the catalog · 📅 Scheduling
Rallly
★ 4kGroup scheduling polls — find a meeting time without the Doodle paywall. One container and a Postgres.
Rallly does the job of Doodle, self-hosted. It is AGPL-licensed, so a hosted fork has to publish its changes, and it installs in about one command. Doodle bills $15/mo for it.
Open-source replacement for Doodle.
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
- Self-hosting
- Easy
- The paid one costs
- $15/mo
- GitHub stars
- 4k
Is it actually a replacement?
We have written a verdict on what it replaces — what you lose, and why people still pay:
How Rallly runs
Where it runs
Rallly runs on your machine or their cloud.
Installing it
Use the hosted service with no install, or run the official single-server Docker Compose stack.
Where your data lives
Rallly Cloud stores polls, votes, comments and account data in Rallly's infrastructure; self-hosting stores primary data in PostgreSQL and uploads in bundled Garage S3-compatible object storage or configured external Postgres/S3.
What setup takes
Hosted free polls are deleted after every option is past and 30 inactive days; self-hosting is free for one registered user only, with multi-user administration requiring a perpetual license.
The catch compared with Doodle
Rallly closely matches date voting, but the hosted free service deletes expired inactive polls and the free self-hosted edition permits only one registered account.
Rallly questions
Is Rallly open source?
Yes — it is released under AGPL-3.0.
Can Rallly replace Doodle?
Our verdict on Doodle is YES. Cal.com (37k stars), Rallly (5k stars), Nextcloud Polls (284 stars) are mature open-source replacements for Doodle — self-host with docker and stop paying $15/mo.
Can I self-host Rallly?
Yes — we rate it easy to self-host, and it runs on your machine or their cloud. Use the hosted service with no install, or run the official single-server Docker Compose stack.