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BraveDay vs YouCanBook.me
YouCanBook.me is a customizable booking page with lots of knobs. BraveDay gives you the same control with a calmer setup, adds an AI assistant and time protection, and starts free.
YouCanBook.me has been around a long time and leans into customization - branding, notifications, tweak-everything booking pages. If you love configuring, it's flexible.
BraveDay offers the same essentials with far less fiddling: sensible defaults, a clean page out of the box, and Beaver to set things up by chat. Plus team round-robin, routing and focus protection - free for individuals.
What YouCanBook.me does well
YouCanBook.me's depth of customization on the booking page and notifications is real - if you want to control every string, colour and email, it gives you a lot of levers to pull.
| BraveDay | YouCanBook.me | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes - unlimited event types | Limited free / paid tiers |
| Price (paid) | $9 / seat | ~$10.8 / seat |
| AI assistant | Beaver - chat, confirm-first | None |
| Booking-page customization | Clean, sensible defaults | Deep, fiddly |
| Ease of setup | Minutes | More configuration |
| Team round-robin & routing | Weighted, built in | Team booking |
| Focus / time protection | Yes | None |
| Clients, stock & POS | Native modules | None |
| Run it on your own server | Built and deployed for you | Cloud only |
Why teams pick BraveDay
Calm by default, not a config maze
BraveDay looks right out of the box and lets Beaver handle setup by chat. YouCanBook.me gives you endless knobs - powerful, but a lot to tune.
An assistant and time protection
Beaver books, reschedules and protects focus time, and warns your next meeting when you're running late - things YouCanBook.me doesn't touch.
It can run on your own server
A BraveDay Business implementation puts the platform on your cloud server, under your domain, shaped to your process. YouCanBook.me is cloud-only.
Choose YouCanBook.me if
You want to hand-tune every detail of the booking page and notifications and you enjoy the configuration.
Choose BraveDay if
You want a clean booking experience that just works, an AI assistant to set it up, team routing and focus protection - free to start, with clients and payments included.
Questions
Is BraveDay easier to set up than YouCanBook.me?
Generally yes - it ships with sensible defaults and a clean page, and Beaver can create booking types by chat, so there's far less to configure.
Can BraveDay customize the booking page too?
Yes - brand colour, welcome message, intake questions, buffers, notice and per-type rules. It aims for calm defaults rather than infinite knobs.