Yes, there is a genuinely free plan. Here is exactly what is in it, exactly what is not, and how to tell when “free” elsewhere is not free at all.
$0. No card. No trial clock. Unlimited appointments — we do not cap how many bookings you take, and we do not take a cut of them.
| In the free plan | Not in the free plan |
|---|---|
| Unlimited appointments | More than one user |
| A customisable booking page | Two-way calendar sync |
| Email notifications | SMS text reminders |
| Embed as an iframe or a button on your site | Taking payment or deposits at booking |
| Mobile-friendly booking | Automatic Zoom / Teams / Webex links |
One user. If it is just you, fine. The day a second person needs their own bookable calendar, the free plan stops being a plan.
No calendar sync. This is the one people underestimate. Without two-way sync, Bookafy does not know what is already in your Google or Outlook calendar. It will offer a client a slot that you have already given to your dentist. You can block time manually, and plenty of solo users do, but you have to remember to.
If either of those describes you, do not sign up for the free plan and then feel misled. Start the trial of Pro instead.
Free scheduling plans are common and most of them are honest, but the limits are rarely on the front page. Four things worth checking before you commit your booking link to a tool, because moving it later is a nuisance:
| You are | Use |
|---|---|
| One person, and you mostly want to stop the email back-and-forth | Free plan. Block your own busy time manually. |
| One person, but you live out of your calendar and would forget to block time | Pro. Calendar sync is the whole point of it. |
| Testing whether online booking works for your customers at all | Free plan. This is exactly what it is for. |
| Two or more people taking bookings | Pro. There is no free path here, with us or with anyone serious. |
| No-shows are costing you money | Pro. You need SMS reminders and deposits, and neither is free anywhere. |
Really free. $0, no card, no expiry. It is capped at one user and it does not include calendar sync, SMS reminders or payments. Those limits are the price.
One user, and no two-way calendar sync. That second one is the real catch, because it means Bookafy does not know about the events already in your personal calendar and cannot block them automatically.
The moment a second person needs to take bookings, or the moment you want SMS reminders, calendar sync or payments. Pro is $7 per user per month billed yearly.
Not on our free plan, and be careful with anyone who says otherwise. Sending a text costs real money. If a tool offers unlimited free SMS, check whether it is actually metered, capped, or paid for by your data.
No. There is no per-booking fee and no commission. Appointments are unlimited on every plan, including Free.
Bookafy has a free plan and a free trial of the paid plans — no credit card to start. Start your free trial or see pricing.
If you are still working out which tool you need, start with the overview: appointment scheduling software — what it does, what it costs, and when you should buy something else.
Also useful: every Bookafy integration, in three honest lists — what is native, what needs Zapier, and what we simply do not do. And the pricing page, where the feature matrix is the real answer to “is that on the free plan”.
