Choose Acuity Scheduling if
You want one polished product that works this afternoon, you are inside the calendar band you are paying for, and Squarespace already runs your website.
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Looking for an Acuity alternative? Count your calendars before you price it.
Acuity Scheduling, now part of Squarespace, is $20 a month for one calendar, $34 for up to six and $61 for up to thirty-six, with proposed annual rates annually ($16, $27 and $49). It is polished and it has been doing this for years. The meter is the calendar band, so your second staff member and your seventh both cost you a plan change. Book includes every staff calendar on one price.
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Product design preview · Book has not shipped. All plans, integrations and screens are proposals.
Book has not shipped yet.
Book is not available yet. These are proposed screens, features and prices—not a beta or a live booking service. The interactive diary uses fictional data; no appointment, message, deposit or customer record leaves this page.
Side by side
Centilio Book and Acuity Scheduling, honestly.
List prices as published on the vendor's public pages on 7 September 2026. Check their page for today's figure and tell us if we are out of date.
Historical comparison imported from Fable’s 7 September 2026 research. Vendor plans and billing periods differ; these figures are not a current quote. Confirm the provider’s pricing before deciding.
| Centilio Book | Acuity Scheduling | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free, then $19 a month; Business $39 | Starter $20 (1 calendar); Standard $34 (6); Premium $61 (36); proposed annual rates annually |
| Two staff calendars | $19 | $34 on Standard |
| Eight staff calendars | $19 | $61 on Premium |
| Free plan | 1 staff calendar, unlimited bookings | None. 7-day trial, no card |
| Bookings a month | Unlimited on every plan | Unlimited |
| The booking becomes a customer record | In Relate, on every plan | A client record inside Acuity |
| Intake forms | On Pro | Good, and on every paid plan |
| Available today | No. Not built | Yes, and it is mature |
If you switch, later
What moving from Acuity Scheduling will take.
Choose Centilio Book if
You are about to cross a calendar band, or you want the booking to carry a deposit into an invoice and land on a customer record shared with the rest of your tools.
- Export the future appointments first. They are the only irreplaceable thing in a booking tool. Get them out of Acuity Scheduling before the subscription lapses, with the customer's name, email and phone on each one.
- Rebuild the services before the diary. Durations, buffers, who can do what and which need a deposit. Get those right and the appointments import cleanly.
- Run both for a fortnight , with the old booking link redirecting to the new page, so nothing is taken in a diary you have stopped looking at.
- Disconnect the calendars deliberately. Revoke the old tool's calendar access on each account rather than only cancelling the plan, or it keeps writing to a diary nobody is watching.
Questions
About switching.
Are these comparisons fair?
They are meant to be. Every price was read from the vendor's own pricing page on 7 September 2026 and each page says plainly when the other tool is the better buy — which for a single user is most of them.
Which is the closest competitor?
Zoho Bookings, on logic: another suite, another "it is already next to your CRM" argument. It is priced per user and it works today; Book is priced per business and does not exist yet.
Which one would you use today?
Cal.com if you are one person, Setmore if you are up to four, Acuity if you want one polished thing and do not mind the calendar bands, Square if you are a salon that already takes card payments on Square.
Next for you
What people add after Book.
What the booking touches on its way through: the record, the deposit, the reminder and the room.
The proposed shared record connects these products as they launch. Follow each product page for its current stage.
Be told when Book opens.
Wave 2 is the next build after the live tools. Leave your name and you will hear before the announcement — and tell us what your no-show rate is today, because that is the number we intend to move.