designed to limit what the polling server itself can learn.
Best for: Groups whose privacy requirement is about not trusting the host.
Pricing: Free (open source)
4. Nextcloud Polls
If you already run Nextcloud, the Polls app puts date and opinion polls inside infrastructure you control entirely. The strongest version of the guarantee Framadate offers, since there is no third party at all.
Best for: Organisations with self-hosted Nextcloud and data residency rules.
Pricing: Free (open source, self-hosted)
5. Crab.fit
Open-source availability grid rather than a candidate-times poll. Live heat map, automatic timezone handling, anonymous by default, native Android app.
Best for: Groups who want a grid instead of a list of proposed slots.
Pricing: Free (open source)
6. LettuceMeet
Modern grid with good mobile behaviour and an optional Google Calendar overlay. Not open source, but free and frictionless for guests.
Best for: Groups who care more about the interface than the licence.
Pricing: Free
7. Xoyondo
Wider feature set than Framadate, covering anonymous polls, sign-up sheets, file attachments, and a message board. The free tier runs ads on the poll page, which undercuts the reason many people chose Framadate. Premium at $29 per year removes them.
Best for: Groups who need poll types Framadate does not offer.
Pricing: Free with ads; Premium $29/year
8. Doodle
The commercial incumbent. Polished, widely recognised, and the opposite of Framadate’s positioning: ads on the free tier, one active poll, and a paid upgrade path.
Best for: Teams who want recognition over principles.
Pricing: Free with ads; Pro from $8.95/month
9. Cal.com
Open-source scheduling platform rather than a poll tool. Collective event types, round-robin routing, embeddable booking pages, and a self-hosting option that fits the same philosophy as Framadate at a much larger scope.
Best for: Teams who want open-source scheduling infrastructure, not just polls.
Pricing: Free tier available; Teams from $15/user/month
Framadate Alternatives Compared
| Tool | Model | Open source | Self-hostable | Polls expire | Calendar sync |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carly | Grid + email | No | No | No | Yes (free/busy) |
| Rallly | Vote on times | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| DuD-Poll | Vote on times | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Nextcloud Polls | Both | Yes | Yes | Your rules | Within Nextcloud |
| Crab.fit | Availability grid | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| LettuceMeet | Availability grid | No | No | No | View only |
| Xoyondo | Vote on times | No | No | No | No |
| Doodle | Vote on times | No | No | No | Paid only |
| Cal.com | Team availability | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
The 180-day problem
Framadate’s expiry is a reasonable policy for a free service run by a non-profit, and a real problem if you use polls for anything with a record. Recurring committee meetings, client scheduling, and anything you might need to point back to six months later all fall outside what the tool is willing to keep.
Self-hosting removes the limit and adds an operational burden most small teams will not carry. The other route is a hosted tool that does not delete on a timer and pre-fills availability from connected calendars, which also removes the guesswork Framadate cannot help with.
More on group scheduling: Dudle alternatives · Rallly alternatives · Doodle alternatives · When2Meet alternatives · WhenIsGood alternatives · Group scheduling tools
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