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Easy!Appointments vs Twenty
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Easy!Appointments and Twenty — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Easy!Appointments vs Twenty: at a glance
What is Easy!Appointments?
Self-hosted scheduler adds video-meeting links, then parks 1.6.0 in beta for four months.
Easy!Appointments publishes only pre-release tags — every entry in the feed is an alpha or a beta. The 1.6.0 line, opened in February 2026, is the first to treat online meetings as first-class: Jitsi link generation for public bookings, a Google Meet setting, and a dedicated meeting-link field on appointments. Google Calendar handling was pulled into its own integration section, and providers can now toggle their own syncing.
What is Twenty?
Twenty is quietly rebuilding its CRM into an app platform with a real marketplace
Nearly every release in this window touches the application layer: installing and upgrading apps across workspaces, resolving app logos and gallery images, billing exemptions for app-owned logic functions, and an SDK that third-party developers build against. Twenty ships fast — six version tags in twelve days across two release tracks (twenty/ and sdk/), with the same cut sometimes tagged twice. The CRM features themselves barely move; the platform underneath them moves constantly.
Easy!Appointments vs Twenty: editorial side-by-side
Self-hosted scheduler adds video-meeting links, then parks 1.6.0 in beta for four months.
◆ Current state
Easy!Appointments publishes only pre-release tags — every entry in the feed is an alpha or a beta. The 1.6.0 line, opened in February 2026, is the first to treat online meetings as first-class: Jitsi link generation for public bookings, a Google Meet setting, and a dedicated meeting-link field on appointments. Google Calendar handling was pulled into its own integration section, and providers can now toggle their own syncing.
◆ Where it's heading
The product is moving from a booking form toward a scheduler that owns the whole appointment, including where it takes place. The 1.6.0 changelog is cumulative and barely changes between alpha.1, beta.1 and beta.2 — the feature set landed in February and the two betas since have been stabilization passes. The preceding 1.5.x work was almost entirely fixes and permission tightening, which makes 1.6.0 the first feature-bearing cycle in over a year.
◆ Prediction
The obvious next step is a 1.6.0 stable, but nothing has been tagged since 2026-04-01, so the release is either close or stalled — these entries do not distinguish between the two.
Twenty
6.3CRM
Twenty is quietly rebuilding its CRM into an app platform with a real marketplace
◆ Current state
Nearly every release in this window touches the application layer: installing and upgrading apps across workspaces, resolving app logos and gallery images, billing exemptions for app-owned logic functions, and an SDK that third-party developers build against. Twenty ships fast — six version tags in twelve days across two release tracks (twenty/ and sdk/), with the same cut sometimes tagged twice. The CRM features themselves barely move; the platform underneath them moves constantly.
◆ Where it's heading
The direction is from product to substrate. Apps are getting the full lifecycle — publish to npm, claim ownership, submit for marketplace review, install and upgrade per workspace via CLI, and be billed differently from user-authored logic. Dashboard widgets gaining kanban and calendar view types points the same way: the surface is becoming composable by others. Operational work like ClickHouse insert tuning and cross-pod recompute fixes suggests self-hosters and larger workspaces are now real load.
◆ Prediction
Expect the marketplace to reach general availability with discovery and install flows in the product UI, plus the review pipeline that the ownership-claim work presupposes. The remaining gap is app permissions and data scoping, which nothing in these releases addresses yet.
Alternatives to Easy!Appointments and Twenty
Other CRM products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either Easy!Appointments or Twenty.
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ERPNext
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Thryv
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BigContacts
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Vendasta
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Recent activity from Easy!Appointments and Twenty
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 23h agoTwentysdk/v2.25.0: feat(server): add application:install command (#23430)
- 23h agoTwentyCLI installs an app across every workspace at once
- 3d agoTwentyDevelopers can claim and submit their own apps for the marketplace ⚡
- 4d agoTwentyApp-owned logic functions stop counting against execution billing
- 4d agoTwentytwenty/v2.24.2: Configure async ClickHouse inserts for pageview events (#23274)
- 5d agoTwentyFixes app logos disappearing after an upgrade
- 3mo agoEasy!Appointments1.6.0-beta.2: second stabilization pass on the video-link release
- 4mo agoEasy!Appointments1.6.0-beta.1: the alpha changelog, promoted to beta
- 5mo agoEasy!Appointments1.6.0-alpha.1 adds Jitsi and Google Meet links to appointments ⚡
- 11mo agoEasy!Appointments1.5.2-beta.1: permission checks on search, webhooks fire from the API
- 1y agoEasy!Appointments1.5.1-beta.1 (no release notes published)
- 2y agoEasy!Appointments1.5.0-beta.1 (no release notes published)
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Easy!Appointments and Twenty?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Twenty is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 0.0), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is Easy!Appointments better than Twenty?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Twenty is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 0.0), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other CRM products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to Easy!Appointments?
Top Easy!Appointments alternatives in CRM are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Easy!Appointments alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/easyappointments for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to Twenty?
Top Twenty alternatives in CRM are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Twenty alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/twenty for the full list with editorial commentary on each.