9 Best StrawPoll Meetings Alternatives for Scheduling (2026)
StrawPoll built a meeting scheduler on top of its general polling site: create a scheduling poll, invite participants, and find a date everyone can make. It’s free and quick, and it rides on a brand a lot of people already know for quick polls.
The trade-off is that it’s a lightweight add-on to a polling tool, not a dedicated scheduler. There’s no calendar integration to pull in real availability, and coordination past the vote happens elsewhere.
Here are 9 StrawPoll Meetings alternatives worth a look.
1. Carly
Carly does the same “find a time the group can make” job, but participants can connect their Google Calendar or Outlook so the availability grid auto-fills their busy times. Your calendar stays private — everyone else only sees free/busy, never your actual events.
Gray cells are auto-filled from connected calendars. Teal intensity shows group overlap.
No account required, works on mobile, and if nobody wants to fill in a grid you can run the whole thing over email — Carly’s AI handles the back-and-forth and proposes times. For 1:1 meetings, Carly also offers free booking pages.
What makes it different from StrawPoll Meetings: StrawPoll is a poll everyone answers from memory. Carly pulls availability from the calendar, handles timezones automatically, and is part of a full AI agent platform — 70+ integrations across calendars, CRM, messaging, and project management.
Pricing: Free
2. Doodle
The best-known meeting poll tool. Free tier has ads and a one-active-poll limit, but the voting UX is polished and the name recognition means you can drop a link without explaining it. The closest like-for-like swap for StrawPoll’s meeting polls.
Best for: Teams that want a familiar, polished vote-on-times experience.
Pricing: Free with ads; Pro from $8.95/month
3. Rallly
A clean, open-source Doodle alternative. Create a poll with candidate times in seconds, no login required, and get yes/no/maybe votes back. Ad-free.
Best for: Teams who want a simple, ad-free vote-on-times tool.
Pricing: Free (open source)
4. When2Meet
The bare-bones availability grid. Instead of voting on preset times, everyone paints when they’re free and you read the overlap. Ad-free and unchanged since the mid-2000s.
Best for: Groups who’d rather see availability overlap than vote on fixed slots.
Pricing: Free
5. LettuceMeet
A modern availability grid with a mobile-friendly UI and an optional Google Calendar view. Free, no account required for guests.
Best for: Groups who want the grid model with a clean interface.
Pricing: Free
6. Xoyondo
Doodle-style polling with extras: anonymous polls, sign-up sheets with slot limits, and a built-in message board. Dozens of languages. No feature limits on free — premium just removes branding.
Best for: International groups or events needing sign-up sheets alongside scheduling.
Pricing: Free (premium removes branding)
7. Calendly Meeting Polls
Calendly’s group-poll feature: send a set of times, let the group vote, and lock in the winner with automatic follow-ups. Ad-free, and it plugs into the rest of Calendly’s booking stack.
Best for: Teams already on Calendly who want polls in the same tool.
Pricing: Meeting Polls available on paid plans
8. Microsoft Outlook Scheduling Poll (FindTime)
Built into Outlook. Insert a poll into an email, recipients vote from the email itself, and Outlook books the event automatically. Zero links, zero extra apps.
Best for: Microsoft 365 teams who live in Outlook.
Pricing: Included with Microsoft 365
9. Cal.com
Open-source scheduling platform with collective event types, round-robin routing, and embeddable booking pages. More infrastructure than a poll — better when group coordination is one of several scheduling problems you’re solving.
Best for: Teams who want self-hosted scheduling with group coordination baked in.
Pricing: Free tier available; Teams from $15/user/month
StrawPoll Meetings Alternatives Compared
| Tool | Model | Free tier | Account needed | Calendar sync | Open source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carly | Availability grid + email | Yes | No | Yes (auto-fill) | No |
| Doodle | Vote on times | With ads | No | Paid only | No |
| Rallly | Vote on times | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| When2Meet | Availability grid | Yes | No | No | No |
| LettuceMeet | Availability grid | Yes | No | View only | No |
| Xoyondo | Vote on times | Yes | No | No | No |
| Calendly Polls | Vote on times | Paid | Yes | Yes | No |
| Outlook Poll | Vote on times | With M365 | Yes | Yes | No |
| Cal.com | Team availability | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Poll add-ons vs. dedicated schedulers
StrawPoll Meetings is fine for a fast, one-off vote when the group already knows a few candidate times. Because it’s an add-on to a general polling site, it stops at the vote — there’s no calendar behind it and nothing to manage the meeting once a slot wins.
Calendar-connected tools like Carly pull availability straight from Google Calendar or Outlook, so the group isn’t voting from memory, and the same tool can send the invite once a time is locked in.
More on scheduling: Doodle alternatives · Rallly alternatives · When2Meet alternatives · Group scheduling tools · Timeful alternatives · PollUnit alternatives · Zencal alternatives
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