A WhenIsGood alternative without the results code

WhenIsGood has been quietly doing one job for a very long time: you paint a grid of times, send a link, and your invitees paint back. Its homepage promise still holds. "No sign-up form. No password to choose. No fuss at all." We walked the whole flow in August 2026, from create to vote to results, and nobody ever asked us for an email address. That is rarer than it should be, and it deserves credit.

The trade-offs sit elsewhere. When you create an event, WhenIsGood hands you a seven-character results code with a warning to write it down, because "without this you will not be able to see your results." Lose the code, lose your poll; the FAQ has an entry titled "I've lost my results code!" for exactly this case. The interface is a bright-green throwback that renders day names through a language dropdown, adverts on your events cost $20 a year to remove, and picking whole days means switching the grid into a separate "day" mode. Best Day To Meet keeps the part WhenIsGood got right, no accounts and no fuss, and rebuilds the rest around one link that shows live votes to everyone.

What WhenIsGood gets right

Everything below comes from creating and voting on a real test event on whenisgood.net in August 2026.

• No account, ever, for the basic flow. The create page is one screen: pick your dates, type an event name, press CREATE EVENT. No email field appears at any point.
• Four granularities. Buttons at the top of the grid switch between 15-minute, 30-minute, and 60-minute slots, or a whole-day calendar view.
• Real timezone support in the time-based modes, with a checkbox and a long list of locations, so a team spread across offices sees slots in their own time.
• Options most free tools skip: you can pick your own invitation URL, rewrite the instruction text your invitees see, and adjust the visible date range.
• Voting is pleasantly direct. Invitees paint the slots that work, type a name, optionally leave a comment, and press SEND RESPONSE. Each responder gets a private link to update their answer later.

The free tier is genuinely usable, and the paid tier is cheap. Premium costs $20 per year and adds "no adverts on your events", an extra respondent answer ("This would be possible, but not ideal") alongside the plain yes, and Excel export of results.

The results code problem

Because there are no accounts, WhenIsGood needs another way to connect you to your event, and its answer is codes. After you press CREATE EVENT, the next page says: "Nearly there. Write this code down somewhere ... without this you will not be able to see your results." You then confirm with a button labeled I HAVE SAVED THE RESULTS CODE before you even see your invitation link. From that point you juggle three URLs: one to send to invitees, one to watch results, one to edit the event.

Invitees never see the results either. The voting page shows the proposed days and nothing else; tallies live on the separate results page, behind the code that only the organizer holds.

If you want everyone to see how the vote is going, you forward the results link and the code stops being a secret. A free WhenIsGood account solves the code-juggling with a dashboard, which is a fair fix, but at that point the "no sign-up" promise has quietly expired for you as the organizer.

WhenIsGood vs Best Day To Meet

Every WhenIsGood fact in this table was checked against the live product in August 2026.

Here is the same job on our side. Two steps, and the link you share is the only link there is:

The difference is mechanical, not cosmetic. A Best Day To Meet Event page does double duty: Participants tap the days they can make and watch the totals move on the same screen, so the group converges without anyone forwarding a results URL. The Host needs no code because the Event remembers its Host; open it in the same browser, or attach it to an optional account, and you can edit, lock the winning date, and export an .ics file that puts the decision in everyone's calendar. Public holidays show up in the calendar for your country, which settles the "wait, isn't that a long weekend?" question before anyone votes for it.

When WhenIsGood is the better choice

An honest comparison concedes real ground, and WhenIsGood holds some:

• You are scheduling hours, not days. Painting 15-minute cells across a week is exactly what its grid was built for. Best Day To Meet votes on whole days and multi-day blocks; it does not do time-of-day slots.
• You want a custom link for free. WhenIsGood lets you choose your own invitation URL on the free tier, which is a nice touch for a recurring club or course.
• Your invitees span many languages. The interface ships with a dropdown of dozens of locales that localizes dates and day names.
• You need spreadsheet output. Premium's Excel export drops responses into a file you can sort and filter; our export is an .ics of the final date, not a spreadsheet.

If those describe your situation, WhenIsGood at $0 to $20 a year is a reasonable tool. It has run reliably for many years, and nothing we saw in August 2026 suggests that is changing.

Switching from WhenIsGood

There is no migration to speak of; a date poll is small enough to rebuild in about a minute:

1. On the homepage, name your Event and pick a mode: Calendar (Participants mark every day they can make in a range) or Date Options (you list specific dates or multi-day blocks, like two candidate weekends).
2. Skim the optional settings: weekday filters, public holidays for your country, event length, a comment feed for discussion.
3. Share the short link or read out the join code. Participants vote from any device with a name, no account, and see the running totals as they do.
4. When a date wins, lock the Event and export the .ics so the decision lands in every calendar.

No results code exists at any step, so there is nothing to write down and nothing to lose.

Frequently asked questions

Is WhenIsGood free?

The basic tier is free with no account: unlimited events, four grid granularities, timezone support, and a custom invitation URL. Premium costs $20 per year and adds ad removal, an "if need be" answer option for respondents, and Excel export. EU customers pay VAT on top, per the note on the pricing page.

Do I need an account to use WhenIsGood?

No, and that is its best feature. Neither organizers nor invitees sign up. The cost is the results code system: without an account, your ability to see results and edit your event depends on codes and links you must save yourself.

What is a WhenIsGood results code?

A short code generated when you create an event. The site tells you to write it down because "without this you will not be able to see your results." It also unlocks editing. A free WhenIsGood account replaces the codes with a dashboard.

Can WhenIsGood schedule whole days instead of time slots?

Yes. A "day" button above the grid switches the create page into a month-style calendar where you click whole dates. Day mode is the entire product in Best Day To Meet, so the calendar adds range filters and public holidays instead of hiding days behind a mode switch.

Is Best Day To Meet free, or is there a catch?

The core is free without an account or card: unlimited Events, voting, sharing, holidays, deadlines with a manual lock, and .ics export. An optional Pro tier (a subscription, or a one-time unlock for one Event) adds Date Options mode, multi-day Events, the comment feed, and branding removal. There are no ads on any plan.

What do Participants see when I share a Best Day To Meet link?

Your Event name, the date range, and a calendar of tappable days with live vote counts per date. They type a name, mark their days, and can change their answer until you lock the Event. Nobody asks them to register, and nobody shows them an advert.

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