Picktime
Free online appointment scheduling for small service businesses, multi-location included.
About
Picktime is an appointment-scheduling platform for service businesses — salons, tutors, fitness instructors, repair shops — that keeps its free plan unusually generous: unlimited appointments, up to three users, three bookable resources, two locations, an online booking page, website widgets, mobile apps, customer records, and PayPal payments at no monthly cost. Paid tiers are cheap (Starter from ~$4/user/month, Pro from ~$3/user/month) and add SMS reminders, recurring bookings, attendance tracking, video integrations, and Stripe/Square payments.
It manages staff, resources, classes, and appointments across locations from one dashboard, with automated email/SMS reminders, invoicing, and business reports. Aggregators rate it around 4.8/5 across dozens of reviews. The trade-offs are well documented: external calendar sync is one-way on the free plan, only email notifications (not reminders) are free, the mobile app lacks desktop features, and reporting is shallow next to pricier tools.
Honest limits: smaller vendor with limited independent editorial coverage; free-plan reminders and sync are restricted; no published benchmarks.
What it can do
- Unlimited appointments on all plans
- Multi-location staff calendar management
- Online booking page and website widgets
- Automated email and SMS reminders
- Invoicing with Stripe/PayPal/Square payments
- Customer history and records database
- Recurring bookings and class scheduling
Setup
Sign up free, add staff and services, set availability, embed the widget or share the link.
Prerequisites
A business with bookable services and staff.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 7/10
Scored 7/10 (VERIFIED tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: official site verified live; independent 2026 roundups (fitsmallbusiness, goodcall, saasworthy) consistent on free-plan generosity and limits; ~4.8/5 across ~47 reviews. Strengths: genuinely generous free tier, multi-location at low cost, active product. Docked for: (1) small vendor, limited editorial coverage; (2) closed-source; (3) free plan restricts reminders to email and sync to one-way. License: proprietary SaaS, freemium.
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 6.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 7.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 3.0/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 7.0/10
- · Free plan: 3 users, unlimited appointments, 2 locations (verified via fitsmallbusiness 2026).
- · ~4.8/5 across ~47 reviews (saasworthy).
Sources
Every fact above was checked against these sources. Where a claim comes from the provider and couldn't be independently verified, the text says so.