iCloud-Native Booking Tool For Apple-Ecosystem Calendly Refugees Who Got Orphaned by the August 2024 Disconnect
Calendly stopped accepting new iCloud Calendar connections in August 2024 and existing connections are widely reported as flaky 18 months later, leaving Apple-first solo operators (consultants, therapists, designers, real estate agents) with no truly native booking option. Cal.com, TidyCal, and SavvyCal all funnel through Google or Outlook OAuth and treat iCloud as a second-class citizen. The unmet need is a booking tool that uses iCloud as its first-class calendar source, supports CalDAV directly, and ideally surfaces as a Shortcuts/Apple Calendar widget rather than a web app.
Don't out-Calendly Calendly. Out-Apple it. Native iOS app, iCloud as the only calendar, App Store distribution, one-time purchase, and the booking page can literally be an Apple-CDN-hosted single HTML page tied to a calendar event. Solopreneurs in Apple ecosystem are starving for the equivalent of 'just a link that respects my calendar'.
landscape (3 existing solutions)
The booking tool space is huge but every entrant has assumed Google or Microsoft is the primary identity layer. Apple's 250M+ active iCloud users include the exact solopreneur demographic Calendly orphaned, and nobody is courting them.