Doodle Reviews

So easy to use. I use Doodle all the time when I am needing to schedule a consistent meeting with multiple people. This is a supervisors dream come true. Makes planning with multiple people SO easy.

I have never run into issues using Doodle.

Doodle is FANTASTIC for group scheduling. I have used the free version extensively for groups of various sizes and scheduling options of various numbers, and it beats any other form of group scheduling that I've tried (although I haven't used any other scheduling softwares, only emails/texts/unfortunately lengthy conversations). When creating a Doodle, there are many customizable options for date and time combinations, and it's easy to send a quick link to participants or send it directly from Doodle's site. There are options for polls to be visible to other participants or private; the visible option is great when we're trying to fill various volunteer shifts and want people to be able to see where we need the most support! When filling out a Doodle as a participant, it helps to be able to toggle back and forth between calendar and list views for schedules (although long lists still get a bit tedious to fill out if you are using a phone instead of a browser on your computer). It's also easy to go back to the link and edit your entry if your plans change.

If you have LOTS of scheduling options to consider, it can be difficult to add all of the entries when first creating the poll. There is a helpful "duplicate" option, but it doesn't work as well if you don't have the same times available each day.

The absolute best thing about using Doodle is that our entire organization and stakeholders love participating in it! We all use Doodle and most importantly, it makes our lives easy and guarantees buy-in and participation in order to pick the optimal meeting and scheduling times.

There is nothing to dislike about Doodle. It is easy, efficient, and well-like by all!

I liked most the simplicity of Doodle. I can set up a Doodle poll easily and either email to participants, or copy a link and email it myself. It is easy to compare answers, and it is user-friendly for participants and colleagues who are not as tech savvy.

The poll is limited in options, and if you are suggesting multiple dates and times over many weeks or months, the poll becomes a bit tedious and time consuming to build. Also there is little space to customize questions among certain days.

I enjoy the simplicity of Doodle and the fact that it is super easy to use. I never heard that anyone had any problem with it figuring their way around. Since I am not using it that often, the free version works for me perfectly.

There is nothing to dislike if you are looking for a simple, intuitive tool. Sure, there are not a great many features, but this is why it is so appealing.

It's free!!! I probably use Doodle once a week. It's the easiest program I've found to quickly make and distribute scheduling polls to multiple people. The developers have done a great job at making the program very easy to use and with just the right functionality for what you're looking for. We've actually started using Doodle for shift schedules so that our part time staff can easily sign up for shifts. It has worked wonderfully so far, we are very pleased. They put out new functionality fairly frequently, which is nice.

Biggest issue I have with this program is that you can edit an entry once you submit it. This makes things challenging when schedules or thoughts change. Other than that, the features aren't the most robust, but for a free program, you can't complain.

Doodle is easy and fast to use. I think doodle is a great tool for large and busy groups to easily assess availability and schedule meetings. Group work, surveys, projects etc. The best option for you. Too many meetings thanks to doodle
and created an event. It is a great software that makes my job enjoyable.

There are no issues I don't like. The software is great. It makes projects very easy to do.

I have mainly used this for scheduling 1:1 sessions with students. Doodle has made that easy to do. I can provide multiple available times and send the link to my students and they can get in where they fit in. This takes the stress off of reaching and trying to schedule individual sessions with 15-17 students.
There is also a mobile app and that have provided some convenience.

I've also used the service when others are trying to plan meetings. I like ease of use of trying to find mutual available times for meetings. And it gives the option of allowing people to remain anonymous.

The functionality of this product can take some time to get comfortable with. I find that it takes me more time to put together my doodle than I anticipate, however, it's not something that has kept me from using it.

Doodle is easy to administer and also easy for teammates to respond to when we try to align several schedules for a meeting. The graphical interface gives easy at-a-glance access to responses to plan the best time for a meeting.

The freeware version is slightly crippled, but I've never seen that as an issue. I guess I'd like a few more features in the free version, but "beggars can't be choosers"!

This is a very convenient way to organize survey results. It's quick to set up, easy to visualize on the website, and can be exported as a .csv as well!

With the paid version, you get a lot more feature and control, which is nice. The free version, however, will get the job doe for simple survey results. You can't ask for email address or set a deadline with the free version though!

There is no way to set unique limits for each options (e.g. you can limit each option to 30 available votes, but not 15 for some and 30 for others).

The date option is also limited - we tried to offer 30 minute hourly increments and had to instead make these text options as the date functionality only had months or weeks available.

This got rid of the hundreds of emails coordinating people's availability (especially annoying because someone ALWAYS has to hit "reply all" with details about their lives about why this or that date doesn't work for them.) Now I can schedule myself so my boss can see (because it is no one else's business) and not have to know or care about anyone else's issues with the schedule.

Nothing to dislike. It's straightforward and takes nearly no time at all to use. I can communicate with whomever I need to without anyone else being involved.

Doodle is easy-to-use and has been around for several years so many users are familiar with it (making for a lower learning curve on the "recipient" side). You tell the system what your hours of availability are and then send links to your calendar slots to whomever you want. The recipients can then sign up for a slot and it's automatically added to your calendar (I use it with Google Calendar). You can tell it how much time you want as padding between meetings to keep from getting too crunched between meetings. You can also give Doodle a "cut off time" so that you don't have any slots that have last-minute bookings. I schedule meetings early in the day, so it's nice to require a 24-hr cut off so that I can go to sleep at night and not get surprised by a newly booked meeting first thing in the morning.

Setting the open-hour window is a bit clunky in areas. The "work day" boundaries isn't obvious what it's for, and you can't set unconventional times (like starting after noon).

The free tier is perfect for holding "office hours" style calendar slots (it works perfect for my interview scheduling) but the free tier doesn't allow you to do a 1-on-1 negotiation for a time slot. If you're looking for that feature you will have to subscribe to the paid tier or find another product.

Gone are the days when a round robin of emails is required to find a meeting time that works for everyone! Doodle conveniently allows everyone to designate their availability. And then at a glance I can determine the best day and time for our meeting! I like how I can offer a lot of day/time options for them to choose from. I also appreciate the ability to limit each participant to choose just one time slot if necessary. I use that feature when I want to schedule one-on-one meetings. The ability to adjust for different time zones and to offer a yes-no-maybe answer mode are also very useful features.

At least on the free version, which is what I use, the user screen can be confusing for those of my staff who are technologically timid.

Well actually herding cats is easier that scheduling meetings. For cats all you need is a piece of string. People however are another story...Doodle allows you to select times that will work for you and then everyone else gets to vote on what times will work for them - may the best time win! It syncs with my Goolge calendar so I don't have to keep flicking back and forth between windows to see what times to add to the Doodle poll.

I've changed emails and yet Doodle still won't let me change the email for my account. It keeps reverting to the old email.

This is really good when I needed to arrange meetings with my peers. They also can come online and arrange it so that they also can pick a time that is available for them. Not only with my peers it also helps me to arrange meetings with clients and even with friends. Thus it makes it more easily for me to have a single app that can do multiple works.

I do not think that there is anything that I do not like about this app, this is the best scheduling app that I am having so far.

As advertised, doodle is very easy to use and can help arrange meeting times for a large team very easily. There are easy plugins for gmail and other email platforms which make it seamless when used regularly.

I've had trouble in the past getting the extensions to work within gmail, especially if you're using other platforms like Shift, etc. which can mean many programs not getting along with each other.

Simple to set up and administer. As the administrator of many doodle polls, I am very grateful that it’s simple to understand framework that sends emails to me when people participate. Doodle poll changed its layout about two years ago and I wasn’t convinced that I would like the changes. However, I have definitely gotten on board with the layout changes. The online poll creator is easy to use, establish times and dates, and new with the layout change, I can now give participants the option to select possible (but not highly favored) days or times. I can also manage multiple polls that I create very easily!

I honestly like most all of the features and would strongly recommend this to anyone wanting to create a poll. If I had a con, it would probably be options to immediately share it with an email List that I create.

It's super easy to make a Doodle poll and to fill out a Doodle poll especially across time zones. Once everyone fills it out, it's very clear what will work for everyone without having to translate emails. In that way, it's so much more effective than sending emails.

It's less flexible than, say, Lettuce Meet. Doodle doesn't account for flexibility in scheduling and the nuances of people's windows of availability.

Doodle is great for coordinating meeting times/dates and for voting when I'm trying to find time to connect with or plan for a group of people. It also has the ability to use detailed functions like only allowing people to choose 1 option, or not allowing the results to be view-able by everyone.

If you add too many choices in a single poll, it can be tough to look through all of the options, especially when trying to schedule a meeting/event, so be sure to only offer a few options to vote on.

I like the ability to organize and schedule a variety of individuals and volunteers for special tasks and for meetings. The latter is especially when not everyone works and has access to a personal computerized calendar of their own. It allows choice and avoids the need to make calls regarding availability. So much faster to get a snapshot of everyone's availability.

The only con is that it can sometimes be cumbersome to edit and existing event or meeting poll. In some cases, it has been easier for me to start over rather than work through the editing issues.

I love being able to get everyone's opinion/choice for something without everyone going off the rails. Giving clear choices and limited room for unwanted input makes getting to an endpoint much faster.

Sometimes it's a bit clunky to get the configurations you want, but it just takes some time and tweaking. It's also a bit clunky when clicking through on mobile. I use it 99% of the time on my laptop, though, as does most of my team.

I love how easy it is to set up meetings without needing to coordinate via email with many employees, agencies, and assistants.

I wish there were more features with the free version. I'd like for people to be able to propose new times and notify the other attendees that were requested that have or haven't responded yet.

The interface is very intuitive and the options are extensive, even for the limited version. Doodle has become a linchpin for scheduling my group meetings and extra-help sessions for my courses.

There is very little that I don't like about this software. I might be able to come up with a small dislike if I think about it really hard, but really can't.

I loved that this software was easy to use and that my students preferred it to other options. Doodle was recommended to me by my students and that let me know it would be something they would definitely use.

There was a few kinks in the beginning but that was due to me learning the system. Once I figured out how to navigate on my own it was a breeze.

Doodle has so many features and benefits that it's hard to list them all. The thing I am most impressed and enamored with is how easy it is to use. With Doodle, all of the schools within my immediate branch are able to set up meetings and company party at times that are convenient to everyone. There's also a poll feature that allow the organizer to people's preference for time and/or locations. I also love that the software offers branding features that makes it possible for my company to make this piece of software its own. All of this and I didn't even get to the security or the cross-platform features. Amazing!

I like Doodle a lot and there isn't much I would change about it except tutorials and guides for new administrator. I was only a user, but having seen how it looks from the organizer's perspective, I feel it might appeal intimidating to new admins. I would recommend slightly easier to navigate UI.