You are looking for good doodle alternatives fitting your needs. We have compiled a list of all free alternatives by type.

The famous scheduling tool: Doodle

For the longest time Doodle was synonym with create a quick poll, send it to your friends and get a quick answer. May that be because you want to find a date for a dinner or because you want to figure out who brings what drinks. Recently doodle has pushed into a new more business-oriented space by growing the time scheduling features and allowing for integrations with multiple calendars and allowing others to book slots in there.

But if you are like us, this sounds complicated, needs a lot of preparation and thus you might be wondering: is there a free, quick to set-up and simplified version that scratches this original itch that Doodle had?

And of course, there is multiple different ones, each with advantages and disadvantages.

Other scheduling tools than Doodle

Much like the original Doodle, Nuudel or Xoyondo allow the poll creator to select multiple dates from a calendar and give those as options to participants to say which one they prefer. The use case works very well, when needing to find a date for a one-off event but starts showing its limit when needing to schedule a multitude of events or repeating events or when needing to bridge two calendars to find common slots. This is where the revamped Doodle comes in and other tools such as Calendly or Hubspot. They really allow a synchronization between one’s calendar and a tool and people that want to schedule something with you see the full list of available options. As such it is much more useful for professionals and the price follows suit.

Use case based polls

But Doodle was also frequently used to gather feedback or organize a putlock. There are other applications in this category, that are really meant to cover some specific use cases. For example, cally for scheduling certain type of event, or perfectpotluck.com for scheduling a potluck or rsvpify that under the looks to allow people to rsvp for an event, can go all the way to even handle ticket entry to the event for you. Another larger category is the feedback poll application such as polleverywhere that specialize on specific types of ratings such as stars, NPS as well as integrations into classical business tools such as powerpoint or google slides. The tools take out one niche that Doodle was used for a heavily expand on them. We would also put our own tool, Whocan.org in that category with the main difference, that it aims to be the single stop for all polling needs but automatically customizing the set-up to better fit the concrete needs of the user.

Live Polls

Additionally, while the original doodle didn’t specialize in this, there are tools that specialize in live polls, that you can use during presentations, conferences or other large-scale events to make them more interactive. Our two favorite examples are Mentimeter and Slido. Both are quite powerful and accompany your live event either only for a short quiz or along the whole journey. You have probably already encountered the word clouds that these tools have made popular and that are today integrated into Microsoft Teams and other standard business applications.

Survey Tools

This list of course wouldn’t be complete without mentioning your classical survey applications. These applications such as Google Forms or Survey Monkey have incredible amounts of functionality and are really meant to be used to gather extensive data, so that you may then use it further. While you can probably do anything, you want with these tools they are lengthy to set-up and can feel a bit complicated when you are only wanting to quickly get responses.

Conclusion

This lengthy list and categorization of applications in the polling and surveying landscape should give you an initial view of what the best free doodle alternatives are depending on what you are actually looking to do. If you are looking to find a single stop, use-case based solution, definitely check out Whocan.org which is free and covers everything that doodle used to do and much more.