The Acuity alternative that hosts the call too.

What Acuity Does Well

Acuity has been refining appointment scheduling for well over a decade and it shows in the places a solo consultant rarely looks. Intake forms collect the client information you ask for, and a required agreement checkbox can record acceptance of your terms before a client books. Packages, memberships and gift certificates are native, so a studio can sell ten sessions up front and let the calendar draw them down. Calendars scale per employee or per location.

Class scheduling is a genuine strength too, with rosters and capacity limits — the same job Airtym does with group sessions, and Acuity has been doing it longer.

If you run a clinic, a salon, a studio or any business where several people deliver appointments and someone at a desk manages the calendar, that toolkit is worth paying for and Airtym is not the tool for you.

Where It Costs a Solo Professional

The trouble is that most of that toolkit assumes a physical business, and it is priced accordingly. There is no free plan to start on. There is a 7-day trial, then $16 a month billed yearly, and the features most people expect climb the tiers from there (acuityscheduling.com/pricing, checked 23 September 2026).

Then the call itself happens somewhere else. Acuity books the appointment and puts a link in the confirmation email, but the session runs in Zoom or Google Meet, so the client follows a second link into a service you connect.

And when the call ends, nothing is captured. Acuity holds the client profile and the appointment history; what was actually said is a note you write yourself, if you write it. For work where the value is continuity — the coaching relationship, the ongoing advisory, the student who comes back weekly — that gap is the whole job.

What You Need, and What Each One Costs

Acuity's tiers scale by staff calendars, one on Starter and six on Standard, with unlimited appointments on every plan. For one person that means Starter covers the booking side at any volume, and the call and the summary stay separate problems (acuityscheduling.com/pricing, checked 23 September 2026).

Airtym's plans differ in call minutes and features, and every plan hosts the call and writes its summary and transcript. Airtym Starter is free, with 120 call minutes a month and 10% on paid calls. Lite, at $9.99 a month, raises that to 800 minutes and adds group calls. Pro raises it to 1,800 minutes, adds classrooms and drops the commission. Plus is $39.99 a month and Teams is custom. Paid yearly, Lite, Pro and Plus come with two months free. At about $200 a month in paid calls, Airtym Starter's 10% comes to the same as Pro's $19.99 monthly price.