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BraveDay vs Doodle
Doodle is the group-poll everyone remembers. BraveDay does group polls too - then adds real booking pages, team routing, reminders and an AI assistant, without the ads.
Doodle made finding a group time popular: propose a few slots, everyone ticks what works, pick the winner. For a one-off group meeting, it still does the job.
But Doodle is thin beyond the poll - its free tier shows ads, its booking pages are basic, and there's no team routing or assistant. BraveDay includes group polls and wraps them in a full, calm scheduling platform.
What Doodle does well
Doodle's group poll is simple, universally understood, and quick to fire off - if all you need is a one-time vote on a meeting time among a handful of people, it's familiar and low-friction.
| BraveDay | Doodle | |
|---|---|---|
| Group polls / meeting votes | Yes | Yes (core) |
| Ad-free | Yes, always | Ads on free tier |
| Real booking pages | Unlimited, branded | Basic |
| Team round-robin & routing | Weighted, built in | None |
| AI assistant | Beaver - chat, confirm-first | None |
| Reminders (SMS/Slack/WhatsApp) | Yes | Email only |
| Payments to book | Yes (Stripe) | No |
| Clients, stock & POS | Native modules | None |
| Run it on your own server | Built and deployed for you | Cloud only |
Why teams pick BraveDay
The poll, plus everything after it
Group polls are one feature in BraveDay, not the whole product. You also get branded booking pages, team round-robin, routing, cross-channel reminders and payments.
No ads, ever
Doodle's free tier serves ads to your invitees. BraveDay's free plan is clean and calm - your booking page represents you, not an ad network.
An assistant and real teams
Ask Beaver to set up a poll or a booking type, and run weighted round-robin across a team - things Doodle simply doesn't do.
Choose Doodle if
You only ever need a quick, familiar one-off group vote on a meeting time and don't want any of the surrounding tooling.
Choose BraveDay if
You want group polls as part of a real scheduling platform - booking pages, team routing, reminders, payments and an assistant - with no ads.
Questions
Does BraveDay do group polls like Doodle?
Yes - propose several times, let everyone vote, and lock in the most-supported slot as a real booking with invites and reminders. No ads on any tier.
What does BraveDay add over Doodle?
Branded booking pages, weighted team round-robin, routing forms, cross-channel reminders, payments, and Beaver - the confirm-first AI assistant.