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Doodle Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 8.5 out of 10
Score
8.5 out of 10

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Business Problems Solved

Doodle is a versatile tool that is widely used in various scenarios to simplify scheduling and improve coordination. Users have found that Doodle's ability to show team availability and find the best meeting time has made it an essential part of leadership development programs, enabling more engaging and accessible training for remote locations. It is also valued as a time-saving training tool for on-the-job skill training and onboarding processes. With Doodle, users can eliminate the back-and-forth of scheduling by providing a seamless process for finding a time that works for all parties, which is particularly helpful when organizing meetings of groups with different schedules. In every department of organizations, Doodle simplifies the hassle of contacting potential attendees via email or voicemail, making users more productive and efficient in their work. Additionally, Doodle streamlines workflow and improves efficiency by simplifying the process of setting up meetings and organizing daily activities. It helps manage communication within companies more efficiently, replacing endless emails and offline meetings. Whether it's scheduling video calls, finding suitable times for training sessions, or coordinating calendars for appointments and decision-making, users appreciate the ease of use and effectiveness provided by Doodle. Furthermore, as a valuable tool for organizing business meetings, finding convenient event times, or RSVPing for activities, Doodle has become a go-to solution for many users who experience simplified confirmation of meeting times and RSVPs.

Reviews

31 Reviews

Simplest and most efficient scheduler!

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I mainly use Doodle to schedule a meeting time that works best for all team members; I send out a Doodle link which takes members to a few meeting options. Upon voting for their preferred times/dates, I can easily select the most suitable option. Currently, I am conducting interviews with over 200 fellows across Africa. I use Doodle to schedule interview times with each of them, across time zones.

Pros

  • Scheduling meetings
  • Sign up on available slots
  • Link to my calendar
  • Polls

Cons

  • As a free account user, I am more than impressed with the functions available

Likelihood to Recommend

Doodle is incredible for arranging a meeting for a globally diverse or local team and really simplifies the process of finding a time that works for everyone. Traditionally, one would need to send out communications with meeting time and date options. They would then need to consolidate responses across emails - Doodle truly simplifies this process! I cannot think of a scenario that is least appropriate; for a scheduling platform, the functions are very suitable.

SS
Smeetha Singh
Project Coordinator in Social Media at University of Pretoria (1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Doodle
9 years of experience
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Adequate for Scheduling Meetings

Rating: 6 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it for group polls to find meeting times for groups of people ranging from 3 to 25. It helps us easily find a time that works for multiple people instead of sorting through individual email responses.

Pros

  • predicting the times you want to make available
  • providing a link that can be easily copied

Cons

  • Sometimes the newly updated feature of clicking time selections can be a bit clunky. I am not always able to click the correct time at first.

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited and appropriate for scheduling large group meetings.

VU
Verified User
Administrator (1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Doodle
5 years of experience

What once was the best is now the worst

Rating: 1 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I've been a Doodle user for a decade, for my company, and as a Volunteer in a number of philanthropic/non-profit organizations. Until April 2022. Never. Again. The "improvements" for the most recent survey were SO awful I am gone forever. Pop-ups every 5 seconds, 2/3 of the screen was ads on both sides of the dates. The new layout is VERY difficult to see/navigate and even more difficult to see who else has selected particular date. The original grid format and options (maybe, why not, etc.) have vanished - or have become so obscure that they're "gone." I'm not alone. Many of my colleagues reacted in disgust and horror and our CFO is actively looking for a user-friendly (as Doodle once was) alternative. This shows that, once again, a wholly new format was launched without any feedback or input from regular, long-time users.

Pros

  • Annoy users

Cons

  • Go back

Likelihood to Recommend

I've been a Doodle user for a decade, for my company, and as a Volunteer in a number of philanthropic/non-profit organizations. Until April 2022. Never. Again. The "improvements" for the most recent survey were SO awful I am gone forever. Pop-ups every 5 seconds, 2/3 of the screen was ads on both sides of the dates. The new layout is VERY difficult to see/navigate and even more difficult to see who else has selected particular date. The original grid format and options (maybe, why not, etc.) have vanished - or have become so obscure that they're "gone." I'm not alone. Many of my colleagues reacted in disgust and horror and our CFO is actively looking for a user-friendly (as Doodle once was) alternative. This shows that, once again, a wholly new format was launched without any feedback or input from regular, long-time users.

BB
Bob Burleigh
President in Corporate at Brandywine Healthcare Services (1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Doodle
10 years of experience
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I need help with LOGIN - Doodle will not allow me to login to my account.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Doodle to schedule meetings of the association's Board and committees. It saves on a lot of emails and phone calls to determine when the majority of people will be available for a meeting.

Pros

  • Polls groups for availability.

Cons

  • The only problem I'm having is with the log-in. It will not allow me to log in and I have current polls collecting availability that I need access to for scheduling.

Likelihood to Recommend

I have nothing to add here.

LS
Lisa Simon
CEO (Chief Executive Officer) in Corporate at International Inbound Travel Association (1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Doodle
6 years of experience

It's great for what it is!

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Doodle primarily for selecting dates among a diverse group. We primarily use this as an internal tool among colleagues who need to coordinate but business related and non-business related off-site meetings. We love how easy Doodle is to set up, use, share, and change which is what makes it our go-to tool to solve this problem.

Pros

  • Scheduling
  • Sharing

Cons

  • It's perfect for our needs!

Likelihood to Recommend

Doodle is great when you need to coordinate dates among a group and don't want to send a bunch of group emails or texts. It allows a number of dates to be proposed and the group can easily see those dates that are most preferred. If you need to do something more complex than that it may not be your tool.

VU
Verified User
Account Manager in Professional Services (11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Doodle
3 years of experience

More than Doodle

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Doodle to create agreed-upon dates for meetings so that all invested parties can be present and heard. Doodle is used in every department of our organization to eliminate the barrier and hassle of contacting potential attendees via email or voicemail. Doodle supports saving us time which we can then direct in other areas of our work thus making us more productive and efficient.

Pros

  • Doodle provides options
  • Easy to create and edit
  • You can reach online support if needed

Cons

  • Doodle could create a word cloud from polling
  • Hard to think of improvements when the tool meets our need
  • Not sure if Doodle is translated into many languages

Likelihood to Recommend

Doodle is the best when you are working to engage remote partners across multiple counties and states where time differences are a factor. Doodle is also great when you are working to narrow down new options to adopt to advance your current work and you need to poll an audience to see what resonates with them. I also like using Doodle to give people access to my calendar so that I do not have to always let them know when I am available they can just check.

TJ
Ty Johnson
Project Manager in Professional Services at Early Learning Ventures (51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Doodle
5 years of experience
View profile

Doodle is so user-friendly

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Doodle in our leadership development program to help us make our training more engaging and accessible to remote locations. Our intention is to then use it as a training tool for use with on the job skill training and possibly utilize it in our onboarding process. I just purchased Doodle and have only created one training video with it so far but it was very user friendly. Because of the ease of use I can see how it will be beneficial for many training needs.

Pros

  • Provides opportunity for quick e-learning videos to be uploaded for easy access.
  • Provides you with great selection of backgrounds, characters and props.
  • Ease of use is truly an asset of this program

Cons

  • I wish that it offered more options in backgrounds, characters and props without having an additional cost, but that is to be expected.
  • I would like an easier way to add my own fonts, characters , props etc, because I am a new learner this may not be an issue as I get more familiar with the software.
  • I don't like all the sales emails I received trying to upgrade or add to my purchase.

Likelihood to Recommend

Doodle is an excellent tool for those who have employees at remote locations who must be trained or onboarded. It saves cost for the organization because the videos you create can be uploaded to a website, a company portal/intranet, etc. It is a great tool for beginners because it is so intuitive. I am not that tech-savvy so I was a bit hesitant to create my first video but once I got started it was incredibly user friendly and I can't wait to create my second video. I believe it will only get better so my belief is that Doodle can be a great tool for advanced designers as well. It is also fun to use for inspirational/motivational videos to send to employees for a morale boost. Use it for games and employee team-building activities.

EI
Edie Ingram
Manager of Training and Organizational Development in Human Resources at Wyandotte Tribe of Oklahoma (501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
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Doodle Poll helps me acheive scheduling magic!

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Doodle to book appointments and meetings with my clients and other members of the organization. We use it across the organization and spread the word about Doodle by sending meeting invites and availability polls to outside clients. This addresses the problem of planning meetings and appointments with large groups

Pros

  • Doodle allows you to sync Google Calendars with the availability options view to compare your availability with the times chosen.
  • I like that you can limit the number of votes per user so that if it's appointment booking, it's first come first served.
  • If I don't have contact information, I can ask for that in the poll with a premium. So great!

Cons

  • I would appreciate a more intuitive add-on within Google Calendar so we can schedule meetings directly in there.
  • I think missing functionality might be adding sliders, photos, and colors to the polls to make it look really beautiful.
  • I find the options on the poll settings are a bit confusing. It could be elaborated on more or have tooltips to explain the options better.

Likelihood to Recommend

Doodle is well suited for booking appointments and large meetings. I would say it could also be very valuable to gathering general availability and create a local calendar where users can compare availability in real-time. I would say it is less appropriate for surveying folks on the contact information (although this is available in premium), and scheduling meetings where a webinar or video conference link is required.

VU
Verified User
Executive in Corporate (1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Doodle
5 years of experience

Best scheduling tool online

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My colleagues and I use Doodle to help define the best meeting times when working across the organization. I've also used it in volunteer capacity, as volunteers are unable to access each other's calendar information, and using Doodle to gather the best time to schedule a meeting is a huge time saver. Instead of back-and-forth reply-all emails at work or among volunteers, Doodle creates a once-and-done tool for meeting planners to use and save everyone's inbox overflowing with scheduling questions.

Pros

  • Makes it easy to select possible time and dates for a meeting.
  • Makes it easy for viewers to select their available times.
  • Makes it incredibly easy to see which days and times work best.

Cons

  • I think that maybe Doodle could make it more clear to those who are checking when they're available that the intent is to select all available spots, not just your favorite.

Likelihood to Recommend

When working with people from different offices, vendors or contractors, groups of volunteers, etc., it can be complicated and time consuming to nail down who is available and when, often involving several emails back and forth among a group. Any time I need to schedule anything - a meeting, a happy hour, a lunch with anyone whose calendar I can't access, I use Doodle. If I can access and view someone's entire calendar and I know they keep it updated, then I may not use Doodle.

VU
Verified User
Manager in Marketing (201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
Doodle
5 years of experience

Very good, fun and easy tool for all

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is being used by marketing, the culture committee, and by the Department of Administration for all kinds of company events, annual parties, and employee satisfaction such as dates, snack choices, etc. We use it a lot, it is a nice easy tool, and it is great to get feedback from every employee. It is so much better than using emails.

Pros

  • Statistics
  • Calendar

Likelihood to Recommend

We use it broadly in the company: marketing uses it, the culture committee uses it, and the Department of Administration. For all kinds of survey types like company events, annual parties, and employee satisfaction such as dates, snack choices, etc. we use it a lot. For various tasks, it is a nice easy tool, and it is fast to get the votes from every employee. It is so much better than using emails.

VU
Verified User
Employee in Human Resources (11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Doodle
5 years of experience