The same dead-simple booking link, minus the part where every free hour becomes bookable. Curated slots, Google Calendar sync, and an embed for your own site.
Calendly is a solid scheduling tool — if your goal is to put every open hour up for grabs. For a lot of freelancers that's exactly the issue: the awkward gap between two calls, the late-afternoon slot you keep for deep work, the Monday morning you'd rather not open with a meeting. All bookable, all by default.
Joust is the Calendly alternative for people who want a booking link without handing over the whole calendar. You decide how many slots show per day and when, so you stay reachable without your week becoming a free-for-all.
Instead of exposing every free moment, you cap how many slots appear each day and control when they're offered. Your page still looks active and easy to book — it just stops broadcasting your entire working week to anyone with the link.
Switching shouldn't mean losing the basics. Joust gives you a personal booking link to drop into emails, proposals and social profiles, two-way Google Calendar sync so you're never double-booked, and confirmations with a Meet link attached.
Prefer it to feel native? Embed the booking flow straight into your own site so people book without ever leaving the page.
Calendly scales up to teams, routing and sales ops. If you're a freelancer, consultant, designer or developer, most of that is weight you don't need. Joust is deliberately small: a link you can share, slots that fit a real working day, and calendar sync. That's the whole job.
No bloated all-in-one tax. Pick the plan that fits.
Pro is £9/mo, billed monthly — smart booking & calendar for you and your team.
Need customer records and team tools? Business is £49/mo — everything in Pro plus the CRM and every future tool.
Get startedCalendly shows your availability and takes bookings, and it does that well. Joust cares more about what it doesn't show: you cap how many slots appear each day and control when they can be offered, so your week stays yours. It's not about faking that you're busy — it's about not treating every empty hour as an open invitation.
Yes. There's nothing to migrate — set your availability and slot limits, connect Google Calendar, grab your new booking link, and swap it wherever your old one lives (email signature, bio, proposals). You can be live in an afternoon.
Yes, two-way. Busy times are blocked automatically and confirmed bookings drop into your calendar with a Meet link attached, so you're never double-booked.
Yes. Share your personal link anywhere, or embed the booking flow directly into your own site so visitors book without leaving the page.
Joust is a flat monthly Pro price with smart booking and calendar, and there's a free start with no card. Set it up and try it before you pay anything.
Switch in an afternoon: curated slots, Google Calendar sync, and an embed for your own site. Free to start, no card.
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