How To Remove “Powered by Calendly” (And What to Switch To For Free)
You set up a Calendly account, built your booking page, embedded it on your website, and sent the link to a client. Professional, right? Then you noticed it: that little “Powered by Calendly” badge si...
Published 5/15/2026
Yannick Veys
You set up a Calendly account, built your booking page, embedded it on your website, and sent the link to a client. Professional, right? Then you noticed it: that little “Powered by Calendly” badge sitting right there on your page, advertising a scheduling tool to every person who books time with you.
So you Googled “remove Calendly branding.” You found a Calendly help article telling you to go to settings and toggle it off. Sounds easy. Except when you try it on a free account, nothing happens. It’s a paid feature. Always has been.
That frustration is completely valid. And before you dig any deeper into Calendly’s settings, hoping to find a workaround, let’s be direct: there isn’t one.
If you want a booking page that looks like it belongs to you and not to a scheduling software company, TimeTuna is the straightforward answer. It was built from the ground up around your brand, not theirs. No badge on your page. No “sign up for free” upsell is shown to your clients after they book. Your booking page, your brand, from day one.
But let’s walk through exactly what Calendly is doing here, because the full picture is worth understanding.
Where the Badge Actually Shows Up
It’s not just one badge in one place. It appears across your entire booking flow:
Your scheduling page. The “Powered by Calendly” banner sits in the upper-right corner of any standalone booking page. Your clients see it every time they schedule with you.
The confirmation screen. After someone books, they land on a confirmation page that includes both the Calendly label and a “Sign up for free” call to action. Calendly is actively recruiting your clients as leads. On your booking page. After they just gave you their time.
Invitee emails. The automatic confirmation and reminder emails your clients receive show the Calendly logo instead of your photo or brand.
Embeds. If you’ve embedded Calendly on your website, the badge can persist even after you’ve upgraded to a paid plan, unless you manually add branding: false to the embed code. Many paid users never discover this and assume that toggling branding off in account settings was enough. It wasn’t.
This is not an oversight. It’s a deliberate growth mechanic: Calendly’s free tier functions as a distribution channel. Your clients become their top-of-funnel.
Why You Can’t Turn It Off for Free
Branding removal is gated behind the Standard plan, which costs $10 per user per month on annual billing, or $12 month-to-month. That’s a minimum of $120 per year, per user, just to stop advertising Calendly to your own clients.
| Plan | Price | Branding removal? |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | No |
| Standard | $10/user/mo (annual) | Yes |
| Teams | $16/user/mo (annual) | Yes |
| Enterprise | Custom | Yes |
There are no workarounds on the free plan. Calendly’s own community forum makes this plain: moderators consistently confirm that branding removal is a paid-only feature.
For independent professionals and freelancers, this means paying $120/year for something that has nothing to do with scheduling functionality. You’re not getting new features. You’re paying to stop being used as a billboard.
You’re Not Imagining How Annoying This Is
The Calendly community is full of threads from people asking, in some form, “How do I remove this badge?” The answers are all the same: upgrade, or live with it.
What makes it worse is the timing of discovery. Most people don’t notice the badge during setup. They find it after the fact, when a client mentions it, or when they preview their embedded page on their own site. By then, they’ve built their workflow around Calendly. Switching feels like an effort.
The embedd issue makes it worse still. Paid users who toggle off branding in their account settings often assume they’re done. They’re not. The embedded widget requires a separate branding: false parameter in the JavaScript. There’s no in-app prompt to remind you. Just confused support tickets from people who thought they’d already fixed it.
How the Alternatives Compare
If you want a fully branded booking experience without paying a premium just for the privilege, here’s an honest look at the main options:
Acuity Scheduling is actually worse than Calendly here. Branding removal is only available on their Powerhouse plan at $49/month. The more affordable tiers at $16/month and $29/month still show Acuity branding throughout.
Cal.com removes branding at $12/user/month on the Team plan. The open-source, self-hosted version gives you complete brand control for free, but that requires your own infrastructure and technical setup. Not for everyone.
SavvyCal removes branding at its $12/month Basic tier. Honest pricing, comparable to Calendly’s, and at least you know exactly what you’re getting.
TimeTuna takes a different approach entirely. Instead of making branding removal a feature you unlock, it just… starts with your brand. Full-width image or video backgrounds, your logo, your colors, your domain. The booking page looks like it was built for you because it was. There is no TimeTuna badge to remove because there was never one to begin with.
TimeTuna costs around $6/month (roughly €60/year), and the 14-day free trial gives you the full product: custom reminders, multi-host pages, round-robin scheduling, custom domains, and sync with Google Calendar and Microsoft Calendar. It is not a Calendly clone with one feature toggled. It is a scheduling tool built around the premise that your clients should never know what software you use to book meetings.
The Honest Version of This
Calendly is not a bad product. For larger sales teams with routing needs and the budget to match, the Teams or Enterprise plan makes sense. At that scale, the badge question becomes less important.
But for coaches, consultants, freelancers, and independent professionals who have invested in a brand, paying a recurring fee to stop advertising someone else’s product to your own clients is a bad deal. Full stop.
The badge exists because Calendly’s growth model depends on it. That’s a reasonable business decision on their part. It just happens to be a bad deal for you.
If you came here hoping there was a hidden toggle in the free plan settings, there isn’t. But the solution is simpler than you might expect: use a tool that treats your brand as the default, not as an upsell.
Try a Booking Page That Actually Looks Like You
TimeTuna is built for people who want to share a scheduling link they’re proud of. No branding badges, no upsells on your confirmation screen, no advertising a third-party tool to your clients.
Start your free 14-day trial at TimeTuna
Full access to everything, including custom branding, custom domain, calendar sync, and custom reminders, for 14 days before you decide. No credit card required.