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LettuceMeet alternative for streamers

LettuceMeet took the When2Meet formula — paint your availability, see the group heatmap — and gave it the modern interface everyone wished When2Meet had. If your group has settled on it for finding meeting times, that's a reasonable choice.

But the reason you're searching for an alternative is probably the same reason streamers outgrow every availability poll: finding the time turns out to be the easy half of the job.

What LettuceMeet does well

  • The availability grid is clean and mobile-friendly
  • Free to use, minimal signup friction
  • Group overlaps are easy to read

As a straight When2Meet replacement for meetings, it delivers.

The gap it shares with every availability poll

LettuceMeet, When2Meet, and the rest of the family all end at the same place: a heatmap and a decision. What a collab stream or community event needs next is where streamers get left doing everything by hand:

  • Turning "Saturday works" into an actual lineup — who streams when, on which channel
  • Publishing a schedule viewers can read in their own timezone
  • Keeping it current when a slot inevitably moves
  • Announcing it — graphics, links, reminders — across Discord and socials

Every one of those steps is manual, and every manual step is somewhere for the schedule to drift out of sync.

Illustration of task cards for lineups, timezones, graphics and reminders piling on top of a small figure beneath a finished availability heatmap
Every availability poll ends the same way: with the actual work still to do.

What StreamDay does differently

LettuceMeetStreamDay
Availability gridYesYes
FreeYesYes — publishing is the only paid step
TimezonesSupportedAutomatic end-to-end — participants enter and viewers read times in their own local time
Sign-inOptional / email or GoogleDiscord — one click, the account your collaborators already have
After the pollYou're on your ownThe winning slot becomes a published event page
Audience pageNoneLive lineup with "on now / up next", per-viewer timezones
PromotionDIYAuto-generated per-day share graphics + Discord digests and reminders
Dragging streamer slots onto an event schedule grid in StreamDay, guided by the availability everyone submitted
The step every poll is missing: availability becomes an actual lineup without leaving the tool.

StreamDay's collab stream scheduler covers the availability-grid step, and the date finder handles the earlier "which day?" question. The difference is what happens after: the decision flows straight into an event page your audience can actually follow — see a live example.

When to stick with LettuceMeet

For scheduling anything that ends in a private calendar entry — meetings, game nights, practice sessions — a lightweight poll is all you need. StreamDay is for when the schedule's real audience is your viewers, and the poll was only ever step one.