Bookly is an open-source scheduling platform for consultants, coaches, advisors, agencies and small teams who live off their meetings. It takes bookings like Calendly or Cal.com, then does the part they leave to you: it remembers every person, briefs you before the call, transcribes and recaps the call with consent, turns the recap into tasks and follow-ups with one click, and nudges you when someone goes quiet. Self-host it with Docker or use the hosted version at bookly-app.io; every feature is in the open-source core.
The name and the mark come from the Arabic بُكْلة, "buckle": the logo is a lowercase b whose stem is the strap and whose bowl is the buckle frame. A buckle fastens two sides together; so does a meeting.
Contents: Why Bookly · Features · Self-hosting · Cloud mode · Documentation · Contributing · Security · License
Why Bookly
Most scheduling tools end at the calendar invite. Everything after it, the prep, the notes, the follow-up, the memory of who said what, is still on you. Bookly starts where they stop.
- A booking page is table stakes, and it is all there. Availability rules, buffers, group sessions with seats and waitlists, recurring series, round-robin teams, payments, reminders, routing forms, calendar sync, video links, custom domains, API and webhooks.
- Your calendar is governed by intent, not just busy or free. Focus blocks and weekly meeting budgets that only existing customers can book into. New leads see your open hours; the people who pay you still get in.
- Every meeting has a relationship behind it. One contact per person with a stage, notes and a timeline of every booking, email, form answer and note. Sync it to HubSpot or Pipedrive if that is where your team lives.
- You walk in prepared. Before each meeting, a briefing: who they are, what happened last time, what they asked for when booking, what to prepare.
- The call takes care of its own notes. On Bookly video, Google Meet, Teams and Zoom the call is transcribed with consent and speaker labels (a notetaker joins external calls), then recapped: summary, decisions, action items for both sides with the quote they came from, open questions, objections, next step. Each item is one click to accept.
- Outcomes actually happen. Tasks with reminders, a drafted follow-up, proposal and payment-request emails from templates, a client-facing recap, and an Home that shows who is waiting on you today.
The AI parts (briefings, recaps, capture) use Anthropic's Claude through an optional API key. Without it, Bookly falls back to plain summaries and manual notes rather than losing features.
Features
| Area | What you get |
|---|
| Scheduling | Booking pages per host, weekly hours, date overrides, buffers, notice and horizon rules, timezone-aware for visitors, group sessions with seats, recurring series, waitlists, routing forms, priority-aware availability with focus blocks |
| Calendars, video | Google Calendar and Outlook sync with push notifications; Google Meet, Zoom, Microsoft Teams or Bookly video (Daily.co) |
| Meeting life | Contacts with stages, tags, notes and timeline; pre-meeting briefings; auto-capture with transcription, live notice and retention; AI recaps with evidence; tasks with overdue nudges; the Meeting Inbox |
| Money | Paid bookings and paid series via Stripe Checkout with refunds on cancel; proposal and payment-request emails |
| Messaging | Email, SMS and WhatsApp reminders, follow-up emails, no-show tracking, host pings on Slack or text when someone books or joins |
| Teams | Invitations and roles, round-robin and collective event types |
| Platform | Public REST API with scoped keys, signed webhooks, embeddable widget, custom domains with automatic HTTPS, in-app documentation, blocklists and throttles |
| Cloud | Multi-tenant mode with plans, billing, a marketing site, legal pages and an operator console |
Self-hosting
Bookly runs as one Next.js app on top of Postgres. Docker Compose is the supported path; Vercel with managed services is documented too.
Requirements
- A Linux server (2 vCPU / 2 GB RAM is plenty to start) with Docker and Docker Compose.
- A domain pointed at the server if you want HTTPS and custom booking domains. Optional to try it out.
- Outbound email (Resend or any SMTP) so confirmations and reminders reach people. The
console driver prints emails to the log for local use.
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