Coaching Session
Sarah Chen · 2:00 PM
[HOLD]
2:00 PM
No details
Made for people with more than one calendar. Sound familiar?
Day job on corporate Outlook, coaching business on personal Google, and a strong preference that they never meet.
Session · Jamie
2:00 PM
2:00 PM · free
Three client Outlooks, a personal Google, and a therapist appointment that is, frankly, none of your client's business.
Your calendar
Therapist
3:00 PM
Client booking page
3:00 blocked — your client never sees why
Company Google, family Outlook, school calendar. No one at work needs to know you're at a princess tea party, just that you're busy.
Princess tea party
school calendar
3:00 PM
3:00 PM · free
You, two contractors, and a standing "when's everyone free?" thread, none of you keen to show the group your whole calendar.
Client call
3:00 PM
3:00 PM · free
Team booking page
3:00 needs the whole team free
Every calendar, every time
Got a dentist on your personal Google? A kid's school play? A client meeting on a work Outlook? sidecal checks all of your calendars before showing a slot as available. If any of them have something, the slot disappears.
No double-bookings. No “sorry, I actually can't do that time” follow-up emails. Clients just see the times that genuinely work.
Your calendars
Dog groomer
9:00 AM
Dentist
2:00 – 3:00 PM
Sprint Planning
10:00 AM
Your booking page shows
2:00 & 2:30 blocked: dentist on personal calendar
Sarah booked Coaching Session
just nowCoaching Session
Sarah Chen · 2:00 PM
Busy · default reminder
Sprint Planning
10:00 AM
[HOLD]
2:00 PM
Hold · no attendees
Your work calendar sees “[HOLD]” with no client name and no meeting details
Your side gig stays yours
When a coaching client books through your link, the full details go on your side gig calendar. Your work calendar gets a hold event with no client name, no meeting details, and no attendees. Just the time, blocked.
You choose what the hold title says. Your employer just sees that you're unavailable, nothing more.
Accounts, not just calendars
Other scheduling tools connect to a calendar. sidecal connects to all of them. Work Outlook, personal Gmail, client-issued Google Workspace, a side gig account: connect as many as you need, across both providers.
Every account, and every calendar inside it, checked and protected behind one booking link.
Connected accounts
Work
you@company.com
Personal
you@gmail.com
Side gig
you@sidegig.io
Client
you@client.org
6 calendars across 4 accounts
2 providers
Checking the team · 3:00 PM
You
you@studio.co
Kira
kira@studio.co
Sam
sam@studio.co
3:00 unavailable
nobody sees why
The whole team, still private
Book a time that needs you and two colleagues, and sidecal checks all three calendars, every account, before it offers a slot. If any one of you is busy, the slot never shows.
Kira's blocked by a hospital appointment. The booker just sees that 3:00 is taken, and so does everyone else on the team.
You probably spent longer reading this page.
Sign in with Google or Microsoft. Add as many accounts as you need: work, personal, side projects, client-issued.
Pick which calendars to check for conflicts, set your available hours, choose a duration. Share the link wherever you want: email, socials, your website.
Clients book when you're actually free. Holds appear on your other calendars automatically. No more copying events around. No more "let me check my other calendar."
Built for teams
Round-robin, fair billing, and links that hold together when people come and go.
Round-robin
Hand incoming bookings round the team, one at a time. Whoever takes it gets the booking on their calendar; everyone else's day stays clear, kept private by the same anonymous holds.
Joining costs nothing
Already paying for Pro? We bank the time you've paid for and hand it back if you leave. Keep your personal booking links. Your private calendars stay private until you choose to share them.
People come and go
Drop a teammate and their team links don't break. sidecal takes them out of the availability checks and hands anything they were hosting to someone else. The link owner gets a note to look it over.
Start free. Upgrade when you're ready. Cancel whenever.
Recommended
Monthly only · min 3 seats
I built sidecal because my own calendars kept colliding. A day job on Outlook, a side project on Google, a family calendar that decides when school pickup happens, and one too many “sorry, I actually can't do that time” emails.
The holds were the bit I really wanted: my work calendar just says I'm busy at three, and nobody I work with ever finds out that busy means the school run.
It's in beta, so come break things with us. If something does break, I'm the one reading the support inbox.
Kat
Founder, Reluctant Founder Ltd.
14-day free trial. No credit card. Takes about three minutes.
Just you, or a whole team. Nobody sees why you're busy.