Scheduling & Booking · head to head
Timely vs Planday
Timely
Scheduling & Booking
Smart scheduling software with AI-powered features
- From
- Free
- Rated
- -
Planday
Scheduling & Booking
Danish workforce scheduling and shift management software for shift-based businesses
- From
- On request
- Rated
- -
The short version
- Only Timely has a free tier, so it costs nothing to try first.
- Each has a real cost: Timely starter is capped at 20 projects and a maximum of 5 users, at $11 per user per month billed monthly or $9 billed yearly; Planday the Starter plan requires a minimum of 5 users, so single-location businesses with fewer staff cannot use the lowest published tier
Where they differ
Only the attributes on which Timely and Planday actually diverge.
Identical on both: pricing model (subscription), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Scheduling & Booking).
What each one covers
Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.
Only in Timely
- AI-powered scheduling
- Online booking
- Automated reminders
- Staff management
- Client management
- Resource allocation
- Analytics and reporting
- Mobile app
Only in Planday
Nothing recorded that Timely does not also cover.
What people use each for
The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.
Timely
- Automatic time tracking across apps and websites for billing clientsnot Planday
- Reporting billable hours and monitoring project budgetsnot Planday
- Team capacity planning and timesheet approvalnot Planday
Planday
No use cases recorded yet. See the Planday review.
Where each one falls short
Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.
Timely
- Starter is capped at 20 projects and a maximum of 5 users, at $11 per user per month billed monthly or $9 billed yearly
- Premium is capped at a maximum of 50 users, at $20 per user per month billed monthly or $16 billed yearly
- Unlimited users requires the Unlimited plan at $28 per user per month billed monthly or $22 billed yearly
- Capacity management and reporting, overtime and undertime tracking, Azure user management and 50+ currencies are all on the Unlimited plan only
- Team management, budgets and costs, and accounting and project management integrations are excluded from Starter
- The Enterprise plan is contact sales only with no published price
- Tasks is sold as a paid add-on rather than being included
Planday
- The Starter plan requires a minimum of 5 users, so single-location businesses with fewer staff cannot use the lowest published tier
- Per-user prices for Starter and Plus are not shown on the pricing page itself; only a from GBP 2.99 headline figure is given without stating which plan it applies to, and the Pro tier is priced only by custom quote for larger organisations
Pricing, plan by plan
Timely
Free- FreeFree
- Basic scheduling
- Online booking
- Automated reminders
- Starter$29/month
- Everything in Free
- Staff management
- Customer management
- Professional$69/month
- Everything in Starter
- Advanced analytics
- Marketing tools
Planday
On requestNo published plan breakdown. See the Planday review.
Which should you pick?
Choose Timely if
- You need ai-powered scheduling.
- You want to start without paying.
- You work on Web, Ios, Android, Api.
- You also want online booking.
Choose Planday if
Nothing in the data separates Planday from Timely on the points above - pick on price and on how each one feels to use.
Questions people ask
- Is Timely or Planday better?
- Neither clearly leads. Timely starts at Free and Planday at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
- Which is cheaper, Timely or Planday?
- Timely has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at Free for Timely and On request for Planday.
- Does Timely or Planday run on more platforms?
- Timely runs on Web, Ios, Android, Api. Planday runs on Web.
- Can I use Timely for free?
- Yes. Timely has a free tier, so you can try it without paying. Planday starts at On request.
- What is Timely best used for?
- Timely is most often used for automatic time tracking across apps and websites for billing clients, reporting billable hours and monitoring project budgets, team capacity planning and timesheet approval. Of those, automatic time tracking across apps and websites for billing clients and reporting billable hours and monitoring project budgets are not what Planday is typically brought in for.
- What can Timely do that Planday cannot?
- Timely covers AI-powered scheduling, Online booking, Automated reminders, Staff management.