When Caliyo wins
- You want meetings scheduled, not voted on.
- You're wasting two days per meeting on a Doodle round.
- Your participants all share connected calendars.
- You want focus protection and assistant features.
- You're tired of "we got 6 of 8 votes, let's just pick" outcomes.
- You schedule the same kinds of meetings every week.
When Doodle wins
- You need a vote, not a meeting (e.g. choosing a workshop date 6 weeks out).
- Participants don't have shared calendar visibility.
- It's an ad-hoc social or community gathering, not a recurring work meeting.
- You need anonymous voting (e.g. sensitive committee scheduling).
- You're scheduling 8+ external attendees who don't use the same tools.
Feature comparison
Where the two diverge.
Pricing
What each one actually costs.
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Caliyo
One plan, everything included
Solo
$18/seat/mo
Most common
Teams
$24/seat/mo
Enterprise
Customfrom 50 seats
- Includes AI assistant, focus protection, Bridge QR, all integrations
- No per-feature add-ons
- Early access available through waitlist · no credit card
Doodle
Free for basic polls, paid for branding
Free
$05 polls/month
Pro
$6.95/user/mo
Team
$8.95/user/mo
Enterprise
Customfrom $20k/yr
- Free tier has ads on poll pages
- Branded polls, custom domains gated at Team
- Doodle does what it does well — but it does one thing
Three real scenarios
How each one handles your actual week.
A 6-person team meeting needs a new weekly slot.
Everyone's on Google Calendar. The current slot conflicts with a new project.
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Caliyo
Caliyo reads all six calendars, proposes the only viable Tuesday 2 PM slot, books it for the next 12 weeks. Done in under 60 seconds.
Doodle
Send a Doodle with 8 candidate slots. Wait 2.5 days for 5 of 6 votes. Pick the slot that works for 5 of 6 and apologize to one person. Re-do next quarter.
Scheduling a customer-advisory-board meeting in 6 weeks.
12 external attendees from 9 companies. Calendars not connected. Anonymity preferred.
C
Caliyo
Caliyo can't see external calendars, so it'd still propose a slot and follow up. Honestly: this is Doodle's sweet spot.
Doodle
Send a Doodle. Anonymous voting, no calendar integration needed. You'll have a date within a week. This is what Doodle was built for.
A consulting firm scheduling 14 client check-ins this week.
Each check-in is 30 min with a different client. Firm-wide rules about deep-work hours.
C
Caliyo
Caliyo handles all 14 in parallel — proposes slots, resolves conflicts, respects firm rules. Whole queue clears in a morning.
Doodle
Doodle isn't built for this. You'd send 14 separate polls and wait two days each. The math doesn't work for ongoing work.
Switching
Already using Doodle? Here’s the honest cost of moving.
01
Keep Doodle for true polls
Doodle is genuinely the best tool for anonymous group consensus. Don't cancel it — use both.
02
Identify the recurring meetings
Audit your last 30 days of Doodles. Which ones were recurring work meetings? Those move to Caliyo.
03
Connect attendee calendars
Caliyo only helps when calendars are visible. For internal teams that's usually instant.
04
Use Doodle for the rest
External-heavy, calendar-invisible, anonymous-needed: keep using Doodle. We don't replace what works.
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