Calendly and Vimcal are totally different scheduling tools. Vimcal is more for start-up founders looking for quick ways to schedule meetings with their team, VCs, and customers.
Calendly on the other hand handles much more complex scheduling workflows (like taking payments, routing forms, and automated follow-up to name a few). Calendly is better if your business has scheduling as a part of your business process (but the truth of the matter is, Cal.com is even better than Calendly).
We believe there are better options available in this category, read below to learn what this software does well, and what they could do better. ⤵
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A simple calendar scheduling tool with a solid API for teams of all sizes.
We've implemented Calendly into many businesses over the years as it once was the market leader when it came to online meeting scheduling. But we recently evaluated a new tool called Cal.com and we found that they are much more modern than Calendly. It is are faster, and their workflows are so much more flexible for teams looking to add automated scheduling into their business processes.
Compared to Cal.com, Calendly are feels like the older tool that feels outdated.
So if you are looking for a new scheduler, skip Calendly and grab Cal.com instead, you'll thank us for it!
Lightening fast (keyboard shortcut-focused) calendar for individuals.
Vimcal markets itself as "the calendar for people with too many meetings" (iOS only). With that, the main problem they are trying to solve is helping folks schedule meetings more efficiently — think of it as a replacement for Calendly with an entire calendar at the core (Side note: Vimcal's integrations are not on par with Calendly so double check that integrations aren't a core need before switching over).
We initially loved the idea of Vimcal, as they are trying to portray themselves as the "Superhuman of calendar"—and we love Superhuman.
The thing is, they missed the mark on what actually makes Superhuman special in our eyes.
Vimcal confuses "productivity" with having keyboard shortcuts for everything (talking every single UI component).
This is at the cost of simplicity, making Vimcal feel quite a bit more overwhelming and over-engineered than it needs to be.
And when you're dealing with the monthly cost, we've found that Motion has a far superior scheduler and calendar (all for a similar monthly price), which even includes a time-blocking task/project management for individuals and teams.
Vimcal does have a nice mobile iOS app, although Cron takes the cake in that area (iOS only for both). Motion on the other hand has both an iOS and Android app.
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