About Free2Meet
We got tired of reply-all scheduling, login walls, and pinch-zoom grids — so we built the tool we actually send to friends.
Free2Meet started as a complaint. Too many reply-all threads. Too many scheduling tools that asked volunteers to create accounts. Too many afternoons lost to pinch-zoom on grids that were never meant for phones.
We are a small distributed team who build Free2Meet. Our users span time zones across Europe, the Americas, and beyond. We did not set out to start a company; we set out to stop being the unpaid calendar coordinator in every group chat.
Scheduling is a solved problem on paper. In real groups — with phones, time zones, and people who will not sign up for anything — it is still a mess.
What we were trying to fix
The pattern was always the same. Someone asks “when is everyone free?” in email or Slack. Replies trickle in serially. One person becomes the human spreadsheet. Half the group answers from bed on a phone. The proposed slot dies in message twelve.
What we built instead
Free2Meet is a free group scheduling poll. Create an event in about 30 seconds, share one link, and everyone marks availability in parallel. Responses roll into a live heatmap — the darkest slot is the answer. No account for organisers. No account for respondents.
- Live heatmap — overlap darkens as people answer; no tick counting.
- Mobile-first grid — drag to paint free slots with your thumb.
- Automatic time zones — each person sees local time; the overlap stays honest.
- Dates-only mode — agree on the day before you fight about hours.
- Best-times & calendar hints — ranked windows and busy dots while you mark availability.
What we believe
- Respondents should never need a login — especially not for a one-off friends poll.
- The core product should stay free — scheduling friction is annoying enough without a paywall.
- Visual beats textual — a heatmap beats forty “I can do Tuesday” messages.
- Async wins — drop a link, set a deadline, let people answer when they wake up.
- Ship for phones — most links get opened from notifications, not desktops.
How we work
We are a lean, remote team — design, code, support, and the blog posts you have been reading. We use Free2Meet for our own syncs. We write about scheduling honestly (including tools we still respect). We ship features we needed first: calendar import, best-times mode, days-of-week polls, share-to-WhatsApp.
We do not have a giant roadmap deck. We listen to feedback emails, watch where people get stuck, and fix the rough edges — especially on mobile, where scheduling actually happens.
Read more on the blog
If you want the long version of our opinions, we publish practical guides on the Free2Meet blog — reply-all pain, time zones, and honest comparisons with Doodle, When2Meet, and Calendly. Same voice as this page, more room to rant politely.
Questions people ask us
Are you a company or a side project?
Small team, real product, production traffic. Side-project energy, minus the “sorry, the server is my laptop” phase — mostly.
Can I use Free2Meet for work?
Yes — teams, nonprofits, and schools use it daily. If you need enterprise SSO and procurement, we are not there yet. If you need a fast group poll without respondent logins, you are in the right place.
How do I report a bug or request a feature?
Email us or use the feedback form. We read everything; we cannot promise every request ships, but the good ones influence the roadmap quickly.
Is my data sold?
No. Read the details in our Privacy Policy — short version: we collect the minimum needed to run polls, not to build ad profiles.
Thanks for using something we wished existed years ago. — The Free2Meet team