Cronofy vs Zapier: What are the differences?
What is Cronofy? One API for all the calendars. Calendar integration is hard. So we've made it easy
Each platform has its own data models and authentication flows.
Keeping track of changes is a headache.
Handling users' personal data is onerous.
We've fixed all of that..
What is Zapier? Automate tasks between other online services (services like Salesforce, Basecamp, Gmail, and 400+ more). Zapier is for busy people who know their time is better spent selling, marketing, or coding. Instead of wasting valuable time coming up with complicated systems - you can use Zapier to automate the web services you and your team are already using on a daily basis.
Cronofy and Zapier are primarily classified as "Calendar API" and "Web Service Automation" tools respectively.
Some of the features offered by Cronofy are:
- Support for Exchange, Office 365, Outlook.com, Apple, Google
- All calendars not just the easy one
- No more public iCal feeds
On the other hand, Zapier provides the following key features:
- A Zap is a blueprint for a task you want to do over and over. In words, a Zap looks like this: "When I get a new thing in A, do this other thing in B." The first part is the trigger and the second part is the action. An example is "When I get a new entry from a Wufoo form, create a new lead in Salesforce."
- You can pick what fields from the trigger service should go to the action service and you can use static text and custom fields too. For instance, you might say that the phone number from your Wufoo form should be the work phone of your new Salesforce lead.
- Zapier regularly checks your trigger for new data. When the Zap triggers, Zapier automatically performs your action for you. Continuing with the Wufoo scenario, say you receive five new entries. Zapier takes each one and makes a new lead in Salesforce, customized to the way you specified in your Zap.
"All the calendars in one API" is the top reason why over 3 developers like Cronofy, while over 40 developers mention "Sync cloud services" as the leading cause for choosing Zapier.
