9 Best Xoyondo Alternatives for Group Polls (2026)
Xoyondo does a lot for a free tool. Unlimited polls, unlimited participants, no registration, yes/no/maybe voting, anonymous polls, sign-up sheets, file attachments, and a built-in message board. For a Doodle replacement that costs nothing, it covers more ground than most.
The catch is what “free” buys you. The Standard plan shows ads to you and to everyone who votes in your poll, and removing them means Premium at $29 per year. Beyond that, Xoyondo is still a manual tool: every participant marks availability from memory, because nothing connects to an actual calendar.
Here are 9 Xoyondo alternatives worth a look.
1. Carly
Carly keeps the fill-in-a-grid model but removes the guesswork. Participants can connect Google Calendar or Outlook and their busy times fill in automatically, so nobody reconstructs their week from memory. Your calendar stays private, and everyone else sees free/busy only, never your event titles.
Gray cells are auto-filled from connected calendars. Teal intensity shows group overlap.
No account required, no ads at any tier, and mobile works properly. If your group would rather not touch a grid at all, Carly can run the coordination over email instead and propose times on your behalf. For one-on-one meetings there are also free booking pages.
What makes it different from Xoyondo: Xoyondo is a static poll that charges to remove ads. Carly is ad-free from the start, pre-fills the grid from real calendars, handles timezones automatically, and sits inside a broader agent platform with integrations across calendars, CRM, messaging, and project tools.
Pricing: Free Zapier-style workflows and scheduling; AI agents from $35/month
2. Rallly
Open-source and genuinely clean. Rallly uses the vote-on-candidate-times model rather than paint-the-grid, which suits groups who already have three or four slots in mind and just want a verdict. No ads, no account needed to vote.
Best for: Teams who want Xoyondo’s polling model without the ad tier.
Pricing: Free (open source)
3. LettuceMeet
A modern availability grid with a genuinely good mobile interface and an optional Google Calendar view alongside the grid. Guests vote without creating anything.
Best for: Groups who want a grid that does not look like it shipped in 2008.
Pricing: Free
4. Crab.fit
Open-source When2Meet replacement with a live-updating heat map and automatic timezone handling. Anonymous by default, with source on GitHub and a native Android app.
Best for: Groups who want polish plus open source and real timezone support.
Pricing: Free (open source)
5. Doodle
The incumbent, and the tool Xoyondo positions itself against. The free tier carries ads and limits you to one active poll, but the interface is polished and the brand is recognisable enough that you can send a link without explaining what it is.
Best for: Teams who want a name everyone already knows.
Pricing: Free with ads; Pro from $8.95/month
6. Framadate
Privacy-first polling from Framasoft, the French non-profit. No tracking, no cookies, no account, and self-hostable if you want it on your own infrastructure. Handles both date polls and opinion polls, the same two modes Xoyondo offers.
One limitation worth knowing: polls expire after 180 days by default, and you get two months to extend before deletion.
Best for: Privacy-conscious groups and teams with data sovereignty requirements.
Pricing: Free (open source)
7. When2Meet
The bare-bones classic. Enter your dates, paint your availability, share the link. Ad-free and essentially unchanged for two decades, which is either the appeal or the problem depending on your group.
Best for: Groups who want the absolute minimum with zero friction.
Pricing: Free
8. StrawPoll Meetings
Meeting polls bolted onto a general-purpose polling platform. Useful when you are already running opinion polls with the same group and want one tool for both, which is close to Xoyondo’s pitch.
Best for: Groups who poll for more than just meeting times.
Pricing: Free tier available; paid plans remove ads
9. Cal.com
Open-source scheduling infrastructure with collective event types, round-robin routing, and embeddable booking pages. Heavier than a poll, and the right call when group coordination is one of several scheduling problems rather than the only one.
Best for: Teams who want self-hosted scheduling with group coordination included.
Pricing: Free tier available; Teams from $15/user/month
Xoyondo Alternatives Compared
| Tool | Model | Free tier | Ads on free | Account needed | Calendar sync |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carly | Grid + email | Yes | No | No | Yes (auto-fill) |
| Rallly | Vote on times | Yes | No | No | No |
| LettuceMeet | Availability grid | Yes | No | No | View only |
| Crab.fit | Availability grid | Yes | No | No | No |
| Doodle | Vote on times | Yes | Yes | No | Paid only |
| Framadate | Vote on times | Yes | No | No | No |
| When2Meet | Availability grid | Yes | No | No | No |
| StrawPoll | Vote on times | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Cal.com | Team availability | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
What the ad tier actually costs you
Xoyondo’s ads are not just an annoyance for the organiser. They render on the poll page every participant visits, which is the one page you are asking a client, a committee, or a group of parents to open. Premium at $29 per year fixes it, and at that point you are comparing against tools that are ad-free at zero.
The other gap is structural. Every voter in a Xoyondo poll is answering from memory, and the errors show up as double-bookings after the poll closes. Calendar-connected grids start pre-filled from Google Calendar or Outlook, so participants mark preferences on top of conflicts the tool already knows about.
More on group scheduling: Doodle alternatives · When2Meet alternatives · WhenIsGood alternatives · LettuceMeet alternatives · Rallly alternatives · PollUnit alternatives · Group scheduling tools
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