Mindbody
Acuity
Booksy
Calendly
Setmore
Vagaro
51%
Of Mindbody's 1,274 App Store reviews are one to three stars — most written by clients, not by the businesses paying for it.
What it does
Books without an account
A link, a name, an email. No password, no download, no verification step — every one of which is a booking you didn't get.
Charges correctly
Memberships and class packs are applied automatically, so a client is never quoted a drop-in price they don't owe.
Reschedules in one tap
Straight from the confirmation email, without signing in. Most no-shows are people who couldn't face fighting the app.
Why we're building it
The numbers below are about the budgeting apps people use today — not about Feedwatch. We read 3,093 one-to-three-star reviews of booking and scheduling apps written by people who were already paying to work out what actually goes wrong before designing anything.
22.3%
Of complaints are crashes, glitches and being thrown back to a login screen mid-booking.
7.7%
Concern capabilities that previously worked and were removed or broken by an update.
3,093
Low-star reviews read across the category to produce these figures.
Two audiences
One app serves the business that pays and the client who books, and only one of them was designed for. The client is the one who abandons.
Forced accounts
Download, register, verify, sign in again next time. Every step is a booking you didn't get.
Wrong prices
Clients shown a drop-in rate they don't owe because the membership wasn't applied — the single most-upvoted complaint in the category.
How Bookkind works
1
Book
A link, a name, an email. That is the whole client flow — no password and nothing to install. Memberships and class packs are applied automatically instead of quoting a price they don't owe.
2
Change
Reschedule or cancel in one tap from the confirmation, without signing in. Most no-shows are people who couldn't be bothered to fight the app.
3
Carry
One client identity across every business on the network, so nobody re-registers for each studio they visit.
What people actually say
Salons, studios, gyms and clinics pay $20–150 a month. Their clients are handed an app they never chose, and take it out on the business.
“The interface started showing me the price for a drop in to my gym, even though I have a membership. I had to click through and tell it to use my subscription.”
Mindbody · 2★ · 47 votes
“It glitches, the main page comes up, then refreshes, 3 times before I have to sign in again. Every time I close and open the app.”
Mindbody · 1★ · 62 votes
“The app is only useful for seeing upcoming meetings and copying a link. What I REALLY wish it had is a way to add date overrides to my schedule.”
Calendly · 3★ · 32 votes
Bookkind is built for:
Multi-practitioner clinics
Where the schedule shape is genuinely complicated and generic calendars fall over.
Class packs and memberships
Where the pricing logic is what clients complain about most.
Recurring home services
Same client, same slot, every fortnight — booked once, not re-entered.
Anyone losing bookings
If clients resent your booking app, it is costing you appointments, not just goodwill.
Pricing
Not chargeable yet — the product is in development. This is what it will cost, published now so nobody is surprised later.
Free
$0
For a single account, or for trying the method before trusting it.
- 2 connected accounts
- Connection health and uptime history
- Manual and CSV import
- No second-provider failover
- No locked rules
Standard
$8 / month
Or $72 a year — two months free. Everything the product does.
- Unlimited connected accounts
- Multi-provider failover on every institution
- Full 30-day connection history per account
- Locked categorisation rules, auto-detect off
- Export everything, any time, no ceremony
Founding
$149 once
Three years of Standard included, then your renewal is locked at today's annual price for as long as you keep it.
- Everything in Standard
- Three years included from launch day
- Renewal locked at $72/year, in writing
- Direct line to us on what gets built next
Why there is no lifetime plan
Every connected bank account costs us money every month, for as long as it stays connected. A true lifetime price would eventually have to be withdrawn, throttled, or quietly degraded — which is precisely the complaint that produced this product in the first place. So the Founding plan locks a renewal price rather than pretending the running cost disappears. That promise is one we can actually keep.
What's actually built
There is a running demo at /app — synthetic accounts, no sign-up, nothing to install. Here is exactly where the line sits between what works and what doesn't.
Working in the demo
- Connection status derived from sync attempts that really ran — not a stored flag
- Automatic failover to a second provider, with the trace of both attempts
- 30-day feed uptime computed from that same history
- Category rules that rewrite past transactions and report how many changed
- Transaction list, filtering, and per-account detail
Not built yet
- Real bank connections — the demo simulates the institution
- Accounts, sign-in, and anything touching real money
- Budgets, goals and forecasting
- Mobile apps — the demo is web only
- Shared household access
Built in the open.
Bookkind is in development. No card, nothing to install — the demo is open to anyone right now. Leave an email for build notes and first access, or ask for a walkthrough and we'll take you through it properly.
One email address, stored to tell you when it ships. No newsletter, no sharing.