10 Best Booking Calendar Alternatives in 2026
Updated October 22, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Booking Calendar sits at #3 in the WordPress.org Booking Plugins ranking. These 10 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 10 closest alternatives to Booking Calendar
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WP Booking System
Closest matchWP Booking System – Booking Calendar
4.9 (344) 10,000+ active installsThe booking calendar plugin for WordPress. Get easy online booking with this lightweight and powerful booking calendar.
#9 in the WordPress.org Booking Plugins ranking. About a quarter of the installs, rated 4.9 against 4.8, last updated 2 days ago.
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Online Scheduling and Appointment Booking System – Bookly
4.4 (585) 60,000+ active installsAppointment booking system for WordPress — schedule appointments, manage calendars, send reminders, take payments. Start booking today!
#5 in the WordPress.org Booking Plugins ranking. About 1.5 times the installs, rated 4.4 against 4.8, last updated 9 days ago.
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Appointment Hour Booking – Booking Calendar
4.9 (524) 10,000+ active installsAppointment Hour Booking is a plugin for creating booking forms for appointments with a start time and a defined duration within a schedule.
#8 in the WordPress.org Booking Plugins ranking. About a quarter of the installs, rated 4.9 against 4.8, last updated 3 days ago.
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Fluent Booking – The Ultimate Appointments Scheduling, Events Booking, Events Calendar Solution
4.7 (46) 20,000+ active installsThe ultimate solution for booking appointments, meetings, webinars, events, sales calls, and more.
#4 in the WordPress.org Booking Plugins ranking. About half the installs, last updated 28 days ago.
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Appointment Booking Plugin – LatePoint | Calendar & Scheduling for WordPress
4.9 (105) 100,000+ active installsAppointment scheduling & event booking plugin for WordPress. Let clients self-schedule 24/7, register for events, and pay at booking.
#6 in the WordPress.org Booking Plugins ranking. About 2.5 times the installs, rated 4.9 against 4.8, last updated 6 days ago.
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4.0 (15) 10,000+ active installsBooking Package is the simplest solution for integrating an online appointment booking calendar system and event calendar into your WordPress website.
#7 in the WordPress.org Booking Plugins ranking. About a quarter of the installs, last updated 3 days ago.
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Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, Appointments and more!
4.2 (551) 60,000+ active installsEvents calendar and booking system: bookings, reservations, appointments, scheduling, event registration, tickets and recurring events.
#1 in the WordPress.org Booking Plugins ranking. About 1.5 times the installs, rated 4.2 against 4.8, last updated today.
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Amelia
Paid version availableBooking for Appointments and Events Calendar – Amelia
4.6 (790) 90,000+ active installsAmelia is a powerful booking plugin for appointments and events. Manage scheduling, calendars, and availability with an all-in-one booking system.
#2 in the WordPress.org Booking Plugins ranking. About 2.3 times the installs, rated 4.6 against 4.8, last updated 3 days ago.
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SimplyBook.me – Booking and reservations calendar
1.0 (1) 30,000+ active installsSimply add a booking calendar to your site to schedule bookings, reservations, appointments and to collect payments.
#10 in the WordPress.org Booking Plugins ranking. A similar number of installs, last updated 23 days ago.
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Appointment Bookings for Zoom GoogleMeet and more – Wappointment
4.7 (50) 1,000+ active installsGet clients to quickly book a meeting with you by Zoom, GoogleMeet, phone or at your office
Shares the appointment booking, booking calendar, booking form tags on WordPress.org. 1,000+ installs against 40,000+, rated 4.7 against 4.8, last updated May 24, 2026.
Booking Calendar against each of them
Head to head on installs, ratings, reviews and updates. Each measure names its own leader; there is no overall winner.
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Booking Calendar vs WP Booking System40,000+ vs 10,000+ installs · 4.8 vs 4.9
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Booking Calendar vs Bookly40,000+ vs 60,000+ installs · 4.8 vs 4.4
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Booking Calendar vs Appointment Hour Booking40,000+ vs 10,000+ installs · 4.8 vs 4.9
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Booking Calendar vs Fluent Booking40,000+ vs 20,000+ installs · 4.8 vs 4.7
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Booking Calendar vs LatePoint40,000+ vs 100,000+ installs · 4.8 vs 4.9
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Booking Calendar vs Booking Package40,000+ vs 10,000+ installs · 4.8 vs 4.0
Switching from Booking Calendar: common questions
What is the best alternative to Booking Calendar?
WP Booking System is the closest match: it shares the Booking Plugins top 10 with Booking Calendar and has 10,000+ active installs with a 4.9 out of 5 rating.
Which Booking Calendar alternative has the most users?
LatePoint, with 100,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Booking Calendar alternative is rated highest?
Appointment Hour Booking, rated 4.9 out of 5 by 524 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Booking Calendar alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Booking Calendar score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Booking Calendar on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
WP Booking System is the closest match to Booking Calendar by the data we track, and LatePoint has the widest reach with 100,000+ active installs. Events Manager shipped the most recent release, on October 21, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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