Croodle
End-to-end encrypted scheduling and polling tool with no database required
Overview
Croodle is a privacy-focused, self-hosted scheduling and polling web app similar to Doodle. Organizers create a poll to find a meeting date or to vote on any topic, and all data is encrypted client-side with AES before being stored, so the server never sees plaintext. It is a small Ember.js front end backed by a minimal PHP API and needs no database server.
Where it falls short of Calendly
- Development is largely stalled (last release in 2023), so it is effectively in maintenance mode.
- Poll/date-finding only; it is not a personal booking system and has no calendar sync.
- No payments, reminders, or team features.
- Setup requires deploying the static front end plus the PHP backend and writable storage; documentation is sparse.
We list the gaps honestly so you can decide if the trade-off is worth owning your data.
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